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[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Shea Fontana
ART: Yancey Labat
COLORS: Monica Kubina
LETTERS: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Marie Javins
ISBN: 978-1-4012-6247-1; paperback; (June 29, 2016)
128pp, Color, $9.99 U.S., $11.99 CAN
Age Range: 8 to 12
DC Super Hero Girls is an action figure franchise and animated web series that began in 2015. It features high school versions of classic and popular female DC Comics characters, as well as some male characters. The DC Super Hero Girls line has already been rebooted and re-branded, and now includes an animated television series, various consumer products, and both print and digital comics.
DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis is the debut entry in the DC Super Hero Girls original graphic novel series. It was first published in June 2016, and, as of this writing, the ninth graphic novel in the series is about to be published. Finals Crisis is written by Shea Fontana; drawn by Yancey Labat; colored by Monica Kubina; and lettered by Janice Chiang. Finals Crisis focuses on the core group of friends that includes Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Bumblebee.
DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis opens at Super Hero High in the city of Metropolis. Principal Amanda Waller and vice-principal Gorilla Grodd are generally tough on the students, and especially now because of semester finals, which are just a day away. Supergirl, Bumblebee, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Katana, and Poison Ivy are all studying hard, but they are also breaking rules. That puts them in danger, making it easier for a mysterious villain to trap them. Will these super hero girls outsmart their captor in time to make it to school for finals?
I have been putting off reading DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis since I first heard about it a few years ago. I finally got a copy when I decided to cash in a gift certificate, and the verdict is that I like it. DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis is the kind of comic book that the seven-year-old me would have loved when I first starting reading books. I would have loved just looking at the pictures, as my nephew loved looking at the pictures in the Spider-Man comic books that I gave him when he was four or five-years old.
The art by Finals Crisis artist Yancey Labat is just fun to look at. He draws big, round faces and big, expressive eyes on the characters, which will pull in a young reader. The art is drawn in a big and open manner, but Labat depicts the backgrounds and environments in nice detail. Colorist Monica Kubina layers paint-like coloring over Labat's art, which makes it stand out. Janice Chiang letters the art with a variety of fonts that perfectly capture the moments, moods, and action of the story.
DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis may not be a great comic book for adult readers, but I bet elementary school and middle grade readers will think it's great. I can certainly see myself reading another volume... or two... or three. Why not? DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis captures the fun and sense of wonder that is inherent in DC Comics characters and in the comic books in which they star.
7.5 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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