Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 Review

writers: Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare/ artist: Natacha Bustos / Marvel Comics Sometimes you open a comic and fall in love from page one. Sometimes that happens from just the cover art alone. Wherever it happens for you, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 is without a doubt one of those comics that will have you running to change your relationship status in a flurry of heart emojis because The One doesn’t just end up on your pull list every day, you know. Let me introduce you.

[divider type=”space_thin”] Lunella Lafayette, our titular Moon Girl, is a brilliant preteen with plenty of Black Girl Magic™ to boot. If you’re a Blerd girl reading this you’ll immediately relate to Lunella’s struggles to fit in to school when that time could be used for so much better things, like being creative (okay, so doujinshi and kree-o-meters aren’t exactly synonymous, but details). With the help of a magical artifact called the Nightstone, however, Lunella finds that her once intellectually unsatisfying life fraught with bullies now gets put on the hold as she faces off with creatures of otherworldly proportions— literally.

[divider type=”space_thin”] After reading this comic you won’t be entirely shocked to find that the delightfully vivid cover art is actually by Amy Reeder, one of the writers on this project along with Brandon Montclare. Reeder and Montclare’s story bursts from the page in a way that only someone really thinking in terms of the visual medium can do. Throughout the book Lun…