The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins
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"G-Man is funny! Really, really funny! You know how hard it is to make a funny comic? Believe me, plenty hard! I should probably encourage you to buy a copy, but honestly, I don't need the competition." —Jimmy Gownley, author of Amelia Rules
"Giarrusso has a kid-friendly sarcastic wit which will resonate with readers ages 8 and up." —Snow Wildsmith, School Library Journal
"G-Man, Chris Giarrusso’s awesome all-ages superhero series, is one of the most fun and exciting new properties to come down the pike in ages." —John Hogan, Graphic Novel Reporter
Chris Giarrusso
Chris Giarrusso is the Harvey Award–nominated artist and writer best known for creating, writing, and drawing G-Man, a series of books loved by readers of all ages. His work has been published by Andrews McMeel, Scholastic, Marvel, Image, IDW, Lion Forge, Valiant, Ahoy Comics, and several independent publishers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Michael G (yes, "G" is his whole last name, and that's why everyone calls him G-Man) has to keep a journal in Mrs. Rosario's class at school, naturally he writes about his ambition to have superpowers and join the superheroes of his city (like Captain Thunderman) in the fight for justice. After all, his friend Billy Demon just got an awesome winged flying suit and superpowers of his own, and now he's the most popular kid in school! Mikey would just love to have superpowers too, but how will he get them? And if he does get them, what will he do with them?
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The G-Man Super Journal - Chris Giarrusso
Other books by Chris Giarrusso
G-MAN: Learning to Fly
G-MAN: Cape Crisis
G-MAN: Coming Home
THURSDAY
Yesterday, our English teacher, Mrs. Rosario, told us our new ongoing assignment will be to keep a journal. At first I thought that meant I would keep
a journal the same way I keep
my robots — on a bookshelf in my room.
But by keep
a journal, she means we have to write in it on a regular basis, which is going to be significantly more effort than I had first imagined.
Apparently some smart kid in some other school has been keeping a journal, and they wrote a newspaperarticle about him and he was on TV, and now teachers everywhere think the journal is what makes him so smart.
So now we’re all copying him by keeping our own journals in a desperate attempt to replicate his success.
Mrs. Rosario told us to bring in a journal book to start writing in today, and here we go. I can feel myself getting smarter already. She said we can write about whatever we want, but if we were stuck for ideas, she suggested writing a self-intro for our first journal entry — basically anything about ourselves. So I’ll start with the question I’m asked most often...
You see, my friends all call me G-Man. It’s a nickname. My real name is Michael G. So the nickname comes from my last name. People commonly assume the G
is simply an initial. It’s NOT. G
is my ENTIRE last name.
Yes, I know it’s weird. I’ve been told this many times. Although, you would think Jen Goodwell, of all people, would have a little more empathy and respect where my name is concerned, considering how sensitive SHE can be about names.
To the best of my knowledge, the whole G
name began with my grandfather, who immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1893.
During his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, most of the people on the boat died of an illness that mysteriously spared my grandfather. He was four years old and without any family when he arrived at Ellis Island.
My brother Dave says that story is just Grandpa telling tall tales. He says the stories of accidental name changes at Ellis Island are mostly untrue, and besides, according to that story, my grandfather would have to be over 120 years old, which he clearly is not. Most people usually assume the whole story is made up, but my grandfather’s impossible age is not even the reason why.
THAT’S the part of my grandfather’s story people can’t believe. His FlRST name. The idea that two people could have the same name seems to transcend the boundaries of the imagination, even though we have two Jasons in our class. I guess everyone assumes the name Luigi
was just made up for that video game, but my grandfather was named Luigi WAY before video games were ever even invented!
So anyway... that’s how I got my name and my nickname.
I think I’m off to a pretty brilliant start with this journal here, if you ask me. I wonder how long it will take for me to get into the newspaper.
FRIDAY
Today, Mrs. Rosario suggested we write about somebody we admire. That’s easy — Captain Thunderman!
Captain Thunderman is our city’s greatest champion, which means he’s the officially sanctioned superhero representative of our city.
He’s super strong...
He’s invulnerable...
Also he can fly, and he carries this awesome lightning bolt that shoots thunderblasts!
I like a lot of other superheroes, too, but Captain Thunderman is my favorite. Nobody really knows for sure where Captain Thunderman came from. My friends all have different theories. Billy thinks he’s from another planet.
Eddie Delta thinks his powers were inherited through ancestry that traces directly back to Zeus, the ancient Greek god of thunder and sky.
Curtis heard that he was just an ordinary maintenance man for the utilities company, and he was caught in a freak accident during a routine inspection at the Lava Lords Volcano Energy Corporation’s power plant.
Brian thinks he was part of a government experiment.
Those tend to be the same theories floating around for almost EVERY superhero, so nobody really knows for sure. But everybody agrees that Captain Thunderman is awesome, and we ALL want to be superheroes, too! Except for my math and science teacher, Mr. Leary.
Mr. Leary says superheroes just got lucky in getting superpowers, and they shouldn’t be glorified for their dumb luck.
Mr. Leary is always saying we need to study and work hard to get a good education. And nobody really disagrees with him on that point. We DO study, and we DO work hard, and we DO get decent grades — he’s the one grading us, so he should know this! But he just carries on and on about it all the time, pointing to his precious college diploma that he’s so proud of.
We’ve seen it every one of the 653 times he’s pointed it out.
MONDAY
Captain Thunderman battled Mister Mental this past weekend!
As you could probably guess, Mister Mental is a supervillain with mental powers that he can use to take over people’s minds.
Mister Mental took psychic control of everyone at the big basketball game this Saturday and then just started helping himself to wallets and purses.
But Captain Thunderman was watching the game on TV, so he showed up and grabbed Mister Mental.