The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1 - Squirrel Power

ByRyan North

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★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
lama fouad
My daughter loves this heroine, and she's a decent roll model. Spunky, perky, and really funny ... not afraid to fight if she has to but also clever enough to talk her way out of situations and avoid violence.
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tahir
I had a feeling when beginning to read The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl that I was going to like it. After all Ryan North, the writer, is someone whose other works (Midas Flesh and Dinosaur Comics to name a few) I have read and enjoyed a lot. I can honestly say I was blown away by just how funny and heartfelt every issue of TUSG is!!! And of course, the art is fantastically drawn by Erica Henderson. Similarly, these collected volumes show the variant covers, which is a nice touch.

All and all TUSG is excellent. Definitely check it out, no matter what age.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
k l ogden
Squirrel Girl si a lot of fun. There's a lot of cleverness in this, and it's got a fourth-wall breaking habit like Deadpool. Squirrel Girl interacts with most of the Marvel universe in fun an unexpected ways. Very quirky, lighthearted.
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sharada
Full disclosure: this may not be the most unbiased review of my career. I am a 54 year old woman who has never read a comic book in her life. Why now you ask? I am participating in the Book Riot Read Harder reading challenge. One of the challenges is to read a comic with a female superhero and another challenge is to read an all-ages comic. I am killing two birds with one nut here. I had always assumed that I would not like comic books. It appears that I was correct. I am trying not to judge this too harshly just because I do not care for the genre.

I chose this particular comic because it sounded amusing. And at times it is. At other times it tries too hard to be cheeky. The plot line is that Squirrel Girl is going off to college and tries to blend in. She meets a cute boy and her roommate is a caustic cat lover who likes to knit. I guess I was hoping for more about the college experience and blending in. Most of the plot involved Squirrel Girl, her squirrel friend Tippy Toe, and a band of assorted squirrels fighting crime and bad guys. There were several prominent bad guys like Doctor Doom and some other characters that are no doubt familiar to Marvel Comic aficionados. The fighting of bad guys really holds no interest for me. Full disclosure #2: I have not seen any of the Marvel movies or TV shows.

This is so not in my wheelhouse. But that is the point of a reading challenge and I do appreciate reading something that I would never have chosen on my own. Just don't make me read it again! I liked the effort at humor, though sometimes it was overdone. I also liked the layers of humor, so that different age groups would find different things humorous. There were little notes from the author at the bottom of each page providing some commentary. This is a good example of the author trying to be cute or funny and it fell flat for me. I stopped reading them. I appreciated the diversity of the characters. The illustrations were not to my taste. Obviously the people behind the Marvel enterprise know what they are doing. They just aren't doing it for me!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
mohammad sameni
Full of spunk and dreams, squirrel girl right off the bat is likable beyond belief. The references and story feeling a loving remaster for modern time by someone who saw the potential for such a character and wanted to share them with somebody.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
paulo teixeira
I freely admit: prior to Ryan North and Erica Henderson's reboot, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, I was not even aware there was such a creature. As a long time fan of women who punch things, I decided it behooved me to check this out.

Tired of living in the Avenger's attic (exactly how does that get old?), Squirrel Girl adopts the secret identity Doreen Green and enrolls in college. She just wants to try a normal life: roommate drama, the sudden inability to speak in front of a cute boy, club day. Unfortunately, almost as soon as she makes campus her sidekick Tippy-Toe brings news from the worldwide squirrel network (apparently a thing) that Galactus is headed toward Earth, looking to get his snack on.

There's a lot to like in Ryan North and Erica Henderson's Squirrel Girl reboot: the goofy fun tone, the sly asides at the bottom of each page, the utter lack of boob windows, the fact that our heroine talks her way out of danger just as frequently as she punches her way out. The volume also includes Marvel Super Heroes #8, featuring the original appearance of Squirrel Girl, and I appreciated having the historical context.

So like and appreciate, yes. Love? Not so much. The art was a bit on the (deliberately) cartoonish side for my taste, and the relentlessly cheerful tone would probably grate my last nerve if I read more than one volume at a time. But these are personal quibbles, and different readers' mileage will naturally vary. If nothing else, Squirrel Girl provides a welcome and upbeat departure from the general nihilism of many comics...even if I personally choose to use it as a palate cleanser rather than make a meal of it.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
atithan sinlapapriwan
This is a great comic book. It is so funny with interesting characters and fun plots. Doreen is just starting out in her life both as a superhero and a college student. She wants the normal college student life but there is no way that she is giving up being a superhero. So she has to learn how to manage and it is hilarious. She gets into fights with villains and wins because either is she outsmarts them or talks them out of whatever they were doing. I loved Doreen. She is so funny and she can think outside of the box. The best scene in this volume is when she is talking with Galactus about all the Five stars baddies she has beaten up. I cannot wait to read the next volume.

I give this volume a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
claudia hochstein
Trade paperback collecting the first four issues of Squirrel Girl's first solo series, plus her debut appearance from Marvel-Super Heroes #8 in 1990.

Doreen Green, who has all the powers of a squirrel along with all the powers of a girl, is moving into her college campus in New York City. She's dealing with the usual issues: Annoying administrators who mess up schedules, a new roommate, Kraven the Hunter, Whiplash, and, um, Gaslactus.

This was amusing from start to finish, with Doreen's roommate, Nancy, almost completely stealing the show. There was also an awesome discussion about non-gendered pronouns between Doreen and Galactus,

The art is a perfect fit for the story and pacing, and Doreen's common-sense approach to dealing with villains is a winning formula.

The backup story is Doreen's debut appearance from 1990 where she takes on Doctor Doom. It does not go well for the Monarch of Latveria.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
mohamed fouad
+Doreen Green is half-squirrel and physically strong. It is awesome to see superheroines that are as strong as the superheroes. She is also funny, smart, and kind. Doreen doesn't use violence as a first resource, she tries to talk with the villains. She has so much compassion and tries to understand what people want and need. It's refreshing because Doreen is embracing these non-confrontational traits (compassion, respect, kindness) but she doesn't forget her strength. I love her. And I love the art, it's so clear that the male gaze wasn't considered when drawing the female characters. *happy dance*

+The beginning of each issue has a twitter feed with what has been happening. It's silly but it made so happy.

+Beautiful female friendship. Nancy is a black woman, she loves cats and superheroes. And she is such a good friend.

+Nancy and Doreen are Computer Scientists students. It makes me happy because we need more women in the STEM, and they give facts about computers and programming.
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
traci
Squirrel Girl is a very strange character. The issue at the end of this volume depicting her very first appearance is proof of that. This isn't a bad thing, but I felt like she never really clicked with me.

The book opens with her getting ready to go to college and move into the dorms. It wasn't explained in much depth, but this is huge for her because she hasn't interacted with other people a whole lot. In the first few days of her college experience, she confronts multiple supervillains.

One of the things that didn't work for me with this book is the art. It is a little more cartoonish than I prefer. It wasn't distracting or detrimental to the book as a whole, in fact the style works pretty well with the tone of the story. I just didn't care for it. It also took me a while to get used to Squirrel Girl's personality because she is very different from other superhero characters.

There are a number of things that I enjoyed about the book too. First, Squirrel Girl has a more realistic appearance compared to other female superheroes. Second, the book is funny. The little editorials at the bottom of each page are pretty amusing. The humor extends beyond that to her interactions with other characters (the fourth issue is great for this). Third, squirrel suit.

I recommend giving this one a shot if you are looking for something a little different to read.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
blue
This was just as funny and clever and original as I was promised! In the middle I was disappointed that Squirrel Girl was going to be fighting a world-threading huge evil ALREADY, because where do you go from there? But Squirrel Girl is so creative and funny in the way she defeats villains that I'm actually totally on board with it now and enjoyed this whole volume so much. I'm excited that I have so many volumes to read after this!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
kristy grazioso
Written by Ryan North with art by Erica Henderson, colors by Rico Renzi and lettering by Clayton Cowles, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power is a walk on the decidedly goofy side of the Marvel superhero universe.

Doreen Green is Squirrel Girl, a teenager who has "the proportional speed and strength of a squirrel". No, she didn't get bitten by a radioactive squirrel. Apparently she's a mutant... with a really, really big squirrel tail which she conceals by somehow tucking it down into the back of her pants. Which, in her words, gives her "a conspicuously large _and_ conspicuously awesome butt". Yes, it's definitely that goofy.

But it is fun. Unique fun. There's no other comic where you can catch Galactus snickering "Hah hah! Nice. What a tool!" and saying things like "He who wields the Power Cosmic can shoot lasers out of his eyes, teleport, and create or destroy life across all of space and time. So obviously talking to squirrels is not really that big a deal." That scene just by itself made the price of this volume worth paying, for me anyway. In addition to confronting Galactus, SG ends up taking on Kraven the Hunter and Whiplash along the way with similarly bizarre exchanges.

Minor but important note: you really have to have some familiarity with the Marvel universe and related pop culture to get a lot of the jokes that are in Squirrel Girl. Like in the opening sequence where Squirrel Girl is singing the Squirrel Girl version of the Spiderman theme song from the 1967 Spiderman cartoon TV show as she takes down some muggers in the park. The kicker comes at the end where her squirrel sidekick Tippy-Toe observes "Now if we could just get someone _else_ to sing that song, we'd be set."

This volume collects the first four issues of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and "The Coming of... Squirrel Girl!" segment from Marvel Super-Heroes #8 (Winter 1991) which marked the first appearance of Squirrel Girl.

Recommended as a somewhat guilty pleasure but a fun and unique one nonetheless.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
dana marie
There is no doubt that some Marvel Comics heroes have ridiculous superpowers. Mr. Fantastic can stretch into any shape. Ant-Man can shrink to microscopic sizes and can control ants. So a teenager with squirrel powers isn't so surprising. Squirrel Girl originally appeared in 1990 when she and her cohort of squirrels defeated Doctor Doom. Ironman was there but he didn't do much helping (to be honest, Tony Stark was more damsel-in-distress than knight-in-shining-armor). Marvel has reintroduced the character in 2015 and this trade paperback includes the first four issues along with that original adventure with Ironman and Doctor Doom.

Doreen Green is Squirrel Girl and she's been living in the Avengers Mansion attic for a while. She decides to go to college and have a bit of a regular life. She keeps running into trouble. Her roommate has a cat (which is against college rules but the roommate doesn't care). The cat does get along with Tippy-Toe, Doreen's pet squirrel (who is also her sidekick when fighting villains). So things work out. On campus, Kraven the Hunter shows up. Doreen suits up and heads out for a big fight in the campus woods. She does as much talking as using her powers to send Kraven packing. Will she be great enough to defeat Galactus, whose approach to the planet Earth has only been detected by the squirrels?

The stories are silly but fun. I laughed often while reading and found her naive optimism charming (a refreshing change from the dark, brooding comics that seem to dominate the current market). The art is bright and cartoony, also a refreshing change from the overly violent and sexualized content in other comics. If you want lots of light-hearted chuckles, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is right up your alley.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
evren
"The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power"
Written by Ryan North
(Marvel Comics)
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This is a genuinely wacky, bizarre superhero parody book, collecting the first issues of the "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" series... The character was a goofy toss-off created in the 1980s by Steve Ditko during one of the mercy-hire gigs given to him by Marvel Comics years after he'd passed his prime. (That story, a "team up" with a reluctant Iron Man, is reprinted in the back of this book...) Ditko obviously could have cared less about the story but amazingly Marvel let writer Ryan North revive the character and we, the fans, couldn't be more delighted.

Squirrel Girl turns out to be one Doreen Green, an uber-enthusiastic college-age gal with big buck teeth and the proportional strength and various abilities of those funny little tree rodents with the big bushy tails. (Note: they never specify whether her powers are those of red squirrels, gray squirrels, or even flying squirrels... which do exist and are hard to get out of your attic.) Doreen is a never-say-never kinda gal, and manages to face down Marvel uber-baddies such as Galactus, Kraven The Hunter and Doctor Doom, usually in ways you'd never expect. Pretty much every panel has some kind of gag in it, along with numerous editorial notes and a running commentary at the bottom of every page. The letters column and other features reflect the same, um, nutty sense of humor and if you're looking for a fun, funny, family-friendly comicbook, one that's equally entertaining for grown-ups or kids, "Squirrel Girl" might just be for you! (DJ Joe SIxpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
carlie
My full review is here: [...]
I. Does it represent/portray and do it well?

Yes! It portrays women realistically and it has at least 2 characters of color that are imperative to the protagonist’s story. The characters have depth and are even drawn like actual people.

II. Does it teach me something or make me think?

It did make me think a little but about conflict resolution and violence in fiction.

III. Does it perpetuate healthy ideals?

It promotes feminism, conflict resolution, thinking before acting, and probably even more healthy ideals.

IV. How was the writing itself? (Style, plot, characters, ease of reading, pace, world-building.)

The characters were very enjoyable, the plot is easy to follow, the volumes flowed, the story didn’t bore, and the comedy was just enough.

V. Did I enjoy reading it?

I enjoyed it more than I expected, however not enough to want to continue with the series. I did not anticipate reading more from issue to issue. It was a pleasant read, but it would satisfy a superhero fan or comic reader more than it satisfied me.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
laura rotaru
I've heard nothing but good things of this book and the character, so when we received a copy of the TPB here at the Library I decided to take a chance. What a delight!

Ryan North and Erica Henderson do a wonderful job with Doreen Green, a young lady with the 'proportional strength and abilities of a squirrel'. Yep, you heard that right. Heck, she even has her own theme song, which she made up and sings herself. It does remind one of the old Spider-Man theme song, but that might just be a coincidence. Heck, she is able to confront Kraven the Hunter, who seems to be fixated on another hero, until SG sets him straight. And how many young super-heroes can claim to have fought Galactus on the Moon and actually convinced him to leave Earth alone for a while?

If you take your heroes seriously, then this is not the book for you. However if you have a sense of humor and want to see an all ages, female friendly book you can recommend to even non-superhero fans, this might be a good place to start.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
dpauling46
It's a hit!

There's just so much clever going on in this book, its a total success, right up there with North's Adventure Time books. Squirrel Girl jumps from big bad to big bad, toppling them with various logics and sciences. Its wonderful, and brimming with personality, brought alive by Henderson's art. This book is killer, unique, and in no way hampered by its all-ages nature. The creators transform a fan favorite one off joke into a viable, teen hero, along the lines of Ms. Marvel. Its great, you should read it, and when you do, let your kids read it after.

The downside here is the inflated price-tag, hilariously justified by the inclusion of Squirrel Girl's origin story. I don't mind paying a little extra for an underdog book like this one, but I've paid for that issue three times now effectively, and that's silly.
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
dan wong
Actually I would guess I'd like the comic, but the store has some glitch where even though I purchased it, it will not load on a Mac Reader version of Kindle. So either I buy a kindle or never read the comic. Pretty stupid.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
pamela drapala
I have to admit I had my doubts about this, I knew a lot of people had enjoyed this and recommended it, but Squirrel Girl is a character that I had never ever heard of before and the I wasn't sure I would like her. But I really actually enjoyed this character so much more than I thought I would. She's funny and unique and well, unbeatable. There is a great amount of humor and a fun story line throughout this volume, I loved seeing her encounter Galactus. Oh, and don't forget to look at the white spaces at the bottom of most of the pages, there is some more funny stuff there, I missed a few of them when I first read this. And Tippy-Toe is so adorable, there are many cute woodland animals in here. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a lighter funny read, and I think it would be a great book for younger readers just getting into comics. Overall I really liked this book and will probably read the next volume as well.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
randall
I have never, ever loved a comic with the kind of helpless adoration I feel for The Unbeatable Squirrel. So funny! So smart! So awesome! UNBEATABLE! And so kind as well.

I dragged out my reading of this volume as long as possible...but now I have to admit it: I'm really done. It's over. No more until the next volume. Wahhhh!

There wasn't a single issue in this volume that didn't make me laugh out loud multiple times, and I always, always felt better after reading it. I love Squirrel Girl SO MUCH! Call me, Squirrel Girl! Or at least deliver Volume 4 implausibly early... ;)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
rick glosson
So this was amazing. Funny and fun and engaging, it had me giggling and immediately reaching for the next volume, which luckily I had. I didn't read the last issue in the volume, which was a reprint of Squirrel Girl's first appearance, mostly because I don't generally find older comics all that engaging.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
faith loveless
This is my favorite comic book ever. While I wasn't sold on the art at first, I now love it. It strikes just the right goofy note. The dialogue and little comments on the bottom of the page are hilarious. I laugh out loud every time I read it. A wonderful break from all the oppressively dark, heavy comic books on the market. Unlike most books, you can jump right in with no background knowledge of the character. I wasn't a huge fan of Doreen in her previous appearances, but this mini reboot is fantastic. Doreen is the best friend you wished you had.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
april forker
This reading is mandatory. It's a perfect way to introduce your kids to this fantastic do-goer. Doreen is the kind of character we all want to be friend of. Fresh, dynamic and fun like these times need. Go with Squirrel Girl, you can't be wrong with her
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
uday tangs
I picked this up on a whim at a school book fair. Very glad I did! I laughed out loud at least a couple different times while reading the 4 issues collected here. As a bonus, Squirrel Girl's first appearance (with art by Steve Ditko) is reprinted in the back. A very fun comic, I will be buying and reading more Squirrel Girl adventures in the future!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
chhaya
I am in love with everything about this comic! The art is simple and wonderful. The writing is spot on with humor for everyone. I also adore the portrayal of Squirrel Girl. She is not sexualized in the way you see many comic book heroines. She is strong and smart! I can't wait to introduce my niece to this comic book!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
anne evans
It's incredibly comedic and the main character, Squirrel Girl of course, has such a life and energy to her you can't help but smile as you read along.

PS. read the bottom of every page, it's worth it ;)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
baairis
So, so funny and intelligent! Really clever dialogue, riffs on other heroes like members of the Avengers, such a fresh voice in superhero comics. She usually solves problems with just a touch of butt-kicking, but mostly by making friends or diverting the violence :-) Great positive comic to share with kids. The spoof social media is a highlight.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
linda hull
This trade paperback collects the first four issues of Squirrel Girl's ongoing series which started in January 2015 plus her debut appearance in Marvel Superheroes #8 from 1990.

The writing is from Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics and most recently the Adventure Time Comic. Art is by the Indie / Alternative darling Erica Henderson. The art is charming and delightful in it's simplicity and quirkiness. The writing is simplistic but equally charming. This is a book that can be enjoyed by the very young and the very old and everybody in between.

Doreen Green is Squirrel Girl and she is an over night sensation. That is if you consider 25 years over night. Created by Steve Ditko (Spider-Man's co-creator) and Will Murray ( author of new Doc Savage and Tarzan Novels) in 1990. She was kept alive by writers such as Dan Slott who placed her in his Great Lakes Avengers. Some credit must also be given to G Willow Wilson who's Ms. Marvel reboot proved their was a market for books featuring teen aged girl super-heroes.

Doreen Green who was fifteen in her first appearance is now old enough to start college (18 ?) We join the book as Doreen starts her college life. She has the proportional speed and strength of a squirrel. She also has a large bushy tail which she tucks in her pants when in her civilian identity so that she looks like Nicki Minaj. She also can talk with squirrels and have them do her bidding. Tippy-Toe the squirrel is her faithful friend and side kick.

This book should be also praised for giving us a young girl character with a realistic body type and not another big boobed centerfold shaped girl that you find in most superhero comics.

The first issue is a stand alone where she goes up against Kraven The Hunter. The manner in which she outwits Kraven is totally delightful.

Starting with issue #2 Doreen becomes aware of an eminent attack by Galactus and the next three stories culminate with there meeting. Along the way her roommate Nancy Whitehead gets in trouble during a bank robbery and we meet Whiplash of Iron Man fame.

The original Ditko / Murray story is included in which fifteen year old Squirrel Girl tries to have Iron-Man take her in as his sidekick . The two of them then must battle Doctor Doom.

Also included are all the delightful covers and alternative covers plus the original letter pages. Ryan North also includes his own silly commentary at the bottom of most pages in small little beige lettering. It is just barely visible.

OK so maybe Squirrel Girl isn't Steve Ditko's second best creation after Spider-Man. There is after all Doctor Strange, The Question, The Creeper, Mr. A and Hawk & Dove and many more. But I was afraid you wouldn't read this review if I said Ditko's twelfth best creation. What is true about this book is that it is absolutely charming and fun and you should love it.

My Highest Recommendation.
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ruth bolard
Just go ahead and buy this comic book. This is a comic that understands comics and plays with the medium, it has fun with super heroes and the Marvel universe in great ways. It's insanely funny, charming and worth everyone's time.
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graydon gordian
North and Henderson's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1 is everything Squirrel Girl comics should be: fun, intelligent, and chock-full of action! Squirrel Girl is smart, sweet, and spunky; Erica Henderson's art is accessible to comics fans and new readers alike; Ryan North's writing is witty, idiosyncratic, and self-aware. I read the individual issues and I look forward to each one because I know Henderson and North will have me in stitches.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
leigh hancock
A silly, wonderful romp full of amazing lines. Squirrel Girl is absolutely overflowing with plucky self confidence, and seems quite determined to bend the universe to her will just by being her nutty self. I can't think of a better hero.

I like it. My daughter (age five) absolutely loves it. One for all ages.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
merrily
Soooooooo good. Hilarious, adorable and absolutely endearing. So unique and absolutely worth the price of admission to read the stories of such a perfectly rebooted character. Doreen Greene fan for life now!
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
pnok
Well first off let me say that Squirrel girl is one of my favorite characters in the Marvel Universe. And let me also say that the writing is top notch and some of the best ive read lately.
Now your asking yourself why i only gave it 2 stars, well the artwork sucks. Not bad or distracting but out right sucks, It harkens back to the days of Xforce that became Xstatic. It looks like if someone in the 70s farmed out cartoon animation to a sweat shop in Southeast asia where the child labor had never seen an actual cartoon.
Now if you can ignore the abysmal art work(obviously i can't) It is a excellent read. But if your looking for something that pleases visually as well as it reads i suggest looking else where.
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
sulaf
Unless the store deletes the image I'm posting, here's a picture of Squirrel Girl, her face at least. The version for sale here has the ugliest art I've ever seen. Just compare the art styles. Or do a Google search for squirrel girl and look at the images. Startling.
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ian pirrie
I did not like that everyone had a hair lip. Also I thought the book was pandering a bit to begin with but then when it dropped into full on PC culture rhetoric I was disgusted. I want to read cool stories not be subjected to some white knight author suck up to PC culture. Captain Marvel by Kelly Sue is a much more genuine depiction of how great women are. This is kind of trash. Its sad I wanted to like Squirrel Girl
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sondra
I'll admit it, I haven't purchased this comic and only saw it "featured" in a video online. And I have to say, if anybody's nuts, it's the people giving this comic five stars. The art is atrocious. In particular, I don't understand why they made the titular character so hideous. Okay, fine, give her some off-putting squirrel features like big teeth. There's no reason to make her look like the product of inbreeding, especially not when your writer has an agenda of establishing a so-called "new normal."

And way to miss the point of this character, Marvel. I don't think she was originally meant to be some sort of girl power statement, like "Women can beat anyone!" or whatever. And the humor from her wasn't necessarily supposed to come from her telling jokes. No, the joke was that someone with the power to talk to squirrels could defeat world-ending threats like Doctor Doom and Thanos. Like one hero would try to to tell another hero that that's a thing that actually happened and the other hero wouldn't believe it.

The problem with that is trying to take a gag character that revolves around that joke and making it into a series. You'd have to keep coming up with new and highly implausible (but hilarious) ways for her to defeat incredibly powerful villains, and I guess the series sort of does that. But that might get old, too, so you have to add depth, like maybe there are low-tier villains that absolutely destroy her every time she runs into them, squirrel friends with different personalities, heroes who have different reactions to her, a boyfriend who somehow never figures out that she's Squirrel Girl, so on. Man, just give me writing duties for this comic, even a total amateur like me has a thousand more ideas than the current one does.

I don't recommend this comic unless you plan on taking a selfie with it to share with all your friends but never actually read it.
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mina
This is just sad. Squirrel Girl was among the first to turn SJW. Remember when she had personality and looked half decent? Well too bad because now she's the opposite. Personality?! Screw that, let's have Marvel's middle aged writers confuse having personallity with telling awful jokes! Have Squirrel Girl be attractive?! People would get triggered hardcore if that happened, I mean who ever heard of a fit, good looking girl hero in comics? Like no way. That's what toxic cis white males teach you. So let's give her a dumpy, borderline down syndrome patient look! Why? Because that's how 'real' girls look! And don't forget to make the guy characters overtly effeminate and butch up the girl characters to the point they don't even look like girls anymore.

Seriously though, Squirrel Girl worked best when she was a member of the Great Lakes Avengers. She's a gag character who fit in with the goofy narrative. Or maybe team her up with Deadpool or something, that'd be neat. This series is trash. If you want to get into Squirrel Girl then read the Great Lakes Avengers. A complete edition with all of her appearances was published somewhat recently. Just pick that up.

1 out of 5
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