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Power Ballad ☆ | By Molly Brooks
Hey y’all should read Power Ballad on webtoon by Molly Brooks. It’s about the sweet, down-to-earth lesbian personal assistant for an ultra-famous pop star who secretly doubles as a vigilante. It does a really good job of combining (really funny and cute) slice of life with superhero elements and they are, well, very very useless sapphics, and it’s happy and really good content for right now.
But anyway if that doesn’t convince you I made memes for it bc it’s an absolute tragedy that there aren’t any on this dumb website.
DEBUTING AT TCAF 2020
240 pages, CDN $16.99, Published by Disney Books
Sanity and Tallulah are going on a field trip-to a real live planet!
Some of their classmates are nervous (none of them have been on a planet before, and they've heard terrible things), but Tallulah is beside herself with excitement. Sanity would be more excited if her grumpy older sister, Prudence, wasn't coming along to supervise the trip. Things get off to a rocky start (asteroid-y start, to be specific) and Sanity and Tallulah find themselves separated from their school group, pursued by a pirate, and stranded on a planet that's about to explode, with nothing but the wreckage of a crashed space shuttle and the contents of Tallulah's overloaded backpack to work with. These best friends will have to stretch their problem-solving skills to the limit in order to get everyone home safe, and it's going to take their whole class-plus an accountant, a math hermit, a group of mysterious beekeepers, and even the murderous pirate-to make it happen.
This second adventure in the Sanity & Tallulah series by Molly Brooks is out of this world!
I’ve been a fan of dear Sanity and Tallulah, the two girl space detectives and best friends since their earlier showings as standouts on Comixology Firsts. Back in 2014, the girls were created by Molly Brooks when a friend of hers Andrea Tsurumi, whom she credits on the thank you page in the book, for agreed to do a minicomic zine with Brooks and then suggesting that the theme should be ‘science fiction teen girl detectives’. Now Sanity and Tallulah’s adventures have expanded to a graphic novel series for the middle school audience picked up by Disney-Hyperion for a three-book deal and this one is book one!
So the book’s synopsis reads:
“It can get pretty dull living on a small, out-of-the-way station like Wilnick SS. Best friends Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega do their best to relieve the monotony of everyday space life by finding adventures, solving mysteries, and taking turns getting each other into and out of trouble. But when Sanity’s latest science project—an extremely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten— escapes from the lab and starts causing general havoc, the girls will have to turn the station upside down to find her—before the damage becomes irreversible!”
The girls remain curious, bright inquiring minds that are growing up in a place that’s unfamiliar to most of us: a space station yet they are soaking up everything they observe, learn and happen to uncover while exploring. Granted, Sanity is the more reserved, more level-headed out of the two while Tallulah is the more spontaneous, happy go lucky type the two best friends compliment each other well and together they are the dream team that wins our hearts over by the end of the book. It is so important to see girls centered in narratives that involve S.T.E.M. minded activities and circumstances. It is so important to see girls centered in narratives located in space located in the science fiction genre which may very well have been started by a woman, a teen girl at that but hasn’t always been kind to women.
And I can’t stress how important it is to see girls of color centered in diverse narratives that present them as important! This book features our dear Sanity Jones who is Black and her BFF Tallulah Vega-Davisson who is biracial with a Latinx mother and a white father. I was so stoked to see the girls’ world expanded to include some of their families which make up a superb support cast with Sanity’s father Darren a station director and Tallulah’s mother, Soledad in a similarly high ranking position. I’d be remiss to make note of Tallulah’s super chill dad Hank who has a leg prosthesis.
Can I wax poetically about the parents in this read being loving adults who are firm when they need to yet always want the best for their kids–which means believing in them and their abilities even in the worst circumstances? There was also a brilliant thread of a what looks to be a minor plot bunny with Tallulah’s dad and her brother about not being pressured to shape your dreams into what you think is what everyone else is doing but to follow your own path and passions that I sincerely hope to see continued in the next book.
I just can’t get enough of seeing fictional parents treating their children with respect for their autonomy and a desire to see them blossom–which is just sorely lacking, to be honest. I love this trend of fictional parents standing in the corner for their kids and valuing their opinions–I hope this trend continues for the sci-fi genre! I also really loved seeing the small moments like sitting down and eating dinner as a family (with a friend tagging along) which feels monumental to me in terms of presenting families sitting now together, regardless if many see it as a throwaway panel.
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