SM. MARVEL star Iman Vellani wrote the new MS comic series. MARVEL: THE NEW MUTANT

Mrs. Marvel AND The wonders star Iman Vellani is not only the actress playing Kamala Khan in the MCU, but now she’s also writing her own comic adventures. The actress wrote her first real comic under the upcoming title Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant.

The comic will explore the mutant side of Kamala Khan and in the story she “must fight for her right to exist as a mutant in this world. For her first mission with the X-Men, she’ll go undercover at Empire State University, where Orchis plans their next move…but not if Ms. Marvel stops her before she does!”

The series follows the events of Incredible Spider-Man #26, where Kamala “made the ultimate sacrifice to help Spider-Man save the world, but death didn’t hold her for long.” In X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1, “mutantkind resurrected her on their home island Krakoa, only to reveal that she too is a mutant. However, before she had a chance to figure out what it really meant, the anti-mutant organization Orchis launched a deadly attack that wiped out most of the mutant population of the Marvel Universe and drove the X-Men underground.

During an interview with Marvel.com, Vellani talked about the comic and the direction of the story, and what people need to know about the series before reading it, saying:

As we all know, she died in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2022) #26. But all comic book deaths are short-lived and we still have a lot of Ms. Marvel to tell! During Gerry Duggan’s HELLFIRE GALA, we see Kamala resurrected by Krakoan Resurrection technology because Cerebro has detected that she was a mutant all this time.

Naturally, this internally raises a million thoughts, feelings, worries about Kamala, and she says: “How can I deal with this new thing while all the mutants are literally dying in front of me?!” She’s thrown headlong into what it’s like to be an X-Men at the Gala, and then she doesn’t have time to process any of it. So our series picks up ten weeks after her death, and at this point, her friends and family – who attended her funeral – have their memories erased by Miss Emma Frost, because there is a lot to deal with.

Kamala is just very lonely at the beginning of the series. She doesn’t want to bring her own issues to the X-Men, because who wants to deal with a 16-year-old boy who has a recurring nightmare, and that’s where we start? So she’s dealing with a lot of the psychological consequences of being resurrected and having to adjust to these new colors that she’s wearing, to the new life that she’s been given. She is a lot and she just needs someone to tell.

Vellani went on to further explore Kamala’s mutant side and admitted that she hadn’t read many X-Men comics before this experience. So, he had to delve into all things X-Men before writing. She said:

I’ve never read many X-Men comics; I will tell. It was really scary for me, because I was delving into all things X-Men, finding my favorite characters. Grant Morrison E [Jonathan] Hickman racing has basically been my textbook for this whole thing.

I think it was really fun to explore this different side of her, because Kamala has already dealt with so many different labels. She has been an Avenger, she has been an Inhuman, a Champion, Pakistani, Muslim. She starts out thinking that being a mutant is just another label to add to the list, and she doesn’t really change a thing because she’s always had the X gene, so she doesn’t really matter. She doesn’t realize that this new dress, the new colors, carry far more weight than she expected.

The world’s whole perspective on Ms. Marvel changes very drastically and, for the first time, she gets a taste of what it’s like to be seen as a villain and an enemy, because especially after the Hellfire Gala, the world simply hates mutants : it’s awful. ! We put Kamala at Empire State University and created an Orchis funded program…and it’s hard for her, what would that be like!

You can check out a preview of the comic below as well Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant will be released on August 30th.