At $4.99 Hulk #600 was too pricey to pick up this week. But I did skim through it....

SPOILERS

Jen contacts reporter Ben Ulrich who works for the Frontline newspaper. It's done like "All The Presidents Men" with Jen hiding in the shadows of an underground parking garage. She wants Ulrich to infiltrate AIM which has captured Rick Jones (now the Hulk like A-Bomb) and are conducting experiments. Red Hulk is there too and above all Jen wants to find out who Rulk is. Along for the ride is Doc Samson (W/short hair) and Peter Parker who is brought along as photographer.

Still awake? Sooooooo........

Everything turns into a Big Fight(tm) With Doc Samson suddenly turning into a bigger meaner "Bad Doc" Samson as he and Jen pummel each other senseless. Meanwhile Red Hulk and Green (Real) Hulk have it out while MODOK looks on like the useless tool he is. Red Hulk drains Hulk of all his gamma energy declaring that Bruce Banner can never be the Hulk again. All the fighting has set off a chain reaction that will blow everything to bits. A-Bomb grabs Banner while Spidey grabs Ulrich and they escape. Meanwhile Red Hulk stands over the senseless bodies of Jen and Samson saying "You two aren't going anywhere"......


BOOOOOOOM!

Later, Ulrich is approached by Rulk in the same underground garage and is warned off the story. Ulrich complies. No word on Jen.

Future solicitations have "She Hulk" back up in the issues of Hulk .... but with Lyra(sp?) taking center stage. The story is entitled "In Search of She Hulk".

Normally this wouldn't worry me... "If there's no body there's no death" Death by 'splosions are never permanent. Heck death isn't permanent in comics. No one could have been deader than Steve Rogers... they even showed his rotting corpse ... but he's coming back. There's also a trend during "Dark Reign" to replace some longstanding heroes like Ms. Marvel, Dr.Strange, even Wolverine. What worries me is that Jeph Loeb is writing this. The man has become an infuriating hack in recent years, and his recent work on Ultimatum suggests  that he isn't squeamish about giving characters irrelevant deaths. She Hulk is also on the B-List which often means "redshirting" a character for "shock" value. Marvel really seems to want to push Thulkie these days. If I drop Hulk, it'll be the last Marvel title I'm currently buying.

I hope I'm wrong, just sayin' you might want to get those petitions ready.....

BTX

Each time I start to question why I decided to start reading other comics from other companies, Marvel (or DC) come up with somthing that reminds me why I left them in the first place.

You know,
Its so sad what Marvel has done to the She-Hulk since her last run in Savage. I am a BIG fan of her Savage era, and I'm sure there are others here too who like seeing Jen grow into a muscular giantess, but, having her transform has nothing to do with fans sexualizing over her. Marvel created that perception of her in Sensational, where she was jump-roping naked in one of the issues. It just baffles me that they would kill her off because they are afraid of how fans seeing Jen SH, when they were trying to bank off that her sexuality. This is why I stopped buying SH comics years ago. (I hated the fact her ability to change was taken away) So, this is why fans out there choose to creat her transforming like the Hulk. (I am starting a Savage SH comic soon using Poser)

So, Marvel can do what they want, make Lyja the next SH. (anorexic and all) BUT, She-Hulk is a strong, muscular woman and if Marvel wants to call those who enjoy how she is supposed to be (pervs) well, so be it. I like my SH strong, muscular and powerful, and that's how I'm going to protray her, cased closed.

Merc

Red She-Hulk.

Would that I were kidding.