Thursday, December 4, 2008

She Hulk: Gone, gone gone again


Well, here we go again. For the fourth time a monthly She Hulk comic has been cancelled.
From Marvel Comics release about the last issue of the current series:
She's been savage. She's been sensational. She's been an avenger. She's been a lawyer. She's been a bounty-hunter. But there's one thing She-Hulk has always been, in all of her many series... cancelled. But it hasn't stopped her yet! In this oversized final issue, Peter David brings his run on the Jade Giantess to a close... but can Jen use her last remaining pages to save her friends from a truly mammoth threat? Catch her now, before someone turns her red!
The sad truth is that since Dan Slott left the book a couple years ago, Peter David has written some pretty crappy stories. He tried to take She Hulk from being a fun character to something almost grim and gritty. I haven't enjoyed it.
David is great writer, but his take on She Hulk was just uninteresting.
He jumped the story from where Slott left off to something completely different. Eventually, he wound his way back to tell us what happened, but by then it had been so long I didn't really care.
In addition, "She Hulk" also has been plagued by having truly awful artists since Rick Burchett left at the same time Slott did.
Maybe She Hulk will return someday for another series.
I am still hoping for an entire issue of She Hulk drawn by Frank Cho. Maybe I'll never see it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that She-Hulk or just a green Serena Williams?

Jefferson Wolfe said...

Well, I suppose a case could be made that they should have about the same build. I suspect if I was on the receiving end of one of her tennis serves, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Jefferson Wolfe said...

Same build, except that She Hulk should be about a foot and a half taller, mind you.