Ms. Marvel #38 Review

Writer: G. Willow Wilson, Devin Grayson, Eve L. Ewing, Jim Zub, Saladin Ahmed / Artist: Nico Leon, Takeshi Miyazawa, Joey Vazquez, Kevin Libranda, Minkyu Jung, Juan Vlasco / Marvel Comics When I think about newer characters that have blown me away it’s easy (especially with the recent explosion of awesomeness that was Into the Spiderverse) to focus solely on Miles Morales. He was a young black character from the Northeast and crazy relatable to my life. Kamala Khan, though, was a different experience entirely. I am definitely not a young Pakistani-American, Muslim woman nor have I known any. In my cultural ignorance, I was enthralled by the Ms. Marvel comic. It’s my great honor to review Ms. Marvel #38, the glorious G. Willow Wilson’s last issue. I’ve followed Ms. Marvel from the jump, aside from a shameful lapse earlier this year. Wilson’s exit issue reminds me why it was so easy to fall in love with this character.

“Boss Rush” tells a story of the mundane, normal side of Kamala’s life being interrupted by the fantastic. She is sucked into an inexplicably placed wormhole that spits her out into a Role-Playing Game-based adventure. Getting through the different “levels” she comes across her closest friends filling roles as bosses and then joining her party. Along the way, our hero is forced to think deeply about how her relationships with these amazing people have evolved over the years. I was a little worried when I saw that Miss Wilson was sharing this book with a slew of …