Ms. Marvel has a doppelganger - which is pretty weird. It turns out she's a teenage girl named Qarin, and she has shapeshifting powers too. She's lost - like, from-another-universe lost - so, of course, Ms. Marvel takes her under her wing, which isn't so bad. What's less good is that Qarin has already figured out Kamala's secret identity, and she might just have darker plans in mind than trying to find her way home. Will Ms. Marvel's glitchy powers be enough to stop her? Rated T+
SAMIRA AHMED was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. She currently resides in the Midwest. She’s lived in Vermont, New York City, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, she taught high school English for seven years, worked to create over 70 small high schools in New York City, and fought to secure billions of additional dollars to fairly fund public schools throughout New York State. She’s appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, Fox News, NBC, NY1, NPR, and on BBC Radio. Her creative non-fiction and poetry has appeared in Jaggery Lit, Entropy, the Fem, and Claudius Speaks.
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Generally speaking I think I would be friends with Kamala if I knew her in real life. But she and her friends are way, way too trusting. This issue introduces a new shapeshifting girl, one who looks vaguely East Indian like Kamala and definitely can copy Kamala's powers and appearance. Team Marvel immediately accepts this superpowered stranger at face value, despite knowing nothing about her, and immediately include her in all their plans and activities.
... What the Hell?
Especially given how Kamala is friends with superpowered scientists, like with the Nadia Van Dyne cameo we had in this issue, you would think she would conclude the most logical course of action would be to send this unknown superhuman to a friend's lab to be studied. Even if Kamala wants to accept this person's brief story about where she came from, one would think that she would need to be studied for radiation or interdimensional contagions that could kill her or everyone on 616 Earth.
But, no. Kamala just has her over for a sleepover.
This short series has veered into confusion. Not I can't follow the plot confusion, but why did they go this route confusion. Why make when the multiverse gives us so many possibilities?