Meet MS Marvel.

Meet Marvel’s newest teen hero. Following in the long teenage superhero tradition of Bucky Barnes, Spider-Man, and the X-Men, in 2014 Marvel is bringing in a new female heroine with an eye towards legacy: Ms. Marvel. Announced in early November, the new Ms. Marvel – aka New Jersey-ite Kamala Khan – doesn’t look like your typical blonde-haired, blue-eyed action hero type – and that’s a good thing. TheMs> Marvel series, which launches in February, shows series writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona carving out a new character in the legacy of their own titular heroes, but making it thoroughly modern and fun.

The media was quick to latch onto the fact that this all-new Ms. Marvel is Pakistani Indian American, but just as the United States is a melting pot for various ethnicities – so its superhero comics. Back in November, Wilson told Newsarama that she’s avoiding this “slipping into tokenism,” instead telling “the story of a true-to-life young Muslim growing up in the United States.”

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