The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #22

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[shadowpsykie]

a savage land romeo and Juliet thing?

also, is it just me or does anyone else want The Unbeatable Squirrel GIrl to meet The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?

[jetpack_monkey]

UN-beat-able, she beat Doom, dammit! It's a miracle!

[beyondthefringe]

And now it's in my head.

[mastermahan]

Kimmy would have to explain that she doesn't have all the powers of mole *and* woman.

[scorntx]

-So therefore it actually makes sense why they don't have feathers and we should all stop worrying about it-
I wasn't worried.
Maybe I was a little concerned, but that's not the same thing.


-"Property of Robert Plunder"-
Bob Plunder.
Strikes fear into the hearts of mortals, don't it?
"Fear the approach of BOB PLUNDER."
... though it is a pretty apt name for a colonial wad.


Doom rates Squirrel Girl as a higher threat than Reed Richards.
Somehow, this is not surprising.
Doom knows what's what.
Though... "slayer of all that lives"? Surely Doom could tell a more convincing lie.
"Mildly obsessive about squirrels", perhaps?

[arilou_skiff]

The "Slayer of all that lives" is a callback too, to one of those random "Squirrel Girl ebats up someone" panels. ("It's the anti-life! Slayer of all that lives!")

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Is Sir Plunder's middle name, "Nigel"?

[xakko]

the callback to those ridiculous Marvel swimsuit issues is wonderful.

[mesmiranda]

I love Ryan North--I really, honestly, truly do, I'm not just saying that--but I also kind of want him to drop all the meta jokes and MCU references and self-aware snarky one-liners and just... tell a story. Straight up tell a story.

I don't know, I just can't help feeling like this issue was a bit too cutesy even for me.

[zachbeacon]

Wait... is that the actual origin of the Savage Land? I just always took for granted that there was a tropical area of the Antarctic full of dinosaurs because, y'know, comics.

[lissa_quon]

That's a good question.

I love how we all just ACCEPT this weird ass tropical dino land in the Antarctic cause- y'know - why not?

[dr_archeville]

It is, yes! It was first revealed in Ka-Zar the Savage vol.01:no.34 (October 1984), and elaborated on in Fantastic Four vol.01:no.316 (July 1988). The aliens were the Nuwali, though they were working on behalf of The Beyonders.

[mastermahan]

The weirdest part is that the Beyonders were paying the Nuwali in gold. Why a civilization hundreds of millions of years old and capable of building a dino land need a steady supply of gold - your guess is as good as mine.

[cainofdreaming]

It's soft, crunchy and goes great with Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters?

[scorntx]

It helps pay for treatment after taking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

(You'd be amazed how difficult using coinage is after drinking one of them, whereas handling a lump of a heavy metal is comparatively trivial.)

[zachbeacon]

Well it makes about as much sense as the real world belief that aliens came here the mutilate livestock and probe rednecks.

[thanekos]

They're suckers for highly electroconductive metal.

[zachbeacon]

That actually makes perfect sense to me. The Beyonder from the first two Secret Wars is basically a child*. Of course the Beyonders would want a place to keep their dinosaurs.

*The original SW is literally an excuse to take some action figures and bang them together.

[dustbunny105]

I want all of that Savage Brands merch but especially the Tea Rex :D

[bruinsfan]

So I guess they've shut down the EMP field that crashes electronics in the Savage Land, and gotten rid of the Antarctic vibranium that liquefies most metals brought there?

[malitia]

Probably since a while. Sunspot's AIM had a high-tech base there in a comic released last year.

[endis_ni]

I would read and/or watch the hell out of Eat Pray Doom. It's got to be more interesting than the version we go!

[sarahnewlin]

No pretentious rich white lady in sight!

[sarahnewlin]

What ever happened to Ka-Zar, Sauron, and Shanna?