It feels like they didn’t even let the body go cold before bringing Ms. Marvel back. Do you think the “someone dies” gimmick pushes any sales these days? Death has lost any of the shock value it might have ever had in comic books. Ms. Marvel’s death in particular was pretty badly handled. She was a very secondary character in the Spider-Man book and it was all quite dumb. Spider-Man in general has been a mess, maybe this was just an attempt to bring Ms. Marvel fans from the TV show into Spider-Man, who knows…
I found this particularly interesting: “I want to make it very, very clear that we are not reconning her Inhuman origin. That’s a part of Kamala’s identity that Marvel editorial and myself would very much like to keep and protect,” But they ARE making her a mutant just to connect the stories from the MCU…
Deaths in superhero books have been nothing but cheap stunts to pump up some numbers for a long time now.
This one however feels like a whole new level of cynical corporate storytelling to synergise with the films.
I’ve never been much of a Ms Marvel fan, but I feel sorry for those who are seeing the way they’re handling this. The stunt casting for writer on the comeback too is worrying, I can’t remember one time a celeb writer has done better than an actual comic writer would.
I mean, at least in Iman Vellani’s case she is a massive fan herself, so there’s that.
That’s what they said about Abrams son too.
It’s not what “they said”, Iman Vellani is very outspoken about being a huge comics nerd. She celebrated Halloween dressed as Miss Marvel when she was 15.
I’m sure she may well be, doesn’t make her an experienced comics writer.
And I never claimed she was.
Also “interesting”: Kamala will return in Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, a new four-issue series co-written by Ms. Marvel TV writer Sabir Pirzada and Iman Vellani, the actor who plays the character in the MCU.
