The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe

Its Squirrel Girl! I bought this book mostly out of curiosity - I've heard much about Squirrel Girl, but never read anything featuring her.

And its good - I generally don't "Get" super hero books. I can see their appeal, I've tried a couple of volumes (I'm looking at you, new Ms. Marvel), but I just

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don't get them. But this volume, a tongue and cheek adventure about how clones are always evil - is fun. Lots and lots of fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, it has heart. It as quick to make fun of the super hero genre, as it is to point out the absurdity of super heroes. And that, I think, is why I like this volume.

So - I think that if you are trying with graphic novels about super heroes, and just don't get them - try Squirrel Girl. Its fun, it doesn't take itself seriously, and manages to be absurd without going over the top (plus she has her own theme song...).

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The first Squirrel Girl graphic novel offers the same offbeat humor and upbeat positivity as the comics. Iron Man has a mysterious technology that accidentally traps Squirrel Girl and creates an identical twin. Obviously in any story with cloning technology there has to be an "evil" twin, and

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Allene (as Doreen's duplicate is named) inevitably plots to take over the world. The twist here is that Allene has good intentions, noting that humans are destroying the environment and killing squirrels with their cars, so her plan is to have squirrels rule the world in place of humans. Thus begins a series of gags where Allene uses her wiles and acquired technology to beat up every Marvel supehero while Doreen tries to stop her. It's fun, but it's also a one-note joke, and the story seems just a notch below the quality of the comic book story arcs.

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Squirrel Girl is simply the best.

Classic Ryan North/Erica Henderson Squirrel Girl shenanigans. Loved it. Humorous, irreverent, earnest, delightful, nutty superhero antics that never quite manages to take itself seriously or lose its positive outlook.

Squirrel Girl's evil clone conquers the world.

4/4 (Great).

The same fun and humor as the main series, but with some minor story problems.

Doreen Green, as a character, will always have my undying love, but I gotta say, the plot in TUSG has been pretty thin for a while now, to the point where I probably wasn't going to rush to continue. This OGN got me back on board, though. Beating up super villains (and heroes) is all well and good,

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but I need to dig into a little bit of the protag's personal life to really get a lot out of it. I felt the Doreen/Allene scenario helped in that department (and was thankful it didn't devolve into the usual "now we can't tell who's the original and who's the clone" trope). The running commentary was spot-on as well and didn't drag me down. A

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children's graphic (modern Marvel). I don't read a whole lot of superhero comics but this was pretty accessible.

This standalone was so much fun! I felt like the series faltered a little bit (wasn't a big fan of the Choose your own adventure story - great in concept but hard to follow in terms of panels) but this standalone definitely revived my love for Squirrel Girl!

This was a straight up delight. I've never read a Squirrel Girl comic before, but if the rest are like this, I'm all in.