Ms. Marvel

07/19/22 • 55 min

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It's embiggen time as we tackle many volumes of G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel, as well as the entire six episodes of Bisha K. Ali's Disney+ TV series. We're both BIG Kamala Khan fans, so we were psyched to discuss the Brown girl from Jersey City who saves the world.

Talking points: why Kamala is such a great character and why Iman Vellani is perfect to play her, the series' focus on her family, Bruno's disability arc in the comics and why we have no patience for those who criticize the Partition storyline.

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Have something longer to say or a comment about banned book club? Email us at [email protected] or tweet us your responses before the following deadlines:

> July 21: Cousins by Virginia Hamilton

> Aug 18: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:

> Brenna: @brennacgray

> Joe: @bstolemyremote

Have something longer to say or a comment about banned book club? Email us at [email protected] or tweet us your responses before the following deadlines:

> July 21: Cousins by Virginia Hamilton

> Aug 18: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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Previous Episode

Wildhood

We're delighted to be tackling a new queer Canadian Indigenous film with Bretten Hannam's Wildhood (2021).

Featuring great teen performances and picturesque Nova Scotia landscapes, this road trip movie about a pair of two-spirited Mi'kmaw boys is beautifully shot by cinematographer Guy Godfree (Giant Little Ones). We have some quibbles with the leisurely pacing, the sex scene and the arbitrary use of subtitles, but we're happy to see another side of Atlantic Canadian represented onscreen.

Reference: Herb Wyile. Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:

> Brenna: @brennacgray

> Joe: @bstolemyremote

Have something longer to say or a comment about banned book club? Email us at [email protected] or tweet us your responses before the following deadlines:

> July 21: Cousins by Virginia Hamilton

> Aug 18: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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Next Episode

The Knife of Never Letting Go / Chaos Walking

Mind your Noise because we're headed to New World for a discussion of Patrick Ness' famed first novel in the Chaos Walking series, The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008), as well as Doug Liman's long-delayed 2021 adaptation.

This one is a struggle: not only is there plenty of walking, but the repetitive writing, the whimper of a climax and the disinterest in exploring colonialism (despite introducing it!) makes for frustrating reading. The film is watchable thanks to Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley's charm, but it fails to adapt large parts of the book and feels like a pretty standard big budget dystopian YA. Overall this is a mess...and the dog dies to boot!

Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:

> Brenna: @brennacgray

> Joe: @bstolemyremote

Have something longer to say or a comment about banned book club? Email us at [email protected] or tweet us your responses before the following deadlines:

> Aug 18: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

> Sept 7: Lord of the Flies by William Golding / Film by Harry Hook

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