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Really glad to see Squirrel Girl going out on its own terms. It’s been a great run - even longer than North’s run on the Adventure Time comics!
Brain Drain is absolutely fabulous. I love that, once he becomes a hero, he adopts the secret identity as Brian Drayne. Which is a guy who is a brain and eyeballs floating in a jar, except now he’s wearing a hat.
I love Doreen and Nancy, but Brain Drain is the freaking best. If there were comics awards for Best Supporting Character, he earns it hands down. Or mechanical hand analogues that are sorely lacking in functionality down.
the story is antifeminist shitbag dudebros love to come out of the woodwork to rag on this comic. they HATE that it’s as beloved as it is.
I really, really hope another writer picks up the Brain Drain ball and keeps running. Jason Aaron? Al Ewing? Somebody?
“I’ve seen 42 million iterations of the future and this is the only one in which we win... well, there was one other one, but it involved squirrels...”
I want to give a shout out to my series MVP, Brain Drain. Here is a list of things about him, which doubles as a list of things I love about him.
- He was an evil Hydra scientist named Werner Schmidt in the 1940s, until an alien spaceship accidentally landed on him.
- the aliens felt bad and wanted to put him back…
I’m thinking about it, and I feel like all the dislike for Ant-Man getting rescued by a rat in Endgame would be completely gone and replaced with joy if it was instead a squirrel like North joked. And almost the entirety of that joy would’ve been from the backs of North and Charm’s work.
In the truest Doreen Allene Green spirit, I’m going to focus on the miracle that we got 58 issues of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (plus the OGN), and not that it’s ending.
goddd the moleman arc was so perfect in every way. “Squirrel girl ... will you be my Mole Ma’am?”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Noooooooooo. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl was one of the best books Marvel was putting out, primarily because it was so fun and bright and optimistic. We need to chain Ryan North and Derek Charm in a basement somewhere and force them to continue writing and drawing Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Yeah! That’s the solution!
The Unbelievable Gwenpool also did excellent work with Batroc and Gwen as a team and it really was poignant and sad when Gwen said goodbye to that version of the character. He may well be back in another book but it acknowledged he wouldn't be the same.
This was a massively good debut. Robin behaved with the poise of a late night veteran, and none of the jokes had the ‘we don’t have our footing yet so maybe we’ll try this?’ kind of hesitation or lameness.