Generations: Ms. Marvel and Ms. Marvel #1 Review

Writer: G. Willow Wilson / Artists: Paolo Villanelli and Ian Herring / Marvel Comics I’m going to be 100% up front here about Ms. Marvel. I love Kamala Khan. I love Carol Danvers, even after she went off the rails in Civil War II. So a comic that unites these two Ms. Marvels for one quick adventure is pretty much guaranteed to get me fangirl squee’ing for about 20 minutes. This comic is exactly as advertised. But better than that, Wilson is at the top of her game and the art by Villanelli and Herring is so on point it gave me flashbacks. (Yes, I *remember* the 1970s; I was *there*.) This is a great addition to any Ms. Marvel collection, old or new. The comic starts with us meeting Carol Danvers as the Editor-in-Chief of a women’s magazine called, oh yeah, Woman Magazine. This sets us squarely in Carol’s 1970s era, when she’s left NASA and the Air Force behind, but before she’s joined any official superhero unit. Kamala, um I mean Karina, has landed at the magazine as an intern:

Pause to appreciate the perfect use of “Record Scratch. Freeze Frame. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.” It is one of my favorite Internet memes and I love seeing it jump genre to genre and media to media and yet always be right on time. How Kamala ended up in this situation is well… Wilson attributes it to “sci-fi reasons,” which is as good a reason as any. She knows she doesn’t have to suspend your disbelief with a plausible explanation. We’re here for the characters, Kamal…