In a post made to Marvel.com on Wednesday, July 12th, 2023, Marvel Comics released a single-page post-issue scene to follow Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel #1.
The issue, released today, sees the friends of the late Ms. Marvel coping with the untimely death of the young hero.
Fallen Friend post-issue scene
The post-issue scene was posted to Marvel.com without any context beyond the headline, “Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel Post-Issue Scene.” The webpage is accessible via a QR code included on a page in the back of the issue. The code is centered on a relatively nondescript black page with a white-line border. This matches the pages used for chapter introductions and select additional pages throughout the issue.
Meanwhile, the download code included in physical copies of Fallen Friend unlocks an Infinity Comics scrolling version of the issue. While this version does include the “final scene,” it is placed after the copyright information and could easily be overlooked by readers.
However, a purchased Kindle edition of Fallen Friend lacked both the QR code page and the final scene, concluding on the “The End” page which precedes the post-issue scene.
In the Marvel Rundown for July 12, Avery Kaplan, Cy Beltran, George Carmona III, and I discussed the confusing layout of the Marvel Comics issue, Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel by writers G. Willow Wilson, Mark Waid, and Saladin Ahmed, artists Takeshi Miyazawa, Humberto Ramos, and Andrea Di Vito, inker Victor Olazaba (Ch. 2), colorists Ian Herring and Edgar Delgado, and letterer Ariana Maher, with a main cover by Kaare Andrews, which explored the impact of Kamala’s death on her family, friends, lovers, teammates, community, and even other superheroes.
I don’t know how the rest of the team feels, but, honestly, Marvel’s decision to release another page today just makes me more confused about the trajectory of Kamala’s death. I am still asking: “Why kill your Muslim superhero? And why do it in such an exploitative manner?” As a reader who is a longtime fan of Ms. Marvel, the decision to borderline (?) fridge the Avenger in the panels of Amazing Spider-Man #26 continues to confound me.
Genesis Planet Krakoa Resurrection
The posted post-issue page features Cyclops – who, as you are probably already aware is a mutant, and is associated with Krakoa and its mutant resurrection protocols. At the Marvel Rundown (and elsewhere throughout the internet), speculation that Kamala will be resurrected as a mutant has been widespread.
For one thing, this would bring the Marvel Comics incarnation of Ms. Marvel closer to alignment with the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s variant (whose eponymous series has been nominated for three Emmy Awards). Furthermore, Krakoa prioritizes the most important heroes for resurrection, and Kamala was so important her funeral got its own one-shot (and all the cis white boy Avengers even showed up to declare her a hero).
Finally, while only mutants are officially sanctioned to be resurrected, there is a precedent for exceptions to this rule.
The Death of Ms. Marvel
What do you make of the most recent perplexing development in the ongoing case of the Death of Ms. Marvel? Will the resurrected Ms. Marvel make her debut at the Hellfire Gala, at San Diego Comic-Con 2023, or elsewhere? Could she finally be awarded her own ongoing title?
Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, huh? In the meantime, let us know what you think of this Fallen Friend post-issue scene in the comment section.
