Squirrel Girl - Coming This Summer - Travis M. Holyfield

Panel 1 - Exterior. A park at night. The wind whips through black trees, causing leaves to whip across our field of vision. This is a nightmarish, David Fincher-esque, version of a park at night. In the center of the panel, a young woman in a pale blue dress is being attacked by two stereotypical park muggers. Each of the muggers has one of her arms, and they are pulling her in opposite directions. 

CAPTION: "This summer..."

Panel 2 - Closer focus on the thugs. They have let the girl go, and she is running away. 

THUG 1: What was that noise? 

CAPTION: "... Vengeance comes..."

PANEL 3 - The thugs in the foreground, their backs to us, recoil in fear as a grotesque, feral, half-human/half-squirrel female creature leaps down at them from the treetops, claws flashing in the moonlight.

CAPTION: "... From the TREES."

Panel 4 - The panel is black, with a film logo - It is the words "SQUIRREL GIRL" written in a bloody, slashing font, dripping in blood.

Panel 5 - Interior of a Hollywood producer's office. A TV shows the logo, and continues to run through the trailer. Two HOLLYWOOD SUITS look expectantly at Squirrel Girl, who sits facing them in an office chair, Tippy-Toe on her shoulder. 

SQUIRREL GIRL: Pass. 

TV: "... Directed by Zack Snyder..."

TIPPY-TOE: HARD pass.

Squirrel Girl - Free at Last - Ray Wonsowski

Panel 1- SQUIRREL GIRL walking down a torch-lit medieval staircase. She is looking over her shoulder and up at someone following behind her, chattering away happily but nervously.

OFF-PANEL: ...and he wasn't any trouble?

SQUIRREL GIRL: Oh, no, sir. No trouble at all, sir.

Panel 2- SQUIRREL GIRL pushes open a heavy oaken door with iron binders. She's still grinning, talking to someone behind her, gesturing them inside.

OFF-PANEL: Surprising. Since the day I brought him home, he's caused nothing but. Especially for his Granny.

SQUIRREL GIRL: Gee whiz, surely not. I mean, I put him down right after dinner, see?

Panel 3- SQUIRREL GIRL looks on in wide-eyed horror. A heavy iron, spiked, and Kirby-esque crib with a heavy set lock and lit yellow circuitry, empty except for a baby blanket and a teddy bear with a missing button eye tossed in the corner of it.

NO COPY

Panel 4- SQUIRREL GIRL is frantically trying to cover for the missing baby. DARKSEID stands in the doorway, facepalming in exasperation. He is flanked behind him by two Paradaemons.

SQUIRREL GIRL: BUT SCOTT WAS JUST RIGHT HERE!!!

DARKSEID: No, no, I understand.

DARKSEID: (sotto voce, small lettering) Release the hounds.

Squirrel Girl – Everybody’s Got One – MK Stangeland Jr.

(5 Panels)

Panel 1: Night. SQUIRREL GIRL leaps across the rooftops of NEW YORK, followed closely behind by her loyal assistant, TIPPY-TOE.

TIPPY-TOE: Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na…

SQUIRREL GIRL: SQUIRREL GIRL!

Panel 2: SQUIRREL GIRL and TIPPY-TOE stand on a rooftop overlooking a CANDY FACTORY.

SQUIRREL GIRL: There it is! The scene of the crime!

TIPPY-TOE: But what fiends would dare rob a place like a Candy Factory?

Panel 3: SQUIRREL GIRL and TIPPY-TOE leap off the rooftop. Panel angles upwards for atmosphere.

Panel 4: SQUIRREL GIRL and TIPPY-TOE look in through a skylight into the factory. The panel looks upwards away from the insides of the factory to look both of them in the face. SQUIRREL GIRL looks noticeably distressed.

SQUIRREL GIRL (1): GASP!

SQUIRREL GIRL (2): I never imagined such a day might come!

TIPPY-TOE: What is it?

SQUIRREL GIRL (3): They’re my one true weakness!

Panel 5: Inside the factory, where we see what has distressed SQUIRREL GIRL so. The FACTORY is being robbed by supervillain babies – they’re clearly babies, but outfitted to look like super criminals who know exactly what they’re doing.

SQUIRREL GIRL: BABIES!

(END PAGE)

Squirrel Girl - Food for Thought - Grant McLaughlin

Squirrel Girl, in her secret identity as Doreen Green, is going grocery shopping and discovers that Tippy-Toe has snuck along inside her bag.

We've got a lot of dialogue in panel 1, but it would be relatively small, with the page's focus being panels 2 and 5.

1 - Doreen stands in a grocery store aisle, her cart off to the side slightly.  The focus is on her and her bag, as she discovers that Tippy-Toe has come along for the errand.  Doreen is not please, grabbing Tippy-Toe (perhaps by the scruff of the neck) and brings her out of the bag entirely.

SQUIRREL GIRL: Tippy!  We discussed this!  Regular, non-superhero people like myself don't go grocery shopping with their squirrel companions!  It strains credulity.

TIPPY-TOE: Granted, but I needed to stop you from buying all that junky healthy food like fruit, vegetables, and - eugh - seeds.

SQUIRREL GIRL: Um, those things are all really good for squirrels?  What else would you want?

2 - Tippy-Toe has escaped Doreen's grasp and runs along the shelf.  This would be one of those "multiple pose" type deals, as Tippy appears throughout the panel and shelf in front of (or behind, beside, etc) various foodstuffs, calling out their names as she pauses (plus once at the start where she lands).  Doreen would watch on from the right-hand side of the panel so that she can comment at the end, a confused look on her face.

TIPPY-TOE (1): You know, the good stuff!

TIPPY-TOE (2): Cake!

TIPPY-TOE (3): Cookies!

TIPPY-TOE (4): Ice cream!

SQUIRREL GIRL: Conversely, those things are all really bad for squirrels?

3 - Tippy jumps back onto Doreen's forearm (which is maybe being held in a right-angled, "Snow White"-esque manner).  Tippy looks accusingly up at her friend, while Doreen smiles down knowingly, pointing at herself with her other hand.

TIPPY-TOE: But you eat them all the time!

SQUIRREL GIRL: That's because I'm a Squirrel Girl.

4 - Repeat panel.  Doreen realizes that Tippy's comment was somewhat insulting and doesn't appreciate it.  Tippy doesn't much care and keeps dishing it out.  Both are getting rather riled up and are possibly leaning towards one another.

SQUIRREL GIRL: And I do not eat them all the time!

TIPPY-TOE: That's funny, because that tub of ice cream emptied itself pretty quickly last night!

5 - Pull back to show the grocery store around Doreen and Tippy-Toe.  A decent-size group of grocery store patrons has gathered / stopped their shopping all around and are looking on in great confusion.  Some have stopped in the middle of grabbing something off the shelf, holding the pose.  Others have dropped items in surprise.  Some simply cannot look away.  Doreen and Tippy-Toe are in a similar pose to last panel, but both have stopped dead, looking at the assembled group in stunned confusion.

NO COPY

6 - A security guard steps up, and while confused, asks them to leave.  Doreen and Tippy-Toe look away, embarrassed (Tippy has climbed up to Doreen's shoulder).

SECURITY GUARD: I'm gonna have to ask you and your credulous squirrel to leave.

SQUIRREL GIRL: Yes, sir.

TIPPY-TOE: Chitty, chit.

Why Squirrel Girl?

Squirrel Girl is pretty much universally loved.

See?

If she were a wrestler, Squirrel Girl, aka Doreen Green, would be the ultimate babyface.  Some of the cream of Marvel's supervillain crop have jobbed for her in a pretty serious way, with opponent after opponent going down in defeat to her bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ways.

Doctor Doom.  Thanos.  Galactus.

Heck, even some of Marvel's premiere heroes have gone down for the count when facing off against her - Deadpool and Wolverine, for example.  No one was safe against Doreen Green's popularity.

Thankfully for the rest of the Marvel Universe, things eventually settled down and Doreen took on the role of nanny to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' baby girl.  Personally, I always thought this was a suitably adorable role for her to play.

Smooth

That being said, outside forces have happily conspired to launch Squirrel Girl back onto the central stage of public awareness.  Ryan North and Erica Henderson were tapped to launch the brand-new Unbeatable Squirrel Girl monthly book.  And while we're only 3 issues in, I think it's fair to call the project a resounding success.

North has brought his trademark humour and wit and Henderson her superb cartooning abilities to deliver a Squirrel Girl who is all kinds of amazing.  Their SG is a very self-aware lady, as she knows she is a fish out of water starting up as a freshman at Empire State University.  But she's also rather self-assured, ready for anything, whether it's throwing down with Kraven the Hunter or making new friends on campus.  Above all, she - and the book - are all kinds of fun.  It's evident that the creative team is having a great time making this book and they want their readership to have the same going through.  Thankfully for everyone, that is coming through in a big way.

Seriously, I don't know of many more enjoyable books hitting stands at the moment, so I'm rather excited for a week of squirrel-y scripts.  Come on and join in if you'd like - you'd be nuts not to.

Shall we?