Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel will die in Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man #26

The next issue will be available in Amazing Spider-ManKamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel will die. Entertainment Weekly confirmed the historic moment on Sunday evening, after pages were leaked from its issue.

Kamala, who doesn’t have her own ongoing book at the moment, has been guest starring in Amazing Spider-Man Sometimes I would suit up as a lab technician to help a fellow tech. Zeb Wells seemed more like a writer than he was.HellionsJohn Romita Jr.Kick-Ass( ) keep her around, anticipating a story line in which she can have a more prominent role. This is the end, so to speak.

According to the a Marvel Comics news release, “Ms. Marvel makes a heroic sacrifice in the ultimate Marvel Comics manner” in Amazing Spider-Man #26. This company plans to publish #26 by July. Ms. Marvel’s Fallen Friend, an anthology one-shot featuring stories written by Ms. Marvel co-creator G. Willow Wilson; writer of her last ongoing series, Saladin Ahmed; and Mark Waid, who wrote Kamala when she was on the Avengers and in her time as one of the feature characters of Marvel’s teen team, the Champions. Humberto RAMOS, Takeshi MIYAZWA, and Andrea Di Vito will draw the issue.

“The heart of the Marvel Universe has stopped beating,” reads Marvel’s news release, “Now join the other heroes of the Marvel Universe, the creators of Ms. Marvel, and comic fans everywhere in honoring and remembering one of Marvel’s brightest stars!”

Cover of the book Fallen Friend the company released, however, looks like it’s more about Spider-Man’s guilt. Interior image of the car. Amazing Spider-Man #26 show Kamala surrounded largely by Spider-Man’s friends — Mary Jane, the Fantastic Four, a reformed Norman Osborn — and none of her own beloved supporting cast (not even her best superhero friend, and Peter’s sidekick-at-large, Miles Morales).

Image: Kaare Andrews/Marvel Comics

Zeb wells, John Romita Jr./Marvel Comics

For a superhero whose solo stories were so centrally about her connection to her family, neighborhood, and friends, these images simply don’t feel like they’re about Kamala, an unfortunate thing to say for an issue in which she dies. That sentiment has borne out in reactions on social media, where “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Ms. Marvel” trended on Twitter following the leak and announcement.

Marvel Comics killing Kamala Khan permanently is absurd, but it’s not only the perception of what they are doing. You can still create great stories, despite how the superhero genre is known to be impermanent. But when it’s the death of a rather popular character who has her first blockbuster film coming out this fall — it breaks the kayfabe, so to speak.

It’s unthinkable that Kamala won’t be back in the costume by the time MarvelsIn November, the film will be released in theaters. Marvel released a Monica Rambeau Miniseries to prepare for MarvelsLaunched a New Guardians of the GalaxyThe series of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3It has been renumbered Captain MarvelThe series will be released later in this year.

It’s naked comic book shenanigans, and it’s cruel to play shenanigans with an audience that has very few Muslim superheroes, much less Muslim superheroes known outside of comics, to go around (or teen girl superheroes, for that matter). It’s telling that the character’s death is already inspiring celebratory racist reactions on social media.

This does not seem like a plot hook for Kamala Khan fans, which makes Marvel’s copy — about the glory of Kamala’s apparent upcoming heroic sacrifice — ring particularly hollow.

Amazing Spider-ManThe #26 issue will be released on the shelves May 31. Ms. Marvel’s Fallen FriendThe July 12th issue of the magazine will be available on shelves.