I am so excited by this new Marvel incarnation- Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager who gets super-powers and takes on the moniker of Ms. Marvel. Is it a great story? Not more so than the usual Marvel series. But I get so pumped when I see a comic book featuring a character who is not cut from the traditional comic hero cloth. She is a "she," she is Muslim (the first Muslim to have her own comic book series, says Wikipedia), not white, daughter of immigrants, the main plot is not about meeting a guy, and the depiction of her is just so honest. Kamala Khan wants to be a good Pakistani daughter, and she wants to abide by her family's rules, but when she obtains great powers, she remembers that the Quran states that "whoever has saved one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." Talk about feeling torn. I don't feel the need to finish out this run, but it is so refreshing to know that it exists. I would encourage young women interested in comics to check this out.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal
Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal, by G. Willow Wilson, ill by Adrian Alphona, 120 pages
I am so excited by this new Marvel incarnation- Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager who gets super-powers and takes on the moniker of Ms. Marvel. Is it a great story? Not more so than the usual Marvel series. But I get so pumped when I see a comic book featuring a character who is not cut from the traditional comic hero cloth. She is a "she," she is Muslim (the first Muslim to have her own comic book series, says Wikipedia), not white, daughter of immigrants, the main plot is not about meeting a guy, and the depiction of her is just so honest. Kamala Khan wants to be a good Pakistani daughter, and she wants to abide by her family's rules, but when she obtains great powers, she remembers that the Quran states that "whoever has saved one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." Talk about feeling torn. I don't feel the need to finish out this run, but it is so refreshing to know that it exists. I would encourage young women interested in comics to check this out.
I am so excited by this new Marvel incarnation- Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager who gets super-powers and takes on the moniker of Ms. Marvel. Is it a great story? Not more so than the usual Marvel series. But I get so pumped when I see a comic book featuring a character who is not cut from the traditional comic hero cloth. She is a "she," she is Muslim (the first Muslim to have her own comic book series, says Wikipedia), not white, daughter of immigrants, the main plot is not about meeting a guy, and the depiction of her is just so honest. Kamala Khan wants to be a good Pakistani daughter, and she wants to abide by her family's rules, but when she obtains great powers, she remembers that the Quran states that "whoever has saved one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." Talk about feeling torn. I don't feel the need to finish out this run, but it is so refreshing to know that it exists. I would encourage young women interested in comics to check this out.
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