Frankie's Blog — Kelly Sue DeConnick

On Tuesday, Marvel released the trailer for one of their newest Disney+ shows, Ms Marvel, which is set to release on June 8th. The show is centered around one of Marvel’s newer superheroes, spunky and imaginative Pakistani-American teenager Kamala Khan, who will be played by Iman Vellani. The trailer looks to tell the story of how Kamala becomes known as Ms Marvel. However, before we can talk about that, we need to back track a little and talk about a different Ms Marvel – the one who would later become known as Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers. Carol Danvers as Ms...

March is Women’s History Month and, as such, I wanted to make a few blog posts this month about female comic book creators. I thought that I would start out by writing about a few really badass female comic book writers whom I, as a female comic book fan and a writer myself, really look up to. I hope you find them as inspiring as I do. KELLY SUE DECONNICK DeConnick’s 2012 run of Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel is what first really got me into comics. She wrote Carol as a strong and capable woman who was also very...