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Entertainment Weekly’s best superhero comic of the year, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, is new today!

Behold! The little known origin story of Squirrel Girl as seen in issue #5. Right?

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Mike Isenberg recommends The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #2

First Rocket Raccoon gets his own series. And now we have The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Marvel really seems to be upping the game for rodent-based comics!

With all the powers of a squirrel, and the ability to talk to squirrels, Doreen Green (a.k.a. “Squirrel Girl”) is hardly the most impressive superhero in Marvel’s roster. Yet despite her limited power-set, Squirrel Girl has defeated some of the Marvel Universe’s most dangerous supervillains, including Doctor Doom and the Mad Titan, Thanos himself. Now she faces her deadliest challenge to date: college.

Written by the ever-hilarious Ryan North (writer of the long-running Dinosaur Comics and the award-winning Adventure Time comic), and drawn by Erica Henderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a playful send-up of super-hero comics that manages to give the genre a much-needed ribbing while still maintaining a lot of heart. If you were to take the irreverence of Deadpool, but replace that series’ violent psychopath with an insecure yet endearingly sincere and up-beat college-age girl, you’d probably have something very similar to Squirrel Girl.

Issue #2 sees Doreen facing the perils of Freshman Orientation when she gets word that Galactus is on his way to Earth, and that she’s the only one who can stop him. In order to halt Galactus’s approach, she’ll need a way off the planet, which means stealing– I mean “borrowing” some space-faring Iron Man armor from Stark headquarters. Antics, as they say, ensue.

For anyone looking for a light-hearted and irreverent break from the seriousness of other super-hero titles,

[READ THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #2 ON COMIXOLOGY]

Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science. He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison.

You can listen to the squirrelified version of Ryan North and his friends here!

So… The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 was kinda amazing.

Squirrel Girl! Squirrel Girl! Powers of both squirrel & girl!

Another teaser from BOOM! Studios! Whatever they’re up to, if it’s got Ryan North, Shell Paroline, and Braden Lamb involved, we’re adding it to our pull list immediately! 

The Adventure Time comic is up for 3 Eisner nominations this year including Best Humor Publication. We think you’ll get a laugh out of Ryan North’s answers to our now infamous 5 Question Eisner Survery…

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