GWillowWilson

Oh my God. It took Sana and I NINE MONTHS to settle on this power set. It was by far the most difficult part of the planning phase. Marvel came to me with a total tabula rasa--they wanted to do an all-ages series about an American Muslim girl (the idea was inspired by Sana's own stories about her childhood) but this character had no name, no background, no power set, no nothing. I didn't want her to have pretty powers--no sparkling, no floating in the air, no "I have a headache" telepathy. So that ruled some things out. And giving her violent powers--your laser beams, your plasma bolts--would be read as a political statement. (This is a whole 'nother AMA.) So we had to get very creative. It had to be something useful and adaptive and fun to look at on the page. Getting to this specific variety of polymorphism took quite awhile.

So I used to check out Marvel fics semi-regularly, but now that Ms Marvel is a thing, I haven't been as regular--simply because there are now lots of Ms Marvel fanfics out there now, and running across them feels either like Inception or gets really weird really fast (I'm thinking here of the sexier ones...) I actually wrote a whole story about this very issue in that Ms Marvel fanfic one shot a couple of years ago. :D

I think the Kamala-Squirrel Girl crossover is inevitable. It's a matter of finding exactly the right storyline though, because it must be a) Perfect and b) epic.

PS Thank you. So glad the series has been meaningful to you. xo

I value my personal safety too much to answer this question. :P

Good question! Ms Marvel is already a recurring character in the animated Disney channel series, Mighty Avengers. As for other on-screen appearances, the internet knows as much as I do at this point.

So "miraculous" is a big word. Generally speaking, Islam has a very high standard for what might be considered miraculous, and an even higher standard for what might be considered divine, so I ironically see less conflict between Kamala's particular faith than certain others. I get similar questions (How can you be a monotheist in a universe with gods, plural) but they operate from a fundamental misapprehension of what Islamic monotheism is. Thor or Loki or whoever can call themselves gods, but as long as they were A) born B) can die c) occupy corporeal bodies and d) inhabit time and space, they are, by the Islamic definition, not gods. It's a bit like your average street prophet: he can call himself the second coming all he likes, but that hardly makes it true.