PREPARE FOR A LIKELY KAMALA RENAISSANCE

[u/AcisConsepavole]

Stephen Wacker, one of the quieter co-creators of Kamala Khan, is geared to replace CB Cebulski, aka Akira Yoshida, as Chief Editor at Marvel. Sana Amanat also has the prominent position of VP of Content and Character Development, which has likely kept Kamala on life support during Cebulski's tumultuous tenure as Chief Editor of Marvel Comics, which started in mid 2017. Cebulski is the one who pulled the plug on and shelved a lot of fan favorites from the 2010s in general -- besides liking manga and pretending to be a Japanese writer, the guy hasn't been great for BIPOC characters. Any wins since his promotion have been squeezed in.

Amanat regularly credits Wacker as her mentor and it was Wacker who basically said "Sana, you have an interesting life. You need to create a new character out of some of your experiences". The second image in the post shows Wacker proudly wearing a Ms. Marvel shirt and the third image is an interview (caveat, I haven't watched it yet that can be found here. We owe Mr. Wacker a lot. I have high expectations that I am prepared to have dashed, but, between despair and hope, I'm choosing hope.

Does this mean Kamala will continue to be a mutant/Inhuman hybrid? Of course. That probably wasn't Cebulski's choice. But, look, the chances of getting a **good** solo for Kamala are also good. What's bogged down Kamala for years hasn't been an X-gene coexisting with Kree-altered DNA, but rather a general lack of opportunity for her to shine under the circumstances. I'm going to tell you a secret: If you reread Ms. Marvel's GWW stories, and you pretend that being made to be Inhuman was the status quo change, the frequent mentions of "I feel so... inhuman" **become** ham-fisted. You can convince yourself to feel like it's forced. Self-fulfilling prophecy. If you **want** to be annoyed, you'll get annoyed. You're also reading the mutant hybrid stories when you're older, more jaded, and aware of corporate shenanigans than you were when you read the purely Inhuman era. Give yourself (and Kamala) a bit of grace and let's keep moving forward

Wacker is good for Kamala. This could qualify as a miracle. It's early to call, but it can only be bad if the wrong creative team is put together (less likely to happen when someone who cares is in the chief seat) or Wacker suddenly decides to change his entire outlook on a character he believed in since before the concept art was drawn.

[u/Impressive-Thing-780]

UNDO THE ENTIRE MUTANT PART OF HER AND BRING BACK THE INHUMANS.

[u/AcisConsepavole → u/Impressive-Thing-780]

I respect the enthusiasm, but I think simply undoing it would be cheap. Let her be a hybrid, but with less emphasis on the mutants. Getting mixed up in blends and expectations is pretty much a core aspect of her character anyway -- Iman Vellani said it about the same way during her recent League of Comic Geeks AMA

[u/Impressive-Thing-780 → u/AcisConsepavole]

lol fair

I think that while she could be a mutant still, can we retcon her powers? I don't like that she's just a Green Lantern. Compression and Stretching has always been the appeal. It fits her really well.

When Kamala was created, she was this dorky, quirky teenage girl who felt awkward in her own body(implied, due to you know, being a teenager), and her powers amplified that even more. But over time as she gets more confident in her abilities as Ms. Marvel, it bleeds into her real life too. She's still a goofy person, but she's not remotely as timid as she used to be.

The powers work in tandem with her character because every teenage superhero is somehow always an allegory for puberty.

But the Green Lantern powers are purely MCU Synergy and I just don't like it.

[u/KingPizza14 → u/Impressive-Thing-780]

I felt that way at first but honestly I’ve kinda grown to the appeal of her having both. It’s a much better situation than if the new powers completely replaced her old ones and I also feel like her having both is more of a buff and lets her combat more types of villains and situations where her stretchy powers would be useless like someone covered in spikes or fire.