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I thought this too, but I have an unsubstantiated suspicion that it's just about movie rights. Brand/SWORD debuted in Astonishing X-Men, which means they probably fall under the Fox rights and can't use them in the MCU. Since the Marvel Comics division has made concerted efforts to diminish the Fox-owned characters in favor of the ones their movie division has the rights to, I feel like setting Carol up in a new Abigail Brand-ish role might be a part of that.As far as the actual direction of the new series, it makes me worry a bit about why Carol's doing all this instead of, say, Abigail Brand and SWORD. Why not just combine them and make Carol the top Agent of SWORD under Brand as her Fury/Coulson? That would've been a cool take. But no, apparently we get no mention of SWORD and a bunch of Carol-branded spaceships because of reasons. But I'll still give it a try.
That said, I loved DeConnick's writing and will miss her, but I'm optimistic about the new team. And aside from missing the Brand/SWORD involvement, the new direction sounds like it has potential to me. And I like the new costume well enough.
On the haircut, I don't like it, because to me it's a "pixie cut," and I associate that with pixie-type characters, which Carol Danvers is not at all. But clearly their intent was to go "butch" because she's in the military, and that makes equally little sense because in my experience growing up in a military family, more military women have long-ish hair than anything else. They just wear it in a bun when in uniform.
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