Marvel is going “nuts” for Squirrel Girl.
Ahead of the New York Comic-Con, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Marvel is giving Squirrel Girl her own comic book series for the first time. Writer Ryan North and artist Erica Henderson will be the creative team of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
In case you were wondering about the title, it stems from Squirrel Girl’s almost superhuman ability to triumph over any villain in the Marvel Universe. In her first appearance, she beat Doctor Doom and she has subsequently defeated Thanos, Fin Fang Foom and other major Marvel villains in battle. But all of her actual powers are squirrel based, including her claws, teeth and “squirrel agility,” as well as the ability to speak to squirrels.
Squirrel Girl was created by Steve Ditko and Will Murray as a light-hearted comic book character, which has carried over to most of her appearances. Prior to getting her own series, Squirrel Girl was a member of the Great Lakes Avengers (the extremely unofficial charter of the actual Avengers) and the babysitter hired by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones in the pages of New Avengers.
The challenge for this series is that Squirrel Girl doesn’t have the fan following that Captain Marvel, Storm or She-Hulk have. So the long term prospects of this book are questionable, unless North and Henderson are able to reach a wider audience.
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl will launch in January 2015. Art Adams is doing the alternate cover for the first issue, which you can see below.
