Electric Girl, Vol. 1 [Paperback]

Michael Brennan (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2000

This is a story about a girl and her dog. And her invisible gremlin friend. And her electricity! Virginia, the electric girl, can release electricity from her body at will. That's the good news. The bad news is that her friend is Oogleeoog, an invisible gremlin who's always making trouble! This book contains the stories from the first four issues of the "Electric Girl" comic book. Plus, a special bonus story!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: AiT/PlanetLar (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970355505
• ISBN-13: 978-0970355508
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,025,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful book to read!, January 19, 2001

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Jamie Coville (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Girl, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

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.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Electrfying (Ha ha ha!), June 13, 2004

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Jenn (Saskatchewan, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Girl, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

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.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Less Electric Girl, More Blammo!, February 25, 2004

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A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Girl, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

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!