Kamala Khan may have sacrificed her life to save the universe earlier this year in Amazing Spider-Man #26, but nobody really expected her to stay dead, and we now have confirmation that the character will return in a brand-new Marvel Comics series... which will be co-written my Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani!
Khan was revealed to be a mutant in the season finale of the Disney+ series, and, as many suspected, it looks like the hero is going to be resurrected on the page as one of the Children of the Atom in Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant.
Vellani will pen the series with Ms. Marvel TV writer Sabir Pirzada, with artwork by Carlos Gomez and Adam Gorham, and Sara Pichelli providing the main covers.
"This was way scarier than joining the MCU for me," Vellani tells EW. "Those projects feel like they live in their own dimension, so I guess I can separate myself easier. But you can hold a comic book! I've never written anything before in my entire life, but I have read many comics, so I just wrote what I would want to read. I was given a very professional tool to write what is essentially my own fan fiction."
Despite the title, Vellani insists that the new comic won't retcon Kamala's Inhuman heritage.
"I want to make it very, very clear that we are not reconning her Inhuman origin. That's a part of Kamala's identity that Marvel editorial and myself would very much like to keep and protect," Vellani says. "Our book will absolutely reflect all those core themes of identity that the Ms. Marvel comics have consistently explored — only now there's a whole new label that Kamala has to learn to accept. It's going to be pretty crazy."
Get a first look at the cover for issue #1 and Ms. Marvel's redesigned costume below.
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