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.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-Issues five through eight of a light and engaging comic book are brought together in a collection that will appeal to those who haven't met the title character heretofore, as well as to those who are already her fans. Virginia, the daughter of a college professor, owner of a pet dog, and human compatriot to a clever and, to most, invisible gremlin, is not your average American kid. She has electric powers that allow her to change traffic lights but also invite some to view her as a bit of a freak. In the stories collected here, Virginia ranges in age from grade school student through beginning college coed. This round of adventures includes a messy bit of detective work involving kidnapped girls, conjoined twins, and a wicked but handsome doctor; and a tale about Gremlin having to rescue a cohort from a fate worse than death-transmutation into a human. The cast of characters is upscale and multiethnic. Romance-except for the would-be human gremlin's-is absent, making these tales as attractive to prepubescent kids of either gender as it is to older girls. Facial expressions and body postures are fluid and evocative, while the verbal text is easy to read.
Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is writer/artist Brennan's second collection of comic-book stories involving Virginia, a teen endowed with electrical powers who has a mild invisible gremlin on her back. The gremlin sometimes prods Virginia to higher levels of achievement but generally does not. The basic story line revolves around Virginia's attempts to minimize the impact of the gremlin in her life, while the electrical powers serve as a subplot. The book parodies the conventions of superhero comics and comic-book culture (in one installment, Virginia and a friend attend a comic-book convention, where Virginia has her photo taken with "Electric Girl") while scratching the surface of some of the difficulties that teens often experience. The black-and-white drawings serviceably move the story along. Brennan has created a cute package that is most appropriate for YA readers. Purchase where demand warrants. Stephen Weiner, Maynard P.L., MA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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