Our issue today? Ms. Marvel, Beyond the Limit! I picked this up at the same time I got Poison Ivy mainly because of the new Ms. Marvel show on Disney+. Click the link If you want to check out Poison Ivy’s review. A reminder I will be reviewing the following:
Cover Art
Story
Overall Rating 5 star rating system from Comic Geeks App
This was my choice for picking up some women led comics, plus I wanted to get a bit of head start in understanding who Ms. Marvel is before getting into the show. For instance I would have loved if I read a series of Moon Knight before watching the series just so I could get a better understanding beforehand. Now this is a mini series of only 5 issues but I felt that because it’s so short I would be able to get a quick overview of who she is, but that didn’t seem to be the case especially with this first issue, but more on that later. Let’s start with the cover.
Cover So this issue is slightly different than the other ones I have chosen because all the others were on the new issue rack and drew me in with their covers. This issue was in the back of my comic book store in the cardboard file cabinets. Also for some reason the M’s aren’t marked so it took me a couple minutes just to find what box started with Ms. Marvel. As for the actual cover design I’m a big fan. Ms. Marvel is featured front and center but also surrounded with 5 other poses/versions of herself. In some of the poses her limbs are extended so it’s cool to see a bit of her abilities before getting into the book. It doesn’t hurt that the cover is yellow which happens to be one of my favorite colors to use, especially in cover design.
There are panels like this that I don’t understand, did she already do all these things?
Story The comic starts with Kamala visiting her cousin Razia’s place for a little vacation that her parents had suggested. During their little breakfast meal together it’s apparent that Kamala’s cousin is a brilliant physicist. They discuss some a wormhole possibility that could travel to other dimensions and something called the Polchinski Box, which I’m not sure if this is some foreshadowing or not. Bruno is mentioned but we find out that Kamala and Bruno have kissed which led to some awkward consequences. Going back to talking about other dimensions and universes, Kamala mentions that there is some sort of closed system that exists and that’s how she is able to borrow matter from her future self and able to return it to her regular present self. It’s a bit confusing but it seems as thought she is trying to further understand where her powers come from and if other versions of herself exist. Razia tells Kamala to check out the bean in downtown Chicago, which leads us to the image above. While looking up at the bean, we find out that Kamala’s powers were activated by an ancient alient mist and morphed into Captain Marvel.
The story telling seems a bit spotty and skips certain aspects
While gazing at the bean and thinking about her powers, she bumps into some random dude and remembers she had to meet her cousin for lunch. She rushes to the campus, as she arrives she hears a crash and someone yelling, “Noooo.” Kamala finds Razia knocked unconscious but catches a glimpse of someone in a trench coat trying to get into a big wall safe. We finally see her abilities as she extends her arm and apprehends the burglar. As this happens, he drops some type of cube and screams, “What have you done?!” He darts off as Kamala puts the object he was trying to steal back in its spot.
This was pretty cool and I hope we do get to see more versions in this series.
But while Kamala is holding onto the object to place it back in its spot, she sees a bunch of different versions of herself. The object then gets extremely bright but Kamala is able to place it back. This next part is what kind of irked me a bit. Kamala goes and checks on Razia, somehow she is able to determine that Razia will be ok and nothing major happened to her. She then just leaves! She calls 911 and then goes to catch her airplane?? Like what??
Your cousin was just assaulted and then her lab was almost robbed. How do you just leave that? She gets in taxi cab and just sends a text to Razia to let her know she’s headed to the airport and that she had a good time. Kamala arrives home in Jersey City, then the narration mentions everything is ok with Razia? Again, I’m just not sure why all of that was just glossed over. While home, Kamala notices her parents acting a bit out of place as well as she hears a rustle outside of the window. She seriously cannot understand what is going on, her parents are dancing? She even thinks their bodes have been hijacked by aliens. All of sudden Kamala is in different clothing, her parents dancing, petals everywhere and loads of people outside singing and dancing.
She’s not sure what is going on and decides to change into her suit, except her suit is completely different. But before she can even wonder why, she gets knocked to the ground and is on the verge of being trampled by an elephant. Then we get a full page of Loki atop an elephant. Ok, things just started getting interesting.
Loki? Did not expect them to show up!
Overall Rating I give this a 3 out of 5 rating. I’m a little lost in terms of what is going on and maybe that’s the point. But I would have liked just a bit more information at the beginning. I just picked up issue #2 so hopefully we find some things out soon.
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