Vulnerability Is My Superpower: An Underpants and Overbites Collection - Book Review

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Vulnerability Is My Superpower is a paperback collection of Jackie Davis's online comic Underpants and Overbites. It is 176 pages long and was published by Andrews McMeel on 13 April 2021. Davis is a comic book writer and artist who lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and a large assortment of house plants and plush toy companions. Vulnerability Is My Superpower is the third collected edition of Underpants and Overbites.


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Underpants and Overbites is a light-hearted diary comic based on Davis's own life. The comic depicts Davis as a potato-shaped, buck-toothed little person and contains curious and humorous observations about everyday life. It features frequent themes and characters and touches on her childhood, mental health, anxiety and relationship problems.



I really enjoyed Vulnerability Is My Superpower. I thought it was a really sweet and charming book. Davis is adorable as a little potato person. I liked how she embraces her weirdness and isn't afraid to let herself be a bit of an oddball. In one comic, she confesses to nine things that she loves that everyone else hates, which include the sound of a mouse scratching in her kitchen, when a bug flies into her mouth, and when she sits on a toilet seat that has been warmed by another butt. In Early Childhood Experiments, she fesses up to dumb things she did as a kid that we're all guilty of doing, like staring directly into the sun and wearing a shirt like a pair of pants. She's such a lovable, relatable dork.


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I've been aware of Underpants and Overbites for the past couple of years. It became one of the regular online comics that would pop up on my social media feed. I didn't dislike the comic, but I wasn't a huge fan. I'm glad that I decided to read Vulnerability Is My Superpower and give Davis's work a closer look. It was so good it has given me a new appreciation for Underpants and Overbites. I get it now. I understand the appeal. Davis is such a likeable character. She is honest and isn't afraid to take ownership of her feelings. I like that she has made peace with the fact that vulnerability is her superpower. It's part of what makes her human.

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