You know how sometimes you're the only one who knows that Galactus is coming to devour the Earth, so you have to "borrow" some armour from your good friend Tony Stark so you can fly to the moon to keep the Eater of Worlds from, y'know, eating your world?
That's never happened to you?
Well, it happens to Squirrel Girl.
But we also get to see the beginnings of one of the great friendships of modern comics, Doreen Green and her roommate Nancy Whitehead. It's almost as impossible to imagine this series without Nancy as it would be to imagine it without squirrels. Right from the start, Nancy is established as an important character not only to Doreen's narrative, but in her own right too. That's one of the really lovely things about this series: the supporting cast are every bit as interesting and fleshed-out (to the extent that they can be as supporting characters) as our focal heroine. Over the course of the last four years the book has in many ways moved from a single-character focussed narrative to an ensemble cast. And Nancy was there right from the beginning. (As was Chipmunk Hunk - we just didn't know it.)
"Dude, you literally just got lost staring at his cheekbones."
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