Comics Review: "THE POWERPUFF GIRLS Volume One #1" is Spicy

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS VOLUME ONE #1

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

STORY: Kelly Thompson

ART/COLORS: Paulina Ganucheau

LETTERS: Jeff Eckleberry

EDITOR: Nate Cosby

COVER: Paulina Ganucheau

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Leonardo Romero; Karen Darboe; Nicoletta Baldari

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (July 2024)

Rated “Teen”

“Destiny Detour!”

“The Powerpuff Girls” (1998 to 2005) is an animated superhero television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network.   The show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, who are three kindergarten-aged girls endowed with superpowers.  They were created by the scientist, Professor Utonium, who mixed sugar, spice, and everything nice and accidentally added “Chemical X.”  The professor would become the girls' father.  The girls and the professor live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA.  The city's mayor frequently calls on The Powerpuff Girls to help fight criminals using their super-powers against the city.

Going back to 2000, both DC Comics and IDW Publishing have published comic books based on “The Powerpuff Girls.”  Dynamite Entertainment now has the license to publish Powerpuff Girls comic books.  Their new series is Powerpuff Girls Volume One.  It is written by Kelly Thompson; drawn and colored by Paulina Ganucheau; and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry.

Powerpuff Girls Volume One #1 (“Destiny Detour!”) opens in Townsville, the home of Professor Utonium and his three girls:  Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup – the Powerpuff Girls.  These heroes have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil using their ultra-super powers.

On the other hand, what if each of the Powerpuff Girls had a different destiny?  Well, there is a visitor at their school, Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, who can change destinies.  It's a robot named “Highly Intelligent Machine,” and soon it will have the girls on their way to new directions.  However, where does that leave Townsville when it does not have its three young heroines to save the day from a most diabolical and familiar foe?

THE LOWDOWN:  Since July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department has been providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  Powerpuff Girls Volume One #1 is the latest, but it is not the first Powerpuff Girls comic book that I have read.

It is has been five and a half years since I read a comic book featuring The Powerpuff Girls, and that was IDW Publishing's The Powerpuff Girls: Power Up My Mojo.  This was a 2017 hardcover book that collected issues #4-6 of the 2016 miniseries of the same title.

Like that IDW book, The Powerpuff Girls Volume One #1 is simply a fun comic book to read.  I was a fan of the original Powerpuff Girls animated TV series and of the series' stars, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.  Issue #1's story by Kelly Thompson and the art by Paulina Ganucheau perfectly capture both the storytelling styles and visual aesthetic of the Cartoon Network original.  It's sugar, spice, and everything nice, and it is a perfect comic book in which to introduce young readers to the comic book medium and to The Powerpuff Girls!

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of the Powerpuff Girls will want to try Dynamite's The Powerpuff Girls Volume One.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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