In the images below you can see Ed McGuinness' cover art for issue 1 and 2 for the new Captain Marvel comic book series written by Kelly Sue DeConnick. The first issue will hit newsstands in July. Dexter Soy is the artist for the project and a sample of his work can be seen below as well.
Writer of the series Kelly Sue explains that Carol will be extremely reluctant about becoming the new Captain Marvel, but it is Captain America who will teach her to except the new role that has been thrust upon her.
“My pitch was called ‘Pilot’ and the take can pretty much be summed up with ‘Carol Danvers as Chuck Yeager,’” says DeConnick. “Carol's the virtual definition of a Type A personality. She's a competitor and a control freak. At the start of our series, we see Carol pre-Captain Marvel, pre-NASA even, back when she was a fiercely competitive pilot. We'll see her meeting one of her aviation heroes and we'll see her youthful bravado, her swagger. Then over the course of the first arc we're going to watch her find her way back to that hungry place. She'll have to figure out how to be both Captain Marvel and Chuck Yeager—to marry the responsibility of that legacy with the sheer joy being nearly invulnerable and flying really [expletive] fast." - Jamie McKelvie
I had the privilege of designing Carol’s new costume. Our idea was to give her a kind of swash-buckling costume that invoked a sense of her history as an Air Force officer. Her hair is slicked back at the sides when in costume - so her Kree-style helmet can form when she needs it. - Jamie McKelvie
"Brian Michael Bendis did a great job focusing in on the fact that she is basically able to absorb and metabolize radiant energy. She weaponizes that in the form of photon blasts—expelling energy—and uses a similar process in order to fly.” - Jamie McKelvie
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