Ms. Marvel is on a trip through the multiverse in Kamala Khan’s new series

It can be hard to pick up a superhero series when its lead character is indelibly associated with a singular creator or creative team — as Kamala Khan is with G. Willow Wilson and Adrien Alphona. But I think YA author Samira Ahmed and artist Andrés Genolet (RunawaysThe ), are off to an excellent start.

While everyone seems to have been on parallel universe-hopping journeys these days, Ms. Marvel unexpectedly finds herself in the other dimension. Bollywood version for Marvel Universe.

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In Ahmed and Genolet’s new five-issue miniseries, Kamala gets caught up in an accident with her cousin’s wormhole machine and winds up in a Jersey City where everyone acts like a Bollywood movie — it rules. And I seriously doubt it’ll be the last weird Marvel Earth that the series will visit.

This week’s NightwingThe resulting book, which included no less than 10 double-page spreads of images, contained a single, contiguous image front to back that told the tale about our hero saving his dog from some nefarious mobsters.

The Reject slugs Ikaris in the mouth, and then cradle’s his hand, muttering “You should have dodged that.” “Dodging,” Ikaris says with fascination in his eyes, “Tell me about this ‘dodging,’” in Eternals #8 (2021).

Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić’s Eternals — maybe the best the series has ever been, including Kirby’s run — is back. The revelation that an Eternal’s resurrected death costs one random person’s life means the immortal and unstoppable Ikaris has to learn how to fight as if his death is consequences.

Supergirl rides Comet the Super-horse through blue and pink stars at a speed to break the laws of science and magic, pursued by a rainbow streak of something in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #6 (2021).

Every month there’s a new issue of Supergirl: Woman of TomorrowEach month the artist Bilquis Evely, and colorist Matheus Lópes completely kill it.

A massive face, patterned in the five tones of the four color printing process that created American comics speaks to the defenders in huge block letters as they step out of a panel in a comic page and into blank white space in Defenders #4 (2021).

Every issue Defenders, the titular team has traveled back to the next earliest incarnation of the Marvel Universe, and as they do, Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez have remade the world in simpler form — until this issue where they arrive in a place where boiled down archetypes of all of Marvel’s heroes and villains slug it out eternally on a vast battle plain, and the manipulation of the colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and black allow you to control reality.

It’s obvious that this is not a good idea.

Eight panels of a training montage with a middle-aged Selina Kyle and Killer Croc. They gripe about old injuries and fall asleep on the couch afterward, in Catwoman: Lonely City #2 (2021).

One of the funniest and most beautiful comics available today is Catwoman: Lonely City. It has become a huge success. Batman: The Animated Series vibes, in a stylishly rendered near-future Gotham City where old characters take new roles — and Selina Kyle and Killer Croc are rooming together and training-montaging for the ultimate heist.

Also I just love Croc’s smushed face.

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