Ms. Marvel will come back from the dead for new comic series written by her MCU actor

Iman Vellani — breakout star of Mrs. Marvel on Disney Plus and the next The miracles — is getting a new notch on her creative belt this fall Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant hits comic shops. The new four-issue series is co-written by Vellani and Sabir Pirzada, with art by Carlos Gomez and Adam Gorham.

Kamala Khan will return from her untimely death for the book – which isn’t particularly surprising. And she gains a new superhero status as a mutant – not too surprising either. But that her series is being written by the actor and writer behind her MCU debut? Now there’s a comic book twist.

Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant will be Vellani’s first writing credit, but before she graced Marvel screens, she was already involved in film industry storytelling and serving on a select Toronto Film Festival committee of emerging youth. And her geeky reputation as a comic fan is absurdly well established.

Even upon first announcing the series’ existence, Vellani took the time to unpack his big, obvious change in the comic book canon: Ms. Marvel, the world’s most famous Inhuman, will follow her MCU counterpart through a To become mutant, just like the X-Men.

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“I want to make it very, very clear that we are not exploring [sic] her inhuman origins,” Vellani said in the Marvel Comics press release. “That’s a part of Kamala’s identity that the Marvel editors and I are very keen to preserve and protect. Our book will definitely reflect all of those core themes of identity that Ms. Marvel’s comics have consistently explored – only now there’s a whole new label that Kamala has to learn to accept. It gets pretty crazy.”

Vellani and Pirzada will be only the third and fourth writers to tackle Kamala Khan’s solo series in Marvel Comics, following Saladin Ahmed and the character’s co-creator and original writer G. Willow Wilson. Kamala also gets a new yellow and blue costume from her original designer, Jamie McKelvie, to match her new X-Men-y lineage.

So wait, how is Ms. Marvel going to become a mutant?

It’s not entirely clear, but Marvel’s X-Men and Spider-Man comics have been dropping some hints all spring.

Back in 2019 the House of X / Powers of X miniseries changed the status quo of Marvel Comics’ mutants in many ways. Chief among those ways was the new “technology” of mutant resurrection. It’s a goofy process with giant eggs and psychic backups and a genetic database, but it literally drained the well-worn “death to unlikely resurrection pipeline” of superhero comics and led to some truly fantastic scenarios. The X-Men had conquered death and they would use it to undo mutant genocide.

Then, last year, that status quo changed again. Under pressure from within and outside the mutant community, the resurrection process was also opened to a limited number of deserving people. And in the superhero community, Ms. Marvel is pretty close to one of the X-Men’s staunchest allies.

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Through a series of time-travel shenanigans that saw them both become teenagers, Cyclops and Ms. Marvel became quite good friends, a bond the now-adult Cyclops still cherishes. What will Cyclops do to bring Ms. Marvel back to life? How does that mean she becomes a mutant?

“After being brought back through Krakoan Resurrection Technology, Kamala is shocked to learn she is a mutant,” the Marvel Comics press release reads. “But before she has a chance to come to terms with this revelation, the catastrophic FALL OF X will throw her world into chaos… and a secret mission on behalf of the X-Men.”

All signs point to something happening around this year’s Hellfire Gala – a huge party the X-Men throw for the superhero community that has become an annual editorial hook around which Marvel plans major mutant plot developments. X-Men: Hellfire gala 2023 #1 will hit shelves in a few weeks on July 26th. Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 will hit shelves August 30th.