Ms. Marvel, Issue #13 is the first comic I've read in almost a week. I built a new computer with a fancy gaming card and fancy... well, everything. Needless to say, I've been playing a bunch of video games and generally goofing off on it. In Issue #13, Ms. Marvel finds out that the city has been redistricted. She goes to talk to the mayor, but he blows her off before handing her a note that simply says, "help!" And he has good reason to ask for help. The districts have been gerrymandered to help his opponent in the upcoming election win, and his opponent is an agent of H.Y.D.R.A.
Okay, so gerrymandering isn't a typical topic for superhero comics. It's no secret that after winning the House of Representatives in 2010, the Republicans gerrymandered the nation to hell. On a national level, districts are drawn after every census, so 2000, 2010, 2020... The comic moves on to Ms. Marvel going house-to-house, campaigning for a fringe candidate. Somehow it works, and the fringe candidate wins. I've campaigned house-to-house, and it sucks (Clinton, 2016), but it was nice to see it work for a change.
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