Set in Jersey City, Kamala Khan and her best friend Nakia are good Muslim girls most of the time in that they eat halal and go to the local Mosque, even though Kamala drives the Sheikh Abdullah nuts with her questions and they sneak out of the meetings to go and get a snack at the Circle Q where their friend Bruno works. Kamala desperately wants to fit in with the popular crowd and when Zoe and her boyfriend Josh invite Bruno, Nakia, and Kamala to a party one weekend night, Kamala sneaks out of the house to go to it.
What happens there is she is given alcohol, which she spits out and is spotted by Bruno who is trying to get her to leave when she runs off. A dense fog settles in the area and everyone goes down, including Kamala who dreams of meeting the Avengers with Captain Marvel speaking for them. She asks her what she wants most in life and Kamala tells her she wants to be more like Captain Marvel. She becomes encased in a shell that she must break open and when she does, she looks exactly like Captain Marvel with the blonde hair and blue eyes. Her costume is different, as she had requested a more kickass costume. After a little while, she turns back to Kamala, then back to Ms. Marvel.
When she stumbles upon Zoe and Josh goofing off on the docks, she shrinks down to a small size so as not to be noticed. Zoe and Josh struggle on the dock and Zoe goes overboard. They're both drunk and won't be able to handle helping Zoe so Kamala changes into her Ms. Marvel shape and rescues Zoe by extending her arms and making her hands large and scooping her in. What she doesn't know is that someone taped footage of the event and it went to the news stations. As she sneaks into the house her very religious brother catches her and lets her know that her parents know she snuck out because Bruno told them when he couldn't find her. She gets grounded until they can trust her again, which doesn't go with her plans to help people in her new role as Ms. Marvel.
At school, she gets into trouble for messing up the gym changing room because she felt herself going out of control and going big. She imagined someone to become and missed the mark and changed into someone else--someone smaller. Then changed back into Kamala. She must learn to control her new powers. When she goes alone to the Circe Q and notices a masked a masked man sticking up the place. The guy is Vick, Bruno's brother, and he and Kamala in her transformed state fight until Vick's gun goes off and shoots Kamala forcing her to change back to her Kamala form. Now Bruno knows her secret. When Bruno goes missing, Kamala agrees to help Bruno go and find him and with his help, she figures out a new superhero costume for Kamala to wear, not the Captain Marvel clone and he helps her to learn to control her powers.
It's not surprising to find that Haver's is quite racists and wants them all to die, it is strange to see some of that behavior from others. But then fear makes us all do strange things. The colors are mostly browns and yellows, indicative of the sands of Karachi where her family is from. The drawings are quite clever and are quite interesting when they depict Kamala's ability to stretch. Also, she is willing to take her baby brother to mosques as she is quite attached to him. This was a great comic. Kamala took the Captain Marvel like costume and made it her own, with her own skin shining through. Ther is no one like Ms. Marvel. She is a breath of fresh air and a woman worth rooting for. I can't wait to read the next one.
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ms-Marvel-Vol-No-Normal-ebook/dp/B00NEW45XE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495207455&sr=8-1&keywords=ms+marvel+vol+1
No comments:
Post a Comment