But Rivera really nails the pathos driving this young woman as she strives to better herself and build new connections in a world that wasn't originally her own. Marvel has plenty of goofy fun comics at the moment, and while it never gets old seeing America play the sarcastic, butt-kicking young heroine, that only gets you so far in a solo comic. That's where this first issue finds most of its success. She takes a very introspective, character-driven approach to this issue, one that emphasizes America's personal relationships and her yearning for her lost parents. Rivera makes the jump from YA fiction to comics deftly. It's not an approach that's going to win over everyone - especially those who crave a more traditional superhero adventure - but it's one that definitely suits this character. The result is a fun, irreverent superhero comic very much cut from the same cloth as books like The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and The Unstoppable Wasp. Here, writer Gabby Rivera and artist Joe Quinones bring America back to terra firma and have her confront a foe more terrifying than any alien or supervillain - college. This series is more about following the Hawkeye mentality - "What America does when she's not saving the world" - though with a more serialized story structure. America strives to be a very different comic than The Ultimates 2, even as America's ties to that team are explored in these pages.
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