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It has been on hiatus since September 11, Strong Female Protagonist: Book One Strong Female Protagonist describes itself as covering "the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and a crippling sense of social injustice". It follows Alison Green, the titular protagonistas she has retired from her superhero role of "Mega Girl" at the age of 19 in order to focus on her college education, but finds out that this is easier said than done. Io9which selected Strong Female Protagonist as one of the best new and short webcomics of[2] approved of the comic posing "intriguing questions about the relationship between superheroes and real-world problems". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American superhero webcomic. Strong Female Protagonist 8. Retrieved February 2, Strong Female Protagonist: Book One Comics Alliance. Archived from the original on 1 February The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved December 11, Archived from the original on December 13, Comic Book Resources. Retrieved June 13, Categories Strong Female Protagonist: Book One s webcomics American webcomics Superhero webcomics Top Shelf Productions titles Kickstarter-funded publications webcomic debuts Feminist webcomics Comics stubs. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description Pages using deprecated image syntax All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Cover image of issue 1. This comics -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Strong Female Protagonist - Wikipedia

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Book One by Brennan Lee Mulligan. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Strong Female Protagonist. Strong Female Protagonist. Molly Ostertag Illustrations. With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most Strong Female Protagonist: Book One superheroes around. Fighting crime with other teenagers under the alter ego Mega Girl was fun - until an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading arch enemy, showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy, and suddenly battling giant robots didn't seem Strong Female Protagonist: Book One important. Now Alison is going to With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most powerful superheroes around. Now Alison is going to college and trying to find ways to help the world while still getting to class on time. It's impossible to escape the past, however, and everyone has their own idea of what it means to be a hero After a phenomenal success on Kickstarter, Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag bring their popular webcomic into print, collecting the first four issues, as well as some all-new, full-color pages! Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Strong Female Protagonist: Book One Original Title. Strong Female Protagonist 1. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Strong Female Protagonist. Book Oneplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Strong Female Protagonist. Book One. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Strong Female Protagonist. Book One Strong Female Protagonist May 12, Felicia rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels. I haven't been great about updating my graphic novel reading, it's hard to think of Goodreads as a place to review them, but why not, I have a shelf dammit! This is my latest read, a thick graphic novel that was crowd funded on Kickstarter, which is cool. I'll be honest: the title was a bit of a turnoff for me. I think the phrase is so overused in media that I had to overcome a bit of unconscious reluctance to get into this. Thank goodness Strong Female Protagonist: Book One overcame it! This is a really fun journey of a girl tr I haven't been great about updating my graphic novel reading, it's hard Strong Female Protagonist: Book One think of Goodreads as a place to review them, but why not, I have a shelf dammit! This is a really fun journey of a girl trying to be normal even though she's "super". In certain parts it did feel like it was trying to hard to check the boxes of rebellion against the tropes of Superhero comic, but the ability of the author to generally put an interesting twist on them, especially later on in the book, was really refreshing. I was drawn into the story and would love to read more! View all 5 comments. Jan 08, Michael rated it really liked it Shelves: arcwinter- readingread-in One of the best aspects of NetGalley is that I get to try things that are a bit outside of my wheelhouse or that I wasn't previously aware of until I skimmed the latest offerings. This web-comic takes ingredients from some of the main-stream comic publishing events Marvel's Civil War springs to mind and the sensibility of Buffy and other Whedon-verse shows to One of the best aspects Strong Female Protagonist: Book One NetGalley is that I get to try things that are a bit outside of my wheelhouse or that I wasn't previously aware of until I skimmed the latest offerings. This web-comic takes ingredients from some of the main-stream comic publishing events Marvel's Civil War springs to mind and the sensibility of Buffy and other Whedon-verse shows to offer us the story of Alex Strong Female Protagonist: Book One. Once known as Mega Girl and part of an elite fighting force of superheroes, Alex publicly unmasked and is trying to live a normal life. As a freshman in college, Alex struggles with the remnants of her fame, including a professor who holds an obvious grudge against her and when it's revealed why, it's one of the most heartbreaking and moving moments in a story filled with them and the fact that she can't stop at fast food place to enjoy a burger and fries without being recognized. As a deconstruction of super hero stories, Strong Female Protagonist works extremely well. But more than that, the story is a compelling, fascinating character examination of not only Alex but also others affected by the realization that they have super powers. It's a world where these powers have consequences, both negative and positive. One haunting aspect is a former super villain who has come up with an interesting way to use her powers to atone for her sins. There's also the fourth Strong Female Protagonist: Book One of the book that fills in details of Alex growing Strong Female Protagonist: Book One and her relationship with his family and the family's favorite pet. The fourth chapter alone is worth the price of admission for this book, but I'd say it's far more affecting having spent the first three chapters getting to know Alex and her world. As if all that weren't enough, each page of the comic includes an aside from the authors, highlighting certain aspects of the story, deconstructing what is happening on the panels above or offering asides that will tickle your funny bone or offer character insight. One of them pokes fun at the reader's attempt to read more significance than is necessarily there by pointing out how the author drew the inspiration. Again, more than worth the price of admission. After reading four chapters of Strong Female ProtagonistI'm intrigued enough to want to read more about Alex and her world. I'll happily tune in to new installments as their released on-line at Strong Female Protagonist and hope that this won't be the only collection of this comic that we get to see on our shelves. In the interest of full disclosure, I received a digital ARC of this book Strong Female Protagonist: Book One NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Nov 16, E rated it did not like it Shelves: netgalleyunfinished-books. With other teenage superheroes, she used to fight crime with her superstrength, but eventually she decided to lead a normal life and go to college. To be honest, it's been a month since I read the first sixty pages and besides some accidents with her superstrength I can't recall what was going on. It happens to me only rarely that I don't finish something. I usually make myself to do it, it might take a month or a year but I usually do it eventually. But with this one, Strong Female Protagonist: Book One just couldn't. I'm about 60 pages in and I lost any interest I could have had to Strong Female Protagonist: Book One this comic book. And that was a month ago so I don't think there's any chance I will finish this. I wanted to say some good things about this comic book but I don't think I actually liked anything about it. Starting with the art, it wasn't appealing at all to me. It's black and white and bit shaky. And I realize the ebook version is not a great quality but in this case it was just plain annoying. What I thought from the beginning and I know for sure is that a colour makes it better - apparently the new parts of the webcomic are in colour and it makes it so much better! What I found most annoying were the bottom explanation lines that are not in the original webcomic but were for some reason added here. I don't know if they're supposed to be funny or helpful but for me they were very distracting. And I tried skipping them but it's always weird when there's always one more like to read on the page and you just skip it. As for the main character, Alison, there just wasn't anything I could relate to and she just wasn't interesting at all. She was incredibly whiny, which is probably the main reason I didn't care at all about her history nor her future. She is super strong but she doesn't seem to control her power very much which seems to be a reason of her insecurities. I think the insecurity was supposed to make her more human but it just make Strong Female Protagonist: Book One dislike her more. The only reason Alison is called strong female protagonist is because she's Strong Female Protagonist: Book One strong. And maybe I'm just too dismissive with her but to me she's just I think it might be better to actually follow the comic series on the website because I can't stand this for longer time periods I wanted to like it but it just didn't happen. View all 3 comments. Jul 15, Danika at The Lesbrary rated it it was Strong Female Protagonist: Book One. This is my most philosophical, thought-provoking read in a long time. This examines superheros in so many different ways, presenting a whole array of ways to look at that possibility while Strong Female Protagonist: Book One them into a bigger narrative of power dynamics between people. Review: Strong Female Protagonist: Book One (Top Shelf Comics)

Superhero narratives ask a thoughtful question: "If you had the power, how could you do good? The triumph of superheroes on the big screen is the sign of a country that has collectively decided that its preferred form of ethical reflection is a gigantic explosion Strong Female Protagonist: Book One by punching a monster through a wall. Some superhero comics—Moore and Gibbons WatchmenMorrison, Truog and Hazelwood's's Animal Man —have acknowledged to one extent or another that the genre is a moral shell game. But few have documented its failures and logical snarls more obsessively, or with as much insight, as the webcomic Strong Female Protagonistwritten by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by Molly Ostertag. Some twenty years before the comic begins, an unexplained worldwide storm somehow led a randomly distributed group of in utero fetuses to develop biodynamic properties. In other words, they got superpowers, which manifested mostly when they were around Alison is the most powerful hero on the planet. Like Superman; she's super strong and completely invulnerable. Shortly after she discovered her powers by kicking a soccer ball into the stratosphere she joined a superhero team called the Guardians to fight crime. Then one day during a television interview, Alison impulsively declared that fighting supervillains was a ridiculous way to try to help people. She took off her mask, stomped off stage, and enrolled in college at the New School in New York. The comic is about her trying to figure out how to use her powers for good in a way that doesn't involve tossing evil robots into the sun. That isn't to say that there are no superbattles in the comic. As Alison tells the gigantic Thing-like villain Cleaver, "I love fighting. I love the blood. I love the heat. I love breaking shit. It's the only thing I've ever been good at, and the fact that it never makes anything better just fucking kills me. Violent solutions are tempting because they feel good. The panel where Allie explains that to Cleaver is a good example of how the comic occasionally gives into those genre pleasures, and of how it resists it. Ostertag's art is scratchy, angular, and static; it's the antithesis of Jack Kirby's bigger-than-life whoosh and krackle. As Allison strangles Cleaver Strong Female Protagonist: Book One close-up, you can barely see the actual action, in part because the speech bubbles fill much of the panel. The spectacular fight scene is literally overwritten with a barrage of words. Strong Female Protagonist is an almost self-parodically talky comic; it often feels more like a George Bernard Shaw play than like a typical superhero title. The story goes Strong Female Protagonist: Book One one big money shot dialog scene Strong Female Protagonist: Book One another, as Allie has intense discussions with friends, enemies, and acquaintances about how best to live when you can't save the world just by getting into a fist fight. Mary Kim, one of Allie's teammates who has the ability to manipulate light and make herself invisible, decides to become a one woman MeToo execution squad, searching out and killing abusers and rapists who haven't been brought to justice. Feral, a lesbian Wolverine with Strong Female Protagonist: Book One brain, thinks long and hard about how her regenerative abilities can aid the world, and ultimately concludes that the best use of her talents is to become a perpetual organ donor, with doctors operating on her around the clock to harvest hearts, kidneys, and blood. Allie is stricken at this news; she thinks what Feral is doing is both terrifyingly noble and wrong. Donating organs doesn't actually fix systemic oppression and violence. Neither does murdering a few—or a lot—of rapists. Feral is torturing herself for nothing. So is Mary, who is quite aware of the toll of a life devoted to anger, vengeance, and blood. Neither of them is going to save the world. But Feral and Mary both point out that they're not trying to save the world. They're trying to reduce harm, and to use their powers as best they can to improve what they can. A heart transplant will help the person whose life is saved. Justice for one abused person is better than justice for no one. For that matter, putting all rapists on notice that someone is watching Strong Female Protagonist: Book One a small step towards changing rape culture. Allie is looking for a way to change everything, all at once; she likes to fight battles by taking huge amounts of punishment, and then finishing the evil antagonist off with one brutal punch. But in the meantime, people still need help. Even Pintsize, the creator of the Guardians had a point. In a world with supervillains, you need to have superheroes to fight the evil marauders first, before you move on to change anything else. Allie herself eventually decides to start a nonprofit called Valkyrie, which connects domestic violence survivors, people dealing with stalkers, and other women in need with superpowered individuals who Strong Female Protagonist: Book One help. It's a different kind of superteam—one that's about trying to listen to what people need and organizing institutions to aid them, rather than about inflicting large amounts of property damage and getting a lot of individual glory. The emotional highpoint of the comic is a lovely color image, in which Allie comes up with the idea of the organization. Being Strong Female Protagonist: Book One alone is impossible. Being good together is maybe also impossible, but a little less so. Superhero stories generally have a happy ending; the monster is defeated, the earth is preserved. Strong Female Protagonist doesn't finish up so neatly. It went on hiatus inearly in book 8, and there haven't been updates in 9 months or so. As a fan, I wish the creators would return and complete their last arc. As a critic, though, I have to admit that shutting the plot down in the middle has a certain rightness. Even for Mega Girl, saving the world is an ongoing project, with no satisfying resolution. How do you use your power for good? Mulligan and Ostertag know that's a question you never finish answering, no matter how super you are. Great analysis of the limits of superheroism. Your email address will Strong Female Protagonist: Book One be published. In this interview, Richard Sala discusses his genre influences, style, and pop culture obsession. Skip to content. JB Reiter says:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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