Tuesday morning I told the maintenance people at my apartment something related to the AC was leaking water. The last time it happened, it made the linoleum on my kitchen swell and caused stains on the ceiling of the apartment downstairs. I figured given all that, they'd get to it that day.
Took them until yesterday afternoon. Hopefully the floor didn't get worse since I had to choose it a couple of times in between to keep the temps tolerable.
Carol and the disaffected teens arrive on another planet. The planet is kind of a craphole, because apparently Earth companies have been paying someone to illegally dump all sorts of waste there. The wealthy on the planet fled underground to bunkers and left the rest of their people on the surface. Carol tries to investigate the surroundings, but gets jumped by Nitro and Nada. She doesn't recognize the former and they fight in space so he can't talk and say who he is, but Nada drags her in somewhere with her weird powers and that's the last we see of her.
Meanwhile, the teenagers and Keziah (the anthropologist who was also talking to the teens) are trying to figure out what the situation is on this planet and how to survive. Blake, who built the AI smartbot, is mostly complaining that the teens are complaining about helping him after he didn't make any effort to help them during atmospheric entry. The robot is rather polite, in that way it offers information that is sorta relevant to their conversations and thanks one of the teens for rolling it out of its landing crater. Then Nada shows up, offering them power.
Also, Spider-Woman's trying to figure out some way to get to Carol when all the super-teams are off doing other crap. Can't believe she wasted time calling Cyclops, like the X-Men were gonna help some inferior human.
I guess we'll see if Nada gets them to accept her offer. She's very good at playing to people's desires or worst instincts, at complimenting them or being glib and sounding clever. Like with Nitro (who is at least starting to question if he just a tool to her.) But even when she does play empathetic, she can't resist being condescending. When Nitro grouses that Captain Marvel is hoarding power, Nada questions whether "power" can be hoarded, that there's a finite amount of it in the universe. She even asks Nitro if, by being so angry at Danvers, is he hoarding anger, and thus depriving others of it. It doesn't seem like a serious question, more like she can't help stirring shit up, even with someone she ostensibly wants on her side.
Of course, Danvers is taking the brusque approach with the teenagers. Accusing them of whining, rather than trying to do something, or spouting motivational poster stuff about how even if they die tomorrow, if they do something good today it was worth it. It's half lead by example and half "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" speeches. It could work in the way reverse psychology does, but it could also be very off-putting.
Villanelli doesn't have as many chances to draw Danvers standing tall and looking impressive, but Danvers does still tend to dominate the panels she's in with the others. And the internal narration Nocenti gives her doesn't spend time on doubt. It portrays Danvers as confident, direct, seemingly always knowing what to do or at least what to try. No indecision, no hesitation, just action because she's sure she has things under control. Meanwhile, Nada tends to be drawn with her face obscured by her hood, just eyes and a Cheshire Cat smile. But she also leans in towards people a lot, invading their space like she's trying to read them so she can tailor her sales pitch.
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