The first issue of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a perfect introduction to Moon Girl,whose given name is Lunella Lafayette. Lunella is a nerd. Like, a sizable nerd. She’s the sort of kid who hates school because it doesn’t challenge her, and the other kids produce fun of her for knowing so much. She’s the sort of kid who wears a T-shirt with a realistic picture of the moon on it (which is also a kind meta-joke about the understanding of “Moon Girl” as a conventional superhero identity).
Basically,Moon Girl is exactly the sort of kid who reads comics. Or at least, she’s the sort of kid who reads comics whether kids still read comics. And Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is the sort of comic (along with books like Squirrel Girl and Lumberjanes) that gives me hope that kids reading comics might still be a thing, and could become a thing again. At least there are comics we can feel first-rate about handing them to keep that hope alive.
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Source: comicsalliance.com