There are sometimes shifts in a story’s sequence that change the universe of the story forever. G. Willow Wilson introduces such a schism in Last Days, the fourth volume of Ms. Marvel, and it resets the universe in a way that I’m not sure of yet. The story is dramatic, and it ends on an unsettled note, which makes me wonder where the direction of the series will go next. Kamala and her loved ones are all threatened by a cataclysmic event that will end […]
Teenage Wasteland
So what would you do if you found out your parents were super villains? Alex, Nico, Karolina, Gertrude, Chase and Molly choose to run away and plot to take down their parents any way they can. I started out with 4 stars, but it’s really closer to 3. I enjoyed Runaways, but it is no Saga. On the night that the 6 teens find out their parents are super villains, they also find out that some of them have powers, one is an alien, one […]
More Ms. Marvel fun
My library accidentally gave me a hardcover edition that included the first two volumes of Ms. Marvel, so I got to read the second volume right away. Hooray! I hate waiting for more books in a series, though I got greedy with my library and am going to have to wait on more of Ms. Marvel’s adventures for the moment. Ahem. Library struggles are real. Kamala, as Ms. Marvel, has been working on how to figure out her powers, just as she tries to keep […]
The joys of Ms. Marvel
I’ve seen rave reviews for Ms. Marvel, and it was only now that I decided, “I need feminist comics in my life RIGHT NOW.” So when I got the library book, I discovered I had accidentally requested the first two volumes of Ms. Marvel. Even better. I’ve been trying to diversify my reading taste, and Ms. Marvel, the G. Willow Wilson iteration (because Captain Marvel was initially Ms. Marvel, as some basic research showed me), is a great start in that reading resolution. Kamala Khan […]
It doesn’t feel like nothing.
What would you do if the world were ending? What would you do if you were a 16 year old girl with super powers? At the end of Crushed, Kamala Khan felt like the world was ending because she had been betrayed by her first crush. But now, the world is really ending. What good is it to be a superhero if you can’t keep the world from ending? What do you do when nothing you do will change the outcome? Ms. Marvel finally gets […]
Kamala is my squishy muffin.
Five stars for the actual Ms. Marvel story included here, written by G. Willow Wilson and drawn in full by the lovely Adrian Alphona. Minus a full star because the last two issues in this volume are a Spider-Man/Ms. Marvel team-up, which was fun enough when Ms. Marvel was there and kind of boring when she wasn’t, but my biggest issue is that it’s totally jarring to read them after the other four issues in the book. I say it’s jarring because Last Days, while […]