Deadpool #36
I’m mixed on Mike Hawthorne’s art…I don’t quite like how he draws Ellie (or Loki) but I like how he draws Deadpool. It was nice to see Shiklah, even if only a little. I did feel like I only got half a story, getting little flashes of the events going on in Avengers & X-Men: Axis #3, which I didn’t pick up but now I feel like I have to, so I guess your plan worked, Marvel. This issue was really all about setting things up for the next story arc so it was a little weak on its own, but there were some good moments, such as: Deadpool kisses Sabretooth and we get the start of Zenpool.

Amazing Spider-Man #008
The second half of the Ms. Marvel/Spider-Man team up. I love Ms. Marvel. I love her so much. I also love how Guiseppe Camuncoli and Cam Smith draw her. Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel work well together, and Peter gets to be a bit of a sempai to Kamala and it’s really cute. We see a connection to a recent Spider-Man side story and a little more of Silk. I’m not very invested with the Edge of Spider-Verse story at the tale end of the issue, though Mayday Parker looks cute.

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.