Another one for the Will Eisner week, and a comic that I have been meaning to get to for a while anyway.
Ms Marvel No Normal
author: G. Willow Wilson
artist: Adrian Alphona
colors: Ian Herring
letters: VC's Joe Caramagna
This volume collects: Ms Marvel 1-5, and All New Marvel Now! Point 1
The first, and really only complaint I have (and I don't know why I let this bother me in comic books, because they do it on purpose) is that it ends on a cliffhanger, and the next volume isn't out until MARCH! Grrrr.
Anway. Kamala Khan lives in Jersey, and she's Muslim, and she's trying to navigate her life in America with her strict parents and her culture and faith. Matters are not improved when a terrigen mist bomb explodes in her city, revealing her to be Inhuman, and sparking her transformation into a polyform superhero. Her giant crush on Captain Marvel offers an instant alter-ego (another development that doesn't go as planned or desired) and she proceeds to get herself into all sorts of interesting trouble both at home and with a shadowy villain known only as The Inventor, and perhaps as The Birdman.
Tune in next time!...
The art is fun, her changes are amusing, and her musing on life and the unfairness of it all will surely resonate with lots of kids, regardless of their backgrounds. She's gritty, determined, loyal, and determined to do the right thing - once she figures out exactly what it is, and probably after she's done a few wrong things along the way as she works it out to her satisfaction. A potential love interest is benched in favor of derring-do and family drama, and I for one appreciate the choice to leave that particular development for later.
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