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North: The revulsion from talking yourself up. Henderson: I was thinking more about the when did you realize that it was going off in different directions thing , and for me it was almost from the very beginning. Henderson: Well, we made a book that we really liked. I knew that I liked it, Wil liked it. But it was like nothing else out there. We made a good book! North: Wow. So you were talking with Wil about this?

And it was pretty immediate that people started picking up the character and putting her in more stuff. I knew that that was because we had done something.

She had that nanny gig [ Ed. I think it was really early on in the book when I realized that we had hit on something, and that it was going somewhere.

Because when I heard it was being reprinted, I had the exact opposite reaction. It happened three or four times. North: I was so pleased with that.

They did the Eats nuts, kicks butts, exclamation point for the first five issues for I think the third reprint. And everyone loved [the suggestion] and I was like, I want us to understand there will be an issue that just says butts on the cover. Are we fine with this? Do you have a favorite experimental thing that you got to do?

North: I really liked the structure we landed on a four-issue arc and then a single-issue standalone, and then in the single-issue standalone you could do experimental things or a one and done story.

I really liked how the zine issue turned out. I think it is, even beyond the fact that it was the very last one that I worked on in its entirety.

So on a long enough timeline, they kept getting better, on average. Please proceed. I remember I was staying at your place for a weekend at that time and you had a conspiracy wall up to put that issue together. North: Yeah, I mean that one was more work for me because I wrote it and then I drew it with stickers just to make sure the panels worked together and then I had to rewrite it and then I had to digitize it, and I sent you this huge document. Which just makes more work for myself, which is terrible.

There are a lot of weird things in Squirrel Girl, were there any particular new things that Ryan called for in his script that you relished? Henderson: I feel like I do it a lot, because I have a very strong feeling about how things should be laid out and how timing works to tell a story.

North: Yeah, the comic would be a thousand times worse if every time anyone changed something, I was like, No, this is my vision. And it is pristine. And change it back. Right now. Could you talk about the importance of their friendship? North: For me the relationships evolved as the story was told. But it kept developing and getting more and more interesting. We just sort of followed it. So it was just this really happy accident. I was so pleased that it reads like it was written for her to say goodbye with, and it reads like I had this full intentionality behind it.

But like most things, it was just a happy accident. Henderson: We had that happy accident twice. It was with that one, but also in the dream issue. Cause it was fun, more than anything else, to get my friends in there. At [the time of the dream issue] I had to do the graphic novel, which I drew and colored in three months while also working on the regular book, which is insane.

No one should do this. So we just got someone else in there, and it felt like it was on purpose because everything up until then that was a dream was done by someone else. It was so completely perfect. North: Yeah, that was just complete chance and it worked out the way it did, and it looked so intentional.

Erica, you still do covers on Squirrel Girl, but have stepped away from doing interiors — though you drew several pages of the series finale issue. How does it feel to say a final goodbye to the character?

Main artist on Squirrel Girl We were on a pretty tight deadline once I agreed to jump on the book, so I did a lot of my figuring out how to draw Squirrel Girl on the page. I think you can see her subtly morph over my first few issues into something that felt right. Vayntrub is already intimately familiar with what it takes to portray Doreen Green, having suited up with a complete prehensile tail to play the character in the canceled New Warriors pilot. The brief footage leaked from New Warriors displays Vayntrub excelling in her role as Squirrel Girl, with a considerable number of MCU audiences taking to Twitter to voice their displeasure at the show's cancellation, and taking particular issue with the fact Vayntrub would not get any more screen time as New Warriors ' Squirrel Girl.

This public outcry is telling, with few pilot performances so noteworthy as to permanently cement an actor's name next to a previously unseen character. Yet this is exactly what Vayntrub's Squirrel Girl cameo has done, with many bookmakers taking very short odds on Milana seamlessly stepping back into familiar territory. If Milana Vayntrub is the name now almost synonymous with the role of Squirrel Girl, then her supposedly nailed-onto-the-role predecessor is Arrested Development star, Mae Whitman.

It was not so long ago that Whitman was one of only two candidates considered for New Warriors ' Squirrel Girl as casting began for the doomed ABC pilot. Whitman's proactive agency is what propelled her to the front of the Squirrel Girl queue in after she was quoted via Twitter in a Hollywood Reporter article that she was desperate to play Doreen Green.

Previous collective consensus aside, Whitman embodies every characteristic Squirrel Girl could bring to the MCU table. Previous roles in movies like Scott Pilgrim vs. In particular, her work as Annie Marks in the NBC dramedy Good Girls proves she can add comedy to a high-stakes and often serious narrative, which is an arena the MCU's phase 4 is fast becoming due to the introductions of omnipotent beings such as The Celestials and Gorr, The God Butcher.

If the MCU phase 4's narrative decides to take a purportedly darker turn within the multiverse of madness, Imogen Poots may begin to look more and more of a natural fit for Squirrel Girl. She suffered a modification in her genes for unknown reasons that granted her squirrel-like abilities, which manifested predominantly in the form of a prehensile tail. When her parents consulted with a doctor, it was determined that Doreen wasn't a mutant , even though she believed so for a long time.

When she was ten years old, Doreen discovered she could communicate with squirrels after overhearing one of these rodents in her window. She subsequently saved this squirrel from being chased by a dog, and they became friends. The squirrel, who identified himself as Monkey Joe , encouraged Doreen to use her abilities to help people. Ever since then, Doreen began to fantasize about becoming a superhero, and came up with the alias of the "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

When she was fourteen, Doreen ambushed Iron Man in a California forest near Stark Enterprises Headquarters and hoped to impress the veteran hero, wishing him to take her under his wing as his sidekick.

Unimpressed, Iron Man politely declined, when suddenly the duo was attacked by Doctor Doom in a large aircraft. Doom captured and subdued Iron Man, and began to fly out over the Pacific Ocean where he planned to dispose of Iron Man's body once he killed him. Underestimating her, Doom left Squirrel Girl to her own devices. She devised a plan and used her ability to communicate with squirrels through an open door as the ship passed over the forest.

Hundreds of squirrels answered her call and flooded Doom's ship, chewing through the wires, and swamping the evil dictator with their furry bodies. Iron Man was freed, they emerged victoriously, and the two heroes went their separate ways. Shortly after her fifteenth birthday, Squirrel Girl assisted was the Hulk , who landed unconscious one day next to her treehouse in the middle of a fight against the Abomination.

A concussion had blinded the Hulk, so he had to reluctantly accept Squirrel Girl's help. After swarming Abomination with squirrels, Doreen directed Hulk how to move to land punches and dodge attacks until the villain was knocked out. Squirrel Girl later relocated to New York City. Alongside her new teammates, Squirrel Girl witnessed the death of Grasshopper and became very frightened, but was determined not to give up.

Thanks to her squirrel army, Squirrel Girl was able to help stop Maelstrom from destroying the world. After Squirrel Girl made a fuss to be certain that Monkey Joe was an official member of the team, he was apparently killed by Doctor Doom seeking revenge.

Doom's costume. Squirrel Girl found a new squirrel companion, the only one of her squirrel army who had survived Maelstrom's wrath, whom she named Tippy Toe. Squirrel Girl and Tippy Toe managed to individually defeat M. Uatu , the Earth's Watcher , was on hand to confirm that the Thanos she defeated was the real thing, and not a clone or copy of any kind. After M. Squirrel Girl declined the offer, saying she was happy being with the GLA. She told the squirrels to retrieve the smelliest garbage they could find and place it around the combatants, resulting in everyone having to hold their noses.