Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1

Posted on 05 November 2018 by Amy Reeder

LUNELLA LAFAYETTE IS AN INHUMAN PRETEEN GENIUS WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD That job would be a lot easier if she wasn t living in mortal fear of her latent Inhuman gene There s no telling what she ll turn into but Luna s got a plan All she needs is an Omni Wave Projector Easy, right That is, until a red scaled beast is teleported from the prehistoric past to a far flung future we calltoday Together they re the most Marvelous Team Up of all the Inhuman Moon Girl and time tossed Devil Dinosaur But will they be BFFs forever, or just until DD s dinner time And Lunella soon learns that there are other problems with a having a titanic T Rex as a pet in the modern day Marvel Universe School, for one Monster hunters are another especially when they re the Totally Awesome Hulk Then there s the fact that everyone s favorite dino didn t journey through time alone Beware the prehistoric savages known as the Killer Folk New York City s deadliest tourists Can Lunella handle all this turmoil and keep herself from transforming into an Inhuman monster Collecting MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR 1 6. Best Read Books Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1 author Amy Reeder – kino-fada.fr Lunella like lunar Moon Girl that s the level of obviousness we re operating at here is supposedly a genius nine year old inventor And PAUSE The problem with writing a genius intellect character is that the writers have to convince you of the character s extraordinary intelligence and neither Brandon Montclare nor Amy Reeder achieves this Six pages in, they demonstrate their own stupidity by dropping a clanger that completely shatters the flimsy illusion that Lunella is a genius Lune Lunella like lunar Moon Girl that s the level of obviousness we re operating at her...There s a lot about this book that I loved In particular, Lunella, our Moon Girl She s nine, and a genius, and determined not to let her genes rule her She s an Inhuman something she figured out herself and doesn t want to be changed by the Terrigen mists That s her driving motivation through most of the book And, secondarily, to be understood Because she is very bright, very young, very bored, and very much not like most kids her age I loved her, even when she was frustrating And I lo There s a lot about this book that I loved In particular, Lunella, our Moon Girl She s nine, and a genius, and determined not to let her genes rule her She s an Inhuman something she figured out herself and doesn t want to be changed by the Terrigen mists That s her driving motivation through most of the book And, secondarily, to be understood Because she is very bright, very young, very bored, and very much not like most kids her age I loved her, even when she was frustrating And I loved her repeating theme that she will determine her own destiny, nobody else and nothing else Which is what made it a little ...See, Lunella the Moon, get it Lafayette is a tween genius who wants to change the world, who has the superhero gene but doesn t want these superpowers which she can get through the omnipresent Marvel Terigen Mist so she needs an Omni Wave Projector to supposedly prevent this, but guess what gets teleported from the past but a Red T Rex Red Come on, Stan which Lunella teams up with, which makes school an issue, natch, but on top of that The Killer Folk savages also travel to NYC to destr See, Lunella the Moon, get it Lafayette is a tween genius who wants to change the world, who has the superhero gene but doesn t want these superpowers w...Individual issue reviews 1 2 3 4 5 6Total review score 2.67What started out as a cute concept with a little girl and her dinosaur, turned into an absurdly illogical story with a main character that becameannoying with each addition...Yay Representation Science ScienceisUhmazing DiversityInComicsHave I gone far enough down that people can skip this review The actual text Is it safe to post this as a summary of the book Truth be told this is not a 5 star book for me But I recently learned a lesson about being a white dude who has feelings about comics that feature characters who are not white dudes And that lesson is don t.Well, I SORTA learned my lesson I now hide my feelings behind a 5 star rating and hashtags, wri Yay Representation Science ScienceisUhmazing DiversityInComicsHave I gone far enough down that people can skip this review The actual text Is it safe to post this as a summary of the book Truth be told this is not a 5 star book for me But I recently learned a lesson about being a white dude who has feelings about comics that feature characters who are not white dudes And that lesson is don t.Well, I SORTA learned my lesson I now hide my feelings behind a 5 star rating and hashtags, writing them out below because I still have opinions, but I kind of think that when someone sees my stupid mug next to a low star review...Ok, I like Lunella and sometimes just want to say to her shut up and listen but that s not the correct way to gobut, overall, I want to know what the hell happen to her I understand that she s not appealing for eve...There are alot of comics out there these days that are dark gloomy, dystopian really The world is a scary, screwed up place Yeah, we know that thanks for the reminder But this comic, Moon Girl ad Devil Dinosaur, isn t like that This is a fun filled, crazy ride through wish fulfilling fantasy Sure it s la...I LOVED this book Okay, I ll preface this by saying I was and still am, not gonna lie a huge science nerd as a kid so this is really amazing A young, black, female scientist who s being considered the smartest character in the Marvel universe I adore Lunella Lafayette This is such a cute book The art is perfect The relationship between Lunella and Devil Dinosaur is so cute He s so protective over her and she goes from being annoyed with him ruining her plans to befriending him, as wel I LOVED this book Okay, I ll preface this by saying I was and still am, not gonna lie a huge science nerd as a kid so this is really amazing A young, black, female scientist who s being considered the smartest character in the Marvel universe I adore Lunella Lafayette This is such a cute book The art is perfect The relationship between Lunella and Devil Dinosaur is so cute He s so protective over her and she goes from being annoyed with him ruining her plans to befriending him, as well There s real depth here Honestly, I found the whole Terrigen mists plot useless past the clouds helping to create Kamala I didn t think about people being scared of being changed and I don t...It is a waste of time reading this You could be reading something good There are so many good comics out there don t be distracted by money making garbage.I was really troubled by this book in multiple ways The art is truly wonderful I thought the story was deeply problematic, and a good example of Marvel trying to introduce diversity by having white, majority writers tackle diverse topics , instead of hiring diverse writers.From the moment I saw the back cover, I was worried Lunella Lafayette is an INHUMAN PRETEEN GENIUS who wants to change the world Emphasis not mine I am a Marvel reader, so I know Inhumans are an in universe group, si I was really troubled by this book in multiple ways The art is...

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05 November 2018

Amy Reeder