¡Te presentamos a Los 3 Fantásticos! Estela Plateada llega a la Tierra, avisando de la inminente irrupción de una amenaza cósmica. Sin La Primera Familia para detenerla, y con su amigo escarlata ausente, Moon Girl se une a Ben y Johnny. ¿Sabes qué? ¡Será alucinante!
Lunella was very annoying this volume. She spent the whole story screaming to shut up, I'm the smartest person. Listen to me. She was a horrible character in this volume. The great part of this story was that the Fantastic Four had been split up and the Human Torch and the Thing team up with Lunella to be the Fantastic Three. That part was fun.
Lunella does get Devil Dinosaur back from the past at the end. The silver surfer does show up in this story as well.
I think I might be done with this story. I like Lunella as a character, but she was terrible in this one and I got tired of this. I think this is my last volume. It was good until now.
This book seems to have abandoned any desire to appeal to adult readers as well as the kindergarten crowd with this volume. It's a pretty darn good book for younger readers but older readers (and they don't come much older than me, to be fair) will probably find the fact that Galactus, the Silver Surfer and are almost entirely out of character and that the Human Torch and the Thing have been reduced to goofy caricatures of themselves slightly off-putting.
Still, I love HERBIE with a passion, so it gets bonus points for including him, at least...
I thought Moon Girl joining a new version of the Fantastic Four would be a good thing. Unfortunately, she complains nonstop the whole book about how terrible and dumb everyone else is. She's a terrible brat. Everyone acts completely out of character. The only bright spot was the Human Torch feeling threatened by H.E.R.B.I.E. from the old FF cartoon. For those of us who've been around that long know that the Human Torch was replaced in the cartoon because executives thought kids would set themselves on fire to be like the Human Torch. So dumb. The writing feels like it's shifted gears to appeal to only those under 10 than all ages. Natacha Bustos and particularly Tamra Bonvillain on colors make the book look fantastic.
[Read as single issues] Devil Dinosaur who? After sending Devil back to his own time, Lunella strikes out on her own. But the dimension-devouring Omnipotentis soon forces her back into a team-up, this time with the Thing and Human Torch!
This arc seems like it should be really strong, exploring Lunella's attachments to Devil Dinosaur, but instead it just comes across as her complaining for six issues. I know she's what, nine? But even so, she sent her friend home and now she wants everyone to leave her alone. I sometimes have trouble linking Lunella's actions to her internal dialogue, and this is one of those times.
The threat itself is fun, and the evolution of the mystery is pretty well done, as is the art from Natacha Bustos as always, but this is the first time Lunella has really grated on me. Hopefully the next volume will restore my love of her, given how this arc ends.
What's not to love?! Moon Girl! Human Torch! Thing! Devil Dinosaur! Silver Surfer! Galactus! ! Yeah, this one's got just about everything except the kitchen sink (flying bathtubs are optional). Moon Girl joins Johnny and Ben to become the Fantastic Three and they're on the look-out for that elusive fourth member (sounds kind of like the Frightful Four after Medusa and Thundra left doesn't it?). Is Eduardo going to make the grade? Read this delightfully fun collection and find out. But be warned: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is highly addictive and stuffy mature readers need not bother.
Not my favorite one in a while, unfortunately. Although the whole concept showed some promise of interesting interactions and development I did not get much out of the whole volume. It was fun to see The Thing and Torch hangout with Lunella but not much happened. The characters were so preoccupied with stopping some weird dimension villain that I honestly did not care about. Lunella being separated from the dinosaur was something I thought would bring a new dimension to the character but it, unfortunately, did the opposite. It showed how much red dino needs to be in the serious. Lunella needs somebody with a personal connection to her to be around and grow with her. The volume did something that I haven't seen much of yet which was to be really funny. I thought Eduardo was a very comical character before but in this one, he really bounced off Lunella quite well. The whole ordeal with the HERBES was also funny. The writing in the comic is just not the same since Amy left, the characters are just not as heartfelt. She would write Lunella as a complex character but now she just gets annoyed with everything and everyone, I hate when writers do that to intelligent characters. The villain was whatever and the whole cosmic aspect made me realize that those type of stories is not for me. Lastly, there was a certain someone who made a return and it felt extremely abrupt and out of nowhere. No explanation or interaction or anything. So out of the blue. Overall there were some funny moments that I enjoyed and seeing The Thing and Torch were fun and interesting. However, the volume did nothing other than set up a returning character and moving that relationship forward. I hope the next volume can get back to Lunella and her everyday life.
Lunella is still the best, but I did not care for this volume as much as the others, dragging out the return of Devil Dinosaur in favor of running around with other characters and threats that I knew would turn out to be gone by the end. My four-year-old wasn't interested in a story without Devil Dinosaur and who could blame her? At least Lunella came her senses and retrieved her BFF Dino by the end and all's right with the world.
Admittedly, not my favourite Moon Girl issue. It felt a bit filler-y. Half the fantastic four is mysteriously missing, and Luna is a bit lost, and missing her bbff (biggest, bestest friend forever).
The ending was beautiful though, and Luna is still a fantastic hero
I find Lunella very frustrating. To catch people up, Moon Girl is a fourth-grade genius recently declared the smartest person on earth. She is also an Inhuman with one of the least practical powers ever-- she can swap bodies with Devil Dinosaur, an enormous T-Rex with red scales and unusual attachment to tiny mammals.
To be clear, I am pretty woke. I'm gay, Spanish-speaking, extremely liberal, minored in women's studies, the works. Which is why I hate that I am going to write, "but..."
Lunella is just a bitch.
Yes, she is a child. And I get it. A few years ago Marvel went into overdrive filling its titles with more minorities. And part of me really wants to applaud that. Minorities need more representation, children of various groups need to be inspired by seeing heroes they can relate to doing great things. I get it.
But does she have to be so damn unpleasant to every superhero she comes across, with the bizarre exception of the Kamala Khan version of Ms. Marvel? (Another young female of color created in recent years to take up another character's legacy; except the two original Ms. Marvels are white women who are still around, whereas Lunella --an African-American-- is taking up the legacy of a monkey. ... Yeesh, that is not very ethnically sensitive at all.)
The Human Torch and the Thing are classic superheroes beloved by millions. They have been active superheroes nearly nonstop since the 1960s. But in this graphic novel they are loveable doofs at best, and incompetent man-children more often than that. They contribute nearly nothing to the impending threat, save perhaps for smashing some stuff, except to inspire Lunella to retrieve Devil Dinosaur from the past.
Lunella is a brat. She has no respect for any of the elders in her life (not teachers, nor her parents, nor any adult superheroes), and she appears to do little to even TRY to befriend her peers. While she has been judged the smartest person on the planet, do we have to reduce more experienced and more beloved characters into such cringe-worthy comic relief?
And that is setting aside that Lunella makes no sense. Her parents refuse to take her out of elementary school, but she is literally the smartest person on the planet? She knows she would be best served completing doctorates at MIT or Stanford, conducting research in labs with funding. It makes no sense for her not to pursue that on her OWN if nothing else. If she figures out a mathematical proof and wins a Fields Medal, she doesn't need her parents' approval.
The only justification for this would be so she can make friends her own age. And she isn't even TRYING. The two other children who have any lines in this graphic novel are also treated as comic relief.
In sum, I blame the writers. I understand what they are trying for with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. But the writing makes no sense. To sum up:
1) Casting an African-American girl in a role previously held by a monkey is crazy offensive. 2) Making your main character the smartest person on the planet but trapped in elementary school is stupid. It is unrealistic to the extreme. I know the message the writer is TRYING for (appealing to smart kids who feel out of place), but they are failing. 3) Lunella's personality is pointlessly acerbic. To everyone. And the fact she is like this to every adult in her life, including her parents and teachers, just makes her a brat. 4) If you as the writer have to dumb down all the adults in your story to make your "smart" character shine? She doesn't come across that smart. 5) Why is her power limited to JUST Devil Dinosaur? Would it work with anyone she actually counts as a friend? Any reptile? And why does she have no control over the power? More importantly, why was the power not even MENTIONED in this graphic novel?
This just made me miss the FF more. And I think I am done with Moon Girl.
I read Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur Vol.5 as single issues through the Marvel Unlimited app.
Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur is officially five volumes in (actually, more than that by now) and still going strong. I’ll admit that I was a little hesitant to start reading this volume, what with the major change that happened in the last one. But I ended up being really happy with my decision to continue reading it.
Ok, I’ve read enough volumes to put my finger on what frustrates me about the plot arcs.
Lunella is supposed to be the smartest person ever. She knows all the science stuff already, and sure, uses it to advance the plot, but the final battles are simply solved by punching the enemy, or in this case, Devil Dinosaur stepping on the bad guy? I mean yes, Devil Dinosaur needs to be a part of the solution or what’s the point in calling these books “Moon Girl AND Devil Dinosaur,” but the winning factor seems to rarely if ever involve Lunella actually outsmarting the enemy? I find that frustrating after she spends the entire volume annoyed that people don’t believe that she’s smart enough. Show, don’t tell.
Also - I feel like they’re VASTLY underusing her ability to mindswap with Devil Dinosaur. You could combine her smarts, her knowledge about plans that could work, and have her swap minds with him in crucial moments? Otherwise it’s just an ignored gimmick.
I’ve read a number of reviews that talk about Lunella’s emotional intelligence. I actually appreciate that she has that flaw - otherwise she would be too perfect. But I do agree that it seems like she learns the same lesson over and over, which means the lesson never actually stuck in the first place, which is certainly frustrating. Characters should change and grow over time, so I appreciate her being able to admit she was wrong in this volume and made a bad choice, but will that opinion hold?
I still want to read the next volume, but I don’t know how I feel about the longevity of this series if it doesn’t start to take Lunella more seriously.
The series has kind of stagnated for me a bit. I still love Lunella but teaming her up with The Thing and Human Torch was just blah. Much like her, I felt something was missing.
I get that she is the smartest person in the world, but does the dialogue have to keep reminding me. Also, they have yet to really utilize her inhuman ability. At least Devil Dinosaur comes back! I missed that duo!
This volume is still entertaining but it's missing the magic quality the first two volumes had.
I enjoyed every volume and can’t wait for the next! This volume was not what I expected, but I loved reading it! Now I want to read the actual comic book series.
Me ha parecido un tomo súper tierno. Y me encantaría que Lunella siguiera con los 4 (2) fantásticos, tienen mucha química. De los tomos que más he disfrutado, aunque dinosaurio diabólico no aparezca mucho.
Two of my favorite Marvel characters, Ben Grimm (the Thing) and Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), get involved with Lunella, aka Moon Girl, and soon....it's clobberin' time!
Devil Dinosaur is back from the past, and it is a sweet reunion.
Still not liking this as much as the first two volumes. Lunella will not stop reminding the reader or everyone she knows that she's the smartest person on earth, and it's pretty annoying at this point. I can't help but compare this to things like Ms Marvel or the Squirrel Girl or Lois Lane books, because they're all younger heroes but the other series make sure to focus on other aspects of life, not just being a hero, and there are lessons and friends and family. Moon Girl kind of has that, in that Lunella realizes she needs Devil Dinosaur, but I liked it better when she was at school and showing people that she's smart while also working with them to help them.
I've also realized that I prefer comics about smaller battles and opponents, rather than "the universe is about to end" variety. I've been reading comics for three years or so (four?) now, and constantly reading about how different heroes save the universe is....boring. Which sounds ridiculous, I know, but as this is fiction, we know the hero will save the universe. It's anticlimactic. So this whole volume felt boring to me, because I knew things would be okay. I also know nothing about the Fantastic Four and don't really care about them, so there's that.
This definitely didn't have the same whimsy as the first couple of trades, but Lunella is improving! I like that the further she is getting into super hero lore, the more she is thinking about herself. I also liked the idea of the comics themselves running up against who she wants to be/ what people expect from her. I honestly have never dealt that far into the Fantastic Four so I was super fine with the childlike summaries we kept getting. It also made me want to see whats happening in the Fantastic Four comic, which I figured was the point. I originally thought I was going to give this four stars for her improvement, but the fact that I only got Devil Dinosaur in one of these single issues I'm dropping it down to three.
Not the strongest volume in the series, but the inclusion of the Fantastic Four (Two?) makes for an interesting development in the plot. And as Lunella is faced with powerful friends and foes, the is forced to reckon with her own limits and continue finding her place in the Marvel universe.
This series continues to be a pleasure to read, and the ending of this volume is one of the more beautiful moments this series has had to offer.
Plus, Doom-head is always fun to read! And watching the Thing and the Human Torch attempt to rescue a cat from a tree is anything but boring.
This series is sweet and fun, and it always leaves me happy that I've read it. And that counts for a lot.
Moon Girl remains a terrific kid's comic, though I admit it's a bit lacking for my more adult tastes. That's not a problem of the book as it certainly isn't aiming to please me. Were I more a fan of Marvel, I would probably enjoy the silly adventures, but alas, I'm a DC girl at heart. However, super glad that the smartest character in the Marvel universe is a black girl :) And I'm also glad that the book explores her weaknesses without being cruel or needlessly tramautizing. Luneta makes mistakes and has a hard time relating to others, but she's a good kid trying to do good things.
Moon Girl teams up with the Thing and Johnny Storm to create THE FANTASTIC THREE. Applause! Wow! Gee whiz! The writing is more energetic than the previous volume and the story is more or less worth five issues. Art is still above average. The characters are overly goofy, though, and the story is clearly trying to tie in to some grand Marvel narrative that never quite clicks. Worst of all, the ending reveals that the whole team-up was a contrived plot device to return Devil Dinosaur to fold. Maybe they shouldn't have removed him so needlessly in the previous volume?
I usually love this series, but this entire volume left me feeling really dissatisfied. Tbh my 2 stars are rounded up from a 1.5, which is for continued great art and a cute plot twist in the final couple pages, but lack of a good, cohesive plot that I had a very difficult time following from one page to the next. I hope that the next volume brings things back to the strong story it was in previous volumes.
This felt a little like filler and got a little repetitive with the Fantastic Four/Two looking for another member, it was still enjoyable but I was mostly waiting to get back to the usual adventures with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, this could partly be because I don't really know much about the Fantastic Four and I just really love Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur together.
The fantastic... 3? 4? 3 and a robot? 2? I continue to enjoy Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, because Lunella is just the coolest little superhero ever. She's absolutely brilliant, but watching her learn that she doesn't actually know everything is a joy to read. And man... I love Devil Dinosaur. I want one of my own.
This wasn't as strong as the other volumes were. Idk why, it just seemed so cluttered and confusing. I only really enjoyed when Devil Dinosaur came back and how they reunited, it had alot of emotion, but as for everything else, It could've been better. I seriously hope that this amazing diverse character doesn't starts having a shitty story line like America Chavez and Captain Marvel.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This was bad. At the end of the last volume, Luna got rid of Devil Dinosaur, so the vast majority of this was her trying to make the Fantastic Three be a thing with the Thing and Fire Boy (totally don't even remember his name). They made the most annoying team I have ever read and without Luna's love for Devil Dinosaur balancing her petulance, she just comes across as a whiny brat. Ugh.
If I were honest, this volume and the last night have been 2 stars. I wish we could see more character growth rather than weird comic mashups. However, the last three pages of this volume were really good.
This was pretty funny, and I liked how grumpy Lunella was without Devil Dinosaur, but I did miss him in this trade. I liked seeing the Lifebringer Galactus from the Ultimates again. I hope Lunella shows up in more stuff in the future.