Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur
2015 comic book series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as its main protagonists, respectively a 9-year-old Inhuman girl who is described as the smartest character in the Marvel Universe, and a dinosaur with whom she shares a mental link. Written by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder and primarily drawn by Natacha Bustos, the series is a direct (yet stand-alone) sequel to Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby. The series lasted 47 issues, from November 2015 to September 2019.
An animated television series adaptation, also titled Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and starring Diamond White and Fred Tatasciore as the titular characters, aired for two seasons from February 2023 to March 2025. A brief relaunch of the comic book, subtitled Menace on Wheels, was published in 2023 as a tie-in with the series.
Publication history
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was created by writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder (who also designed Moon Girl), and artist Natacha Bustos, launching in November 2015 as a direct sequel to the Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur series from Jack Kirby, hence the first villains that Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur face being the Killer-Folk.
The genesis of the series came from editor Mark Paniccia, who was a fan of the character Devil Dinosaur and, along with editor Emily Shaw, had hired Montclare and Reeder to pen the basis for a new series that involved the character ending up in modern day. They came up with the idea of Devil Dinosaur interacting with a girl reminding him of his partner Moon-Boy and fell in love with the idea of working with a hero who wasn't a "regular cape-and-tights superhero". Reeder explains the primary inspiration for the creation of the character:
So she was just, originally this character who was kind of like Inspector Gadget, but a little less campy—a little more knowing what she's doing? You know, having gadgets come out of her backpack or whatever, and rollerskating around the city and solving crimes kind of things.
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