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The collection starts off with Marvel Super-Heroes #8, the very first appearance of Squirrel Girl, by Steve Ditko and Will Murray. Iron Man is out testing some new additions to his armour when he encounters a young girl with a big bushy tail, Squirrel Girl! Introductions are soon cut short as the pair are captured by none other than Doctor Doom.
Every collection has to start somewhere and where better than Squirrel Girl's very first appearance! I thought that this was a cute little story, even if I'm not all that fond of the art. Being rescued by a girl with the powers of a squirrel probably wasn't one of Iron Man's best moments, but who am I to complain? Squirrel Girl is one of my favourites and it deserves Iron Man right for under-estimating her powers.
Next up is GLA #1-4, by Dan Slott and Paul Pelletier. Squirrel Girl doesn't appear properly until #2, as she only appears in #1 in a spoof P.S.A. about how any kids reading shouldn't copy anything they see in the comic. Personally, I thought the GLA mini-series was rather mean-spirited. It revelled in the fact that somebody died in each issue. I suppose that it would have mattered to me more if I actually had any interest in the characters, but it did feel cheap to see somebody get killed off in each issues. I can't complain too much though, because this mini-series is what introduced me to Squirrel Girl in the first place. At least she has gone on to better things. The Great Lakes Avengers had their own ongoing series for a while a year or two back, but it didn't last too long. Squirrel Girl's ongoing series has been going from strength to strength, so I'm happy.
During their recruitment drive for new members the Great Lakes Avengers approach Wolverine, but he rejects their offer saying that he is a loner. It always makes me laugh whenever Wolverine says he is a loner. He has been on every superhero team around and he usually has a spunky teenage girl as a sidekick too (Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, X-23...) Sure, Logan. You're a mean edgy loner that only works alone!
Next is the GLX-Mas Special, written by Dan Slott again with a lot of different artists telling short stories about how the team spends their festive seasons. At the end of the GLA mini-series the team realised that they were all mutants so they decided to start calling themselves the Great Lakes X-Men.
The first story is illustrated by Matt Haley and sees Squirrel Girl defeat M.O.D.O.K. Naturally, this all happens off-screen. Next is a story illustrated by Georges Jeanty about Mr. Immortal. The only notable thing about this story was that we find out Squirrel Girl defeated Thanos behind the scenes. It is totally the real Thanos, because the Watcher says so. No you know why I care so little about the Infinity War movie. The whole thing would have been over if Squirrel Girl existed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ty Templeton illustrates a story about the new Grasshopper and he lasts just as long as the first guy. Paul Grist illustrates a story about Doorman that is actually quite moving. This from the same writer that wrote such a mean-spirited mini-series last time? Mike Kazalch illustrates a story about Tippy Toe, a rather silly story in which Tippy has to do battle with Deathurge who is now in the form of a squirrel for some reason. The story comes off like an ultra-violent Tom and Jerry cartoon and I'm more than fine with that. I love Tom and Jerry cartoons. The final story is illustrated by Ty Templeton in which the team wishes the readers seasons greetings.
Next is the Squirrel Girl story from I Heart Marvel: Masked Intentions. The other story was about Justice and Firestar but that isn't included in this collection. This story is written by Fabian Nicieza and illustrated by Paco Medina. Squirrel Girl saves Speedball from some loser called the Bug-Eyed Voice. I thought this story was pretty cute, even if Squirrel Girl was acting like a creepy stalker towards Speedball.
Next is The Thing #8 by Dan Slott and Kieron Dwyer. Ben Grimm is holding a superhero poker tournament and Squirrel Girl is one fo the heroes invited to participate. Also, Rachel Grey takes exception to the fact that the Great Lakes X-Men are using the X-Men name without permission so they ended up changing their name again, this time to the Great Lakes Champions.
Next is Cable and Deadpool #30 by Fabia Nicieza and Staz Johnson, a tie-in to the Civil War event. Deadpool is one of the pro-registration heroes and is hunting down the Great Lakes Champions as they are unregistered heroes. Squirrel Girl gives Wade a good kicking and points out that they have already registered. Cable is part of the anti-registration side, so you know how complicated that's going to get. Cable & Deadpool was the series that got me into Deadpool in the first place, so of course I would end up liking this one!
Nezt is another one-shot anthology, Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular by Dan Slott and Fabian Cicieza with art by Clio Chang, Dave Meikis, Kieron Dwyer, Nelson and Paul Pelletier. Yep, another name change to the Great Lakes Initiative.
The main point of interest for this collection is the interludes with Squirrel Girl where she finds out what her beloved Speedball had been up to during the Civil War event. Naturally, she isn't best pleased when she finds out that her love is a ridiculous edgelord and uses Doctor Doom's time platform to travel back to stop Speedball from making a fool out of himself.
In the first story proper Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry of wine stumbles off a cliff while drunk and crashes down to Earth, namely Wisconsin, where he is found by agents of A.I.M. Deadpool discovers that A.I.M. is using Dionysus to make all the world's heroes drunk and teams up with the JLI to stop them. In the next story, Deadpool won't leave their headquarters, so the team tries to get Big Bertha to go on a date with him just to get him away. Deadpool end sup getting disappointed when he sees Bertha's civilian identity of supermodel Ashley Crawford instead of the portly heroine he so admires. In the end it comes to Squirrel Girl to be the one that kicks Deadpool out of their headquarters for being a freeloading jerk.
Next is the Squirrel Girl story from Age of Heroes #3 by Dan Slott and Ty Templeton. Squirrel Girl realises that she is holding the Great Lakes Avengers back from being an effective team, so she decides to leave the team and strike out on her own.
The collection ends with a Squirrel Girl story from I Am An Avenger #1. It's only a one page story, but it sees Squirrel Girl return to New York. I guess that would make her next appearance in New Avengers, when she ends up becoming the nanny to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones's daughter.
This collection was a bit of a mixed bag. The Marvel Super-Heroes story a goofy fun, but I thought the GLA mini-series was really mean-spirited. The various one-shot specials and the guest appearances were better though. They save the collection from being a total waste of time though. I especially liked it when the Summer Special pointed out just how ridiculous Speedball was being when he started calling himself Penance. Anything that makes fun of people for being needlessly edgy is an automatic win for me.
My rating: 3 stars.
Every collection has to start somewhere and where better than Squirrel Girl's very first appearance! I thought that this was a cute little story, even if I'm not all that fond of the art. Being rescued by a girl with the powers of a squirrel probably wasn't one of Iron Man's best moments, but who am I to complain? Squirrel Girl is one of my favourites and it deserves Iron Man right for under-estimating her powers.
Next up is GLA #1-4, by Dan Slott and Paul Pelletier. Squirrel Girl doesn't appear properly until #2, as she only appears in #1 in a spoof P.S.A. about how any kids reading shouldn't copy anything they see in the comic. Personally, I thought the GLA mini-series was rather mean-spirited. It revelled in the fact that somebody died in each issue. I suppose that it would have mattered to me more if I actually had any interest in the characters, but it did feel cheap to see somebody get killed off in each issues. I can't complain too much though, because this mini-series is what introduced me to Squirrel Girl in the first place. At least she has gone on to better things. The Great Lakes Avengers had their own ongoing series for a while a year or two back, but it didn't last too long. Squirrel Girl's ongoing series has been going from strength to strength, so I'm happy.
During their recruitment drive for new members the Great Lakes Avengers approach Wolverine, but he rejects their offer saying that he is a loner. It always makes me laugh whenever Wolverine says he is a loner. He has been on every superhero team around and he usually has a spunky teenage girl as a sidekick too (Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, X-23...) Sure, Logan. You're a mean edgy loner that only works alone!
Next is the GLX-Mas Special, written by Dan Slott again with a lot of different artists telling short stories about how the team spends their festive seasons. At the end of the GLA mini-series the team realised that they were all mutants so they decided to start calling themselves the Great Lakes X-Men.
The first story is illustrated by Matt Haley and sees Squirrel Girl defeat M.O.D.O.K. Naturally, this all happens off-screen. Next is a story illustrated by Georges Jeanty about Mr. Immortal. The only notable thing about this story was that we find out Squirrel Girl defeated Thanos behind the scenes. It is totally the real Thanos, because the Watcher says so. No you know why I care so little about the Infinity War movie. The whole thing would have been over if Squirrel Girl existed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ty Templeton illustrates a story about the new Grasshopper and he lasts just as long as the first guy. Paul Grist illustrates a story about Doorman that is actually quite moving. This from the same writer that wrote such a mean-spirited mini-series last time? Mike Kazalch illustrates a story about Tippy Toe, a rather silly story in which Tippy has to do battle with Deathurge who is now in the form of a squirrel for some reason. The story comes off like an ultra-violent Tom and Jerry cartoon and I'm more than fine with that. I love Tom and Jerry cartoons. The final story is illustrated by Ty Templeton in which the team wishes the readers seasons greetings.
Next is the Squirrel Girl story from I Heart Marvel: Masked Intentions. The other story was about Justice and Firestar but that isn't included in this collection. This story is written by Fabian Nicieza and illustrated by Paco Medina. Squirrel Girl saves Speedball from some loser called the Bug-Eyed Voice. I thought this story was pretty cute, even if Squirrel Girl was acting like a creepy stalker towards Speedball.
Next is The Thing #8 by Dan Slott and Kieron Dwyer. Ben Grimm is holding a superhero poker tournament and Squirrel Girl is one fo the heroes invited to participate. Also, Rachel Grey takes exception to the fact that the Great Lakes X-Men are using the X-Men name without permission so they ended up changing their name again, this time to the Great Lakes Champions.
Next is Cable and Deadpool #30 by Fabia Nicieza and Staz Johnson, a tie-in to the Civil War event. Deadpool is one of the pro-registration heroes and is hunting down the Great Lakes Champions as they are unregistered heroes. Squirrel Girl gives Wade a good kicking and points out that they have already registered. Cable is part of the anti-registration side, so you know how complicated that's going to get. Cable & Deadpool was the series that got me into Deadpool in the first place, so of course I would end up liking this one!
Nezt is another one-shot anthology, Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular by Dan Slott and Fabian Cicieza with art by Clio Chang, Dave Meikis, Kieron Dwyer, Nelson and Paul Pelletier. Yep, another name change to the Great Lakes Initiative.
The main point of interest for this collection is the interludes with Squirrel Girl where she finds out what her beloved Speedball had been up to during the Civil War event. Naturally, she isn't best pleased when she finds out that her love is a ridiculous edgelord and uses Doctor Doom's time platform to travel back to stop Speedball from making a fool out of himself.
In the first story proper Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry of wine stumbles off a cliff while drunk and crashes down to Earth, namely Wisconsin, where he is found by agents of A.I.M. Deadpool discovers that A.I.M. is using Dionysus to make all the world's heroes drunk and teams up with the JLI to stop them. In the next story, Deadpool won't leave their headquarters, so the team tries to get Big Bertha to go on a date with him just to get him away. Deadpool end sup getting disappointed when he sees Bertha's civilian identity of supermodel Ashley Crawford instead of the portly heroine he so admires. In the end it comes to Squirrel Girl to be the one that kicks Deadpool out of their headquarters for being a freeloading jerk.
Next is the Squirrel Girl story from Age of Heroes #3 by Dan Slott and Ty Templeton. Squirrel Girl realises that she is holding the Great Lakes Avengers back from being an effective team, so she decides to leave the team and strike out on her own.
The collection ends with a Squirrel Girl story from I Am An Avenger #1. It's only a one page story, but it sees Squirrel Girl return to New York. I guess that would make her next appearance in New Avengers, when she ends up becoming the nanny to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones's daughter.
This collection was a bit of a mixed bag. The Marvel Super-Heroes story a goofy fun, but I thought the GLA mini-series was really mean-spirited. The various one-shot specials and the guest appearances were better though. They save the collection from being a total waste of time though. I especially liked it when the Summer Special pointed out just how ridiculous Speedball was being when he started calling himself Penance. Anything that makes fun of people for being needlessly edgy is an automatic win for me.
My rating: 3 stars.
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