First Look: Ms. Marvel #1

January 10, 2014

Here we go! When Carol Danvers became Captain Marvel, she left behind an outdated thong costume, but also a serviceable superhero name, and now, one of her idols is picking up that mantle and becoming the new Ms. Marvel. Her name is Kamala Khan, and she’s a 16-year-old Pakistani-American who was granted shape-shifting superpowers thanks to the Terrigen Bomb set off by Black Bolt of the Inhumans during Infinity. However, seeking out Medusa and the Attilan ex-pats doesn’t seem to be on her agenda – balancing superhero work with family pressures are more than enough to deal with.

Check out this first look at Ms. Marvel #1, due out on February 5 from G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, featuring variant covers by Neal Adams and Jamie McKelvie.

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Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.