Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

Short Review: I like comics but I rarely read them. They are too expensive much of the time and I am not a fan of serials, I want to keep reading until I am done. This was on sale when I picked it up (not now) but it is only the first 5 issues and the next volume is 3x the price I paid. So I will see if it drops in price too eventually.

This latest version of Ms Marvel is based on a 16 year old Muslim immigrant from Pakistan. She is geeky and into fan fiction and superheroes, and then she becomes one and it is not as she would have thought. This feels very much like early spiderman and it is well written. The first main character to be Muslim and also a main character as a teen girl feel natural and not like they were parts of intentional diversity program. (Although I am all for more diversity, I just want to see it done well, and in this case, it was.)

The only problem really is that the story was barely started when the book finished. Vol 2 came out yesterday, but as I said, I won't be reading it until the price drops.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/ms-marvel-vol-1-no-normal/