From screen to comic strip

Speaking to Marvel.com, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant writer Iman Vellani – who also plays Kamala in Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel – opened up about her first comic book writing adventure.

Marvel.com: While you're no stranger to Ms. Marvel, what is something you discovered about the character as you worked on this comic?

Iman Vellani: I don't want to say I didn't learn anything. It was more like I was so bombarded by the comic book writing experience, because that was so new for me. A lot of the scenes that we wrote for this comic, I had already written in my journal a long time ago. There were just things that I was pulling out and using, things from my own experience… because my life had changed so drastically in the last three years and so had Ms. Marvel's in the comics. So I wanted to incorporate a lot of what I learned throughout this entire process into her book.
I was learning a lot more about myself, actually, about how I deal with big changes in my life and the type of people I need in my environment, my support system, and I really relied on my family and my friends. […]
It's also so surreal the fact the words that I'm writing I wrote in my childhood bedroom and now people are going to read it in their homes. It's a much more personal thing. You're working with a team of barely ten people, compared to a movie, where it's like, add a couple zeros to that number. There's something very exciting and equally terrifying about that, because the experience becomes so much more personal between the reader and the creators. […]
Yeah, knowing that the fan base is going to get to know me a lot better, not only as the person who plays Ms. Marvel, but a person who knows her very well and is a fan of these comics – and not just Ms. Marvel comics! All comics!