Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 5: Like I'm the Only Squirrel in the World, The

by Marvel Comics

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Publication

Marvel - Us (2017), Edition: 01, 112 pages

Description

On a trip to Canada to visit her mom, Doreen teams up with Ant-Man when the Taskmaster strikes, but it turns out to be Mew, Nancy's cat, who saves the day.

Rating

(64 ratings; 4.2)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Othemts
Doreen, Nancy, Tippy-Toe, and Doreen's mom try to go on vacation in a remote cabin in Canada (leading to an endless series of Canada jokes), but are interrupted by Enigmo's plot to take over the world. Enigmo has the ability to split into infinite smaller versions of himself, making him hard to
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beat, but also a number of great sight gags. Ant-Man plays a part in Squirrel Girl's plan to save the world. This book also includes an adventure entirely from the perspective of Nancy's cat, Mew. There's also a 25th anniversary issue with parts of Squirrel Girl's origin story.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Even a weak volume of Squirrel Girl is better than 99% of the superhero comics currently being published.
LibraryThing member livingtech
These are all so great.
LibraryThing member comfypants
Squirrel Girl vs. a man made of tinier men; also, flashbacks to Squirrel Girl's childhood, and Mew the Cat saves the day.

4/4 (Great).

The story is pretty weak in this one, although the humor, characters and artwork are all still wonderful.
LibraryThing member MickyFine
Doreen is talked into going on vacation with her Mom and Nancy only to discover that the cabin in Canada has no electricity or internet signal. However before her boredom gets to intense she uncovers a plot to take over the world and teams up with Ant-Man and Brain Drain to help prevent it. Also
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Mew proves she's just as unbeatable as Squirrel Girl and we get a peek into Doreen's life as a young squirrel girl when she celebrates her 20th birthday.

A delight as ever. The Canadian jokes are *chef's kiss* and Squirrel Girl and Ant-Man are very fun foils for each other. The whole arc is as fun as I've grown to expect and the two one off comics in the volume were also a lot of fun. If you've made it this far in the series, you're going to like it.
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LibraryThing member bragan
This fifth collection of the delightful Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comic features a three-part story that might be my favorite so far, in which Doreen (aka Squirrel Girl) fights a guy that can turn into lots of smaller guys, with some help from her mom, her best friend/roommate Nancy, and an
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entertainingly irritated Ant-Man. I really love the fact that the bad guy's ridiculous powers actually have to obey the laws of physics. And I love even more that we get to see a lot of Brain Drain, the nihilistic redeemed villain brain-in-a-jar with a robot body, who is hilarious and weirdly lovable.

It also features an odd little piece from the point of view of Nancy's cat, Mew, which includes some weird and wonderful feline dream sequences, followed by a brief look back at Doreen's childhood, in something along the lines of an origin story. The latter was written by Will Murray, the original creator of Squirrel Girl, not Ryan North, and I think it's much less interesting without North's marvelously nutty (sorry!) sense of humor, but it's nice to have a bit of backstory, anyway.
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LibraryThing member LibroLindsay
You know, I think Brain Drain stole Squirrel Girl's lightning in his issues this volume. I want to put everything he says on a t-shirt. NIHILISM IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

10.13 inches

ISBN

1302903284 / 9781302903282
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