Ahead of her upcoming appearance in The Marvels Iman Vellani is co-writing a new Ms. Marvel comic book series.
It’s not often that Marvel Cinematic Universe actors get involved with the franchise beyond the movies. However, Iman Vellani, who plays Kamala Khan in the Ms. Marvel series of the same name and The Marvels, is now penning Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant.
The comic series is due to release on August 30 and is a four-issue limited series co-written by Iman Vellani and Sabir Pirzada. Artists Carlos Gómez and Adam Gorham will also be working on the series. The covers will be drawn by Sara Pichelli.
"This was way scarier than joining the MCU for me," Vellani told Entertainment Weekly. "Those projects feel like they live in their own dimension, so I guess I can separate myself easier. But you can hold a comic book!
“I've never written anything before in my entire life, but I have read many comics, so I just wrote what I would want to read. I was given a very professional tool to write what is essentially my own fan fiction."
"It was actually a very humbling experience to work with Iman because she knows her comics even better than I do, and that is saying something," Pirzada added.
"She was throwing out references to specific comics that came out before either of us were born. She has a very great eye for what makes for a good sequence on the page as drawn by an artist. It was very impressive to me to see her throw out all these references to different artists that she's been following through the years."
"I want to make it very, very clear that we are not reconning her Inhuman origin. That's a part of Kamala's identity that Marvel editorial and myself would very much like to keep and protect," shared Vellani.
"Our book will absolutely reflect all those core themes of identity that the Ms. Marvel comics have consistently explored — only now there's a whole new label that Kamala has to learn to accept. It's going to be pretty crazy."
Vellani will return to the MCU in The Marvels, currently scheduled for November 10, 2023. A LEGO model based on the movie is rumoured but has yet to be confirmed.
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