As we wind down the first story arc, today's issue gives us an idea of how well known our unbeatable heroine actually is in the Marvel U.
The short answer: not very. While trapped in the head of the Statue of Liberty, Nancy, who by this time has figured out that she's living with a superhero, listens to obviously fabricated tales of her new roomie. The stories are excellent, completely inaccurate to Doreen's style and adventures, and touch on some older eras of comics. There's the obligatory Dark Knight nod, some Golden-Age stuff, a nod to the crazy narratives of the 90s, all while Nancy is trying to explain that this is simply not how Squirrel Girl rolls.
Erica Henderson put so much awesomeness into this series. When I first picked it up, I wasn't sure about her far more stylized representation of the Marvel U, but now I can't imagine the series with any other art. SG has definitely been depicted as a typical superhero, prominently in the Bendis/Deodato era of the series. And while she translates well into that world, I much prefer seeing other Marvel heroes translated to hers. The cartoony style does nothing to diminish the excitement that we associate with the Marvel U. What it does do is shine a sunnier light on that world. Squirrel Girl's world is still filled with planetary invasions and interdimensional gods, but that doesn't necessarily make it a grim world. In fact, that might be one of Doreen's most important powers: her sense of optimism. She never lets a situation get the best of her, and that's just one of the lessons that I think we can all take away from this series.
Have I mentioned that, at all? That this series actually does some really important work in teaching us, specifically in teaching us how to be nice to one another.? Well it does, and that's yet another reason that you should be reading it. All of it.
"Anyway, one time a crazy professor secretly stole her blood and used it to make a clone of her!"
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