‘Ms. Marvel’ #13: building up the courage
Since its release last year, Ms. Marvel has stood as one of the most subversive and earnest teenage superhero books coming out of either of the big two. It’s drawn in fans both old and new who never dreamed to see a teenage Pakistani-American girl don superhero tights and stand up against injustice in her own home city. The book has been charged with the fury of Millennials sick of being told they’re the social rot that marks the downfall of society. Even when conveying to traditional cynical comic book marketing like a Wolverine team-up, the title kept its identity and worked something that editorially mandated into a natural extend of Kamala Khan’s development. As Ms. Marvel has done its best to ignore typical female superhero tropes, this month risks all of that when Kamala realizes she’s developed a crush on a handsome new boy who’s come to town.