She-Hulk

[PhotoJones]

You're awesome, dude I thought I was the only one who loved Bobillo's work. I thought his departure was temporary but now I'm thinking it is permenent, which is a shame.

He's doing the Howard the Duck mini, which looks really good. He draws a particularly rough looking Howard.

 

[MangleBoP]

Thanks for the Info. You've help me stop someone from writing a very nasty fan fic about our favorite Green Glamazon.

 

[ragingdemon155]

Any idea on when Vol 6 of She Hulk is coming out?

I collect the series through TPB and finished up Dan Slott's run. I loved it. She Hulk has quickly become one of my favorite characters in Marvel. I'm anxious to start up on Peter David's run.

 

[The Geek Vault]

I've actually been thinking of picking this book up

 

[LemonSunday]

It's not nearly as good as I wanted it to be.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yep, I dropped it this week. It wasn't bad, but Moll's art was pretty weak and I didn't really care about the story.

 

[LemonSunday]

Yeah, Moll sucks. When will T&A go away?

 

[fifthfiend]

I read three pages of David's first issue, went like "She's a bounty hunter? WTF?" and haven't cared since.

I think I picked up an issue last month sometime and flipped through it, and just got a whole lot more of me not caring.

I mean the book only had the funnest premise and most totally great supporting cast in just about all of comics ever, so clearly your first move as a new writer would be to throw all that **** out the window, and send your character out on some boring-ass road trip to nowhere.

I just had to get that out of my system, I'm good now.

You've help me stop someone from writing a very nasty fan fic about our favorite Green Glamazon.

It's noble work you're doing, sir.

 

[LemonSunday]

I mean the book only had the funnest premise and most totally great supporting cast in just about all of comics ever, so clearly your first move as a new writer would be to throw all that **** out the window, and send your character out on some boring-ass road trip to nowhere.

That made me chuckle.

 

[fifthfiend]

If only I could say that about David's She-Hulk.

 

[LemonSunday]

Ouch. The weird thing is that his run on the Hulk is probably the best that title's ever seen. Same thing with X-Factor.

 

[Red]

Outside of David's run X-Factor's never had a good run.

 

[LemonSunday]

Uh, no. Layton and Simonson's runs were awesome.

 

[Red]

Were they? Were they really

 

[LemonSunday]

Yes, yes they were.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I never read Layton's, but Simonson crossed 'em over with Thor, so it had to be good.

And, honestly, David's bounty hunter thing isn't so bad. I do miss the law firm and its cast, but PAD's trying to do something novel and interesting with Jen, which I appreciate. I just wish he were doing it with a better artist.

 

[fifthfiend]

PAD's trying to do something novel and interesting with Jen

I'm not so much disagreeing as saying that

1. He is failing,

and

2. Someone was doing something novel and interesting with Jen, and it was totally great! And alls PAD needed to do was just keep doing that totally great and novel and interesting thing.

It's like if three seasons into Seinfeld some new producer had come on and said "**** all this 'show about nothing' ********, we're turning the entire cast into crime scene investigators!"

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, it's not really the same as Seinfeld, is it? Creative directions in comics change all the time. The Knaufs are not doing the same thing with Iron Man that Ellis was. Hell, Slott himself didn't even do the same thing consistently in his time on She-Hulk: remember the whole Agent of SHIELD bit? It was entirely PAD's prerogative to change things around. She-Hulk is still comedic and still follows She-Hulk; it's just She-Hulk at a different place than where she was with Slott. PAD even said that he didn't want to do the same thing as Slott because Slott already did that so well. So I don't see a fundamental problem with what PAD's done.

I do agree that he's not doing the best job ever on She-Hulk, though. The bounty hunter angle's not all that great, although I do think it's interesting that he's questioning the entire drive to be a superhero.

 

[Manic]

I miss Slott, but he had to abandon She-Hulk so he could save the worst thing to happen to Spider-Man since the Clone Saga.

I think David's doing a good job with Shulkie, but he did kinda spit in the face of everything the title was before he came on board. However, I remain convinced that she won't remain a bounty hunter for very long. It looks like Jen is trying to run away from her old life, while Jazinda is trying to convince her she shouldn't. In the end, I expect She-Hulk to be back to her heroic self. I'm holding out hope she reapplies for the bar, but Peter David doesn't strike me as someone who uses season 2 Battlestar Galactica plot tactics.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Who reapplied for the bar in season 2 of BSG?

 

[Manic]

Who reapplied for the bar in season 2 of BSG?

Sorry. Badly phrased. I meant how BSG ended a season with Baltar as president, humans settled on an all-new planet, and a military occupation by the Cylons. Within a few episodes of the next season, Roslin was president again, everyone was off the planet and looking for Earth again, and there was only one battlestar in the fleet. Again.

Character-wise, everything had changed. On the surface, it looked like they had gone back to the status quo.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but those were some pretty awesome episodes. Even the webisodes between seasons 2 and 3 were awesome.

I see what you mean, though. Maybe David could find some way to integrate the two casts. Law firms employ bounty hunters for bail jumpers, don't they? Sometimes?

 

[fifthfiend]

It was entirely PAD's prerogative to change things around. She-Hulk is still comedic and still follows She-Hulk; it's just She-Hulk at a different place than where she was with Slott. PAD even said that he didn't want to do the same thing as Slott because Slott already did that so well. So I don't see a fundamental problem with what PAD's done.

I'm not saying it wasn't his prerogative, I'm just saying it was stupid of him to change things, which he changed from being totally great to sucking.

Well, it's not really the same as Seinfeld, is it? Creative directions in comics change all the time.

Hey I mean if they'd turned that ****ty Brooke Shields show that ran between Seinfeld and ER for a while into a show about crime-scene investigators I would have been eh what the ****, it can't be any worse. I'm just saying it's stupid to change Seinfeld.

Hell, Slott himself didn't even do the same thing consistently in his time on She-Hulk: remember the whole Agent of SHIELD bit?

I'm gonna be honest none of that really thrilled me to death either.

 

[Not Jake]

I agree 100% with fifthfiend, I am totally glad that Seinfeld didn't get changed into a procedural drama. Also I agree with him on the contents of our medicine cabinets. Sometimes I like to make a veritable fruit salad of pills. I call it pill fruit salad.

 

[Kitsune]

I'm not so much disagreeing as saying that

1. He is failing,

and

2. Someone was doing something novel and interesting with Jen, and it was totally great! And alls PAD needed to do was just keep doing that totally great and novel and interesting thing.

It's like if three seasons into Seinfeld some new producer had come on and said "**** all this 'show about nothing' ********, we're turning the entire cast into crime scene investigators!"

1) True

2) I'd actually prefer they kill off the entire cast and replace them with characters that I could tolerate. Unlike Seinfeld, She-Hulk was actually funny