By Mark Rodriguez
Marvel Rising brings in the new generation of Marvel heroes including Miss Marvel, Spider-Gwen and Quake together. In their first issue Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel met for the first time and helped each other take down AIM agents. What they didn't know was that agents were after a fellow classmate named Ember Quade. This issue was a Father's Day issue (I guess, but it was released during the time frame) but I missed it, but I was able to pick up a copy a few weeks later.
Ember recalls a bit over a year ago when the Terramist Bomb went off, which would unlock hidden powers if a human was born as an inhuman and didn't know it. She went to bed that day and woke up in a cocoon.
Doreen, Squirrel Girl, teaches game programming, and as she gives her class, some kids ask about the AIM agents that attacked the field trip the other day. They heard some of them got away, and they start listing the heroes that could have caught them, like Spider-Man or Iron Man. She resumes the class on the game she's working on with a cartoon character named Nutsy McSmasher.
Kamala Khan, Miss Marvel, arrives late and due to her patterns, Doreen figured out who she is. Class goes on break and Doreen talks to Kamala, saying she must be Slothbaby, her favorite fanfiction writer. Doreen says she should write something about Squirrel Girl. Just then there is a noise and Doreen runs off to contact security while Kamala also looks for some place to change.
Ember is being picked on again, and this time she somehow brings the videogame character Nutsy McSmasher to life. They videogame squirrel with the big mallet starts smashing everything in sight, including taking a swing at Squirrel Girl. Miss Marvel also arrives and takes the mallet away. Doreen tries to talk to Nutsy asking how he can exist.
The videogame squirrel starts biting her while the mallet moves on its own and starts attacking Miss Marvel. Doreen picks up the squirrel and tosses it at Kamala, who swings the mallet at it. The mallet and the squirrel both disappear into videogame graphics. Squirrel Girl runs off to check on her class.
Kamala, dressed back to normal, goes to talk to Ember, but she says she's been doxxed and is banned from all her gaming accounts. She is more concerned about getting in touch with customer service to get her accounts unbanned than anything else.
Squirrel Girl talks to squirrels in the area that have been keeping an eye on the guys bother Ember, but don't note anything suspicious worth reporting.
Ember is chatting with someone and mentions the incident with the videogame squirrel. The other person 'King0fPWN' says maybe that's how her powers are supposed to work. Ember realizes the sparks happening to electronics around her mean she's been storing electricity and then decides she's been thinking too small.
The next morning, Squirrel Girl was sleeping in a tree (??) and her squirrel Tippy wakes her up and tells her it saw a super villain. She arrives at a library where a Donkey Kong expy is grabbing a kid over a bookshelf. The ape tosses the kid down but Doreen catches him. DK then tosses the entire bookshelf at them and Doreen tackles the kid down to prevent him from being hit by it. The bookshelf smashes through the window and the ape escapes out in the open, where Miss Marvel also comes in. She manages to catch the flying bookshelf before it would crash into people walking outside.
Donkey Kong starts tossing recycling bins at people and Doreen kicks them away from the people. She has some squirrels lead the bystanders out of harm's way. DK tosses Miss Marvel into some bicycles. He then starts tossing recycling bins in a sequence and Squirrel Girl starts jumping over them as Mario would. Ember watches the scene and wonders what both heroes are doing there.
Miss Marvel notes that it's odd how they keep bumping into each other at campus. Squirrel Girl tries to change the conversation and says the ape should vanish like Nutsy did before and Miss Marvel tied it up in her stretchy arms. Marvel says the ape comes from the game Danger Kong and the only way to stop him is with a hammer power up, so she hits him with an enlarged fist and it fades away into bits and bytes.
Miss Marvel wonders if the AIM agents were behind this, but Doreen says they're not light projections because they can actually hurt people and get hurt themselves. Miss Marvel asks where Doreen's pet squirrel is from, and she says Tippy is from Wisconsin. The bell rings and Squirrel Girl has to go.
Kamala changes back into normal clothes and notices that Doreen just arrived and is late for her class. This gets Kamala wondering.
Ember texts King and tells him that she was able to bring another game character to life to get back at the guys that are always bothering her, but Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel arrived. Instead of helping Ember beat back the bullies, they defeated her creation. King says maybe she needs to stop since her account bans might not be permanent and it's not a good sign if super heroes are getting involved. Ember won't let this go and decides to use her powers for revenge, calling herself Emulator.
My Opinions
So this issue focuses more on Ember and her powers to somehow bring videogame characters to life. It's kinda weird seeing all the stuff I hear about in videos play out in this comic, stuff might have been different in my day but I never really seen people picking on girls for playing games better than them in real life. Sure, online alllll the time, but not face to face. And then these guys go as far as to hack her and get all her accounts banned? I hear about this all the time online, but not so much to people doing it face to face. Is this what bullying has become in modern day schools? I remember a few girls kicking ass in the arcades and don't remember any comments like 'got beat by a girl' and whatnot. I kinda think most comes from hiding behind a screen name on your XBox and whatnot, but these guys were getting all in her face about it.
I would say sooner or later Doreen and Kamala would connect the dots on each other being heroes. It always confuses who does and doesn't know each other's secret identities in comics nowadays. Although in this comic both of them got pretty close to each other, both as civilians and in their superhero outfits. How can they not tell they're basically each other 'in Halloween costumes'? But I guess it's the Clark Kent glasses thing into play.
I also find it interesting that fanfiction exists. I mean, yeah I guess it would... but how would it work in the Marvel Universe? Doreen points out that Kamala made a Spider-Man/Marvel fanfiction, though it's not clear if it's Captain Marvel or Miss Marvel herself. Now us, as comic readers, know their full story, so we would include Peter Parker and Carol Danvers' lives as well as their superhero identities, but how does it work for the average person in the Marvel Universe that writes fanfics? Would their Spider-Man be Spider-Man 24/7? Would they make up some name, make up some job?
Speaking of Captain Marvel... it seems the story continues in Marvel Rising Squirrel Girl/Miss Marvel # 1 and ends in Marvel Rising Omega..... and despite the other characters appearing on the covers (like this one), it kinda looks like the entire affair is going to be just Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel. I am enjoying the story and the theme of teacher and student sneaking around as superheroes, while trying to hide their identities from each other, but I am a bit disappointed we're not going to see the other heroes get involved. I especially wanted to see Quake and Spider-Gwen get involved. Unless the Omega issue has Ember unleash some big attack that calls the attention of the other heroes, it looks like it'll just be Doreen and Kamala. Again, the story is enjoyable and the art is great (Squirrel Girl seems to look way cuter here than in her regular series) but I did want to see everyone.
I of course wonder if this King0fPWN guy is one of the escaped AIM agents... we'll see.
Marvel Rising brings in the new generation of Marvel heroes including Miss Marvel, Spider-Gwen and Quake together. In their first issue Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel met for the first time and helped each other take down AIM agents. What they didn't know was that agents were after a fellow classmate named Ember Quade. This issue was a Father's Day issue (I guess, but it was released during the time frame) but I missed it, but I was able to pick up a copy a few weeks later.
The comic opens with Ember in class beating other guys at a videogame. The guys she beat get mad at her and accuse her of cheating, throwing in all the 'girls shouldn't be playing games' junk in her face. They even check her computer for some hack or mod she might have used. She wonders how she got so good at the game and she seems to have the power to bring things out of the videogame world. She makes a Mario type gold coin appear in her hand, but the guys are so busy yelling at her to notice. Doreen comes in as their substitute teacher and breaks it up. She asks if Ember is ok and she blows her off.
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| bruh, are you really so busy talkin smack that you're not seeing her magically materialize a SUPER MARIO GOLD COIN right in front of you?? Also what the hell, why is your face so damn close to hers? Personal space man!!! Personal space! |
Doreen, Squirrel Girl, teaches game programming, and as she gives her class, some kids ask about the AIM agents that attacked the field trip the other day. They heard some of them got away, and they start listing the heroes that could have caught them, like Spider-Man or Iron Man. She resumes the class on the game she's working on with a cartoon character named Nutsy McSmasher.
Kamala Khan, Miss Marvel, arrives late and due to her patterns, Doreen figured out who she is. Class goes on break and Doreen talks to Kamala, saying she must be Slothbaby, her favorite fanfiction writer. Doreen says she should write something about Squirrel Girl. Just then there is a noise and Doreen runs off to contact security while Kamala also looks for some place to change.
Ember is being picked on again, and this time she somehow brings the videogame character Nutsy McSmasher to life. They videogame squirrel with the big mallet starts smashing everything in sight, including taking a swing at Squirrel Girl. Miss Marvel also arrives and takes the mallet away. Doreen tries to talk to Nutsy asking how he can exist.
The videogame squirrel starts biting her while the mallet moves on its own and starts attacking Miss Marvel. Doreen picks up the squirrel and tosses it at Kamala, who swings the mallet at it. The mallet and the squirrel both disappear into videogame graphics. Squirrel Girl runs off to check on her class.
Kamala, dressed back to normal, goes to talk to Ember, but she says she's been doxxed and is banned from all her gaming accounts. She is more concerned about getting in touch with customer service to get her accounts unbanned than anything else.
Squirrel Girl talks to squirrels in the area that have been keeping an eye on the guys bother Ember, but don't note anything suspicious worth reporting.
Ember is chatting with someone and mentions the incident with the videogame squirrel. The other person 'King0fPWN' says maybe that's how her powers are supposed to work. Ember realizes the sparks happening to electronics around her mean she's been storing electricity and then decides she's been thinking too small.
The next morning, Squirrel Girl was sleeping in a tree (??) and her squirrel Tippy wakes her up and tells her it saw a super villain. She arrives at a library where a Donkey Kong expy is grabbing a kid over a bookshelf. The ape tosses the kid down but Doreen catches him. DK then tosses the entire bookshelf at them and Doreen tackles the kid down to prevent him from being hit by it. The bookshelf smashes through the window and the ape escapes out in the open, where Miss Marvel also comes in. She manages to catch the flying bookshelf before it would crash into people walking outside.
Donkey Kong starts tossing recycling bins at people and Doreen kicks them away from the people. She has some squirrels lead the bystanders out of harm's way. DK tosses Miss Marvel into some bicycles. He then starts tossing recycling bins in a sequence and Squirrel Girl starts jumping over them as Mario would. Ember watches the scene and wonders what both heroes are doing there.
Miss Marvel notes that it's odd how they keep bumping into each other at campus. Squirrel Girl tries to change the conversation and says the ape should vanish like Nutsy did before and Miss Marvel tied it up in her stretchy arms. Marvel says the ape comes from the game Danger Kong and the only way to stop him is with a hammer power up, so she hits him with an enlarged fist and it fades away into bits and bytes.
Miss Marvel wonders if the AIM agents were behind this, but Doreen says they're not light projections because they can actually hurt people and get hurt themselves. Miss Marvel asks where Doreen's pet squirrel is from, and she says Tippy is from Wisconsin. The bell rings and Squirrel Girl has to go.
Kamala changes back into normal clothes and notices that Doreen just arrived and is late for her class. This gets Kamala wondering.
Ember texts King and tells him that she was able to bring another game character to life to get back at the guys that are always bothering her, but Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel arrived. Instead of helping Ember beat back the bullies, they defeated her creation. King says maybe she needs to stop since her account bans might not be permanent and it's not a good sign if super heroes are getting involved. Ember won't let this go and decides to use her powers for revenge, calling herself Emulator.
So this issue focuses more on Ember and her powers to somehow bring videogame characters to life. It's kinda weird seeing all the stuff I hear about in videos play out in this comic, stuff might have been different in my day but I never really seen people picking on girls for playing games better than them in real life. Sure, online alllll the time, but not face to face. And then these guys go as far as to hack her and get all her accounts banned? I hear about this all the time online, but not so much to people doing it face to face. Is this what bullying has become in modern day schools? I remember a few girls kicking ass in the arcades and don't remember any comments like 'got beat by a girl' and whatnot. I kinda think most comes from hiding behind a screen name on your XBox and whatnot, but these guys were getting all in her face about it.
I would say sooner or later Doreen and Kamala would connect the dots on each other being heroes. It always confuses who does and doesn't know each other's secret identities in comics nowadays. Although in this comic both of them got pretty close to each other, both as civilians and in their superhero outfits. How can they not tell they're basically each other 'in Halloween costumes'? But I guess it's the Clark Kent glasses thing into play.
I also find it interesting that fanfiction exists. I mean, yeah I guess it would... but how would it work in the Marvel Universe? Doreen points out that Kamala made a Spider-Man/Marvel fanfiction, though it's not clear if it's Captain Marvel or Miss Marvel herself. Now us, as comic readers, know their full story, so we would include Peter Parker and Carol Danvers' lives as well as their superhero identities, but how does it work for the average person in the Marvel Universe that writes fanfics? Would their Spider-Man be Spider-Man 24/7? Would they make up some name, make up some job?
Speaking of Captain Marvel... it seems the story continues in Marvel Rising Squirrel Girl/Miss Marvel # 1 and ends in Marvel Rising Omega..... and despite the other characters appearing on the covers (like this one), it kinda looks like the entire affair is going to be just Squirrel Girl and Miss Marvel. I am enjoying the story and the theme of teacher and student sneaking around as superheroes, while trying to hide their identities from each other, but I am a bit disappointed we're not going to see the other heroes get involved. I especially wanted to see Quake and Spider-Gwen get involved. Unless the Omega issue has Ember unleash some big attack that calls the attention of the other heroes, it looks like it'll just be Doreen and Kamala. Again, the story is enjoyable and the art is great (Squirrel Girl seems to look way cuter here than in her regular series) but I did want to see everyone.
I of course wonder if this King0fPWN guy is one of the escaped AIM agents... we'll see.
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| Classic. She even made the sound effect! |
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