comic Marvels Kamala KhanWith most superheroes, when you take away the colorful costume, mask and cape, what you find underneath is a white man.

But not always. In February, as part of a continuing effort to diversify its offerings, Marvel Comics will begin a series whose lead character, Kamala Khan, is a teenage Muslim girl living in Jersey City.

 She’s “strong and beautiful” and has moved beyond her “baggage of being Pakistani and ‘different.’”

 

(READ the story in the New York Times)

 

Image by Marvel Comics


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