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RATED T 0 2 5 1 1 $3.99US DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 7 59606 08340 4 Doreen Green isn’t just a second-year computer science student: she secretly also has all the powers of both squirrel and girl! She uses her amazing abilities to fight crime and be as awesome as possible. You know her as...The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! Find out what she’s been up to, with...

Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg OMG THINGS ARE COMPLETELY NUTS RIGHT NOW search!

Spider-Man @aspidercan @unbeatablesg lol “nuts,” i wish there were more sayings involving spiders that i could #ultranosaurus use but sadly there’s not much

Spider-Man @aspidercan #programharder @unbeatablesg like for example there’s “web of lies” but that’s about it #fl appythepteranodon Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg @aspidercan LISTEN #squirepete Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg @aspidercan SOMETIMES IT’S NOT A PUN #comicsareawesome

Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg @aspidercan SOMETIMES THINGS ARE ACTUALLY NUTS AND I’M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA Ryan North - writer Erica Henderson - artist Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg Rico Renzi - color artist @aspidercan also dude you’re forgetting about “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when fi rst we practice to deceive”!! Travis Lanham - letterer Erica Henderson - cover artist Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg Chip Zdarsky (with Ryan North) - @aspidercan that’s from Walter Scott and it’s only like the most quoted line of variant cover Scottish poetry ever Michael Allred - logo Dwayne McDuffi e - special thanks Spider-Man @aspidercan @unbeatablesg oh yeah that one’s pretty good!! haha okay nvm Sarah Brunstad - assoc. editor Wil Moss - editor Tom Brevoort - executive editor Spider-Man @aspidercan Axel Alonso - editor in chief @unbeatablesg things good with u?? - chief creative offi cer Dan Buckley - president Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg Alan Fine - exec. producer @aspidercan NO THEY’RE NUTS, THEY’RE COMPLETELY NUTS, AS I AM ABOUT TO EXPLAIN TO MY BELOVED ONLINE FOLLOWERS Squirrel Girl created by Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg Will Murray & OKAY SO HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING WHAT IF I WAS IN THE SAVAGE LAND

Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg AND FAMOUS KILLER ROBOT WAS ALSO HERE This is just SOME of what Doreen’s been posting--all these handles are real! Follow Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg AND HE WAS DAMAGED WHEN HE LANDED IN THE SAVAGE LAND SO WHEN @unbeatablesg for more! HE REBUILT HIMSELF IT WAS BASED ON THE ANIMALS AROUND HIM

Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg WHICH OF COURSE WOULD MEAN THAT THERE’S A COLOSSAL METAL ULTRON-OSAURUS REX RUNNING AROUND RIGHT NOW THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL No. 25, December 2017. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. AND, AGAIN HYPOTHETICALLY, IF HE DESTROYED MOST OF THE COMPUTERS OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West THAT WERE KEEPING THE SAVAGE LAND WARM AND SAFE FOR DINOSAURS... 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. BULK MAIL POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg OFFICES. © 2017 MARVEL No similarity WHAT WOULD YOU DO?? ALSO I’M PRETTY SURE HE’S GONNA BLOW UP A between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this VOLcano whoa sorry caps lock was on there, my apologies!! magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg such similarity which may exist is purely anyway coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. Subscription rate (U.S. Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg dollars) for 12 issues: U.S. $26.99; Canada totally open to advice over here, dinosaur ultron is up in my grill and I want to save the $42.99; Foreign $42.99. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL ADDRESS CHANGES TO dinosaurs!! THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL, C/O MARVEL SUBSCRIPTIONS P.O. Tony Stark @starkmantony BOX 727 NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. TELEPHONE # (888) 511-5480. FAX # @aspidercan Iron’s got tons of idioms: iron fi st, irons in the fi re, striking while the iron is hot, (347) 537-2649. subscriptions@marvel. ironing things out, list goes on... com. DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOE QUESADA, Chief Tony Stark @starkmantony Creative Offi cer; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID BOGART, SVP of @aspidercan All this to say, Spider-Man: If you want another Iron Spider suit from me, Business Affairs & Operations, Publishing you just say the word. & Partnership; C.B. CEBULSKI, VP of Brand Management & Development, Asia; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg Sales & Marketing, Publishing; JEFF @aspidercan @starkmantony TONY YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; SUSAN Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN @aspidercan @starkmantony ULTRON IS A DINOSAUR NOW AND YOU’RE LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information POSTING IRON IDIOMS TO SPIDER-MAN regarding advertising in or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Integrated Sales Manager, at vdebellis@ Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg marvel.com. For Marvel subscription @aspidercan @starkmantony NEVER HAVE I BEEN SO #OWNED ONLINE BY MY inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. ALLEGED FRIEND TONY STARK Manufactured between 09/15/2017 and 09/26/2017 by LSC COMMUNICATIONS INC., GLASGOW, KY, USA. Tony Stark @starkmantony @aspidercan @unbeatablesg Wait. But you’ve got it well in hand, yeah? I was assuming based on your past performance that was the case. Squirrel Girl @unbeatablesg @aspidercan @starkmantony gotta go he’s blowing up the volCANO RIGHT NOW AHHHHHHHHHHH Our last issue...

Ultron!!

Now: …is! definitely! by going! destroying to! all the volcano! blow! machinery this! inside it!! up!

We gotta get Squirrel Girl, No way, out of here! We AHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHH! you may Stefan! We've gotta leap free have saved only lost when at the last AHHHHHHHH! us from the the dinosaurs second!! volcano, but are all dead. |t'll we've still take at least a lost. The few hours for dinosaurs the environment are all to revert to gonna ice and die! snow! We've still got time.

No argument here.

Sorry for cutting off Doreen's last line in the previous issue! We just ran out of space, it definitely wasn't to set up a cliffhanger in which it appeared all hope was lost and all our heroes were super dead!! Yeah, Lucky for you, your Oh man, sweet! except we ...True. Minor friend Nancy has Lay it on me, don't know a roadblock. figured out his Nancy! single way weakness. to hurt And he's Ultron. adapted to every one of your attacks. ...True. Okay, mid-range roadblock. Wait--you're And he's actually friends learned to fire with Squirrel Girl? Like, electricity, which on a personal basis? is something neither you nor I'm friends I...I think squirrels have with lots of I'm beginning to any immunity people, Stefan. see that. against. She's great.

I L|KE YOU TOO STEFAN BUT R|GHT NOW I'D L|KE TO KNOW HOW TO DEFEAT ULTRON ...True. Okay, FOREVER, fine, mid-to- THANKS approaching-large- range roadblock.

So here it is, Squirrel Girl: you've Um--sometimes I got this incredible break eggs when I try super-strength. to take them out of the You feel like carton, but I think that's... you live in a pretty common?? Like, world made of even if you're not cardboard, right? super, man. Always taking constant care not to break something--or someone?

Never allowing He's still yourself to lose control, But Ultron-- gonna zot me even for a moment, or he's made of with electricity someone could die. metal. He can take though. it. What we have here is Oh, right! a rare opportunity for Actually, I forgot that part. you to cut loose...and I don't super Dude, just use your show everyone just how … like snapping knuckle spikes! people's necks, unbeatable you so...it's not really are. that hard?

25 issues into this run, eight issues into the previous volume, and 25 years since its , and we're just now bustin' out Squirrel Girl's knuckle spikes in a story. KNUCKLE SP|KE FANS: Thank you for your extreme patience, sorry for the quarter-century wait! They’re made of bone, and bone's a horrible Also, even if I did stab ...but those concerns do conductor. Hit him with those, he can't shock someone, it's super not apply to a robotic you back, and you've neutralized his unhygienic to retract a man-dino. Yes. You must electricity power! blood-covered spike back kill Ultron, Squirrel in, especially without a Girl. -level healing factor for blood- borne disease...

Huh! That... could actually work.

Man, I always forget about these things. I never use ’em on account of how I basically never have reason to go around stabbing people?

Wait, wait. Kill Yeah, I was Squirrel him?! Dude, advocating to Girl...this some of my incapacitate. goes against best friends Besides, what everything are robots. about Antonio, I have been Well, part robot, Stefan? He was taught since part nihilist a robot. You birth, but human brain. liked him!! helping you Point is: I is already don't think doing that, I can go so I will around killing say it… robots.

…I believe we face a problem that, for the No. No, But I do have an first time in our planet's history, can't be I don't idea that maybe solved by throwing Doombots at it. And want to kill lets everyone win. incapacitation is not an option with anyone, so Though I'll need this foe. I won't. some help... To save us all, Squirrel Girl must kill Ultron.

[WHISPERED WORDS [EQUALLY UNINTELLIGIBLE WORDS, OF PLANNING THAT, REFINING AND FORMULATING WERE THIS A MOVIE, THE NEW SECRET PLAN] WOULD BE AUDIBLE BUT NOT QUITE INTELLIGIBLE] [ENTHUSIASTICALLY WHISPERED WORDS OF AGREEMENT]

[TIPPY’S FULL VOLUME SQUIRREL NOISES, BUT I'M NOT TRANSLATING THESE EITHER, SORRY]

[T|NY WORDS WE PUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE BECAUSE WE KNOW COM|CS ARE, SHALL WE SAY, A NOT-|NEXPENS|VE HOBBY, SO WE L|TERALLY CRAM JOKES |NTO THE MARG|NS FOR YOU]