Beyond the Limit 5

Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit

by Samira Ahmed

Ms. Marvel has to find the mysterious thief who's been raiding scientific labs across the country before he strikes again, but first, she needs to team-up with her friends to stop Qarin from taking over Kamala's life in revenge for the destruction of her homeworld. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Novels is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics

24 pages, Library Binding

Published August 1, 2023

About the author

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.

Her writing is represented by Joanna Volpe at New Leaf Literary, Inc.

Reviews

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

No. Ended too abruptly, too conveniently. The bad guy got powers with very little explanation, and then was handed a completely undeserved redemption arc.

That is setting aside that at various points in this issue Ms. Marvel believed she was responsible for the death of at least one person, if not an entire universe of people, and she didn't seek any kind of atonement. It seems that the worst Kamalah believes she deserves is to feel kind've guilty about it. She only thought that she had committed genocide on a universal level, after all. Sure, that would mean that she was worse than Hitler. But, okay. No punishment needed.

[Rafaela · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 for the whole series. It had good moments, but nothing impressive. The ending opens to some interesting possibilities, though.

[Ludor · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wraps things up fine, with bit of comic science to gloss over details, and teases future adventures, though it leaves a lot of questions I doubt the future adventures will answer. The art felt a little off, unpolished I guess. And I'm still confused about why they did a Loki cameo that did nothing for character development or the plot back in the beginning.

[Burton Olivier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wait, Ms Marvel borrows mass from her future selves? I completely missed that, that's so weird

[Arisha (Free Palestine 🇵🇸) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was super fun but kind of confusing. G. willow Wilson’s version is definitely the best, but Samira Ahmed’s is bearable.

[francis · Rating 2 out of 5]

wow, this was just… lame. it felt rushed and cheap (i wouldn’t be surprised if it was both) with bland art, basic lettering, and entirely non-engaging writing. :-(

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always enjoy Ms. Marvel!

[John Schoen-McCullough · Rating 3 out of 5]

This run ends weirdly and without really a satisfying conclusion or any rewarding resolution. I love Ms Marvel and I want more strong runs like the original and the Saladin Ahmed run!

[Samia A · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 for the overall series. Good plot line but ended too quickly

[Jelke Lenaerts]

I felt like this one wrapped things up a little too easily, but the cliffhanger ending did leave me intrigued for more.