The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 Review

writer: Ryan North / artist: Erica Henderson / Marvel Comics The first thing you need to know is the melody of the Spider-Man theme song. This is important. If you don’t know it, you won’t be able to sing along on the very first page of this issue when our adorable heroine Doreen Green, aka “Squirrel Girl”, introduces herself and her equally adorable best friend, Tippy Toe (a regular squirrel). This introduction sets the tone for many genuine laugh out loud moments full of camp and nostalgia. In this issue, we see that our little Doreen of the Great Lakes Avengers is (still) growing up. While there is no reference made to her nanny duties for Luke Cage and Jennifer Jones, we see her packing her belongings and leaving the attic of the Avenger’s mansion to begin her freshman year at Empire State University. She confides to Tippy Toe that she has decided to adopt a secret identity in order to protect her loved ones, even though from what we can tell, her “loved ones” can be narrowed down to Tippy alone. Tippy herself has no powers, she’s just a normal squirrel who serves as SG’s loyal companion and sounding board. As quirky as that duo is, when we meet Doreen’s new Blerd roommate Nancy Whitehead and her kitten Mew, you can feel the potential for crew hijinks skyrocket. In keeping with the excellent pacing of the issue, shortly after we meet Nancy we meet this issues villain, Kraven the Hunter. We know it’s Kraven because SG keeps a deck of Deadpool’s Guide to Super Villains card…