Superhero Girl 43

Oh hey, it's Christmas in Superhero Girl-land! Yeah. Y'see, these comics were drawn a few months ago, around Christmas-time actually, and only now are they being posted online. So there's a bit of a delay. Just when you thought you were finally escaping winter it drags you back in, muahahah!

Superhero Girl's a charitable sort, dreaming about banding together with her former foes to defeat an even larger menace. But then, it IS Christmas, and miracles always happen around Christmas.

Superhero Girl 42

This is Superhero Girl comic number 42, which I'm sure means something. I've no idea what Kevin's superhero name or powers are (it appears he's flight-capable). It looks like he's got maybe a T and a Y on his chest, so maybe ... the Terrific Youth? XD Bahah. Terrible.

Anyway. Sometimes brothers are mean, and sometimes they're okay. This is an okay time.

Superhero Girl 41

Oh hipsters, I love that you make this joke possible. You and your stupid little scarves. This is CANADA! In CANADA we wear scarves that PROTECT our FACES against the COLD! Bah.

Anyway, this comic amuses me, months after I drew it, so I guess I did something right. God I love hipsters. Please, continue to be weather inappropriate so I can make jokes about it! (This will be the last hipster joke until at least the next comic. And then there will be no more. Promise.)

Superhero Girl 40

Ooh. Someone's a hypocrite. Also, yay, hipster jokes!

... I gotta get up at 6 am tomorrow, so ... uh, insert something witty here. Oh, wait, I got one: Sometimes it sucks having to save people who're jerks! Seriously. Not everybody is nice, but if you're a superhero, you can't discriminate. Gotta save 'em all.

Superhero Girl 39

Hah! Oh man, do I ever get this. Jealousy is the worst thing in the world, and professional jealousy (that person is SO MUCH BETTER at the job I have decided to devote my life to!) is even worse than the worst thing in the world. And it's not like you wish ... y'know, HARM to the people you're jealous of (only bad people do that and I'm not a bad person), but you wish that maybe ... they weren't quite so successful? That something, some little, not so harmful thing would maybe take them down a peg or two? Then you could feel bigger than them, rather than teeny tiny in comparison to their accomplishments.

Anyway. Tiny Kevin Christmas Tree Ornaments, coming soon to an Etsy shop near you ... (not).

Superhero Girl 38

Aw, Superhero Girl thinks she's found a friend, a comrade with whom she can complain about her brother! ... but he's actually packing a shrink ray gun in his skinny jeans, which is very impressive. (Insert phallic jokes here.)

The "to be continued! ... or not. Ya don't know, do ya?" is a direct swipe--er, HOMAGE to Bloom County, one of the greatest comic strips in the world, and something that allowed me to gain a great understanding of the 1980s, by reading them about a decade after they were originally published. Spiro Agnew! Apparently he was a guy that was pardoned? I dunno. Anyway. Bloom County: It Is Awesome!

Superhero Girl 37

Kevin has some opinions on superheroes and the reactions to them. My question is: Who defines what superheroes look like? Well, comics do, of course. And sadly comics tend to have a limited scope. Maybe that's why I made this comic about a Superhero Girl, but I dunno. I just wanted to draw something fun. I kind of fall down as an activist. I'm scared of conflict. I'll leave the activist stuff to people more eloquent than I am.

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Hey, Superhero Girl's out and about without her mask on! She remembered to take it off. IMPROVEMENT.

Don't you hate it when everyone loves someone you feel ambivalent towards? I always feel like such a jerk.

Superhero Girl 35

I watched Lassie as a kid, but I found it really scary. All kidding aside, that Timmy got into some serious peril. I remember at one point being afraid to go in the wood when visiting my grandparents in the American South, because as Lassie taught me, the woods were full of mountain lions ready to pounce, and I had no loyal collie dog to save my wimpy butt.

Really, that show also ruins dogs for children. No real dog is ever as awesome as Lassie. I loved my childhood dog (an Australian Shepard named Maggie) dearly, but we never got to go on adventures like Timmy and Lassie. One of my many disappointments.