Star of live action Muslim Ms. Marvel adaptation turns to comics writing

Variety reports the actress Iman Vellani, star of the live action Muslim Ms. Marvel TV show, is now writing comics herself, and in partnership with a writer/publisher who prefers the dark:

Iman Vellani, known for playing Kamala Khan in “Ms. Marvel,” will make her solo comics writing debut with “Chachu,” a five-issue neo-noir miniseries illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi and colored by Jordie Bellaire, set for release from Image Comics and Tiny Onion on Aug. 5.

Set in 1979, the series follows Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian young woman with a love of film and pulp novels who travels to California to reconnect with her estranged uncle – a semi-retired private eye once celebrated for having married the starlet he was originally hired to find. When that same wife vanishes again, uncle and niece find themselves on an unplanned road-trip investigation, one that pushes Leila’s first taste of adulthood into a reckoning with family secrets and the myths both have built around their lives.

“I’ve always been deeply curious about comics as an art form because of their capacity to hold contradiction – arguably better than any other medium,” Vellani said. “That became especially meaningful to me while writing Chachu, which grew out of this tension between mourning my youth while I still have it, and an incessant urge to come of age already.”

[...] “Chachu” is being co-published with Tiny Onion, the independent production house founded by James Tynion IV, co-creator of “Something is Killing the Children” and “The Department of Truth,” which has been expanding beyond comics into film, animation, and video game development.

If it weren't for how she quite possibly upholds the Islamic propaganda the Muslim Ms. Marvel series was built on, this might be more interesting than it sounds, but coupled with how she's having her comic produced by Tynion, the leftist who dislikes capitalism and thinks the horror genre is greatest idea ever created, that's why this isn't something to be excited about. Also, what's this about comics holding "contradiction" better than other mediums? Even that's questionable and above all, trivial. Let's also not forget how attempts to translate the Muslim Ms. Marvel into live action have for the most part been a flop.