Warning! Spoilers for Captain Marvel #34 by Marvel Comics
In a stunning new display of her powers, Captain Marvel just managed to separate herself into a form of pure energy to become a new kind of fiery hero, as her physical body remains trapped. In Captain Marvel #34, Carol Danvers channels her powers in ways never seen before, as she separates them from her physical being and somehow controls the new epic entity.
Captain Marvel has had little time to breathe in her ongoing series. Carol just stopped a dark future from occurring by stopping Ove, a magic-using future villain (and son of Namor the Sub-Mariner) who returned to her timeline. Soon after the victory, Vox Supreme, who had previously controlled Captain Marvel, re-emerged and started assembling his own army of Marvels. The hero ended up traveling to Vox Supreme's home base, where Mar-Vell died many years ago, but was captured and ejected into space in a coffin built to keep her contained.
In Captain Marvel #34 by Kelly Thompson, Sergio Davila, Sean Parsons, Jesus Aburtov, and VC's Clayton Cowles, Captain Marvel manages to use her powers to create a fiery, Binary-like copy of herself. The manifestation of her powers blasts her container from the outside and breaks the hero free After the new display of powers, Captain Marvel returns to Vox's home base after encountering a Vox-controlled Mar-Vell. He grabs her by the neck before being knocked back with a Photon Blast. But, when he gets up, Mar-Vell reveals his real face - but proves to ultimately be a soldier for Vox by capturing Captain Marvel with a manipulative kiss that ends up covering her body in Vox's symbiote-like suit. Trapped inside Vox's dark suit again, Carol taps into her powers to manifest her separate energy form.
Somehow, Captain Marvel separated her powers from her physical form. That means Carol Danvers is controlling her amazing abilities, while her physical body is trapped inside the dark suit by Vox Supreme. Future issues of her ongoing series will surely explore how she accomplished this manifestation of her powers and what it means going forward. But for now, her fiery power entity is her best chance at stopping Vox Supreme and freeing herself.
If Captain Marvel is able to use her physical form and the manifestation of her powers at the same time, one of Marvel's strongest heroes just got even more powerful. It's an exciting revelation that has more questions than answers at the moment. Regardless, seeing Captain Marvel use her powers in such a different way is incredibly exciting. We can't wait to see where the story goes next. Captain Marvel #34 is in comic book stores now.