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A review by unladylike
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 7: Damage Per Second by G. Willow Wilson
2.0
This is the least-good volume of Ms. Marvel since G. Willow Wilson et al started it with Kamala Khan a few years back. Not much happens in it, but it still takes just as long. One of the characters with a dynamic arc comes out as not-straight - by a forced outing. And is immediately assumed to be "gay." And is immediately assumed to be doomed. Gahh fuck that tragic trope, but I'm still rooting for the characters involved.
The main storyline appeals to MMORPG (or whatever that acronym is) gamers and was likely inspired in part by that A.I. that Google or whoever made a couple years ago and put on Twitter. Within a short period of time, enough people were feeding awful garbage reasoning and vocab to the bot, and it learned from their behavior online and turned horrible rapidly. So, like that but in a comic book, and also more like every '90s sci-fi movie where a video game comes to life or sucks the players in or whatever. There's not really a single original thing in this run of Ms. Marvel issues, and even the moral lesson about cyber bullying is watered down. Squirrel Girl did it far better.
I didn't hate this book, and if it were any other title, I might've given it 3 or even 4 stars, but in the trajectory of Ms. Marvel comics, it's not great.
The main storyline appeals to MMORPG (or whatever that acronym is) gamers and was likely inspired in part by that A.I. that Google or whoever made a couple years ago and put on Twitter. Within a short period of time, enough people were feeding awful garbage reasoning and vocab to the bot, and it learned from their behavior online and turned horrible rapidly. So, like that but in a comic book, and also more like every '90s sci-fi movie where a video game comes to life or sucks the players in or whatever. There's not really a single original thing in this run of Ms. Marvel issues, and even the moral lesson about cyber bullying is watered down. Squirrel Girl did it far better.
I didn't hate this book, and if it were any other title, I might've given it 3 or even 4 stars, but in the trajectory of Ms. Marvel comics, it's not great.