Marvel - Wilson and Alphona rise to it and burst through. Faced with one of the trickiest problems a creator could imagine - rebooting Marvel Comics' decades-old heroine Ms.
Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, that's how. How can the timeworn superhero format possibly express the complexity of a modern teenage girl's experience - all without objectifying her bod? And then there's the matter of her struggle to define herself as she approaches adulthood. Now imagine that your protagonist is A) female, B) 16, C) a Pakistani-American and, oh yeah, D) Muslim.Ĭould there be a tougher assignment? If you avoid gross errors in depicting halal meat or headscarves, you might lurch in the other direction and fail to endow the heroine with any meaningful cultural signifiers at all.
How?Ĭonsider the ways you could misstep in updating a classic comic-book superhero. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ms.
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