Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel

Marvel-Verse

by G. Willow Wilson, Saladin Ahmed, Adrian Alphona (Visual Art)

In all the Marvel-Verse, nobody is more magnificent than the metamorphic Ms. Marvel! These stories prove that Kamala Khan is one of her generation's greatest heroes! Get to know Kamala, her loving family and her fun-filled friends in this collection of action-packed adventures - starting with Loki, Norse god of mischief, crashing the school's Valentine's dance! Ms. Marvel travels back in time to meet her idol, Carol Danvers, all over again - and Kamala joins her pals Bruno, Nakia and Zoe in a video game for the fight of their lives! When tragedy strikes, Ms. Marvel and her Champions teammate Miles "Spider-Man" Morales share an exploration of what it means to be a teenage super hero! Collecting MS. MARVEL (2014) #12, MS. MARVEL & MS. MARVEL, MS. MARVEL (2015) #38 and MILES SPIDER-MAN #24.

Genres: Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Graphic Novels Comics

104 pages, Paperback

Published August 16, 2022

About the author

Hugo, World Fantasy and American Book Award-winning author of novels and comics, including THE BIRD KING, INVISIBLE KINGDOM, and ALIF THE UNSEEN. Co-creator of Ms Marvel. Honorary doctor of letters, Rutgers University. I accidentally started a dutch baby baking cult during quarantine. Not very active on here right now, but often found on Twitter.

Reviews

[kuura]

FREAKING KAMALA KHAN AND MILES MORALES!!!!!

[Jordan]

3.5

[Artemis Crescent]

A fun and entertaining collection of comics about Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, the freaking wonderful and inspiring Muslim Pakistani American superheroine, pre-2022.

'Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel' also features Loki, Carol Danvers as Ms. Marvel and a women's lib magazine editor in chief at the Daily Bugle (it's a time travel plot, because of course it is), the alien/Shi'ar villainess Nightscream, Kamala's close friends Bruno, Nakia and Zoe (they are so precious, and Kamala is lucky to have them), and Miles Morales as Spider-Man.

One special highlight is 'Generations: Ms. Marvel & Ms. Marvel'. It's about Carol Danvers as, again, a women's lib magazine editor in chief, and Kamala, having time travelled to that past (unheard of by me until now; has editor in chief ever been one of Carol's jobs?), gets roped in by J. Jonah Jameson as an intern under Carol. The two Ms. Marvels team up for supervillainess battles, and there are these amazing lines from Kamala:


'Some things never change--for Carol, it's protecting the innocent first and foremost.' [...] 'For her, that means peace and order.' [...] 'For me, that means asking who gets the peace and who takes the orders.' [...] 'I've managed okay without Carol for a while now. Done my own thing. In a lot of ways, I've stopped thinking of myself as her successor.' [...] 'But watching her be Ms. Marvel, I think...' [...] 'What if there were a way to fix it [their rift post-'Civil War II']?' [...] 'What if there's a way around the contradictions?' [...] 'A way to unify the mission?'

'People want equal rights, but they also want permission to have fun and be frivolous sometimes.' [...] 'Resisting the status quo 24/7 is exhausting. Sometimes you need to give yourself permission to watch smoky eye tutorials and make DIY face masks from cucumber slices and stuff.' [...] 'Let people have their smoothie recipes and their beauty advice.' [...] 'Make that part of the struggle for women's rights. 'Cause getting your rights isn't about becoming someone else. It's about not having to ask permission to be who you already are.'


Add this to the million other reasons why Kamala Khan is the greatest, and so beloved.

Other 'Ms. Marvel' reviews by me:


'Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal'

'Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous'

'Ms. Marvel Omnibus, Vol. 1'

'Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin'

'Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, Vol. 1'

''Marvel Rising''

'Kamala Khan: Ms. Marvel (Little Golden Book) (Marvel)'


Final Score (for 'Marvel-Verse: Ms. Marvel'): 4/5

[Cale]

This collection of single issue Ms. Marvel stories gives her some good foils and fun stories. We get Loki at a high school dance, which goes about as well as you would expect. We get a time-jumping story that lets Kamala appreciate Captain Marvel from a different perspective. And we get a goofy story that throws Kamala and her friends into... video games? It makes basically no sense, but it's still a fun read. That's true about all three of the main stories - no high stakes; no galactic disasters, just Kamala being herself in ways that show off her character (although the first story seems more focused on Loki than Ms. Marvel - but it still pays off for both, so that's not much of a strike against it). The variety of art styles and story styles highlight how versatile the characters in Ms. Marvel's neck of the woods can be.

[onceuponamon]

Ms. Marvel

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
Rating: 🍄🍄🍄🍄
203 in TBR List
14/25 in 2025

Format: 📖
Pages: 104
Days to read: 1
Song to go with: Cosmic by Laura Karpman

Vibes: Young adult, urban fantasy, unlikely hero, strong FMC, coming of age, high school, comic book, graphic novel

Review: Ms Marvel is such a great coming of age story. I loved the video game one! So good! And the interactions with unlikely characters were a fun twist.

[Ma'Belle]

Considering this is packaged as an introduction to the character via a handful of disconnected issues - not all from the Ms. Marvel title and with quite a bit of variety in art styles - this was actually quite consistently fun.

[Julie]

This Ms. Marvel mash-up contains issues from several different books and cross-overs. It's a good intro to the world of Ms. Marvel if you're trying to figure out where to start or what books you might be interested in reading. I enjoyed it and recommend it!

[David Meyer]

I'm not sure I understand completely what this collection is or how it was chosen, but for me it was a nice introduction to the character.

[Fuuma]

Oh my god that was so cute I love it

Also I definitely need to read that Miles run now.

No complaints had lots of fun fully recommend A+

[Steve Roylance]

Cute

[Craig Lotter]

Low stakes, charming little standalone adventures for Kamala and her friends. Good primer for incoming readers of all ages - as intended by these Marvel-Verse books.