Wednesday, April 03, 2019

The Mini-Series Everyone (Meaning Me) Wants

If Marvel is going to insist on there 12-issue mini-series set in that "Old Man (insert name)" universe, they could at least give us "Unbeatable Old Lady Squirrel Girl". I'd buy that, depending on the creative team. Meaning Ryan North as writer, at minimum. Maybe the Guruhiru team on art. It'll be the brightest, most adorable post-apocalyptic landscape ever! Or, since the end of the most recent issue says they averted that fate, it's just set in a generally pleasant, non-apocalyptic future landscape. Whichever.

It would be odd for an allegedly "unbeatable" hero to be in a post-apocalyptic landscape. If they let the apocalypse happen, not so unbeatable, right (Not counting them landing there from the distant past or an alternate dimension)? Unless it's because of something like climate change instead of super-villains. That's a bit out of Doreen's wheelhouse. It could depend on time scale. If Doreen, Nancy, and the others turn things around in the end, it becomes a matter of losing the battle but winning the war.

As far as the arch-foe, it has to be Doom, doesn't it? Squirrel Girl's first super-villain (excluding Kang's time travel hijinks), trying to settle things with her again at the end. You can throw other problems in there, of course:

 - Loki making his inevitable reversion to villainy (or is he?), probably because he disagreed with a decision Nancy made in her Cat Thor fanfic. Will Nancy consider revising her story in the face of Loki spamming the comment section?

- The Ultron plant they brought back from the Savage Land and placed in Doreen's parents' yard is going through a rough adolescence/evolution. Can Doreen connect with a hip young artificial intelligence teen (that is probably evolved into a squirrel by this point?)

- Kraven's taking the "hunter of hunter" things a bit far, and is stalking bargain-hunters. Spider-Man's on his case again, and everybody is just really grumpy about having to deal with this again. As it turns out, Kraven's not happy about being alive again (I'm assuming he's gonna figure out some way to get killed in that "Hunted" story that's running in Amazing Spider-Man), and trying to get out any which way he can.

- Maybe Mary makes her eventual break towards super-villainy, weaponized Brain Drain's nihilism, and it's infecting the others. Koi Boi can't even bother to make fish puns any more!

And so on, and so forth.

2 comments:

SallyP said...

Oh, I would SO read this!

CalvinPitt said...

There we go. Marvel, do you want our money or not?