What I Bought 9/2/2018

I found the one book that I wanted that came out last week, eventually, and here it is! I'm not exactly excited to be back at work.

Ms. Marvel #33, by G. Willow Wilson (writer), Nico Leon (artist), Ian Herring (color artist), Joe Caramagna (letterer) - I feel like Kamala's going to land very awkwardly, given the angle her body is at relative to those buildings below her. It's as though she was scaling the side of one of them, and pushed off to lunge at someone.

Kamala's powers are getting increasingly screwed up, but she's still pursuing the Shocker. He's built himself a lair! Complete with absurd, well, "death traps" might be too strong a word, but that would appear to be the intent. Meanwhile, Bruno is back at the school lab trying to finally figure out how the hell Kamala's powers work, along with his weird little Xavier school electronic encyclopedia thing. And there's a vortex in the Shocker's hideout, which is probably also disrupting Kamala's powers somehow. Bruno seems to have gotten results by increasing light wavelengths, so I'm guessing all the vibrational energy from the Shocker's gauntlets is exciting molecules and sending her powers out of control. Just spitballing here.

Even though he's being goofy, I love the Shocker trying to do his version of a Silver Age super-villain. I know the Shocker is a Silver Age super-villain, but he never really did the "lair" thing that I remember. And he's got mad engineering skills - look at the stuff he's coming up with on a five-fingered discount budget - so he can absolutely put together his own place. Although it looked structurally unsound from the outside, and his traps seem to be damaging the inside. Well, he'll get better at it with practice. And Nico Leon's artwork makes it look like he's having fun. The way he's throwing civilians in Kamala's way, or jumping around making her chase him through his version of Home Alone.

Can he be Kamala's arch-nemesis, the way he wants? Spider-Man doesn't need him, he already has plenty of enemies. I like Shocker more than the sentient computer virus or the annoying fascist girl (although it's more fun to watch her get punched in the face).