Super Mario Adventures #1-2

[deh_tommy]

Happy Mario Day! These comics were originally published in Nintendo Power to tie-into Super Mario World, but had amassed enough of a cult following that they were later collected (and then later still reprinted!) in TPB form.

2.67-ish pages each. #1:

















#2:















Mario is caught in the blast and petrified, so the Princess leaps after Bowser herself.

Comments

[super_fly]

Not sure that makes it better, positive stereotypes are still stereotypes

It'd be like having a platformer with an asian character who has save the kingdom because everyone else has forgotten how to do math

[janegray]

The difference is that the stereotype for women is that we *can't* control our emotions.

[deh_tommy]

As neat as Super Princess Peach is, it’s still not really the best look when out of all the character-based spinoffs—Luigi busts ghosts in haunted homes, Donkey Kong and Yoshi became veritable platformer mascots in their own right, Bowser goes on a great quest to take his throne back, Captain Toad hunts for booty, Wario runs a game company—the one game Peach gets all to herself, she... smiles and cries super hard.