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Preview: Strong Female Protagonist, Book Two

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Strong Female Protagonist, Book Two

Brennan Lee Mulligan (w) • Molly Ostertag (a)

Alison Green used to be a superhero. With unlimited strength and invulnerability, she fought crime with a group of other teens under the alter ego Mega Girl. All that changed after an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading archenemy, who showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy that made battling giant robots suddenly seem unimportant.

Now, Alison is going to college in New York City, trying to find ways to actually help the world while making friends and getting to class on time. It’s impossible to escape the past, however, and trouble comes in the form of mysterious murders, ex-teammates with grudges, robots with a strange sense of humor, an inconvenient crush, a cantankerous professor, and many different kinds of people who think they know the best way to be a hero.

TPB • FC • $24.99 • 366 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-0-692-90610-1

Around the Tubes

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Rise of the Black Flame #1 CVRThe weekend is almost here! What geeky things do folks have planned? Sound off in the comments below!

While you decided on what you’re doing, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

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Comics Alliance – #YesHomo: Phil Jimenez On Feminine Design and Industry Change [Flame Con] – Jimenez is always awesome to see what he says.

The Beat – Interview: Alexis Fajardo on Adapting Myths for Modernity in Kid Beowulf: The Blood-Bound Oath – This sounds cool.

Comics Alliance – DC’s Geoff Johns Reveals How ‘Justice League’ Will Address ‘Batman v Superman’ Criticisms – It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Newsarama – All-New, All-Different Avengers #14

CBR – Alters #1

ICv2 – Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1

Talking Comics – Cyborg: Rebirth #1

Comic Attack – Glitterbomb #1

Nothing But Comics – Kill or Be Killed #2

Talking Comics – Rise of the Black Flame #1

The Beat – Strong Female Protagonist

Talking Comics – Supergirl #1

Review: Strong Female Protagonist

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logo2Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag‘s webcomic Strong Female Protagonist follows the life and times of twenty-something Alison Green (AKA Mega Girl) former super-hero, current university student.

The story begins with Alison, but it quickly unfurls to include a large variety of characters including an angry, cocky current-super hero named Furnace (a real hot-head, badum-cha), Alison’s friend and room-mate who is a wanna-be political activist with a bit of first-world-white privilege to overcome first who sometimes misuses her friend’s super powers, Alison’s former super-team, her doctor, her family, and the students on campus are all woven into the tapestry of the story. All are important and surface in ways you won’t expect.

The comic also showcases Mulligan’s degree in philosophy by tackling many current-event issues, like date-rape, organ donation, foreign aid, etc.

Perfect for the feminist, the twenty-something struggling to find their place in the world, and generally anyone with a human soul who loves superheroes.

Story Brennan Lee Mulligan  Art: Molly Ostertag
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Read it NOW, why aren’t you reading it yet?!

Top Shelf Gets a Strong Female Protagonist

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DiamondAdTemplateWith superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most powerful superheroes around. Fighting crime with other teenagers under the alter ego Mega Girl was fun until an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading arch-enemy. He showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy, and suddenly battling giant robots didn’t seem so important.

Now Alison is going to college and trying to find ways to help the world while still getting to class on time. It’s impossible to escape the past, however, and everyone has their own idea of what it means to be a hero..

Strong Female Protagonist has been published online since 2012, where it’s attracted a large fan base, and earned glowing reviews. After a wildly successful Kickstarter, Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag are now bringing their series to print, with a book collecting the first four chapters and bonus material, self-published by the authors and distributed by Top Shelf.

You can finally find a Strong Female Protagonist on bookshelves this December.