There are many characters that are super popular that are head-scratchers. Rocket and Groot, for instance. Sure, they have fun personalities and quirks, but they’re still a talking raccoon and a walking tree. They fit more in Middle-Earth than the Marvel Universe. Or Hal Jordan. How can a character so bland and so dull be so damn popular? That’s an article for another day. But another of those characters, Squirrel Girl, is getting her own prose novel from Aconyte Books. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Universe by Tristan Palmgren hits physical and digital bookstores in August of 2022. And, like most stories involving this weird and wonderful Marvel Comics character, the story sounds delightful.
What Will the Squirrel Girl Prose Novel Be About?
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Picture this: a cosmic adventure featuring a young superheroine, a small army of bushy-tailed rodents, pirates, and space whales. That’s what we’re looking at in Squirrel Girl Universe. As Marvel describes in their announcement:
“Squirrel Girl is in a pickle and a jam, a metaphor that mixes about as well as it tastes. She and her friends are lost in outer space, where there is a conspicuous absence of oxygen and, even more troubling, a shortage of squirrels. After hitching a ride on a passing space whale, Squirrel Girl and her trusty companions find themselves on a free-merchant space station and on the front line of a looming interstellar war.
“The stakes have never been so high, and trillions of lives are at risk! Luckily for the universe, Squirrel Girl is here to stand up against the odds and set things right across the galaxy.”
If you read that description and thought “pass,” there’s a conspicuous absence where your heart should be. Then, of course, your doctor will say that you need more Squirrel Girl in your life, starting with this prose novel. But there are others from Aconyte worth reading too.
Aconyte Books is Delivering Greatness with the Marvel Prose Novels
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Squirrel Girl Universe is going to be the 24th prose novel from Aconyte. They started in October 2020 with Domino: Strays and The Head of Mimir, kicking off the Heroines and Legends of Asgard lines. These were fast followed by Liberty and Justice for All, an Xavier’s Institute novel, and The Harrowing of Doom, the first in the Untold series. Then, in 2021, Aconyte published another 12 Marvel prose novels. They’ve already published two this year, and, including Squirrel Girl Universe, have six others slated until August – two of which are bringing back the Choose Your Own Adventure-style novels. But with some upgrades.
What the Aconyte Marvel books do best is highlight peripheral characters. Who would have ever thought to give Outlaw her own prose novel, or the Asgardians Heimdall and Tyr? And several minor X-Men characters, like Anole and Tempest. Even better is that the stories exist alongside the Marvel canon, so, after you read the Squirrel Girl prose novel and pick up a comic with her later, you go in knowing that she and her squirrel friends saved the universe. How great is that?
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Universe prose novel will be released by Aconyte Books on August 2nd, 2022.
In the meantime, there are plenty of great novels to catch up on, but what characters do you want to see get their own prose novel after Squirrel Girl?
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