Ms. Marvel #8 Review

Writer: G. Willow Wilson / Artists: T. Miyazawa , A. Alphona, I. Herring/ Marvel Comics I don’t know about y’all but last issue with Kamala’s school vs Miles’ school at the science fair was probably one of my favorite issues in comic books this year. It was funny, educational, featured my legacy babies, ahem, my children: Kamala, Miles, and Sam and had just enough commentary on what’s happening in the bigger picture of the Marvel Universe at the start of Civil War II, which is still unfolding. As much as I’m hyped up by issue #7, please know now that this new issue is not lackluster in any way. LISTEN. The opening to issue #8 has me in my feels — This Civil War II event in the Marvel Universe is big. I know this. You know this. But actual civil wars in countries near and far? Countries that have brown and black folks scrambling to leave to survive? To make new homes in places where their accents, last names, cultures, and life experiences are thrown under the bus to be used as joke, a stereotypical political cartoon as an “example”? Wooooo. To tie this into the bloodline of Kamala as a first generation Pakistani-American who, never experiencing the horrors of those who came before her, will come face to face with something her folks never had to deal with…mutants, terrigen mists, and all the wonders of alternative universes that Marvel brings?

Our fave cinnamon roll heads out to space to meet up with her biggest hero, Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers to you civilians. She’s …