Webcomic Worth Checking Out

The Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks is one of the more delightful, enjoyable comics on the web.

Superhero Girl (who, despite her identity-concealing mask doesn't actually appear to have a civilian identity) is a young woman with typical young-adult issues. She struggles to come up with the rent money, she has a roommate, she has no social life, and she struggles day-to-day with trying to establish herself in her chosen profession.
Which just happens to be super-heroing.


Endowed with the standard super-powers of super-strength and  invulnerability (she can't fly but she can leap tall buildings in a single bound) she tries to make a name for herself in the competitive super-hero market. Which is hard for a young hero just starting out, with no established arch-nemesis, in a Canadian city with a very low crime rate. (Though it does appear to have the occasional malevolent ninja infestation -- my guess is that Ms. Hicks just really enjoys drawing ninjas.)

But slam-bang superheroic action is not the point of this comic. In the rare instances when SHG does take on an adversary she tends to dispatch him (or her or it) in a panel or two. The Adventures of Superhero Girl is simply a charming little slice-of-life comic about a young woman -- who just happens to be able to lift cars over her head -- trying to make her way in the world.