Ms. Marvel is my new jail-bait-but-its-ok-she’s-fictional crush.

I started reading the new series and new heroine, Kamala, with issue 03. The first set of stories told her gaining her power, starting her journey towards being a hero, and getting her costume. Having established her origin, we jump into the adventure more with a new storyline in issue 6, and my love for Kamala and the Ms. Marvel series has been cemented.

Besides being an energetic, enthusiastic, wants-to-do-good-with-her-powers young woman, Kamala is also a big ol’ geek and I love her for it.

She’s into D&D (she threw out not just one but multiple D&D references), she’s into memes (she did a “doge” style narration. Wow! Much awesome!), and she writes fanfiction (my only complaint is that she writes fanfiction of, what is in her world, real people, and I don’t think it’s cool to write about real, living people, but that’s a minor point in a fictional world where my heroine writes fanfiction.). She fangirls over meeting Wolverine. It’s so freaking adorable.

So um, yeah, enough gushing, what is the story about? Well, Kamala has recently rescued the brother of a friend who had gotten himself mixed in with a cult-like group who answers to the Inventor. Now the Inventor has been sending out bots after Ms. Marvel. Kamala has so far been able to defeat them, but they are getting smarter and stronger along the way. She notices a gaping hole in the street leading into the sewers that has some strange animal growls coming from it, so she dons her costume to investigate, where she first meets a holographic projection of her new nemesis the Inventor, before she runs into Wolverine who is hunting for a missing mutant student. The two team up as they investigate the sewers and it is fabulous.

I am loving the story and character so much. I greatly recommend this series, and issue 06 is a fine place to jump in on it.