Ms Marvel Makes It To 50 Issues

Writers: G. Willow Wilson, Saladin Ahmed, Rainbow Rowell, and Hasan Minhaj / Artists: Nico Leon, Gustavo Duarte, Bob Quinn, Elmo Bondoc / Marvel Comics After 4 years, Ms Marvel has made it to 50 issues! (That’s in total, not #50, just to be clear. We don’t count that high at Marvel anymore.) This celebratory double-sized comic is the joy you expect it to be, especially considering the 3 guest writer/artist teams that G. Willow shares these pages with. Joining Wilson and Nico Leon are, in order:

Saladin Ahmed (Black Bolt, Exiles) and Gustavo Duarte on art Rainbow Rowell (Runaways) and Bob Quinn on art Hasan Minhaj (The Daily Show, Homecoming King) and Elmo Bondoc on art

That’s a stellar writing cast of diverse styles and voices, which works perfectly inside the frame story written by Wilson. That frame is Kamala trying to have a sleepover with her best girls — Zoe, Nakia, and Mike. She needs to unload the latest drama of her life to them:

But in typical fashion, ever time she’s about to dish the dirt, she’s called away to do some superhero-ing. First, she has to help Lockjaw.

Ahmed handles this mini adventure perfectly, and even seems to be poking fun at perpetually serious Inhumans in general. This bit is anything but serious. Kamala returns and orders pizza, only to find out that the Pizza Delivery Person is not who they appear to be.

This story from Rowell starts out humorously but turns to heartbreak inside of 5 comic pages. This is how her Runaways comic reads, so y…