The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume 2: Squirrel You Know It's True by Ryan North

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This second volume of Squirrel Girl collects Issues 5-8 of the first series of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

Issue 5 finds Nancy being held hostage in a bank and hoping for the rescue of Squirrel Girl. She shares this with her fellow captives who tell stories they've heard of Squirrel Girl where she was a sidekick to Captain America and had a clone saga. You get to see Squirrel Girl in a lot of different sub-genres. This sort of story has been done a few times, usually with Batman, but I like their execution here.

Issues 6-8 are a bigger story arc that finds Squirrel meeting Chipmunk Hunk and Koi, Chipmunk and Fish themed crimefighters in time for the coming of Ratatoskr, the evil Norse Squirrel god leading up to a team up with the female Thor and the superhero formerly known as Thor. The story is a fun take on the big crossover events that we're going on in Marvel at the time.

The book also includes a story from GLX-Mas Special #1 where she battles MODOK and then a back up story from The Thing #8 from 2006 where she teams up with the Thing against Bi-Beast and she saves the Thing in the most hilariously disgusting way possible. Finally, the book includes a one-page from Age of Heroes #3 where she announces that she's leaving the Great Lakes Avengers. That story is actually kinda pointless.

Overall, I found this book to be fun and well-adorable and the reprinted letters pages add to the charm. It's a book that doesn't take itself seriously and just has a lot of fun doing so. It even poked fun at Marvel's practice of constantly restarting series. I appreciated how they made up for their only being four issues in this trade by throwing in a lot of past material featuring Squrrel Girl which would be a pain to track down.

The book is simple enough for kids to enjoy but has enough humorous bits that the right type of adult reader will like it as well. Overall, this was just a blast to read.



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