Finally, Galactus.
All I will say is that this comic does not play out the way you think it's going to, it sets the tone for the entire series that follows it, and features one of my favourite pages of a Marvel comic ever (it's the 8th page of actual comics).
A cool feature of Squirrel Girl is the bottom of the page commentary, sometimes from Doreen herself, sometimes from writer Ryan North, and sometimes from a narrator voice that is somewhere between the two. In the very first issue, the font is so dim that it's a bit hard to read. But the colour is corrected in the rest of the series and offers a hilarious counterpoint to the action on each page. It's simply another of the features of this series that makes it stand out from the rest of the spandex comics on the shelves.
I've been trying to think of another comic that has a similar aesthetic to USG, but there really aren't that many. Perhaps Keith Giffen's criminally cut short Vext comes closest, a tale that is firmly attached to the shared narrative construct within which it happens, but not to the traditional ways of telling stories in that construct. Squirrel Girl acknowledges that it's surrounded by the Marvel U, but refuses to tell the usual kinds of stories we might expect from that fictional milieu.
"I like you, Squirrel Girl. You don't fear me. In all my travels, you are the first to approach me...as a peer."
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