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Aero Girl And The Superheroine Pushback

Published Sun, 25 May 2014 11:00:47 -0500

The Adventures of Aero-Girl. By Dewayne Feenstra, Axur Eneas, Adam Wollet and Juan Pablo Riebling. Campaign runs from 5/17/14-6/17/14

The Elevator Pitch: A teen hero dealing with the death of her mentor and father with the help of a super powered gorilla.

Jules Rivera writes,

I first discovered The Adventures of Aero Girl about a year ago, after a friend of a friend of a Twitter peep tossed the link to the initial Kickstarter. As an auntie to a tween-age niece, it's my personal agenda to get her and other kids in my family converted to comics nerddom, so they too can experience the excitement and awesomeness of sequential stories. The way to go is through all-ages comics, especially aimed at girls.

Anyone who's ever tried to find comics for little girls can tell you this is no small task, but things are getting better than they used to be. The independent comics world has taken notice of the lack of heroines we can show to our girls, which is why we've started to see the influx of pieces like Aero Girl.

And I thank my lucky stars for it.

Aero-Girl is the story of a young girl, Jacqueline aka Aero-Girl. She's a superheroine sidekick to her father, Battle Jack. Aero-Girl is coming into that point in adolescence when she wants more independence as a fighter, but struggles to establish herself in her father's shadow. Book 1 ends in tragedy as Aero-Girl's fool-hardy choices lead to the loss of a loved one, but she must continue to battle the forces in the wake of the devastation with an unpredictable new sidekick. This sounds grim, but Aero-Girl manages to balance a serious story with comic levity and silliness so desperately missing from today's sequential landscape.

The Adventures of Aero-Girl is currently funding its Kickstarter to complete production of Book 2, but if you missed the stellar kick-off issue, don't worry. That's available through this Kickstarter as well. With as little as a $1 pledge, you can get the PDF for Book 1. Think of it as getting even more story from the get-go. Will I jump on this? Like a ten-year-old on a trampoline. I was on board with the first one. Not only is this a book the girls of the next generation of readers need, but it's a book I need too. I believe in projects like Aero-Girl who dare to challenge the modern conventions and give a much-needed breath of fresh air to the medium I love so much. DeWayne Feenstra's writing would feel right at home in a Pixar movie and Axur Eneas' cartoony yet highly precise artwork is pure eye candy. We would all be missing something without this series.

I am grateful to DeWayne Feenstra and his creative team for pulling this book together. With books like this, I can show my niece and other young people the wonder of comics. We can prove to little girls they can be heroes too. And we can all show the bigger time publishers that comics really can be for everyone. Comics should be for everyone.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you, guys.

Mention you found Aero-Girl through Bleeding Cool to be entered to win a one of kind metal 8×11 print signed by both Axur Eneas and DeWayne Feenstra

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