Marvel’s Amazing Choice to Replace DeConnick on Captain Marvel: Agent Carter‘s Showrunners

Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas, showrunners on Marvel’s Agent Carter, are the new writers of Captain Marvel! Plus our first look at the art for their stories.

First off, Marvel, high-five.

When news broke over the weekend of Kelly Sue DeConnick exiting the title, many fans were crushed. DeConnick is not only a fantastic human being but a talented creator who ushered in a resurgence of the character that launched a whole new wave of comic fans and pleased old favorites.

But now, I think it’s safe to say fans can rest easy knowing their beloved Carol is in excellent hands once again. Fast Company posted an interview revealing Marvel’s new creative team choice for our beloved Carol Danvers, Agent Carter’s Butters and Fazekas. They report:

“It’s been really fun playing in a world where you can do anything,” says Butters about the transition from TV writing to comics. “In comics, there is no budget.” This includes working with series artist Kris Anka on designs whose only limit is imagination—such as for the space station that will be Captain Marvel’s new headquarters. The new series begins eight months in narrative time after the end of Secret Wars, Marvel’s current line-wide event that will change the status quo for most of the Marvel Universe’s characters and teams.

“Marvel really wanted us to design what her mission is within the universe,” says Fazekas. “We know what S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mission is, we know what the Avengers’ mission is, we know what Guardians of the Galaxy’s mission is. So how does Captain Marvel fit into all that?”

That new mission has Captain Marvel as Earth’s first line of defense against extraterrestrial threats.

And while Captain Marvel’s costume will largely stay the same, the new creative team decided to make a few alterations to her look:

Butters and Fazekas have also collaborated with Anka to tweak Captain Marvel’s character design to align with her mission. “We’ve slightly modified her costume to kind of reflect her new status quo,” says Butters. They’ve also given her a new haircut. “There’s been a lot of controversy about Carol Danvers’ haircut,” she says. “We really wanted to make sure it was consistent and streamlined. Last year I think a lot of people couldn’t get her hairstyle—sometimes it was short, sometimes it was long—so we went in and designed exactly what she would look like. Kris really wanted to go shorter, because he felt it aligned with what her new look is all about.”

“She’s military,” says Fazekas. “She’s not going to have this huge mane of hair. It needs to be practical.”

But if you’re concerned about Carol changing as a character, fear not. “We’re not so much changing anything as building on what already is there,” said Fazekas.

You can check out the rest of the interview at Fast Company.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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