The Adventures of Superhero Girl
What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings her skills in character design...
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What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings her skills in character design and sharp, charming humor to the trials and tribulations of a young, superhero battling monsters both supernatural and mundane in an all-too-ordinary world.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616550844 (1616550848)
Publish date: February 26th 2013
Publisher: Dark Horse
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Humor,
Funny,
Cultural,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Canada,
Superheroes
Superhero Girl is an antidote for all those comics who take their superheroes a little too seriously. Would be a good book for any little sister, grades 4 and up.
Here's a short and sweet review. I love Faith Erin Hicks. I love her humor, and her ability to write real women. Most of all, I love her illustrations. This book is no exception to that rule. Imagine a superhero who isn't quite sure she's so super. What to do when you live in Canada, and there's...
Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks: I really enjoy Faith Erin Hicks’ work. Although Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong remains my favorite of her books to date, Adventures of Superhero Girl is a marvelous, wry take on the life of a superhero. Superhero Girl has a roommate and struggles with...
Outstanding! A good one to offer young fans of Scott Pilgrim. It's got that same look about it, although it's a traditional strip format, rather than a graphic novel. The eleven-year-old and I both enjoyed it. Library copy.
This is legitimately the best thing ever. Why aren't you reading it? RIGHT NOW?
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