Review of "Graduate #004," comic by Jon Hughes and Celia Calle

 Review of

Graduate #004, comic by Jon Hughes and Celia Calle

Four out of five stars

Appeals to most skinny teen girls

 This comic opens with a caption where a very thin girl is lying down struggling to get into her jeans. In the next caption she is padding her bustline with tissues. From there she puts on platform shoes and stands up exposing a lot of skin between her navel and the top of her jeans. After a proclamation that she is Invincible Girl, she looks in the mirror and then backs the whole thing off, changing to normal teen clothes.

 Her name is Natalie and while she clearly has some kind of superpowers, she is a very reluctant hero. When walking down the street, she is approached by a boy that is a kindred spirit possessing powers. Natalie gives him the major brush off. She goes into a supermarket and when she realizes that it is about to be robbed at gunpoint, she goes to the attendant and asks to use the restroom. Her goal is to change into her superhero costume, but the attendant disallows her request. She ends up telling the gunman and the male clerk to turn their backs while she strip changes.

 All of this is amusing to an older male, but I doubt that girls beyond the skinny girl body type will find it funny. Natalie is very much a skinny teen girl with issues about belonging, she just happens to have powers that are largely undefined in this issue. I do have to admit that the modest approach in turning from normal to powerful is a plot device that I had never seen before.