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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Collected Editions)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 3: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now
Collects The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015B) #1-6, Howard the Duck (2015B) #6.
New series, New Avenger! With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer-science student Doreen Green — a.k.a. the unbeatable Squirrel Girl — is all that stands between the Earth and total destruction. Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy (a regular human with no powers). So mainly Squirrel Girl. And what hope does the Earth have if she gets hurled back in time to the 1960s and erased from history? At least Nancy will never forget her friend, but what invincible armored Avenger can she call on to help, through the magic of social media? Decades apart, can they avert doom, or will everything go wrong forever? Howard the Duck hopes not — he has an appointment for a crossover!
New series, New Avenger! With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer-science student Doreen Green — a.k.a. the unbeatable Squirrel Girl — is all that stands between the Earth and total destruction. Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy (a regular human with no powers). So mainly Squirrel Girl. And what hope does the Earth have if she gets hurled back in time to the 1960s and erased from history? At least Nancy will never forget her friend, but what invincible armored Avenger can she call on to help, through the magic of social media? Decades apart, can they avert doom, or will everything go wrong forever? Howard the Duck hopes not — he has an appointment for a crossover!
176 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 25, 2016
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About the author
Ryan North
538 books1,604 followersHi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
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February 21, 2017
In theory I like Squirrel Girl. She's cute, spunky, unbeatable, etc..
The reality? I just don't think I'll ever be a huge fan of this title.
I felt like maybe I was starting to really like this volume till I started hitting the halfway mark, and then something inside me snapped. One minute it seemed all quirky and fun, and the next it was just too much!
Too much mind-numbing dialogue crammed everywhere. EVERYWHERE! Like, there is literally no where else to put any more words, because all of the blank spots are taken! Then, because evidently there needs to be more words, there's little inside jokes, puns, extra added sass, whatever...at the bottom of the page. It was felt (to me) almost like the writer was trying to be too clever?
And, yes, 50% of it is soooo cute/funny/quirky/adorable/spunky. But sifting through all the nonsense wore me out. And the story was mainly nonsense. There's quite literally nothing about any of these stories that need to told.
BUT.
I fully understand that that's part of the reason this title has so many fans. It's just one of those things that you either enjoy...or don't.
By the last few issues I was basically forcing my eyes across the page, and just skimming in earnest. I wanted it to be over with, but I'd come too far - sifted through too much shit, read too many goofy puns - just to give up.
And goddamnit, I reached that finish line!
The reward?
The last issue in this volume was a crossover with Howard the Duck, which meant I didn't have to look at that fugly art anymore. Because even though the word-diarrhea hurt my brain, the art made me want to claw my eyes out.
I wanted to like this. EVERYONE likes this!
I don't know?
Squirrel Girl, it's not you, it's me...
The reality? I just don't think I'll ever be a huge fan of this title.
I felt like maybe I was starting to really like this volume till I started hitting the halfway mark, and then something inside me snapped. One minute it seemed all quirky and fun, and the next it was just too much!
Too much mind-numbing dialogue crammed everywhere. EVERYWHERE! Like, there is literally no where else to put any more words, because all of the blank spots are taken! Then, because evidently there needs to be more words, there's little inside jokes, puns, extra added sass, whatever...at the bottom of the page. It was felt (to me) almost like the writer was trying to be too clever?
And, yes, 50% of it is soooo cute/funny/quirky/adorable/spunky. But sifting through all the nonsense wore me out. And the story was mainly nonsense. There's quite literally nothing about any of these stories that need to told.
BUT.
I fully understand that that's part of the reason this title has so many fans. It's just one of those things that you either enjoy...or don't.
By the last few issues I was basically forcing my eyes across the page, and just skimming in earnest. I wanted it to be over with, but I'd come too far - sifted through too much shit, read too many goofy puns - just to give up.
And goddamnit, I reached that finish line!
The reward?
The last issue in this volume was a crossover with Howard the Duck, which meant I didn't have to look at that fugly art anymore. Because even though the word-diarrhea hurt my brain, the art made me want to claw my eyes out.
I wanted to like this. EVERYONE likes this!
I don't know?
Squirrel Girl, it's not you, it's me...
July 24, 2016
Fucking awful.
February 28, 2022
Admission time. This is really really really lite fair, ya'll. Cute. Optimistic. Lite. It may not be anything anywhere near serious work, but it lifts my heart a bit and during these days, that's a GOOD thing.
It's almost as if it's all fluff and nonsense.
Oh, wait, that's why I'm reading it! :)
How outrageous is it to have this plucky girl defeat Doctor Doom... TWICE? Hmmm. Pretty outrageous. But at least she gets all her info from the special deck of Villian Cards written by Deadpool, so, you know, the info will be totally accurate and insanely helpful.
It's almost as if it's all fluff and nonsense.
Oh, wait, that's why I'm reading it! :)
How outrageous is it to have this plucky girl defeat Doctor Doom... TWICE? Hmmm. Pretty outrageous. But at least she gets all her info from the special deck of Villian Cards written by Deadpool, so, you know, the info will be totally accurate and insanely helpful.
September 8, 2017
3.5
I actually started reading this one last year after I read the first two, got halfway through it and had to take it back to the library #suck But I'm always here for Doreen and Nancy (I want Nancy for my roommate k she's awesome) also Tippy and Mew. And Squirrel Girl's continuous Tweeting at Tony Stark bc she's hilarious.
The Howard the Duck crossover lost me.
I actually started reading this one last year after I read the first two, got halfway through it and had to take it back to the library #suck But I'm always here for Doreen and Nancy (I want Nancy for my roommate k she's awesome) also Tippy and Mew. And Squirrel Girl's continuous Tweeting at Tony Stark bc she's hilarious.
The Howard the Duck crossover lost me.
July 16, 2016
I love this book. It's been consistently fun, silly, and good from issue one. This volume is a bit different, as North tries out a slightly longer story than he's used before. The end result is a multi-part time travel story guest starring Doctor Doom. There is nothing that isn't fun about this. The last two issues in the book are a Howard the Duck crossover, which I ended up enjoying far more than I had thought I would. The two books melded really nicely. I'm not sure if it was enough to make me consider reading the actual Howard the Duck series, but I'm at least thinking about it, something I wasn't doing before. Bottom line, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is still a great, fun book, in my mind one of Marvel's highlights.
March 8, 2021
Well, I started reading this in the hopes of going through the volumes and finally reading the War of the Realms tie ins and hey, maybe I’d like the stories that aren’t tied in too. But..... no, this is either for a younger audience or it’s just not good. Boring and tedious and try-hard for funny shit and funny slangs and whatnot which are not funny at all.
I won’t be continuing simply because Main character is annoying as hell and the rest of the characters are boring and uninteresting.
Artwork was fun!
I won’t be continuing simply because Main character is annoying as hell and the rest of the characters are boring and uninteresting.
Artwork was fun!
October 16, 2018
Squirrel Girl has to be one of the most flat-out fun books on the market right now. It's joyous and playful and just makes me grin every time I read it. Yes, it gets silly and doesn't take itself seriously. I don't think either Ryan North or Erica Henderson are even capable of doing Grim and Gritty (though they’d definitely do an amazing parody of G&G, and now I want to read their version of The Dark Squirrel Returns …) SG is absolutely committed to helping criminals see the error of their ways. In this volume, she even has Kraven the Hunter helping her (and Howard the Duck) in one adventure (and can I just say that Kraven’s van--the Kra-Van, I assume--is so totally in character for him? This needs to be canon if it isn't already. ) Also in this volume is a time travel story involving Dr. Doom (she beat him once. Can she do it again?) Doomsie hasn’t been this much fun since Fred Hembeck’s Fantastic Four Roast. Keep an eye peeled for an homage to a certain 60's cartoon character as well …
I really like that the letters pages from the original comics are included in these reprint volumes. There's a real sense of community to the Squirrel Girl fandom that comes through in people's letters. Cosplay pictures abound, as well as stories of young children discovering the series and becoming fans. It warms the heart, I tell you. I’m always happy to see folks bubbling with enthusiasm about the things they love. It's one of the things that attracted me to fandom in general.
Squirrel Girl is a constant delight. Highly recommended!
I really like that the letters pages from the original comics are included in these reprint volumes. There's a real sense of community to the Squirrel Girl fandom that comes through in people's letters. Cosplay pictures abound, as well as stories of young children discovering the series and becoming fans. It warms the heart, I tell you. I’m always happy to see folks bubbling with enthusiasm about the things they love. It's one of the things that attracted me to fandom in general.
Squirrel Girl is a constant delight. Highly recommended!
October 26, 2016
What I adore most about Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (other than Doreen and her unrelenting cheer and her vaguely one-sided friendship with Tony Stark) is her roomie, Nancy.
But Mary, Mary, my love.
MARY AND NANCY TOGETHER.
Be still my heart. The supporting characters for this series are so excellent. The writer clearly has just a ton of fun mixing the absurdity of classic comic shenanigans with modern humor and sensibilities.
But Mary, Mary, my love.
MARY AND NANCY TOGETHER.
Be still my heart. The supporting characters for this series are so excellent. The writer clearly has just a ton of fun mixing the absurdity of classic comic shenanigans with modern humor and sensibilities.
May 20, 2016
This third collection, beginning the volume 2 run, is just as good as the first two, if not better. There's crazy robots, time travel, and a cross-over with Howard The Duck. You can't go wrong!
July 10, 2016
I have never, ever loved a comic with the kind of helpless adoration I feel for The Unbeatable Squirrel. So funny! So smart! So awesome! And so kind! In a word: UNBEATABLE. :)
I dragged out my reading of this volume as long as possible...but now I have to admit it: I'm really done. It's over. No more until the next volume. Wahhhh!
There wasn't a single issue in this volume that didn't make me laugh out loud multiple times, and I always, always felt better after reading it. I love Squirrel Girl SO MUCH! Call me, Squirrel Girl! Or at least deliver Volume 4 implausibly early... ;)
I dragged out my reading of this volume as long as possible...but now I have to admit it: I'm really done. It's over. No more until the next volume. Wahhhh!
There wasn't a single issue in this volume that didn't make me laugh out loud multiple times, and I always, always felt better after reading it. I love Squirrel Girl SO MUCH! Call me, Squirrel Girl! Or at least deliver Volume 4 implausibly early... ;)
March 21, 2017
This volume was awesome! Time travel! Crossed timelines! Doctor Doom! Howard the Duck! A kitty cyborg that can say things like "Purr purr, please keep petting!"
I really loved the adventure and real suspense in this volume. Solid plotting and even funnier than usual. I was smiling the whole time.
5 stars.
I really loved the adventure and real suspense in this volume. Solid plotting and even funnier than usual. I was smiling the whole time.
5 stars.
August 27, 2016
This book does my head in.
It's kind of growing on me... but it's still pretty much equal parts cute and nerve endings on a cheese grater annoying!
Nuts to it.
It's kind of growing on me... but it's still pretty much equal parts cute and nerve endings on a cheese grater annoying!
Nuts to it.
June 19, 2016
As if Doreen Green would ever let something as silly as the end of the Marvel Universe stop her from coming back stronger than ever after Secret Wars.
Collecting the first six issues of her second ongoing series, as well as the crossover issue with Howard The Duck, this is another superb collection of hilarious comics that remind us that not everything has to be serious to be enjoyable.
This is the first time writer Ryan North has tried a longer-form story, with the most being a two-parter in a previous volume. This time, almost all of the first 5 issues deal with a time travel plot as Doreen finds herself trapped in the 60s and only through some super-comic-science and some help from Nancy in the present can she save herself, and all of time, from Doctor Doom.
The two part Animal House crossover in the back of the book is also excellent, and it's amazing how well Doreen and Howard's worlds mesh together when they're such different characters. The writing styles of North and Howard scribe Chip Zdarsky blend together too, with Zdarsky guest-writing some of the ticker-tape sentences at the bottom of each page too.
Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now is right. I'm onboard with Squirrel Girl for as long as the series is going to go, which is hopefully a hell of a long time.
Collecting the first six issues of her second ongoing series, as well as the crossover issue with Howard The Duck, this is another superb collection of hilarious comics that remind us that not everything has to be serious to be enjoyable.
This is the first time writer Ryan North has tried a longer-form story, with the most being a two-parter in a previous volume. This time, almost all of the first 5 issues deal with a time travel plot as Doreen finds herself trapped in the 60s and only through some super-comic-science and some help from Nancy in the present can she save herself, and all of time, from Doctor Doom.
The two part Animal House crossover in the back of the book is also excellent, and it's amazing how well Doreen and Howard's worlds mesh together when they're such different characters. The writing styles of North and Howard scribe Chip Zdarsky blend together too, with Zdarsky guest-writing some of the ticker-tape sentences at the bottom of each page too.
Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now is right. I'm onboard with Squirrel Girl for as long as the series is going to go, which is hopefully a hell of a long time.
January 11, 2017
Reading this instead of the news was 100% the right decision, as it was extremely funny and generally adorable. Doreen Green AKA Squirrel Girl deals with robots, Doctor Doom, time travel, and Howard the Duck with charm and panache. She has a squirrel for a sidekick, an awesome flatmate, and a set of cards listing supervillains that Deadpool apparently gave her. Even better, each page has meta commentary at the bottom, including the following: 'That guy's The Punisher! Like all men who take themselves extremely seriously, he likes to spend his downtime sewing cartoon skeleton heads onto every shirt he owns, so that way everyone can tell right away how extremely serious he is.' Rocket Raccoon has a brief cameo, during which he comments, 'Look, the universe is a big, dangerous place but Earth is still the easiest place to buy guns.' Also, the art is lovely, everyone is excited about dinosaurs, and at one point Squirrel Girl high-fives her future self. This comic is a ray of light in dark times.
Now I really want Squirrel Girl to fight Batman.
Now I really want Squirrel Girl to fight Batman.
July 30, 2016
The happiest thing I read is this series.
February 5, 2017
Another fun volume! The footnotes did start to get distracting so I need to read through first and then read the footnotes. I found that if I tried to read the footnotes as I went along, I would lose my momentum. Other than that, it was such a fun romp! I love Doreen and Nancy and I want to read more!
April 27, 2017
SG, SG, how I love thee. Funny, feminist, unashamedly weird and extremely clever, this is a comic that a whole family can be fans of together. 8+ (but maybe 6+, really? It's pretty universal)
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*Please note: this review is meant as a recommendation only. Please do not use it in any marketing material, online or in print, without asking permission from me first. Thank you!*
December 31, 2023
3.8/5.0
Another very light-hearted, fun volume for the many different adventures of Squirrel Girl. The dialogue in these issues make even the most historically evil villains of Marvel so accessible and warming.
Another very light-hearted, fun volume for the many different adventures of Squirrel Girl. The dialogue in these issues make even the most historically evil villains of Marvel so accessible and warming.
August 10, 2017
Now that is time travel done right!
March 17, 2018
This was intensely fun. Now I need to go back and read all the rest of Squirrel Girl!
April 19, 2018
Oh my, I love comics full of heroism and friendship and saving people and non-escalation and saving pets and saving the world. And computer science.
June 4, 2021
A DELIGHT.
March 13, 2017
As usual, Squirrel Girl is freaking amazing. I loved how she took down Doctor Doom in this collection. Very clever. The Howard the Duck two part crossover was fun as well. Overall, Squirrel Girl rocks!
September 2, 2016
I didn't like it as much as the previous volumes for one reason that can be expressed in two words in all caps with an exclamation point at the end and then a smiley added for fun: TIME TRAVEL! :)
I've complained so much about time travel that I'M bored by it now, and I love hearing myself talk. So I'll spare everyone and just say, damn it with the time travel already.
Anyway, time travel aside, still pretty fun.
No, wait. I can't just let it go! The time travel parts were kind of boring and seemed twice as long as the parts where the only traveling was laughter from my brain to my belly. Or maybe it goes the other way around. I don't know how my own body works.
Okay, okay. Doom was a hilarious shithead, and I really like the footnotes or whatever we're calling them at the bottom, and I'm nominating the notes provided by Ryan North and Chip Zdarsky in the Howard the Duck crossover issues as Literary Bromance Of the Year. I don't like the word Bromance very much, but I don't know which word to use other than Bromance. If you know a better, more appropriate word, I encourage you to be extremely angry about it and tweet/email me at the height of your anger with accusations of what a horrible person I am and wishes about me dying.
Yes, I recognize that most people DON'T prefer this form of communication, but I do. Sue me.
I've complained so much about time travel that I'M bored by it now, and I love hearing myself talk. So I'll spare everyone and just say, damn it with the time travel already.
Anyway, time travel aside, still pretty fun.
No, wait. I can't just let it go! The time travel parts were kind of boring and seemed twice as long as the parts where the only traveling was laughter from my brain to my belly. Or maybe it goes the other way around. I don't know how my own body works.
Okay, okay. Doom was a hilarious shithead, and I really like the footnotes or whatever we're calling them at the bottom, and I'm nominating the notes provided by Ryan North and Chip Zdarsky in the Howard the Duck crossover issues as Literary Bromance Of the Year. I don't like the word Bromance very much, but I don't know which word to use other than Bromance. If you know a better, more appropriate word, I encourage you to be extremely angry about it and tweet/email me at the height of your anger with accusations of what a horrible person I am and wishes about me dying.
Yes, I recognize that most people DON'T prefer this form of communication, but I do. Sue me.
July 27, 2016
This series continues to be hilarious and great. I had to speed through this one cause it had to go back, which was disappointing, because I could only take pictures of like, HALF the hilarious panels.
I still don't like the weird issues at the end, though? This time it was a Howard the Duck focused series which I was all NOT about.
I still don't like the weird issues at the end, though? This time it was a Howard the Duck focused series which I was all NOT about.
April 2, 2016
Squirl, you really got me now. You got me so I don't know what I'm dooiiiiiing.
If you aren't reading Unbeatable Squirrel Girl WHY NOT and CHANGE THIS NOW.
If you aren't reading Unbeatable Squirrel Girl WHY NOT and CHANGE THIS NOW.
March 8, 2017
If I ever stop finding North/Henderson's Squirrel Girl delightful and charming, I'll know that I've officially gotten too cynical for my own good.
November 12, 2025
This was a fun story but didn't capture me as much as the first two volumes. Doreen and a few of her classmates get trapped in the 1960s and have to defeat Doom, for the second time for her. It was fun and still worth the read, just not a story that rattled along as well as the first two which I loved.
April 28, 2019
This is why I don't think about time travel too hard. You'll hurt your brain.
Also, I love how the future is almost destroyed because one dude with a mad-scientist aunt was doing bad in computers class. Like really? You almost destroyed everything for this?
Also, I love how the future is almost destroyed because one dude with a mad-scientist aunt was doing bad in computers class. Like really? You almost destroyed everything for this?
April 6, 2017
Even though it was about time travel, Doreen is still my fave.
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