The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - You'd be nuts not to love it!

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is published by Marvel and let me tell you it is so funny that I laughed so hard when reading it the first time that I accidentally spat on the pages. Droeen Green is Squirrel girl who has the super powers of having the same proportional strength and agility of a squirrel as well as the ability to talk to squirrels. Her sidekick is a squirrel named Tippy-Toe who also has the proportional strength and agility of a squirrel. Doreen is moving away to college so now she needs to have a secret identity so she can have a mostly normal college experience and protect her loved ones. It is all going well until Kraven the hunter shows up and threatens Tippy-Toe. Now I really don't want to spoil how the fight ends up so all I'm going to say is that she uses Deadpool's guide to super villains to gain the upper hand.

Most of my daydreams look like this too

The art in Squirrel Girl is bright, colourful and cartoony and works well with the overall goofy feel of this comic but is really nothing especially different. One of the best thing about this comic are the character's facial expressions which are the perfect balance of clear emotions and over the top nuttiness.

Truly the poet of our generation

The writing is great and will have you chuckling the whole way through. The comic begins with Squirrel Girl singing the Squirrel Girl theme song (which is the tune to the spider-man theme song of course) while beating up some would be muggers. There are hilarious one-liners, nut based puns and some head-scratching reasonings. My favourite part in the whole comic is when Squirrel Girl is fighting Kraven The Hunter and she simply decides to throw him in the air repeatedly while she thinks about how she is going to beat him. Something I didn't notice on my first read through is right down the bottom of the page in teeny tiny writing Squirrel Girl comments on the things that are happening and they are just the cherry on top of the comedy sundae.

You can hear it can't you? this to the spider-man theme song

Squirrel Girl is obviously going to be a comedic comic but with all the gritty reboots and dark themes with a lot of superheros at the moment it will be nice to see a super hero who is a bit dopey and may end up solving her problems by talking to the villains rather than punching them. I have a lot of faith that The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is going to be a much loved addition to many pull lists including mine.

I give The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 4.5 out of 5 Squirrels in pants attack

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