5. How does Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Squirrel Girl intervene in popular narratives about heroism, particularly those narratives appearing in other Marvel Comics publications?
6. How does gender function in North and Henderson’s Squirrel Girl?
7. How does Squirrel Girl highlight the particular narrative features of superhero comics (shared continuity, canonicity, multiple decades of character appearances, multiple creators, etc)?
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