Review: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 3 The Smartest There Is

When Moon Girl solves a puzzle built by Bruce Banner that was previously unsolvable the super hero world is rocked. Lunella takes this as proof that no one was giving her enough credit. (But she already knew that.)

Even when the other super heroes try to reach out, and when crime fighting opportunities arise, Lunella is withdrawn. Even a battle between Hulk and The Thing takes a little effort for Lunella to conquer.

She also attracts the attention of a stray Doombot who wants to kill and conquer (maybe in that order) her for her intelligence. Being smart is easy for Lunella, but in this volume we get to see her choosing to be something other than smart–she chooses to be a person who reaches out to others for support.

I highly recommend the Moon Girl graphic novels for public collections and private collections, but especially those aimed as tweens and teens. This series shucks the idea of perfect Ubermen saving us saps, and conflicted sometimes-heroes struggling with their identity and actions. Instead it gives us a new kind of hero, the powerful work-in-progress, a mirror of who many of us feel we are today.

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