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Marvel Rising (2018) #2
Marvel Rising: Squirrel Girl/Ms. Marvel (2018) #1
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL author Ryan North and MS. MARVEL writer G. Willow Wilson join MARVEL RISING mastermind Devin Grayson in an all-star escapade! Gamer girl Ember Quade has a secret — a power that lets her bring video games to life! But when her creations attract the attention of super heroes SQUIRREL GIRL and MS. MARVEL, the stakes hit a whole new level. Just what is Ember after? And can Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel prevent her pixelated projects from wreaking epic destruction? The next generation of heroes take the universe by storm in the third installment of MARVEL RISING!
43 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 4, 2018
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About the author
Devin Grayson
508 books117 followersDevin Grayson is an avid gamer, former acting student, and enthusiastic reader fortunate enough to have turned a lifelong obsession with fictional characters into a dynamic writing career. She has a B.A. from Bard College, where she studied creative writing with novelist Mona Simpson. Best known for her work on the Batman titles for DC Comics, Devin has been a regular writer on Catwoman, Nightwing, and The Titans, and contributed to the award-winning No Man’s Land story arc. With the publication of Batman: Gotham Knights in March of 2000, she became the first (and, sadly, only as of 2020) female to create, launch and write an ongoing Batman title.
Additional career highlights include the launch of the critically acclaimed series Omni for Humanoids, Doctor Strange: The Fate of Dreams, an original novel featuring Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme, and USER—a highly personal three-part, creator-owned miniseries about gender identity and online role-playing, originally published by Vertigo and newly available as a collected edition hardcover through Image. Devin is also the creator of Yelena Belova, a Marvel character staring in the upcoming MCU Black Widow movie (played by Florence Pugh), Damien Darhk, a DC character now appearing regularly in CW’s Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow (played by Neal McDonough), and Catalina Flores, a DC character recently featured as the super-villain Tarantula in The Lego Batman Movie.
Frequently cited for compelling character development and nuanced exploration of complex themes, Devin’s work has been showcased in mainstream media such as USA Today and Working Woman as well as in alternative press such as The Village Voice, The Advocate, and Curve magazine. Over the years, she has written in several different media and genres, from comic books and novels to video game scripts and short essays. She is currently working on an original graphic novel for Berger Books.
Devin lives in Northern California with her husband, step-son, devoted Early Alert Canines Diabetic Alert Dog, and somewhat less devoted cat. Openly bisexual, she is a passionate advocate for the GLBTQ community, as well as being a committed environmentalist, and a public speaker for T1 Diabetes awareness and Diabetic Alert Dogs. She is always happy to take on a new challenge, especially if it involves making some new fictional friends.
Additional career highlights include the launch of the critically acclaimed series Omni for Humanoids, Doctor Strange: The Fate of Dreams, an original novel featuring Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme, and USER—a highly personal three-part, creator-owned miniseries about gender identity and online role-playing, originally published by Vertigo and newly available as a collected edition hardcover through Image. Devin is also the creator of Yelena Belova, a Marvel character staring in the upcoming MCU Black Widow movie (played by Florence Pugh), Damien Darhk, a DC character now appearing regularly in CW’s Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow (played by Neal McDonough), and Catalina Flores, a DC character recently featured as the super-villain Tarantula in The Lego Batman Movie.
Frequently cited for compelling character development and nuanced exploration of complex themes, Devin’s work has been showcased in mainstream media such as USA Today and Working Woman as well as in alternative press such as The Village Voice, The Advocate, and Curve magazine. Over the years, she has written in several different media and genres, from comic books and novels to video game scripts and short essays. She is currently working on an original graphic novel for Berger Books.
Devin lives in Northern California with her husband, step-son, devoted Early Alert Canines Diabetic Alert Dog, and somewhat less devoted cat. Openly bisexual, she is a passionate advocate for the GLBTQ community, as well as being a committed environmentalist, and a public speaker for T1 Diabetes awareness and Diabetic Alert Dogs. She is always happy to take on a new challenge, especially if it involves making some new fictional friends.
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July 12, 2020
Really funny:
Chipmunk Hunk. Why is he obsessed with trucks? (Dante's) Inferno..
Doreen thinks Kamala is Sloth Baby!
And wants Emulator to "settle a bet," although they both have the same theory.
I like the video game baddies they are getting scarier and scarier as the comic progresses, especially the zombies..
Chipmunk Hunk. Why is he obsessed with trucks? (Dante's) Inferno..
Doreen thinks Kamala is Sloth Baby!
And wants Emulator to "settle a bet," although they both have the same theory.
I like the video game baddies they are getting scarier and scarier as the comic progresses, especially the zombies..
July 13, 2020
"Yes, let's assume yes. Let's nobody die just to be safe. Just for funsies."
Squirrel Girl is a riot. But it's good no-nonsense badass America Chavez shows up to balance out Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel's nerdiness.
This issue is cool and exciting with the creative villains, but it drags on a bit long and gets too technical.
Oh yes and I hate Ember. No sympathy
Squirrel Girl is a riot. But it's good no-nonsense badass America Chavez shows up to balance out Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel's nerdiness.
This issue is cool and exciting with the creative villains, but it drags on a bit long and gets too technical.
Oh yes and I hate Ember. No sympathy
September 25, 2025
8/10
Squirrel girl, ms marvel, America Chavez, and Inferno are surrounded by pixel zombies created by ember quade. They are trying to figure out how to stop them. America attacks one. The rest go after them but quickly realize there are too many. They exit the building to regroup. However when they step outside they realize ember is using the power grid to create the zombies. They begin helping people getting attacked by the zombies. Squirrel girl says they can create a power surge and restore all the power at once shutting down the zombies. Ember is sitting alone, as she gets a text from the man she’s been working for. He tells her just one more thing until she can upgrade. Meanwhile they continue to attack the zombies and create a path to the power grid. Squirrel girl gets bitten and infected. America tries to create a portal but is kicked out for hacking. Ember has not created just zombies she’s created a real life game. They make their way into a building where they find a potion to make squirrel girl normal again. They try to understand why Ember is doing this and why she won’t let them help her. Ember makes it to the destination where the door slams behind. The texter says that they are following her and the place is shielded but she needs to stay ready. Ms Marvel pulls the grid killing the zombies and America returns. She said it was like a blank tv screen. They follow the trail of blackouts that ember has been leaving. They break in and tell ember they are trying to help her but she says they are not and she sends them into a video game universe. The type of game Ms Marvel likes to play. She kills cyborg rats to begin leveling up. Some of the rodents have swords you can collect when you kill them. Some time later, Marvel and Squirrel have collected many sorts and leveled up while inferno and America sit and watch. They realized this wasn’t getting them out. Squirrel has the idea of getting banned from the game. Ember goes to the coordinates where she finds a device that will power her up. She is skeptical as it fits her dimensions perfectly although she never gave them. She says she’s out and begins to leave. He says she can’t get off the hook that easily and says the portal he opened to send them to the game will kill them unless she does this. They make a line in sand calling the game stupid and for babies but it doesn’t get them banned. Their next plan is to take down a character in the game that isn’t supposed to die. They attack and kill scorpiozard, however this doesn’t change anything. They decide to try taking out the heroes of the game. They take out many heroes of the game but still are stuck. The universe adapts to everything they do. Their next goal is to try to break the software of the game by overflowing items in one area. Their idea is to kill as many skeleton warriors as possible and stack all the bones together to glitch the software. They spend in game weeks doing this. Ember decides to get into the machine and is called an idiot and a fool by the texter. He never even had to force her he just used words. The pile has created a hole that they make it through. They find Arcade to be behind what happened. They tell Arcade he doesn’t realize that trapping them in that dimension made them fight and become a team. However, Ember’s powers can summon anything instantly and they are banished to a basement with villains inside.
Awesome assortment of characters and a different kind of story.
Squirrel girl, ms marvel, America Chavez, and Inferno are surrounded by pixel zombies created by ember quade. They are trying to figure out how to stop them. America attacks one. The rest go after them but quickly realize there are too many. They exit the building to regroup. However when they step outside they realize ember is using the power grid to create the zombies. They begin helping people getting attacked by the zombies. Squirrel girl says they can create a power surge and restore all the power at once shutting down the zombies. Ember is sitting alone, as she gets a text from the man she’s been working for. He tells her just one more thing until she can upgrade. Meanwhile they continue to attack the zombies and create a path to the power grid. Squirrel girl gets bitten and infected. America tries to create a portal but is kicked out for hacking. Ember has not created just zombies she’s created a real life game. They make their way into a building where they find a potion to make squirrel girl normal again. They try to understand why Ember is doing this and why she won’t let them help her. Ember makes it to the destination where the door slams behind. The texter says that they are following her and the place is shielded but she needs to stay ready. Ms Marvel pulls the grid killing the zombies and America returns. She said it was like a blank tv screen. They follow the trail of blackouts that ember has been leaving. They break in and tell ember they are trying to help her but she says they are not and she sends them into a video game universe. The type of game Ms Marvel likes to play. She kills cyborg rats to begin leveling up. Some of the rodents have swords you can collect when you kill them. Some time later, Marvel and Squirrel have collected many sorts and leveled up while inferno and America sit and watch. They realized this wasn’t getting them out. Squirrel has the idea of getting banned from the game. Ember goes to the coordinates where she finds a device that will power her up. She is skeptical as it fits her dimensions perfectly although she never gave them. She says she’s out and begins to leave. He says she can’t get off the hook that easily and says the portal he opened to send them to the game will kill them unless she does this. They make a line in sand calling the game stupid and for babies but it doesn’t get them banned. Their next plan is to take down a character in the game that isn’t supposed to die. They attack and kill scorpiozard, however this doesn’t change anything. They decide to try taking out the heroes of the game. They take out many heroes of the game but still are stuck. The universe adapts to everything they do. Their next goal is to try to break the software of the game by overflowing items in one area. Their idea is to kill as many skeleton warriors as possible and stack all the bones together to glitch the software. They spend in game weeks doing this. Ember decides to get into the machine and is called an idiot and a fool by the texter. He never even had to force her he just used words. The pile has created a hole that they make it through. They find Arcade to be behind what happened. They tell Arcade he doesn’t realize that trapping them in that dimension made them fight and become a team. However, Ember’s powers can summon anything instantly and they are banished to a basement with villains inside.
Awesome assortment of characters and a different kind of story.
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July 5, 2018
doot doot It's Ms. Marvel Truck!
I actually really liked this, plus America shows up!!
I actually really liked this, plus America shows up!!
September 2, 2018
So cuteeeeee
June 3, 2019
Love the conversation about programming!
September 2, 2018
This issue kind of disappointed me. I have high expectations for both Ms. Marvel and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and when the two are combined, those expectations are stronger.
This was a fun issue. I enjoyed reading it, but… I found the … unstructured, in a way? As I try to write about it, that may be by design, but I found the "not knowing what the goal is" for so long very frustrating. So it was still a good issue, and I liked it, but I didn't like it as much as I had hoped.
I had mostly settled on the rating by the time I got to the misprint in my copy (a missing page, with a different page appearing twice -- once where it should be and once two pages earlier). Fortunately, googling the title and the word misprint found me information about the error and let me read the page missing from my copy.
This was a fun issue. I enjoyed reading it, but… I found the … unstructured, in a way? As I try to write about it, that may be by design, but I found the "not knowing what the goal is" for so long very frustrating. So it was still a good issue, and I liked it, but I didn't like it as much as I had hoped.
I had mostly settled on the rating by the time I got to the misprint in my copy (a missing page, with a different page appearing twice -- once where it should be and once two pages earlier). Fortunately, googling the title and the word misprint found me information about the error and let me read the page missing from my copy.
June 12, 2019
I am very sparse with my five star reviews, but this one deserved it. I actually laughed out loud, but that was not what was important. The diversity, the friendship and how these characters all helped each other without judgement was what made this comic so special. That combined with the artwork. Could give it no less than five stars.
June 3, 2019
A little wary of the "guy tricking woman into doing what he wants" bit with Ember but I appreciate the comic calling this out much like they did with Moleman's inappropriate behavior toward Squirrel Girl.
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July 17, 2019
Very enjoyable!
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