Ms. Marvel Team-Up |
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Collection published: 2019 Contents originally published: 2019 Acquired and read: September 2025 |
I have diligently subscribed to Ms. Marvel in single-issue format via my local comic book store since Kamala Khan's debut in 2014. Once she stopped appearing in series named after her, my comic book guy has continued to stick related series featuring her into my pull box, forcing me to read X-Men comics. I was thus surprised to recently realize that Kamala co-starred in a six-issue miniseries way back in 2019, which he did not pull for me, and which I had failed to notice, so I tracked down a trade paperback collection of it.
This is a team-up title, consisting of two three-issue stories. The first, by Eve L. Ewing and Joey Vazquez, teams her up with Spider-Man. Specifically, there's a flipbook-style first issue that tells the same story from both Kamala's and Peter's perspectives, culminating in a body-swap; the second issue is body-swap shenanigans; and then the third resolves everything. Other than a backup story in Ms. Marvel vol. 4 #38, I think this is my first time encountering the writing of Eve Ewing, though I know she wrote some Black Panther comics I will get to soon. The story is a bit contrived, but I suppose that's part of the whole bodyswap genre; without that, there's no story and no fun. I liked her work here. Joey Vazquez would later illustrate a few issues of The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, and he does a good job here; I think Ms. Marvel requires someone with a strong command of faces, and he has that.
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| A good blockchain joke and a good period joke. What more do you need? from Marvel Team-Up vol. 4 #2 (script by Eve L. Ewing, art by Joey Vazquez) |
The second story, by Clint McElroy and Ig Guara, teams Kamala up with her idol, Captain Marvel. Despite some good art from the ever-reliable Ig Guara, you couldn't pay me to care about the Kree, and unfortunately too much of this story is about the Kree and Carol Danvers's relationship with them; Kamala contributes little to the story other than to serve as a voice of dissent for Carol. To be honest, I felt like Kamala changed her positions at random, alternating between enthusiasm and skepticism based on what the plot required. Pretty tedious... but the first story was a good addition to the Ms. Marvel canon, and justified picking up the book. I'm sorry my comic book guy missed it!
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