Marvel Comics debuts female Muslim superhero

[G_j]

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201311703859213377

Marvel Comics debuts female Muslim superhero

16-year-old Muslim-American girl Kamala Khan can lengthen her arms and legs and change shape.

Move over Black Widow and step aside She-Hulk: Marvel Comics is introducing a new superhero - a 16-year-old Muslim-American girl named Kamala Khan, to reflect the growing diversity of its readers.

The character, who will be the new Ms Marvel, lives with her conservative Pakistani parents and brother in the US state of New Jersey.

She will make her debut in January and appear in a monthly series starting on February 6.

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[Hayabusa]

1. Um... Dust anyone?

http://marvel.com/universe/Dust

[el_bryanto]

2. There was also a member of the Captain Britian and MI13 team that was a muslim female

She was great actually - Excalibur i think was her name?

Anyway this is a bigger deal because it's closer to an A-List title.

Bryant

[Hayabusa]

3. That's true.

As good as New X-Men was, it wasn't exactly an A-lister.

[el_bryanto]

5. The title was A-List - but the character wasn't

Morrison kind of just threw her out there and then forgot about her - she got a very strong introduction but didn't go anywhere after that.

Bryant

[ismnotwasm]

4. I was reading about this

I think I'm going see how it does. It's an interesting premise

[Gothmog]

6. My youngest child is very excited about this development

She saw this on the Colbert Report last night and was very happy

[reddread]

7. Its a small world after all

No imagination, no justice.
soulless gimmicks and exploitation.
Ripping off the work of American geniuses
like Jack Kirby and making endless billions
because our Supreme Court is as crooked as
it gets.