Graphic Novel Review - 'Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel' by Various

A fun and entertaining collection of comics about Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, the freaking wonderful and inspiring Muslim Pakistani American superheroine, pre-2022.

'Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel' also features Loki, Carol Danvers as Ms. Marvel and a women's lib magazine editor in chief at the Daily Bugle (it's a time travel plot, because of course it is), the alien/Shi'ar villainess Nightscream, Kamala's close friends Bruno, Nakia and Zoe (they are so precious, and Kamala is lucky to have them), and Miles Morales as Spider-Man.

One special highlight is 'Generations: Ms. Marvel & Ms. Marvel'. It's about Carol Danvers as, again, a women's lib magazine editor in chief, and Kamala, having time travelled to that past (unheard of by me until now; has editor in chief ever been one of Carol's jobs?), gets roped in by J. Jonah Jameson as an intern under Carol. The two Ms. Marvels team up for supervillainess battles, and there are these amazing lines from Kamala:


'Some things never change--for Carol, it's protecting the innocent first and foremost.' [...] 'For her, that means peace and order.' [...] 'For me, that means asking who gets the peace and who takes the orders.' [...] 'I've managed okay without Carol for a while now. Done my own thing. In a lot of ways, I've stopped thinking of myself as her successor.' [...] 'But watching her be Ms. Marvel, I think...' [...] 'What if there were a way to fix it [their rift post-'Civil War II']?' [...] 'What if there's a way around the contradictions?' [...] 'A way to unify the mission?'

'People want equal rights, but they also want permission to have fun and be frivolous sometimes.' [...] 'Resisting the status quo 24/7 is exhausting. Sometimes you need to give yourself permission to watch smoky eye tutorials and make DIY face masks from cucumber slices and stuff.' [...] 'Let people have their smoothie recipes and their beauty advice.' [...] 'Make that part of the struggle for women's rights. 'Cause getting your rights isn't about becoming someone else. It's about not having to ask permission to be who you already are.'


Add this to the million other reasons why Kamala Khan is the greatest, and so beloved.

Other 'Ms. Marvel' reviews by me:


'Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal'

'Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous'

'Ms. Marvel Omnibus, Vol. 1'

'Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin'

'Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, Vol. 1'

''Marvel Rising''

'Kamala Khan: Ms. Marvel (Little Golden Book) (Marvel)'


Final Score (for 'Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel'): 4/5