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Flash Gordon: The Girl from Infinity Vol. 1
Sci fi and fantasy merge in this reimagining of Flash Gordon! Focusing on teamwork, adventures, cute critters, heroes, monsters, and the journey of leadership!
In the distant future, voyager Dale Arden discovers a shooting star — containing a girl named FLASH GORDON, Savior of the Universe! But Flash has no memory of who she is, and together, she and Dale must uncover her past, save Dale’s family, and rescue the alien planet of Omnia from the clutches of the cruel Emperor Azimuth! Join the adventure of a lifetime in this gorgeous reimagining of FLASH GORDON, written by NYT-bestseller Marguerite Bennett and illustrated by Bev Johnson!
In the distant future, voyager Dale Arden discovers a shooting star — containing a girl named FLASH GORDON, Savior of the Universe! But Flash has no memory of who she is, and together, she and Dale must uncover her past, save Dale’s family, and rescue the alien planet of Omnia from the clutches of the cruel Emperor Azimuth! Join the adventure of a lifetime in this gorgeous reimagining of FLASH GORDON, written by NYT-bestseller Marguerite Bennett and illustrated by Bev Johnson!
128 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2025
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March 9, 2025
Across my love of various cartoons and toy lines, I've watched a majority of them cycle through multiple iterations and the best ones have been able to make interesting changes and employ different tones while still retaining their core. In the past several years, I've really taken to classic pulp heroes like Flash Gordon. But even though Flash has been around for 90 years, as a character, he's remained relatively the same with a few changes. Flash Gordon: The Girl from Infinity dares to make big changes and is all the better for it. Marguerite Bennett and Bev Johnson have reimagined Flash and Dale by gender swapping them, and indeed, all the characters in the world are different, but also the same. This new version is incredibly fascinating, and I really hope to see more in the future. As a girl uncle, this is exactly the type of book I want to hand to my niece to try and get her into Flash Gordon. Job well done.
Special Thanks to Papercutz and Netgalley for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.
Special Thanks to Papercutz and Netgalley for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.
June 3, 2025
This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 2.0 of 5
A thousand years from now, on a space ship acting as an ark preserving Earth's fauna the young boy Dale Arden, who is the caretaker for the Ark, sees what he believes is a comet that comes crashing to the ground. He discovers it's an escape pod of some sort and from the pod emerges a young girl about his age. She has no idea who she is or where she comes from. Seeing words on the pod, she assumes it can only be her name - Flash Gordon.
The ark is attacked and Flash and Dale are taken captive and brought to the capital of Omnia where they meet the Merciless Emperor. There, Prince Azimuth is both fascinated and irritated by the rambunctious Flash and Princess Aurora appreciates Flash's spirit.
Flash rescues Dale who's been imprisoned by the Prince, and the Prince discovers something special about Flash's background.
This was ... this was ... I don't know what to make of this.
I'm not against a reboot of a classic character, but what's the point of this one? It's one thing to make Flash a female and Dale a male, but to make them also barely teenagers? To make a book so ... immature ... that these classic characters are like their more familiar counterparts in name only, really, really does a disservice to the original creation.
I was sort of thankful that there was a VERY brief moment that suggested that this Flash and Dale were simply a part of a different reality (it's one panel that features a more familiar Flash), but I cannot fathom why anyone would choose this Flash over any other version out there (the only thing worse would be if James Patterson wrote a new version of Flash Gordon).
There's not a whole lot of dialog here and much of the action is depicted through illustration only. Scenes such as Flash's fight with an eight-legged monster in an arena, has no dialog for four pages and I'm not entirely sure what it was that she did in order to defeat the creature (I think she stuck a broken sword between its teeth).
Judging by the story by Marguerite Bennett and the art by Bev Johnson, this book is intended for elementary and middle schoolers, for whom this is probably right on point. But when you change a classic this much (I refuse to consider this a reboot), you do a disservice to the reader. Should they really like this, they will be disappointed when they discover the original, or they won't like this and will never seek out the original because of this.
But even putting aside my feelings about how this has changed a popular pulp era character, I just find the story extremely weak and the character building (I use the verb loosely) poor. Ironically, even though the 'lead' character is now female, it is Dale who is more interesting. He's in charge of Earth's last remaining life. Now THAT'S interesting. Flash is just a mysterious and rambunctious child who runs into a lot of luck.
Overall, this is really disappointing.
Looking for a good book? Flash Gordon: The Girl From Infinity Vol. 1 is a graphic novel that reboots the classic pulp-era comic strip hero into an immature girl.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
A thousand years from now, on a space ship acting as an ark preserving Earth's fauna the young boy Dale Arden, who is the caretaker for the Ark, sees what he believes is a comet that comes crashing to the ground. He discovers it's an escape pod of some sort and from the pod emerges a young girl about his age. She has no idea who she is or where she comes from. Seeing words on the pod, she assumes it can only be her name - Flash Gordon.
The ark is attacked and Flash and Dale are taken captive and brought to the capital of Omnia where they meet the Merciless Emperor. There, Prince Azimuth is both fascinated and irritated by the rambunctious Flash and Princess Aurora appreciates Flash's spirit.
Flash rescues Dale who's been imprisoned by the Prince, and the Prince discovers something special about Flash's background.
This was ... this was ... I don't know what to make of this.
I'm not against a reboot of a classic character, but what's the point of this one? It's one thing to make Flash a female and Dale a male, but to make them also barely teenagers? To make a book so ... immature ... that these classic characters are like their more familiar counterparts in name only, really, really does a disservice to the original creation.
I was sort of thankful that there was a VERY brief moment that suggested that this Flash and Dale were simply a part of a different reality (it's one panel that features a more familiar Flash), but I cannot fathom why anyone would choose this Flash over any other version out there (the only thing worse would be if James Patterson wrote a new version of Flash Gordon).
There's not a whole lot of dialog here and much of the action is depicted through illustration only. Scenes such as Flash's fight with an eight-legged monster in an arena, has no dialog for four pages and I'm not entirely sure what it was that she did in order to defeat the creature (I think she stuck a broken sword between its teeth).
Judging by the story by Marguerite Bennett and the art by Bev Johnson, this book is intended for elementary and middle schoolers, for whom this is probably right on point. But when you change a classic this much (I refuse to consider this a reboot), you do a disservice to the reader. Should they really like this, they will be disappointed when they discover the original, or they won't like this and will never seek out the original because of this.
But even putting aside my feelings about how this has changed a popular pulp era character, I just find the story extremely weak and the character building (I use the verb loosely) poor. Ironically, even though the 'lead' character is now female, it is Dale who is more interesting. He's in charge of Earth's last remaining life. Now THAT'S interesting. Flash is just a mysterious and rambunctious child who runs into a lot of luck.
Overall, this is really disappointing.
Looking for a good book? Flash Gordon: The Girl From Infinity Vol. 1 is a graphic novel that reboots the classic pulp-era comic strip hero into an immature girl.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
April 9, 2026
This caught my eye because of the Flash Gordon comics and shorts of the 30s and 40s, but when I saw Marguerite Bennett was the writer, I had to grab it instantly. I've missed her comics SO MUCH, and it's been ages since I saw her name. This is a fun reimagining of the original, with Flash a young girl who had been in cryo through space until Dale came across her pod. I'm not quite the audience for this, but the writing is snappy and the story feels like an homage to the 30s futurism of the original.
March 17, 2025
ARC from NetGalley.
It’s not especially bad or anything, but it feels like it’s had a lot of rough edges smoothed off. There’s no real sense of danger at all. Sort of wooden.
It’s not especially bad or anything, but it feels like it’s had a lot of rough edges smoothed off. There’s no real sense of danger at all. Sort of wooden.
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