Ms. Marvel Meets the Marvel Universe

Ms. Marvel: Digest Size Collection #6

by G. Willow Wilson, Mark Waid, Amy Reeder

Kamala Khan is Jersey City's own friendly neighborhood super hero, and she's making a huge impression across the Marvel Universe - whether sharing an adventure with Wolverine or a Ms. Marvel Team-Up with Spider-Man! Kamala discovers her Inhuman legacy with Medusa and the oversized hound Lockjaw, enjoys spy games with S.H.I.E.L.D., and comes face-to-face at last with her idol Captain Marvel - just in time for the end of the world! Witness Kamala's first adventure with the All-New, All-Different Avengers - and see her join a new generation of heroes in the Champions! Plus, two young super hero sensations unite when Ms. Marvel meets Moon Girl!

Collecting: Ms. Marvel (2014) 6-9, 17-18; S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014) 2; Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015) 10; Champions (2016) 1; material from Amazing Spider-Man (2014) 7-8, material from Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Avengers) 1

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Marvel, Superheroes, Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult

248 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2020

About the author

Hugo, World Fantasy and American Book Award-winning author of novels and comics, including THE BIRD KING, INVISIBLE KINGDOM, and ALIF THE UNSEEN. Co-creator of Ms Marvel. Honorary doctor of letters, Rutgers University. I accidentally started a dutch baby baking cult during quarantine. Not very active on here right now, but often found on Twitter.

Reviews

[Ross]

Team ups aren't a bad thing, they should just lead with that fact. If you wanted to show someone the gist of who and what Kamala Khan is all about, this collection is a good start. It isn't anything that isn't available elsewhere, but it is definitely a nice little sample of the art style and writing.

[Becky B]

A collection of Ms. Marvel's team up adventures with other Marvel superheroes. Included are her adventures with Wolverine and then Queen Medusa and Lockjaw to bring down an evil scientist. Then she helps Peter Parker and Silk rescue a baby from a supervillain. Then she accidentally joins a SHIELD operation at her school and a black market supervillain merch sales bust that results in the worst pizza day ever. She teams up with Captain Marvel to save her brother from another evil scientist. She and the Avengers have to take on a dragon. She helps Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur evade Kid Kree, a bounty hunter. She leaves the Avengers and forms her own team with Miles Morales, Nova, Viv, and the Hulk to rescue some trapped miners and then some human trafficking victims.

I had read half of these before in the Ms. Marvel G. Willow Wilson volumes. The Peter Parker, Avengers, Moon Girl, and Champions story were all new to me. I liked the Champions one the best. A nice collection of stories for Ms. Marvel and broader Marvel fans.

Notes on content: 3 minor swears. No sex scenes. Some of the women that are being trafficked are only in their underthings and rather scantily clad. Typical superhero violence, though there is an important message about mitigating violence and using power responsibly in the last story.

[alexofmacedonia]

the first four issues in this are a repeat of issues #6-9 that can be found in Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan. the rest are team-ups that Kamala has with other heroes across their storylines, like Silk and Amadeus Cho. it felt disjointed, since it jumped around so much to other people's stories and wasn't a clear timeline on where it's happening in Kamala's, especially with there being one from when the Prime and Ultimates universes were merging, and another where she's already with the Avengers and teams up with Nova and Miles to be Champions, since those definitely aren't happening within the same era as the issues of Ms. Marvel in the beginning.

i'd recommend this to anyone who's already read all of Ms. Marvel's main story and wants some tidbits of her teaming up with others, and can ignore the first like 50 pages.

[Alisha Ward]

Cute with all the team ups for Kamala Khan as a teenage Ms. Marvel -- it is just team-ups so the story line skips around but chronologically. Just like her counterparts, particularly Spider-man, she is fallible in her decisions and humorous in learning to master her powers. She loves her family and supports them through disagreements all the while struggling through school and dealing with the weight of being an Inhuman. What is most likable about the story is that Ms. Marvel is Muslim and helps to breakdown misconceptions about the religion. Poopoo it if you like by saying it is just a comic, but look at what Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Black Widow have become in our society...they have influenced and perhaps in a simple way so can Kamala.

[Derek]

It takes some chutzpah to repeat a story here that was also in the collected origin story volume.

But the theme is the way that Ms. Marvel intersects with the rest of the Marvel universe, and particularly how she bounces off the other heroes. There is an evolution implied, where her bubbly fangirling hero-worship gets a dose of reality and smacks into her idealism and youth viewpoint and results in the Champions hero group team-up. If that's your interest then you see it. If you're interested in the longer plot lines then this will feel chopped up.

[Emily]

A fun sample platter of Kamala Khan, who is always a delight. Here she is with Spider-Man! Here she is with Moon Girl! She meets Wolverine and fangirls all the way out! It's all out of context and the art is hit or miss for me, but it's a way of deciding what series to check out and it's always nice to see Kamala even when I'm not sure what she's doing and nothing gets resolved because it's all excerpts of larger storylines.

[Louis Skye]

This was fun. A good collection of Kamala’s team-ups with other heroes. The best issues in this collection were from her own Ms Marvel books. Kamala geeking out when she meets her idols is so much fun to read! I wasn’t a huge fan of the tone of some of the others. She’s far too serious in some of them.

If you want to get to know Ms Marvel, this may not be the best series to start with. It’s better to read her solos and then come to this one.

[Jennifer]

This was an interesting combination of comic books in one volume. Many of them I've read before in the other Ms. Marvel graphic novels. The final comic, Champions #1, was new and well-worth the wait. It was action packed, and had a great message. I highly recommend this graphic novel and every graphic novel with Ms. Marvel in it.

[Kate]

I am loving Ms. Marvel. This was a great compilation to get to know her better and I’m super excited about the last two issues in the book. I’ll be looking for more issues of Marvel’s #champions as the younger, wiser, more compassionate generation of super hero.

“We have to start enforcing justice without unjust force.” —Ms. Marvel

Preach, Kamala!

[Lilybeth]

I didn't realize this was a compilation of Ms. Marvel stories from her storyline and other comics.
It was nice to re-read the "main" Ms Marvel stories that I love so much.
Some of the other stories were a little hard to follow because I didn't have the context.
However, I LOVED Champions #1.
I think I may have a new series to check out.

[Summer]

The stories are fun but this volume is a bit redundant if you have the other Ms Marvel collections. It includes issues found in "Kamala Khan" and "Metamorphosis." If I hadn't picked it up for $5, I would be more disappointed.

[Patrick Book]

Pretty cute and fun!

[Samantha]

Enjoyable, though with the multiple issues and storylines I am not a fan of how disjointed it reads. The Champions arch sounds sweet though

[Jennifer]

Fun tie-in to other issues I’ve read previously.

[Rachelle]

More Ms. Marvel and all sorts of Marvel crossovers.

[James]

Ms. Marvel

Another great Ms. Marvel book. Couple of issues were repeated from last Ms. Marvel book but the rest were great. Nice to see some variation in heroes.

[Bethany Phillips]

This was ok.

This has Ms. Marvel team up with different heros.

I liked this but I had already read some of these in the other Volumes. But there were some that I did not read.

Overall it was ok.