As for her actual powers, they are just as visually fun and, well, comic book-y as they've been in various Plastic Man comics before. Marvel name just because she admires Carol Danvers so much and, well, Carol's not using it at the moment.
Wilson doesn't pound it home in this volume, but apparently Kamala keeps the Ms. The mist gave Kamala powers, but they're not Carol Danvers' ill-defined powers instead they're basically Plastic Man's powers.
#Terragen mist bomb skin#
When she wakes up, she is, right down to the paler white skin and long, blonde hair. Marvel, current Captain Marvel Carol Danvers (Kamala writes Avengers fan fiction in her spare time).ĭuring the conversation, she tells Carol that she wants to be her, "Except I would wear the classic, politically incorrect costume and kick but in giant wedge heels."
#Terragen mist bomb series#
The characters origins are tied directly to The Inhumans (again, despite the fact that she's named for another character with nothing to do with The Inhumans), and, specifically, the events of Infinity, I guess, although one need not have read or even known anything about that series to follow this one: "Caught in the Terrigen Mist Bomb set off in Infinity" or just "caught in some strange, superpower-granting mist" read the same here.Īfter the bulk of the first issue spent introducing us to put-upon Kamala, her best friends Nakia and Bruno, her family and schoolmate Zoe Zimmerman (an inadvertent foil the characters refer to as a "concern troll," her existence kind of bothers Kamala and her friends to different degrees, but she's not a queen bee, mean girl or female version of Peter Parker's Flash Thompson rather, she just represents the ideal of all-American teenage girlhood in a way that irritates them each in different ways), Kamala sneaks out to attend a party and, being in a place she wasn't supposed to be, she is exposed to the mist and has a weird hallucinatory reaction, being visited by Iron Man, Captain America and former-Ms.
#Terragen mist bomb serial#
Marvel is a comedy first, and a superhero adventure serial second. Kamala is funny, and her book is funny at the risk of alienating any readers adverse to any genre that isn't superheroes, Ms. Marvel could well be the Spider-Man of this particular decade, the character having the same basic array of problems, the same super powers-as-puberty metaphors, the same basic cluelessness and desire to do good with her strange gift, she even has a pretty similar outlook, one that extends to the entire book. Well, despite taking her codename from an entirely different pre-existing Marvel superhero, I think Ms. In the 1970s, there was Nova in the the '80s, Speedball in the '90s, Darkhawk and, in the '00s, Ultimate Spider-Man. Someone once said-okay, it was Chris Sims, and he's said it more than once, like here, for example-that Marvel has attempted to re-create Spider-Man each decade since they birth of their flagship charter in the 1960s. More than anything, she reminded me of maybe the most classic Marvel Comics character template.
The specificity of some of those conflicts might be a bit, well, foreign, but the conflicts themselves are universal. She feels out-of-place in her own world, she wishes she were more accepted and more popular, she feels misunderstood by her own family and by society at large. As conceived by Wilson and Alphona, however, Kamala Khan is more similar to her many readers (or, at least, the person many of us used to be), than she is different.
Much has been made over the other-ness of the character, the handful of things that make her different from your average super-comic star: Not only is she a she, and a teenager at that, she's also Pakistani-American and Muslim. Marvel is every bit as good as I heard it was, and a good deal better than I was expecting it to be. Well, it turns out that I was worried over nothing: G. Naturally cynical and suspicious, I worried it couldn't possibly be that good and, if it didn't live up to expectations, I didn't want to be in the position of having to be the contrarian talking smack on the Internet darling book (not to mention arguing with my friends in real life who love it, one of whom told me the above panel is her favorite panel from any comic ever, which is why I put it up top there). All of which added up to my being a little wary of the book. In the time since the first issue was released, the book has become very popular, it has come to be regarded as very important by a large group of fans and it has been almost universally praised online (a lot like Hawkeye before it, actually). I found myself a little nervous, almost reluctant, to open the cover of this trade paperback collecting the first five issues of the hit new series Ms.
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