Random Back Issue #9 - Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #28

Damn, you'd think I'd randomly land on a comic from before 2000 at some point, but instead they keep getting more recent. But that's OK, and you know why?

Because there's always time on this blog to show the Silver Surfer get punched in his stupid, shiny, mopey, space face. Granting we haven't spent much time on that yet, so maybe I better get started on that. New series of posts for next year: Norrin Radd gets socked in the kisser!

This was the second part of a story where alien squirrels kidnap Nancy and Tippy to try and discover how Earth was saved from Galactus (the answer was that Doreen found Galactus a planet full of nutritious acorns to snack on instead). It turned out the Silver Surfer showed up with an entourage and a bomb, announcing Galactus would eat the squirrel planet if they didn't hand over all their wealth.

Doreen had figured out they're missing, and is trying to figure out where they went and how to find them. Loki is supposed to be "helping", but this is during that five minute stretch where he was Sorcerer Supreme, so he's only succeeded in dragging Doreen into fighting Dormammu. Once they're out of that, he announces he's going across the galaxy with Doreen to find them and creates a spaceship.

Well, less "creates" and more "steals". And Drax is inside the ship, and he doesn't particularly like Loki, but he does get along with Doreen and agrees to help. The trip is brief, and notable mostly for a discussion of whether beanbags qualify as chairs. I keep expecting this to replace the "is a hot dog a sandwich?" discussions online, but it hasn't happened so far.

Once on the planet it turns out the bomb is a fake, as is the "Surfer". Then the real Silver Surfer shows up, having somehow got wind of all this, but Doreen thinks he's the phony, and that causes some problems.

I can't recall how the next issue begins exactly, but I'm betting the talking hood ornament starts in about how humans are always so prone to violence and blah blah blah. At least we don't help a giant purple guy eat inhabited planets! Except for Nova (the Frankie Raye version). But she was an exception!

The rest of the story is a whole bunch of other alien worlds that were duped by these guys showing up to take revenge, with weapons that can actually kill the Surfer, and that causes a lot of problems. I think this was the last multi-issue story arc Erica Henderson drew, as Derek Charm would take over

[Longbox #11, 316th comic. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (vol. 2) #28, by Ryan North (writer), Erica Henderson (artist), Rico Renzi (color artist), Travis Lanham (letterer)]