At the start she had some genuine fans. But then the book, and to be fair the rest of Marvel, got super preachy. There was one infamous page during the second run where you had kids sitting together at lunch, talking about how oppressed they were.
I remember her being a klutz back in her first run, being really clumsy as she tried to work out her powers, and she made mistakes. But from what I've seen since then she's basically a quirky Mary Sue now.
the way she was, up to the beginning of Secret Wars, was the ideal Kamala Khan. I liked the sappy melodramatic end she faced at the last incursion, right before the world ended. She got told she did good, lived up to a legacy, and still showed herself as an awkward klutz that was endearingly trying to figure everything out in the weird horrid time between Infinity and Secret Wars, where Marvel's paragons went off kilter and everything was shitting itself. Doc Ock was Spidey, Hulk was Professor Hulk but worse, Wolverine died, Steve Rogers was aged and cranky, Tony became kinda evil, the X-Men were fucked, the Inhumans were kinda spazzed out, and then you had the Incursions looming over everything.
Hell of a time to become a superhero. I do recall that she was meant to be a Reed Richards fangirl first.
Anyways early Kamala was fine. I think it just got worse when they didn't really have a direction for her and just flanderized her into some sort of mary sue. While it kinda was lame, I do think the way she died a while back wasn't that bad of an ending for her. They even had an odd funeral issue for her, and then brought her back in the X-Books like 4 months later because apparently she had a latent X-Gene. I recall the premise of her arc there was some weird analogy for sexuality/race.
Her power set's sorta weird to me because it's some hackneyed inferior version of Reed's. But it's always implied that, if she gets enough experience and training, then she's capable of even shapeshifting and greater feats.
But yeah, anyways, Kamala's a character with fine potential ruined by current day incompetency. Must be a day that ends in Y. Hell, the early run had some interesting dynamics in exploring the natural sexism of muslim culture. Wonder why that didn't continue. I think she should have been jettisoned with the other new Inhumans and have been brought back a year later for some big space opera adventure in the same vein as Annihilation.
