Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

This was actually a really fun idea, It's basically a genius girl meets clifford the big red dinosaur! It has some really nice character development that happens in this book, story to start was a little rocky and leaves you on a serious cliffhanger (the good kind!). Really great if you love kids who are very capable, independent, and of course DINOSAURS! ~Ashley

Oh LUNELLA LAFAYETTE. From one nerd to another–you are cool people. I luuuuffff you!

(3.5 stars, rounding up.) Fun and something I wouldn't have read if not for this challenge! I love Lunella and her unshakable confidence in herself - while I'm about 25 years older than the target audience, I think that's something that's really important for young girls to see, especially in a young black girl lead character. The story was fine, but for the start of a series, seemed dependent on a crossover, which wasn't great (especially since Marvel crossovers have been so terrible recently). I did like that there were six issues collected in this volume, which seems to be increasingly rare, but definitely makes the collection a better value. The collection ends on a cliffhanger, which is kind of annoying, but I bought the next volume anyway, so I'm probably going to keep reading, because I want to know what happens to Lunella.

(Read Harder 2017: #6 Read an all-ages comic; #18 Read a superhero comic with a female lead.)

Adorable and fun and adorable.

I'm filing this under “Things I'm Glad Exist But Aren't Totally My Cup of Tea.” This is very charming and I think will appeal a lot to middle grade & under readers, and of course it's totally bomb to have a super smart black girl heroine! With a dinosaur! But for my own personal tastes it's a little too...idk...slapstick-y?? (I'm comparing it maybe unfairly to like Squirrel Girl, which is all ages but also has tons of very clever jokes that I love.) I probably won't read another volume of this. But, again: for the intended age range I think the humor will be a hit!