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 […]
Some Day They Will Just Be Superheroes
I’m a newbie to the Captain Marvel universe (if not the Marvel universe) but I had been intrigued by the description of Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American girl acquiring super powers and was curious to see how it played out. I was not disappointed. Kamala Khan is a typical American girl, living in Jersey City, reading superhero fan fic, and feeling the pull of two cultures—her immigrant parents with their high expectations and strict rules and the teenage world of boys and parties and what she sees as […]