Ms. Marvel - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:32:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ms. Marvel - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Re-Terrigenesis in Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/24/ms-marvel-mutant-menace-4/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49395 Ms. Marvel’s short-circuiting powers can no longer be ignored, but fortunately for her, the Inhumans are here to help. Kamala needs as much help as she can get, as Dr. Nitika Gaiha finally puts her plan into action, in Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #4, written by Iman Vellani and Sabir Pirzada, drawn by Scott Godlewski,...

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]]> 49395 The Krakoan era ends with a $10 X-Men comic in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/05/staff-picks-june5/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49130 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men #35/Uncanny X-Men #700: We belong together. And you know that I’m right. Why do you play with my heart? Why do you play with my mind? Said we’d be forever. Said...

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]]> 49130 Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2 strikes the right Chord https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/22/msmarvel-mutant-menace-2/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48678 Lila Cheney has made a deal with the devil — or as close as you get, when Mojo’s involved! She’s got to get her views up while figuring out where her kidnapped fans have been taken. Fortunately, she’s got the perfect ally to help her out: our very own Ms. Marvel! Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace...

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]]> 48678 Marvel writer explains what led to Ms. Marvel being killed in Amazing Spider-Man https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/16/msmarvel-kamala-khan-spiderman-feige-ziglar/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48585 Note: This story has been updated to include a clarification from Marvel. Comics fans often wonder how heavy a hand Marvel Studios has in Marvel Comics. Why did the Samuel L. Jackson-inspired version of Nick Fury replace the John Wayne-inspired version? How did Star-Lord become this music-obsessed space himbo? Why is Loki so morally gray...

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]]> 48585 Visit the Mojo Dojo Casa House in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/04/ms-marvel-mutant-menace-2-preview/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48451 Well, Mojo’s having a week, isn’t he? First, he traps Jubilee and Sunspot in a video game in X-Men ’97, now he’s attempting to trap Lila Cheney in a lifetime contract in the latest issue of Ms. Marvel. But wait, doesn’t Kamala Khan have bigger fish to fry right now with the whole Orchis thing?...

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]]> 48451 Kamala’s back in the Jersey City groove in Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/18/ms-marvel-mutant-menace/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48252 Things are almost back to normal for Kamala Khan. She’s back to life, back in New Jersey and back to saving the day when Ms. Marvel is needed — with one significant change. The word is out now that Ms. Marvel is a mutant, and with ORCHIS hot on her trail, Kamala is left to...

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]]> 48252 Peach Momoko reimagines the Ultimate X-Men and even more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/06/staff-picks-march/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48105 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: Ultimate X-Men #1: Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life. But life has other plans for her. In Japan, urban legends have sprung to life...

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]]> 48105 Ms. Marvel #3 & #4 leave us wanting more (in a good way) https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/04/ms-marvel-3-4/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47326 Orchis is closing in on Ms. Marvel, with a plan to use her to get to the X-Men. All she has to do is embrace her new mutant identity. But with so many other labels already hanging on her shoulders, Kamala Khan has to wrestle with just what it means to fully accept another one...

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]]> 47326 Ms. Marvel remains a mutant in her next miniseries https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/30/msmarvel-mutant-menace/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:04:13 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47287 Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant wrapped this week with Kamala Khan destroying Orchis’ lab at Empire State University, tackling her very own Amazing Spider-Man: Crisis on Campus-style story and owning the intersectionality of the many aspects of her identity. Oh, and she got her bangle back! A great time was had by all. But Kamala’s...

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]]> 47287 Spider-Man does a Gang War, Nightcrawler’s REAL origin and more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/29/staff-picks-nov-29/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47271 Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War: First Strike #1: The super-crime landscape of New York has been on edge. This issue, they jump over that edge. What incites the war?! Who hired Shotgun and took out Tombstone? What, if anything, can Spider-Man do about it? Has there been a good or engaging Spider-man crossover since “Maximum Carnage”?...

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]]> 47271 Kamala fights her first Sentinel in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/22/msmarvel-4-preview/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47226 Man, remember how much fun The Marvels was earlier this month? How refreshing it was for a Marvel movie to just be a fun romp and not be obsessed with moving some overarching plot along? Just gals bein’ pals. And the Khans! How great were they? That [redacted] cameo at the end sure was a...

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]]> 47226 Reading The Marvels: A ComicsXF Primer https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/09/the-marvels-primer/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47091 As comics fans, we always hope we can find some magic arrow that will transform people who see movies adapted from comics into comics readers. The system is rigged against that, of course: Comics publishers — especially mainstream superhero comics — exist as little more than IP cannon fodder for their vertically integrated masters, feeding...

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]]> 47091 Ms. Marvel #2 has some fun while setting things up https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/09/ms-marvel-2-has-some-fun-while-setting-things-up/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46764 No one ever said life as a superhero would be easy, but things have been especially complicated for Ms. Marvel of late. There’s little time to breathe, however, as ORCHIS’ nets are slowly closing around her — but with a little help from the Marvel Universe’s latest power couple, Emma Frost and Iron Man, she...

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]]> 46764 Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 does right by its lead https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/31/ms-marvel-new-mutant-1/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46427 Pakistani. American. Muslim. Inhuman. Mutant. Superhero. Outlaw. Avenger. Champion. Exile. X-man. There are a lot of labels on Kamala Khan, and the latest one has upended her world entirely, and given her an all-new mission statement. But underneath all the labels, when you take away the societies who believe they have a claim on her...

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]]> 46427 Ms. Marvel returns to lead this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/30/ms-marvel-returns-to-lead-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46415 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1: Fresh from being killed off in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man and having her identity rewritten to make her a mutant in line with what could have...

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]]> 46415 Across the Spider-Verse, the Death of Kamala Khan and the need for better stories https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/06/across-the-spider-verse-the-death-of-kamala-khan-and-the-need-for-better-stories/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45649 SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Amazing Spider-Man #26. On May 31, Marvel released Amazing Spider-Man #26, controversially killing Marvel’s most prominent South Asian character, Kamala Khan. She becomes one more of a long line of characters whose deaths happen to fuel Peter Parker’s ever-flowing fountain of...

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]]> 45649 Ms. Marvel & Wolverine #1 Is A Romp Despite Some Flaws! https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/12/ms-marvel-wolverine-1-is-a-romp-despite-some-flaws/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42439 Everyone’s favorite Inhuman teams up with everyone’s favorite grumpy Canadian mutant in Ms. Marvel & Wolverine #1, the beginning of a miniseries-ish written by Jody Houser, art by Ze Carlos, colors by Erick Arciniega, and letters by Travis Lanham. Kamala Khan returns in her own quasi miniseries about a month too late for corporate synergy....

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]]> 42439 Inhumans Vs X-Men In Our Exclusive Preview Of Ms Marvel & Wolverine #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/04/inhumans-vs-x-men-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-ms-marvel-wolverine-1/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42368 It’s her, Kamala Khan. The Inhuman so good that some baseball cap, phase monitoring wearing media moguls have decided that she should no longer be an Inhuman (or wildly enough, a member of the Clandestine) and instead become the MCU’s first mutant. It’s him, Logan. The X-Man so good that he can actually hold a...

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]]> 42368 An Uncanny Finale in Ms. Marvel Episode 5 and 6 https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/22/an-uncanny-finale-in-ms-marvel-episode-5-and-6/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42189 Kamala’s past and present collide, as does her home and heritage. A trip to the past helps her understand who she truly is, just in time for her to return — first to the present, then to her home — to ensure the safety of everyone she holds dear. Ms. Marvel has adapted a lot...

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]]> 42189 We Go On The Road in Ms. Marvel Episode 4 https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/05/we-go-on-the-road-in-ms-marvel-episode-4/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41874 Bye bye New Jersey, hello Karachi! Kamala and her mother travel to the other side of the world to find out more about Kamala’s roots, and the true source of her power. Once she gets there, though, Kamala finds that the mystery goes even deeper than she suspected — and just who are the Red...

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]]> 41874 What Goes Up, Must Come Down in Ms. Marvel Episode #3 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/28/what-goes-up-must-come-down-in-ms-marvel-episode-3/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41738 The cat’s out of the bag — or the djinn out of the lamp. Kamala’s no alien, Asgardian, or even Inhuman, it turns out her legacy’s a lot more complicated than that. When a group of djinn known as the ClanDestine ask for Kamala’s help to go home, Kamala has a big decision to make....

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]]> 41738 This Superhero Stuff is Hard in Ms. Marvel Episode 2 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/22/this-superhero-stuff-is-hard-in-ms-marvel-episode-2/ Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41612 Kamala Khan is working to figure out her new powers, but life gets in the way. A new boy at school, supporting her best friend as she runs for the Mosque Board, finding out the secrets of her family and the true origin of her powers — all covered here, in Night Light, episode 2!...

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]]> 41612 Ms. Marvel Tumbles Stylishly Into the MCU https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/13/ms-marvel-tumbles-stylishly-into-the-mcu/ Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41446 It’s not easy, being Captain Marvel’s biggest fan when your parents would rather you stay home and study during your chance to miss the world’s first Avengercon. Kamala Khan is not about to let that stop her — but when a family heirloom grants her powers, Kamala finds that she might just be closer to...

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]]> 41446 Asian Identity Is Multifaceted In Marvel Voices: Identity #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/27/asian-identity-is-multifaceted-in-marvel-voices-identity-1/ Fri, 27 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41149 Marvel Voices is a comic book anthology series that is inspired by the podcast series Voices of Marvel hosted by Angélique Roché. Both media discuss diverse comic book characters and creators, but the comic book anthology series takes it a step further by giving certain characters a chance to shine in their own stories. In...

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]]> 41149 WMQ&A Episode 211: Nadia Shammas and the Curious Case of the Riddler’s Facial Hair https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/24/wmqa-episode-211-nadia-shammas-and-the-curious-case-of-the-riddlers-facial-hair/ Tue, 24 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40996 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 211: Nadia Shammas and the Curious Case of the Riddler's Facial Hair Writer Nadia Shammas joins the show to talk about her graphic novel Squire, Talia al Ghul, the Riddler, Ms. Marvel and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and...

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