Summary from Goodreads:
The breakout character of 2015 continues her one-woman
crusade against injustice and jerks! These TAILS of the Squirrel Girl will show
you the Marvel Universe's most powerful super hero from a bunch of brand-new
perspectives, several of them QUITE ASTONISHING. COLLECTING: THE
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL 5-8
Review:
I love these comics. So far, there’s only been two volumes,
but I can easily see this becoming a huge series. Aka: I want this to be a huge
series, so bad.
The first part was all about these hostages stuck in the
Statue of Liberty. One of them was Squirrel Girl’s roommate. She kept trying to
calm everyone down by letting them know that Squirrel Girl was on her way. All
the hostages had their own (most likely too strange to be real) stories about
the super hero.
The rest of the volume is about saving the world from a
Norse mythology type apocolypse. Ratatoskr, the evil Norse God of squirrels, is
causing all kinds of problems. Thor and Loki come to play in this one! And so
do a few new heroes: Chipmunk Hunk and Koi Boi.
The action in this is the standard superhero fare. However,
everything in here is hilarious. Between the Twitter feeds with Iron Man, the
Dead Pool flashcards, the fan fiction comic: Cat Thor, the evil squirrel, and
the witty comments at the bottom of each page, I was pretty much always smiling,
if not laughing.
I liked the second part of the book better than the first.
The first part was creative and a good way to show that other people have heard
of Squirrel Girl, but it just wasn’t as fun as the parts with Thor. I love how
involved the roommate character has become. I love that Loki agreed to look
like Cat Thor and that we got to see the fan fiction comic, on notebook paper
no less.
This is one smart, funny, new super hero. And I’m so glad I found
out about it on Goodreads. I recommend it to fans of Ms. Marvel. I give it a
9/10.
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