{"id":8173,"date":"2022-08-11T21:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:41:40","slug":"ms-marvel-wolverine-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8173","title":{"rendered":"Ms Marvel & Wolverine #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MS MARVEL & WOLVERINE #1<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jody Houser<\/strong>
\nArtist: Z\u00e9 Carlos<\/strong>
\nColourist: Erick Arciniega<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, here’s one for the completist file – at least from an X-books’ perspective. Not so much for Ms Marvel, of course. I really don’t get Marvel’s publishing approach to this character – you’d have thought the TV show would be a good reason to get her solo series up and running again, but instead we’re getting Infinity Comics and team-up books.<\/p>\n

In classic Marvel style, while this is labelled\u00a0Ms Marvel & Wolverine<\/em> #1, it’s actually the first issue of a miniseries where, you guessed it, every issue is called\u00a0Ms Marvel & Insert Name Here<\/em> #1. Because you wouldn’t want people to be able to figure out what issue to read them in, would you? Or have something that they can actually call the series? Or make it straightforward to find them on Marvel Unlimited?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is the first part of a completely fine Ms Marvel comic, but one which is of no particular interest from an X-books point of view. It’s not a Ms Marvel and Wolverine team-up, really – it’s Ms Marvel and the X-Men. Is Wolverine a bigger draw than the X-Men? In 2022? I’m a bit sceptical.<\/p>\n

Kamala drops by to visit the Treehouse like all the other tourists, and spots a weird robot insect thing. When she investigates, the X-Men get suspicious. But fortunately we’re spared the normal misunderstanding and fight, since Wolverine recognises her (and besides, Jean Grey can read minds and knows she’s not a threat). A whole swarm of the robot insects attack; Ms Marvel helps the X-Men fight them off. Another swarm shows up after the core team has left, so Ms Marvel fights that one alongside Wolverine, Storm and a bunch of B and C-listers. The end.<\/p>\n

I mean, not the end, obviously – there’s the whole plot point about who was responsible for the robot insects, and that’s going to be covered in future issues – but if you’re treating this as a one-shot and assuming that the X-Men aren’t going to randomly stick around with Moon Knight for the next issue then it’s all rather generic. Perhaps some reason will become apparent in future issues for using the X-Men here, but really it seems like they’re playing the role of generic target here. I guess that with the Avengers off in the middle of nowhere, it’s a toss up between the Treehouse and the Baxter Building if you want a major superhero target in Manhattan these days.<\/p>\n

The point of a team-up book ought to be interaction with the co-stars. On that point the book is… okay, I guess? Jody Houser certainly knows Ms Marvel’s history. We’re duly reminded that Wolverine was one of the first superheroes Kamala met, and that she spent some time on the Champions with a time-travelling younger version of Cyclops, so she does have some links to these characters. Carlos’s art is perfectly solid; he can handle a large cast, he’s got the style of the Treehouse, he can do a decent swarm, his robot insects pretty good. His Wolverine is convincingly sulky.<\/p>\n

But this feels like a throwback to the early days of Ms Marvel when she spent a lot of her time being overawed by more established characters, and then being validated by teaming up with them. An actual team-up with Wolverine would be a nice enough character clash, but still quite familiar territory for him – still, you could do something playing off Logan’s history mentoring the likes of Kitty and Jubilee. But he doesn’t really stand out from the crowd here, and the X-Men’s role is just pretty routine.<\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0fine<\/em>. It’s decently paced, everyone feels in character, it looks pretty good. It just doesn’t do much beyond that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MS MARVEL & WOLVERINE #1 Writer: Jody Houser Artist: Z\u00e9 Carlos Colourist: Erick Arciniega Letterer: Travis Lanham Editor: Mark Basso Well, here’s one for the completist file – at least from an X-books’ perspective. Not so much for Ms Marvel, of course. I really don’t get Marvel’s publishing approach to this character – you’d have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-axis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}