{"id":6939,"date":"2016-04-17T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:21:19","slug":"the-unbeatable-squirrel-girl-vol-2-squirrel-you-know-its-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/04\/17\/the-unbeatable-squirrel-girl-vol-2-squirrel-you-know-its-true\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It’s True"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at a comic shop for Valentines day because that is what nerds do, and I found The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/em>.  The cover was fun, so I picked it up.  The back promised cameos from the Marvel Universe of characters that I was familiar with.  I was in a buying mood.  I bought.  And. I. Was. Not. Disappointed.<\/p>\n

First, sometimes I have a love hate with comics because so many of them require you to have and have read the 89 to 500 issues that come before.  The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/em> didn’t require such fore-study from me.  It launched into a world where everyone was making up their own stories and so it didn’t matter that, as I found while reading, I was not actually starting at the beginning of the squirrel girl story.<\/p>\n

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/em> is smart, and in a world of superheroes, Squirrel Girl seems like a super girl who became super on her own. You know, like us regular Joes and Joanns dream of.  Sure Squirrel Girl can talk to squirrel’s, but all her super rocking fighting comes from practice (again, just read volume 2, so if I am totally incorrect here I apologize).   To top it all off, she has a friend and supporter who says totally librarian friendly stuff about the internet.  And she says it with a ginormous monster in the background.  Any comic who calls out the internet for being 85% misinformation and a bunch of mom tricks that don’t work is a forever favorite of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at a comic shop for Valentines day because that is what nerds do, and I found The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.  The cover was fun, so I picked it up.  The back promised cameos from the Marvel Universe of characters that I was familiar with.  I was in a buying mood.  I bought.  And.… Continue reading The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It’s True<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6,172],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics","tag-consumption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":736,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/web-comic-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":6939,"position":0},"title":"Web comic love","author":"leems","date":"January 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When people find out you like to read comics they always ask you which ones you like, you know, to compare with their own list.\u00a0 Webcomics are the same--and, oddly enough seem to have a different cast of fans than regular comics do...maybe it's generational, dunno.\u00a0 Anyway, I am really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":917,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/03\/18\/etsy-indie-comics-haul-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6939,"position":1},"title":"Etsy Indie Comics Haul #2","author":"leems","date":"March 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The first trip was such a success I had to go buy more and then I had to take a really long time to write about all of it.\u00a0 And here is what I got: Kay and P 00 & 01- Starts the story of Kay - music student and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0549.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1193,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/why-didnt-i-make-the-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":6939,"position":2},"title":"Why didn’t I make the connection","author":"leems","date":"March 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I went to Megacon a few weeks back (or more - I'm so bad at time now a days) and I ran into two great people named Tara and Paul Abbamondi.\u00a0 They probably didn't realize that I thought they were so great, 'cause I'm not good at getting that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/doomed-moviethon-girl\/","url_meta":{"origin":6939,"position":3},"title":"Doomed Moviethon Girl","author":"leems","date":"February 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey!\u00a0 Didja know the Doomed Moviethon girl is mine too?\u00a0 Or, er, mine and Richard's.\u00a0 Only that I don't draw her near as much as he would like me too.\u00a0 Yes, that is her with my cat, Sparkles. 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