This week, our featured overview covers Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur (2022) #4! This new run that includes (smartest there’s) Lunella Lafayette and (hungriest there’s) Devil Dinosaur continues to be an out-and-out banger, so make sure and browse the difficulty first to keep away from spoiling the stellar story for your self. If you do wish to keep away from SPOILERS, contemplate scrolling down for a Rapid Rundown overview of Captain America: Symbol of Truth #11.
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Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #1
Writer: Jordan Ifueko
Penciler: Alba Glez
Inker: José Marzan Jr.
Color Artist: KJ Díaz
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Cover Artists: Ken Lashley & Rain Beredo
Graphic Designer: Stacie Zuker
The fourth concern of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2022) continues to deliver all the things that made the previous points worthwhile – plus, it amps up the motion and additional develops the fascinating story in attention-grabbing methods.
Sad Saks
One of the superior components of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #4 is the best way that every act of the story is distinct from each other, permitting for a number of ranges of story.
The first act facilities on Lunella and her relationship with the 2 Sad Saks who stay uncompromised by OMG Olivia. In addition to the narrative necessity of acquiring the Prismatic Cobalt and Angel Wire essential to soup up the M.O.O.N. Bugs, this portion of the story sees Lunella realizing she must pay a bit of bit extra consideration to her friends – each to be chief and to be buddy.
This portion of the story then follows the trio as they search out the required supplies, which ends up in encounters with the kin of every Will and Devinder. Both of those scenes had been charming, additional develop the supporting solid, and make Lunella notice that her pals are extra difficult than she may need at first imagined.
In addition to those important narrative and character developments, this act additionally options some very attention-grabbing sources for the supplies sought by Lunella. By the time this act is over, each Lunella and the reader could have been received over by the Sad Saks and their households.
Rescuing Tasha
The second act follows the trio as they rescue the fourth member of the Sad Saks, Tasha, who has been compromised by the nanotech OMG Olivia appropriated from Moon Girl. This has the impact of forcing Tasha to behave like a social media-obsessed lackey to the child Kree Conqueror who has disguised herself as an influencer. In addition to the psychological results, this has induced Tasha’s hair to be reworked from its regular look, as an alternative mimicking Olivia’s blonde locks.
Fortunately, Lunella, Will, and Divinder’s efforts in the primary act show fruitful: after a wonderful and progressive sequence that depicts a microscopic battle between the 2 units of nanobots respectively created by Olivia and Lunella, Tasha’s hair is restored to its former glory, and her persona is “uncensored.”
Not solely does all this present for a wonderful story on its face, however the thematic territory it explores – from the significance of Tasha’s unapologetically Black hair to the censoring of 1’s true self for white-controlled social media, and to the truth that some folks will harm youngsters of coloration who don’t adjust to the requirements prescribed by the white members of the neighborhood – is wealthy certainly.
OMG Olivia’s Machinations
While this all would possibly seem to be sufficient for a single concern, there’s a complete extra act included, one which follows the 4 Sad Saks as they infiltrate the manufacturing facility the place Olivia’s drones are creating the Sparkle Straight hair product that incorporates her sinister nanotech. Along with the destruction of the manufacturing facility, this sequence additionally contains one other always-welcome allusion to the seminal sci-fi novelist Octavia Butler.
Furthermore, the scene additionally units up the following concern by establishing that Olivia is planning on attending The Gala, a high-profile occasion that would see the Kree child’s affect (and by extension, her brain-controlling hair product) attain world proportions. This creates stress because of the concurrent full moon, which can sign Lunella’s month-to-month mind swap with Devil Dinosaur.
It’s extremely seemingly that Lunella must depend on her pals like by no means earlier than in order to climate the storm – and that may take an enormous leap of religion on Moon Girl’s half. Is she as much as the problem? It’s a compelling battle that may have you ever clamoring for the following concern of this excellent run.
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur 4
In addition to all this narrative growth, this concern additionally options unbelievable artwork. This contains the superb outfits worn by the solid, in addition to marginal prospers that add to the e-book’s total aesthetic. Furthermore, the lettering is stable all through, however particularly stands out when it emphasizes the reactions of OMG Olivia’s brain-controlled supporters.
Ultimately, this concern was so jam-packed full of wonderful character work, thematic exploration, and narrative development that needed to double-check the web page depend. Incredibly, there are certainly solely 22 pages in this excellent concern – presumably indicating the appliance of some form of superior nanotech to cram all this superior into one floppy.
CONCLUSION: Pick up this concern (and any of the three previous ones you’ll have missed) at your Local Comic Shop and atone for this out-of-the-world Moon Girl story post-haste. And in the event you’ve solely simply come to Moon Girl via the (additionally glorious) animated sequence on Disney+: relaxation assured, this run can be an awesome jumping-on level in the event you’re seeking to get into the comics!
Rapid Rundown!
- Captain America: Symbol of Truth #11
- Writer Tochi Onyebuchi’s Pax Mohannda storyline involves a head in this nonstop slug fest as Cap goes toe to toe with the evil mastermind behind the Mohannda Civil War, White Wolf. For the previous few points, Sam and his pals have been working to uncover the shadowy hand influencing occasions round this newly democratic nation all main as much as the showdown between the 2 heavies. Under Onyebuchi’s tenure, Sam has been in a position to not solely be a voice for Onyebuchi however be a fleshed-out hero making a mark in the MCU. It doesn’t harm that R. B. Silva pencils and Jesus Aburtov colours make Symbol of Truth a beautiful e-book to simply take a look at. Silvia’s linework and storytelling are stellarly pumped up by the extreme coloration pallet of Aburtov. Understanding how mainstream comics should reset to the established order of that character’s world, it’s a contact disappointing to see huge nuanced concepts that Onyebuchi put on the market like Black Americans immigrating to Wakanda getting reset. I need extra of what Onyebuchi is promoting together with the superb artwork workforce. — GC3
Next week, commemorate Women’s History Month 2023 with Women of Marvel (2023) #1! In the meantime, meet up with previous entries in our Marvel Rundown archive.
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