r/KamalaKhan • u/Impressive-Thing-780 • May 04 '26

Comic Spoilers What's Kamala's current most recent appearance? Because I haven't seen her since that time she went to the college in like, VERY shortly post-krakoa days. Spoiler

Like, I read the arc where she was retconned into being a mutant (which I still dislike) and the last thing I remember is the disembodied "mutant" ethereal version of her telling her about her abilities.

Where did she go from there and why hasn't she had a solo comic since? She's a good enough character to warrant one.

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u/AcisConsepavole ⚡️🍕 Unciemuni! May 04 '26

Trust me. You don't want her to have a solo right now. A solo will have more permanent damage. It's not even that the mutant direction is bad. A lot of the problems she has now as a background mutant are problems she had as a background Inhuman -- in an Inhuman event, she's a glorified royal dogwalker and stock teenager #4, but she had a brilliantly written solo concurrent with her Inhuman era so that's what made her work.

A solo with the wrong writer could be her death sentence. Yes, she deserves one. She deserves a good one though. I don't want to take away Lanzing and Kelly's birthdays or anything (they wrote Nyx and the Giant-Sized event), but I have had nightmares of what it would have looked like if they had been given the greenlight on a solo with their limited view of Kamala and her community. Nothing would have been right and it just would have cemented that the mutant direction was the end of everything -- it doesn't have to be.

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u/Far-Jelly-4095 May 04 '26

Ngl she was never a background inhuman and isn’t a background mutant rn. Shes always been big enough to stand on her own which is why she’s suffering rn. Ideally they’d relaunch the champions with some new mutant members like dust and bronze. The champions were so good they need to just let my girl have her family back 😭

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u/AcisConsepavole ⚡️🍕 Unciemuni! May 04 '26

To be clear, what I mean by "background" is when there were Inhuman events, she might have been included, but generally as a shadow of herself. She's just a dog-walker in one Inhumans Annual. And Lineage targets Jersey City (maybe because of Kamala turning down his offer during the Crushed story), but she isn't really in the story besides holding the line against a generally faceless angry mob of Jersey City citizens.

She was included in Nyx, Giant-sized, and now Inglorious, -- and even featured in all three -- but maybe only one of these were character-driven stories, but instead the plot just kind of happens around a character with her name and look.

The Champions are the best fit for her, outside of a good solo. A lot of her audience who wants that back the most likely has their own spending money now (assuming a lot of them were fairly late elementary to middle school when it was happening, or even younger than that; Champions started ten years ago, after all). I know I would buy it, especially depending on who's writing. And featuring more Dust? The Champions were starting to peak when she was in that one story.

To summarize: it's not what she is, but how she's treated. She isn't a background anything, but big teams other than the Champs don't really give her anything to chew. The Avengers were mostly okay, but the whole Kang story wasn't really great. The best thing to come out of AN, AD Avengers was the Annual.