I love Kamala Khan. The Pakistani-American teen is joyful and anxious about life, and earnest about her new, Terrigen Mists revealed inhuman powers. She has so much with which to contend – new powers, secret identity, parents who want her to observe Pakistani customs, an inhuman family she’s just getting to know, and being a teenage girl. In Crushed, Kamala faces off with a benevolent Loki, her first crush, her family’s expectations and traditions, and some sort of malevolent pizza dough. I enjoyed the volume, […]
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 […]
Finishing the year, and my Cannonball, with a good one
I’m probably the most ridiculous comics reader you’re going to find: I don’t like monthlies, because waiting is stupid; I read all the spoilers months (or years) before I get around to reading the actual comic; I kind of wish there were less pictures sometimes (I know: weird); and I’m an obsessive MCU fan who reads about 9000 times more fan fiction than she does canon. I’m not saying it’s normal, I’m just saying that’s how I read comics. But Ms. Marvel has been on […]
Never Answering the Real Question: Was the Death of Rainbow Toots Avenged?
Wouldn’t we all have been friends with the weird girl in school that wrote Captain America saving unicorns from space aliens fanfic? (Or you were the weird girl yourself.) My point is (and I think the point of the recasting of Ms./Captain Marvel as an immigrant who is Muslim) that what is normally presented as “that one weird kid” in high school is really not that uncommon. “That one weird kid” is legion. Everyone’s teen years were awkward as hell, whether you were the popular […]
A fun new comics discovery
Kamala Khan is a pretty ordinary geeky teenager from Jersey City, until she’s suddenly given the extraordinary powers of the superhero Ms. Marvel. She’s both excited and confused. Can a Muslim girl even be a superhero? She certainly feels that the outfit could be a bit less revealing. How is she going to combine the responsibilities of fighting crime, rescuing people and righting wrongs if she also has to worry about obeying her parents and keeping cerfew? Before she’s even entirely aware what she’s doing, […]
Kamala gets crushed. Get it? It’s a pun.
I think Ms. Marvel might be my favorite ongoing comic. Wait, no, shit. I forgot about Saga for a second. Okay, so Ms. Marvel is probably my SECOND favorite comic, definitely my favorite superhero comic. I love Carol Danvers probably as much as I love Kamala Khan, but the last couple of Captain Marvel trades have fallen a little flat for me, and meanwhile G. Willow Wilson continues to absolutely KILL IT with Kamala. Volume 1 was Kamala’s origin story, Volume 2 was her getting comfortable with […]