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[Coffee Dog]

Does it have Copycat, Cable, or T-Ray?

Sadly no. It's mainly solo deadpool playing off a new supporting cast. It's damn well written, though. Easily the best solo book he's had since Kelly imo.

 

[MG310]

Everyone has Penny Arcade mouths. It's a good style for the book.

Definitely going to give it a shot.

 

[Drayco21]

Extremely excited for this. Don't know anything from the creative team, but Squirrel Girl is always fun, and I've wanted her to get a solo for years. Glad to see Marvel's finally doing one.

It's damn well written, though. Easily the best solo book he's had since Kelly imo.

Seconding this, I've been a huge Deadpool fan since I started comics, and this is the best he's ever been. It's done wonders to repair the bad taste left by Way, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is maybe the single best story told with the character ever

 

[Tragicomedy]

That artwork is atrocious.

 

[Sinatar]

Canceled after 7 issues.

If we're lucky.

 

[Tragicomedy]

Starring Mindy Cohn as Squirrel Girl!

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Did they hire someone from DeviantArt to do the artwork?

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

How does she defeat such powerful foes?

 

[Sinatar]

How does she defeat such powerful foes?

She's a joke character like Deadpool.

 

[Escape Goat]

How does she defeat such powerful foes?

 

[Drayco21]

How does she defeat such powerful foes?

By being the best.

 

[rakhir]

That's probably the fastest my enthusiasm dropped from 100% to around 10% between reading the thread title and the OP.

That's not how I wanted my Squirrel Girl to look

 

[captainpat]

Canceled after 7 issues.

Yep, it's great that marvel does this stuff but they can't market stuff like this for shit. Then again, Ms. Marvel pretty successful.

 

[Rentahamster]

Artstyle at first glance made me think it was being drawn by Penny Arcade.

 

[PhantomOfTheKnight]

Coll they're bringing her back but I'm really not digging the in-comic art. Why does everyone have duck face?

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

She's a joke character like Deadpool.

She seems legit:

By being the best.

Controlling squirrels would be badass.

 

[Purple Cheeto]

Everyone has Penny Arcade mouths. It's a good style for the book.

Definitely going to give it a shot.

Yeah that's what I was thinking it looked like. Penny Arcade. I dunno if I like it.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I'm so okay with this. Love the art.

 

[W1SSY]

Not a huge fan of the art but really looking forward to this. After discovering Squirrel Girl from in the Marvel Heroes 2015 game I really wanted an ongoing comic with her and now it is finally happening.

 

[daveo42]

Everyone has Penny Arcade mouths. It's a good style for the book.

Definitely going to give it a shot.

Yup, that's the vibe it has and I'm not that big of a fan. Works for webcomics, but not sure if I'm buying that artstyle in an actual comic.

The resemblance is uncanny.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Would be interested if the art style wasn't so blargh.

 

[Fusebox]

Is she canon? Like when she beats Doom and Thanks is that canon?

 

[notworksafe]

Is she canon? Like when she beats Doom and Thanks is that canon?

Yes.

SG is my favorite character in Marvel but goddamn that's some ugly art. Gonna have to pass, sadly.

 

[unholyrevenger72]

Callin it right now, Squirrel Girl Movie before Wonder Woman Movie...

 

[Duane Cunningham]

I don't see what's turning everyone off about that art, I think it looks good.

 

[Slayven]

Is she canon? Like when she beats Doom and Thanks is that canon?

As canon as the stuff in Deadpool's book is. Meaning it doesn't get referenced.

Callin it right now, Squirrel Girl Movie before Wonder Woman Movie...

Fox would have to make it.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

I feel like this is something I can get behind.

...And then I saw that art.

I'm gonna pass. It's not appealing to me at all.

 

[Slayven]

They should do a book where Taskmaster just goes around clowning on people

 

[bjork]

Is that first image considered canon? Kraven should not be alive. That's just wrong.

 

[Slayven]

Is that first image considered canon? Kraven should not be alive. That's just wrong.

Did he die again? He just got resurrected last year or the year before

 

[antonz]

She is a fun character for Marvel to use time to time in the past to tell fans to lighten up. Don't mind her getting more exposure. She is a great character to use in Marvel Heroes. Shame they nerfed how many squirrels you could summon though as that was part of the fun sending waves of squirrels to attack

 

[Ultima_5]

Is that first image considered canon? Kraven should not be alive. That's just wrong.

he was just in the scarlet spider comics a year or two ago

 

[Pai Pai Master]

You never go full joke character. What next The Uncanny Trapster?

PASTE-POT PETE: UNLEASHED

I don't see what's turning everyone off about that art, I think it looks good.

I'm just not sure what kind of art people are expecting from an ongoing Squirrel Girl comic. This obviously isn't going to be an action-focused book and it's not like Squirrel Girl is going to demand someone like Leinil Yu or something. I dig it a lot, personally, but I know people who are super pissed about the art in Ms. Marvel and I'm just assuming that the book isn't really for them anyways.

Edit: sorry not saying you CAN'T like this specific art, that's totally valid. But it seems like some people have some weird expectations for the TYPE of art you're going to find in a book like this.

Is that first image considered canon? Kraven should not be alive. That's just wrong.

Kraven's not dead. He recently resurfaced in Scarlet Spider and tried to get Kaine to kill him for good.

edit: beaten!

 

[Slayven]

I'm just not sure what kind of art people are expecting from an ongoing Squirrel Girl comic. This obviously isn't going to be an action-focused book and it's not like Squirrel Girl is going to demand someone like Leinil Yu or something. I dig it a lot, personally, but I know people who are super pissed about the art in Ms. Marvel and I'm just assuming that the book isn't really for them anyways.

Udon should have did the book.

 

[Lavalamp1138]

...that art is really cute, shit.

There can only be one!!

 

[J10]

I will read this.

 

[Cth]

Nope, she was fun in Great Lake Avengers, but beyond that she is the Rebecca Black of comic characters.

You had me here..

Does it have Copycat, Cable, or T-Ray?

.. but lost me here.

And yes, it's the best it's been since Kelly was on the book.

 

[CadetMahoney]

dat art is a real put-off.

 

[echoshifting]

They should do a book where Taskmaster just goes around clowning on people

How the hell does Squirrel Girl get a book and not Taskmaster...that book would kill. Deadpool would become irrelevant overnight

I actually don't mind the art, but only in a book someone else is reading. Not for me.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

This feels really belated. Squirrel Girl was more a mid/late 00s thing.

 

[beat]

Is she canon? Like when she beats Doom and Thanks is that canon?

I think one time Uatu showed up on panel to give the stamp of Watcher authenticity that this was in fact the real Thanos and not a clone or copy.

 

[G-Fex]

Dat ongoing joke

 

[Tragicomedy]

The Facts of Life, bros.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I think one time Uatu showed up on panel to give the stamp of Watcher authenticity that this was in fact the real Thanos and not a clone or copy.

And then another story (from the same writer) introduced the idea that Thanos has clones good enough to even fool The Watcher.

 

[TetraxShards]

How the hell does Squirrel Girl get a book and not Taskmaster...that book would kill. Deadpool would become irrelevant overnight

I actually don't mind the art, but only in a book someone else is reading. Not for me.

Didn't Taskmaster die?

 

[Slayven]

I think one time Uatu showed up on panel to give the stamp of Watcher authenticity that this was in fact the real Thanos and not a clone or copy.

Which is silly because the uber cosmic guys can't "see" Thanos with their uber senses. That is why Drax was created to hunt Thanos.

How the hell does Squirrel Girl get a book and not Taskmaster...that book would kill. Deadpool would become irrelevant overnight

I actually don't mind the art, but only in a book someone else is reading. Not for me.

Agent X, read it

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Didn't Taskmaster die?

No Mentallo saved him. Think it was revealed right at the end of that run on Secret Avengers.

 

[TetraxShards]

No Mentallo saved him. Think it was revealed right at the end of that run on Secret Avengers.

Huzzah! Good news.

 

[Riposte]

So basically One Punch Man for capes? Too bad the art won't be a fraction as good.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Interview with 'Unbeatable Squirrel Girl' series writer Ryan North (CBR)

CBR: What kind of role will Tippy-Toe have in the book?

RN: Tippy-Toe is her best friend, who is also a squirrel. We actually had a long back and forth on what Tippy's role should be! In Doreen's previous appearances, her squirrel friends couldn't talk, but they'd break the fourth wall all the time to address the reader directly. I wanted to get away from that -- I thought breaking the fourth wall too much would undercut the drama -- and instead suggested that we have Tippy-Toe "talk" to Doreen.

She still speaks in squirrel language, and only Doreen can understand it, but it allows us to show them having a conversation, and does a lot to make Tippy-Toe her own character. I was worried if we could only show Doreen's half of the conversation we'd end up with a lot of, "What's that, Tippy? Joey fell down the well?" conversations, which are cute for a bit, but I wouldn't want to build a book around them!

CBR: What kind of role will the character's past connections to groups like the new Avengers, Great Lake Avengers and the Cage family play in this series? I understand you want to keep things new reader friendly, but you also will be having some fun with continuity for those who are aware of it?

RN: Yep! That's part of the idea, to have this really accessible version of the Marvel Universe. I was actually inspired a lot by the LEGO Marvel video games, which you can go into completely cold, but if you have some idea of these characters and their history, there's a lot there for you to enjoy. The Marvel Universe has so much history in it, it'd be crazy not to exploit that when you can! The trick is to do it in such a way that if someone's new, they don't feel like they're missing something. I always feel like captions that read "Check out issue #224 for this character's origin!!" are a bit of a cop-out, especially when I was a kid and couldn't afford issue #224, even if I could find it.

As I'm answering these questions, I'm kinda getting the sense I'm writing the comics I want to read. Nothing wrong with that, I think!

CBR: No, not at all. That usually leads to great stories. What's Doreen's sort of status quo when "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" begins? What's she up to in her personal and heroic lives?

RN: Doreen is in this interesting place. She's defeated Doctor Doom, Thanos, tons of the really heavy-hitters, but really -- who knows about that? Some superheroes, and that's about it. Her victories have usually been unseen, off-panel, and it's not like you've got JJJ screaming about this Squirrel menace in NYC, right? To the general public, if they know about her at all, she's just a lady who dresses up like a rodent and fights crime in Central Park. And that's great -- she loves fighting crime! -- but she's also not sure she's living up to her full potential.

So she decides to make some changes in her life and go to college. Because, of course, that's what you do!

CBR: What kind of trouble does Squirrel Girl run afoul of in your initial arc?

RN: There's the life changes of moving into a dorm when your best friend is a squirrel, but there's also some villains that show up and threaten her pretty directly. It's that classic "girl meets squirrel, girl and squirrel go to school and defeat supervillains" story, I guess!

CBR: Ultimately, what kind of book do you want the "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" to be? From what you've said, it sounds like this is will be a fun book with something to offer all ages.

RN: My ideal Squirrel Girl book is fun, funny and features a squirrel girl beating up bad dudes. I hope I can deliver on that and more! My core idea for the book, and I believe I used this exact all-caps quote when first describing my idea to Wil, is "AWESOME ALL-AGES ADVENTURE!" I think there's a big difference between "all ages" and "for children!" For me, "all ages" is just that: Adults can enjoy it, so can kids. It's not dumbed down. It's awesomed up.

My Grand Secret to writing all-ages comics is pretty simple: Nobody swears and everyone keeps their clothes on. So in "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" you can expect awesome, an yet fully-clothed, adventure.

Sounds like he's pretty psyched to be doing this book.