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? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings charming humor
to the trials and tribulations of a young female superhero, battling
monsters both supernatural and mundane in an all-too-ordinary world.
The expanded edition collects the original Eisner Award-winning comic,
two new stories, and new art from creators including Tyler Crook, Ron
Chan, Jake Wyatt, Paulina Ganucheau, and more!
The first collection won an Eisner Award (Best Publication for Kids) and
has gone through 4 printings
This charming modern vision of a Superhero Girl features a young woman
living an uncertain life, unsure of the best way to contribute to
society. It's superhero as person instead of as corporate symbol or
fight machine. We see her struggling with relatable elements of daily
life, like keeping her mother informed of how things are going or having
to replace her cape after it shrunk in the laundry. One of the best
strips has Superhero Girl explaining to a fan how she too can be a
superhero without having a horrible tragedy in her past. This strip
shines because it's fresh and lighthearted without wallowing in angst.
Her arch-nemesis is a normal guy who keeps telling her she's doing it
wrong. She struggles to balance her calling with a paying day job but
keeps forgetting to take her mask off. Her annoying perfect brother
Kevin shows her up, and she struggles with whether to stay hero or take
the easier, villainous way to riches. The comic is perfectly suited to
Hicks's expressive figures and energetic storytelling. The perfect
laugh-filled tonic for heavier angst-filled superhero series.
-Publishers Weekly
Have you ever wanted a superhero who lives in your world? If so, you
will love Faith Erin Hicks' Eisner-award-winning story of a young woman
who happens to be a superhero. -YALSA The Hub
