I think I might have been missing something. Last Days ended on a serious cliffhanger, and somewhere before Super Famous, there must have been a Marvel cross-over somewhere. I was pretty confused about the sudden shift in tone and plot, and I think I spent most of the volume being pretty disoriented. I don’t know if I’ll continue reading the series, if it’s heading in this direction, instead of living within its own universe. Super Famous takes place several months after the events of Last […]
Major paradigm shift ahead.
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 […]
Ms. Marvel strikes again!
After galloping through the first two volumes of Ms. Marvel, I was eager to dive into the third. Oh, man, Crushed is so good. It’s easily my second-favorite series after Saga (because nothing is going to top Saga anytime soon, let’s be honest). I’ve been really excited by the way G. Willow Wilson unpacks Kamala Khan as both teenaged girl and superhero, and this volume strikes that balance especially well in Volume 3. Kamala is paid a visit by Loki, who wants to know a […]
Great for Kamala, not so great for Carol.
I will admit I was prepared to dislike this. I read a couple of reviews that gave the plot away, and it made me angry and nervous (more on this below). I shouldn’t have *really* worried. As she did with that whole Secret Wars mess, G. Willow Wilson manages to write an event tie-in story (in this case, Civil War II) but still keep it readable for people like myself who aren’t planning on reading the rest of it, and to simultaneously keep the story […]