By: Michael Brennan Publisher: AiT/PlanetLar Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: AiT/PlanetLar Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 160 Publication Date: June 15, 2002 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Product Description: Electric Girl Volume 2 is a fun-filled collection of stories of the decidedly all-ages comic book, Electric Girl. If having electrical powers doesn't complicate a young girl's life as it is, add an invisible trouble-making gremlin into the mix and then things will get very interesting. Electric Girl stars Virginia (the young girl who happens to have the electrical powers), her dog Blammo, and her invisible friend, the gremlin Oogleeoog, and chronicles their various misadventures through life. This volume collects the stories from issues 5 through 8 of the Electric Girl comic book by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Mike Brennan.
Electrfying (Ha ha ha!) This book is not as funny as I expected it to be, althought the story lines aren't that bad. The drawings are pretty spiffy but overall I must say I'm enjoying the second editon (volumes 5-8) a lot more and just over half way through it. Overall and okay read, especially worth persisting through for the second book but fairly far fetched.
Less Electric Girl, More Blammo! This collection of the first four issues of the indie comic, Electric Girl, didn't do a whole lot for me. The premise is that there's a human girl born with a serious amount of electricity in her body, thanks to the wacky hi-jinks of a band of invisible gremlins. The first story shows her origins, and the rest show her as a teenager finishing high school and entering college. As she grows older, she seems to acquire a measure of control over her "ability" to zap things, but she still discharges spontaneously whenever she gets agitated. In any event, not a whole lot happens. She gets into random adventures and scrapes, and uses her power to try and fix things here and there. Her guardian gremlin Oogleeoog sometimes plays little pranks on her, and her dog Blammo is another catalyst for stories. Actually Blamo is the most engaging aspect of the whole series-while Brennan's rough drawing style crudely captures the humans and gremlins, when applied to Blammo's blocky canine form, the result is oddly compelling and engaging. Personally, I'd like to see Blammo ditch the twitchy girl and get his own book of adventures!
A delightful book to read! I was really surprised. Just an all out delightful book to read. Mike's art, writing and characters really draw you in. You like the characters and you get involved with the story. Despite the title and description this is not a superhero book. There are no costumes or crime fighting (well, one short story but it's not what you think), it's just about a normal girl named Virginia with an ability to discharge electric zaps.
Thanks to her ability, her dog Blammo and a life long grimlin friend named Oogleeoog who's job to cause mischief, Virginia's life is a fun chaos to watch. Mike gives us a wide range of stories all of them really good.
Buy this book, you won't be disapointed, even if you never read a comic book before.
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