Go Girl, Vol. 1 [Paperback]

Trina Robbins (Author), Anne Timmons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 11, 2002

Back in the day, Janet Goldman was an honest-to-goodness flying superhero, the far out Go-Go Girl. But Go-Go Girl eventually hung up her costume -- well, put it away in a dresser drawer -- and now her teenage daughter, Lindsay, has inherited Mom's flying powers, donned her old costume, and become the teenage superheroine sensation Go Girl! Now she's fighting crime and righting wrongs...with an occasional leg up from the now semi-retired Go-Go Girl. Pouring the classic charm of comics of the past through a subtle modernist filter, series creator/writer Trina Robbins and artist Anne Timmons have crafted an all-ages delight, garnering critical praise and a coveted Lulu Award. The GoGirl! collection includes pinups by Barb Rausch, Steve Leiber, Lea Hernandez, Sergio Aragonis, and others and bonus features, including material never before seen in the GoGirl! series.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...wonderful, charming." -- Phil Mateer, All About Books and Comics

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (November 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569717982
• ISBN-13: 978-1569717981
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,217,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Girl SuperHero!, December 24, 2002

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Damon (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews

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

Robbins/Timmons book, GoGirl is just the tonic for your budding superstar daughter! I found this book fun, the artwork terrific, and amidst all the super shennagans are found some very realistic adolescent conditions that all young girls regardless of their super-strengths are bound to encounter!: peer pressure, role-modeling, parent-child relations, self-image, the whole gamut, kind of like a modern day Nancy Drew who can FLY! Oh, and by-the-way, did I tell you she's carrying on her MOTHER's fine superheroine tradition? Go figure. Go get this book. Go now. Do not pass go and do not pass this one by. Your kid will love it. Mine did.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute but not all that good, December 16, 2009

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Kid Kyoto (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Girl, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

Go Girl begins with a message from the author Trina Robbins talking about her desire to create a superhero book for girls. This idea seems almost quaint after several years of the manga boom. There are plenty of comics for girls, it's just that American publishers aren't making them.

Robbins and artist Anne Timmons deliver some pretty standard superhero fare. Go Girl is the daughter of 70s heroine Go-Go Girl and inherited her mom's flying powers. She fights a series of mostly harmless criminals while dealing with snotty kids at her high school and hangs with her friends. The art is clean and clear, more like an Archie comic than a superhero book.

They're fine, middle of the road comics aimed at grade school or middle school kids. They could just as easily be Spiderman or Superboy stories.

They're not bad by any means but there's really nothing compelling to recommend them. Not when the manga boom has delivered much better comics with strong female leads.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what GIRLS needed!, January 26, 2003

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Susan L. Hart (Aloha, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews

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

This comic book series and now the paperback version is just what girls the world over needed! Realistic body images of young teen girls and reasonable adolescent ideas about their world. I'm really pleased with what I've read from Trina Robbins. She's retained the knowledge and experience from raising her own daughter and put it into her storylines so well! I see myself with my own 2 daughters in some of what Lindsay says to her mom in some of the episodes! It's so uncanny! And the artwork from Anne Timmons is exceptional! Her capture of an 'Eartha Kitt' version of the catwoman in issue #5 was so delightfully humorous, it brought us parents into the enjoyment of these stories! I wish more parents knew about this great series for their daughters and I plan on trying my best to spread the word. Take a copy of this comic book to your child's school and introduce it to some of your favorite teachers so they can show it to their female students and maybe even the boys will enjoy it!
My 15-yr-old daughter is also enjoying reading the stories about Lindsay and perusing the artwork, and she gets a real kick out of the paperdolls and costumes done on the back cover! She's even tried her own hand at drawing 'Go Girl!'

When can we see issue #6?