Title: The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
Artist/Writer: Justin Pierce
Site: http://nonadventures.com
Updates: Saturdays
Rating: 9/10

Your planet was destroyed long ago, you have been given somewhat awesome powers by a vaguely Greco-Roman godhead, and there is a giant alien hypnotizing the populace of your city with spores. What do you do?

Any normal hero would send the creature back where it came from with a few bruises before making a witty remark or telling the reader to buy war bonds. Wonderella is not a normal hero, and would much rather spend her time watching sitcoms or playing “Hello Kitty the Home Version” than be bothered with dealing with threats from beyond and it couldn’t be any more entertaining.

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella by Justin Pierce is exactly what the title describes. The titular character faces fewer challenges from her archenemies, such as a clown with attention issues and a Nazi that’s a stone cold bitch, and more challenges from things like dating, awkward social situations, and catty comments. It’s a welcome change from a lot of the super hero humor readers are used to seeing and doesn’t focus on the usuals, like bizarre applications of super powers (Superman using his x-ray vision to look into the womens’ locker room? How droll!). In fact, Wonderella barely has any powers at all outside of enhanced strength and durability. She can’t even fly (though she can jump “hella high”), which is just one of many sources of bitterness for her.

The character of Wonderella (AKA, Dana Price) is, as mentioned before, not your typical superheroine. Unlike her mother, who was the original Wonderella back in “Nazi times,” Dana is a crude, obnoxious, and self-centered woman who seeks to profit off the family name by way of merchandising and writing her own comics. Fortunately, her childishness and naivety make her antics amusing rather than annoying. She routinely fights with her allies more than she does with her enemies, and that’s only when she isn’t ignoring her responsibilities, whether it’s to her friends or to the city she is supposed to defend.

Much of the comic’s humor is derived from parodying comic book stories, like the Death of Superman and the Secret Wars, and characters, like Galactus and Thor, as well as old clichés, like how Wonder Woman could lose her powers merely from being tied up or outdated themes for characters. Still, even those who don’t read comics can still enjoy Wonderella’s myriad non-adventures as they cover such topics as internet memes and videogames and reference everything from classic films to Harry Potter. The comic book themes are often just a lens of absurdity for the humor to be projected through instead of in joke after in joke that only someone who regularly reads Spiderman would understand.

The best thing about the writing isn’t the subject so much as it is the style. Unlike most other comics that save the punch line for the last panel, Pierce fills every possible panel with as much humor as he can. The dialogue is sharp and keeps the jokes rolling thanks to everything from Wonderella’s sass to her villains’ over dramatic attitudes. Each character has his or her own personality so they never feel interchangeable.

The art is another equally impressive feature of the series. It follows a style similar to that of Samurai Jack with its mostly outline-free shapes used to create characters, objects, and expressions. Such a style would make it easy for an artist to cheat or be lazy, but Pierce’s work receives much more effort than your usual four panel copy pasta and it shows.

Simply put, Wonderella is a joy to read and nice to look at. You would be doing yourself a disservice if you did not check it out, especially since I have given it a review of 9 out of 10; four points for writing, four points for art, and one for being the only comic to ever use the line “eat a dick, Hitlerella.”