"Being someone else isn't liberating. It's EXHAUSTING."
OH MY GODS.
I am a DC girl, through and through, I just am, I find I don't care for most of Marvel's superheroes and they're just too goofy. I like my comics to read a little more seriously. Of course goofy isn't always a bad thing - like in this reboot of Ms. Marvel.
The point of that little tirade up there being: I am a DC girl, but a few days after this trade came out, I started hearing that the new Ms. Marvel was a Muslim American woman. So, I more or less sprinted to Comic Relief (my local comic shop), and was told they had sold their last copy less than an hour before I arrived. Gorramit, I had still been at work an hour previous.
THREE WEEKS LATER.
I finally got the call that my ordered copy had arrived. I got home and sucked it down in a half hour. The characters are vivid, real, hilarious, and lovable. The family is true to any American family with strong cultural ties. The girl is a confused teen caught in the throes of growing up and accepting herself.
This isn't a superhero story, so much as a story of a girl coming to terms with herself and her culture and her history and learning who she is within those confines as well as without. This is the story of a teenage girl accepting herself. This is a coming of age story if I ever did read one, and I cannot fucking wait for the next installment.
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