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June 7, 2017 at 4:34 am #135363
Bane Dorrance
ParticipantThis!! Just SOOOOO Much this! No real plot direction & then zer0 muscle to boot!!!
But Instead of not buying the comic ,..I’ll just plead with the artist on social media because the writer is never gonna budge about her storiesWell, well, well, it is time. The moment we have all been waiting for. Issue # 6 is going to be it right? We’re finally going to get to see She-Hulk Right?
…Right?
RIGHT!?!?!?
YES!
And my reaction to seeing She-Hulk for the first time is UNSUBSCRIBED!
Wow, fuck this comic series!
I waited 6 months. 6 months to see if Jen’s transformation into She-Hulk would be worth it. Six months of incredible comic covers teasing of this massive, grey goliath who is struggling to control her inner demons. Six months of the writer teasing, alluding, implying that Jen’s transformation would be a chaotic 1.
Was it chaotic? NOT 1 FUCKING BIT! You ready to find out what happens? Here we go.Panel 1, side shot of Jen’s glowing green.
Panel 2, front shot of her face turning grey with the scar across the nose.
Panel 3, Jen is out of view as the beast surrounds her.
Panel 4, Jen bursts out in Hulk form and the Hulk is MOST UNIMPRESSIVE.The Hulk is scrawny and scrambles around on all fours like a gorilla or a wolf. It is the embodiment of a female version of the Hulk and to be honest, the artwork and mannerisms the artist gave her are really good. She looks like a monster, acts like a monster, and moves like a monster. However, there was a distinct lack of MUSCLE and a distinct lack of HULK in her body. She looks nothing like the covers and the transformation was not worth the price of admission.
What kills me about this comic is that it does things really well. The artwork is stellar, Jen looks great and sexy, the Hulk looks like a monster. But the story is pure, utter garbage. Throughout these 6 months the writer implies that Jen is afraid of transforming into the Hulk because she’s savage and crazy and out of control. But in Issue 6, Jen is mostly in control of her Hulk form and maintains enough intellect to rescue the person who was trying to hurt her in the first place.
There was no conflict between her and her Hulk form. There was no struggle, no attempt to resist, no strained transformation. She appeared and disappeared in a whimper. The weakest part of this series is the story. The writer is trying to tell a story she clearly has no idea what to do with. Yeah, PTSD, great, I got it. You don’t need to fucking repeat in every comic issue how Jen misses Bruce. WE GOT IT!
I expected more conflict, I expected more stakes. I expected the Hulk to want to KILL the person who wanted to hurt her, not save her life. I wanted Jen to be at odds with Hulk, I wanted there to be a reason to care. Instead, this comic series has become a typical comic series. Repeat character’s backstory, inch the plot forward, end the issue on a cliffhanger. Repeat the backstory, hit the climax which is a fight with a villain, inch the plot forward or resolve the story.
I can forgive this Hulk series not having a detailed transformation. It is, after all, not catering to us. But I can’t forgive how utterly boring this series is and how contrived and corny it feels. I was so disappointed that I’ve now canceled my subscription. I will wait for someone else to spend their money and post screen caps of the transformation, but I’m not longer giving a single fucking cent to this comic. If it dies, oh well, should have brought on a better writer and editor because this series FUCKING SUCKS.
June 7, 2017 at 4:34 am #135364ParticipantThis!! Just SOOOOO Much this! No real plot direction & then zer0 muscle to boot!!!
But Instead of not buying the comic ,..I’ll just plead with the artist on social media because the writer is never gonna budge about her storiesWell, well, well, it is time. The moment we have all been waiting for. Issue # 6 is going to be it right? We’re finally going to get to see She-Hulk Right?
…Right?
RIGHT!?!?!?
YES!
And my reaction to seeing She-Hulk for the first time is UNSUBSCRIBED!
Wow, fuck this comic series!
I waited 6 months. 6 months to see if Jen’s transformation into She-Hulk would be worth it. Six months of incredible comic covers teasing of this massive, grey goliath who is struggling to control her inner demons. Six months of the writer teasing, alluding, implying that Jen’s transformation would be a chaotic 1.
Was it chaotic? NOT 1 FUCKING BIT! You ready to find out what happens? Here we go.Panel 1, side shot of Jen’s glowing green.
Panel 2, front shot of her face turning grey with the scar across the nose.
Panel 3, Jen is out of view as the beast surrounds her.
Panel 4, Jen bursts out in Hulk form and the Hulk is MOST UNIMPRESSIVE.The Hulk is scrawny and scrambles around on all fours like a gorilla or a wolf. It is the embodiment of a female version of the Hulk and to be honest, the artwork and mannerisms the artist gave her are really good. She looks like a monster, acts like a monster, and moves like a monster. However, there was a distinct lack of MUSCLE and a distinct lack of HULK in her body. She looks nothing like the covers and the transformation was not worth the price of admission.
What kills me about this comic is that it does things really well. The artwork is stellar, Jen looks great and sexy, the Hulk looks like a monster. But the story is pure, utter garbage. Throughout these 6 months the writer implies that Jen is afraid of transforming into the Hulk because she’s savage and crazy and out of control. But in Issue 6, Jen is mostly in control of her Hulk form and maintains enough intellect to rescue the person who was trying to hurt her in the first place.
There was no conflict between her and her Hulk form. There was no struggle, no attempt to resist, no strained transformation. She appeared and disappeared in a whimper. The weakest part of this series is the story. The writer is trying to tell a story she clearly has no idea what to do with. Yeah, PTSD, great, I got it. You don’t need to fucking repeat in every comic issue how Jen misses Bruce. WE GOT IT!
I expected more conflict, I expected more stakes. I expected the Hulk to want to KILL the person who wanted to hurt her, not save her life. I wanted Jen to be at odds with Hulk, I wanted there to be a reason to care. Instead, this comic series has become a typical comic series. Repeat character’s backstory, inch the plot forward, end the issue on a cliffhanger. Repeat the backstory, hit the climax which is a fight with a villain, inch the plot forward or resolve the story.
I can forgive this Hulk series not having a detailed transformation. It is, after all, not catering to us. But I can’t forgive how utterly boring this series is and how contrived and corny it feels. I was so disappointed that I’ve now canceled my subscription. I will wait for someone else to spend their money and post screen caps of the transformation, but I’m not longer giving a single fucking cent to this comic. If it dies, oh well, should have brought on a better writer and editor because this series FUCKING SUCKS.
June 7, 2017 at 4:47 am #135365J.W. Appel
ParticipantCan I ask why She-hulk is gray here?
June 7, 2017 at 7:45 am #135366
TC2ParticipantCan I ask why She-hulk is gray here?
This is not revealed in the 6 issue story arc. I believe it’s implied that the trauma she received from Civil War changed her and made her Hulk more savage buuuuut, that definitely did not come across in the comic.
June 7, 2017 at 8:47 am #135367ParticipantShouldn’t a more savage Hulk be bigger and more berzerk? Did she at least say “Hulk smash?”
June 7, 2017 at 3:48 pm #135370ParticipantShouldn’t a more savage Hulk be bigger and more berzerk? Did she at least say “Hulk smash?”
No,..but I DO understand why {she-}HULK wasn’t bigger&going full Wolverine berzerk
Makes it extremely hard to scurry away in the shadows ala Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno-style if you have the size&temper of Banner’s HULK
Though she is more Savage than previous incarnations but probably just a modern version of the original Savage She-Hulk is the best way to view this character
Especially since there’s no muscle on {she-}HULK outside the coverJune 16, 2017 at 9:24 am #135487smitty
ParticipantYou may want to check out pages 10-11 in issue 7.
June 17, 2017 at 5:35 am #135500TC2ParticipantIf Smitty is recommending pages 10-11, then there must be something good. *Sigh* Guess I’ll have to buy it after all.
June 17, 2017 at 7:38 am #135503TC2ParticipantOkay, so the new artist on Hulk actually draws her with a lot of muscle, so this is great.
Is it worth the price of admission? Ehh… hard to say.
The story so far, is not for me. The main issue I have with it is that Jen and Hulk are not at odds. They imply that Jen feels different, that she might feel like she’ll go berserk like Bruce, but I am not going to sit around for another 6-12 months hoping that this Jekyll and Hyde relationship will take place.
Also, it’s once again going into corny comic territory where a bunch of losers are trying to force another character to turn into a monster so they could make a viral video and profit off of it. It’s just so unbelievable that someone would ever force someone else to turn into a monster to record it, but this is the comic shtick.
Still, Hulk Jen is very nicely muscled but she’s only in a few pages before she reverts back. Soo… better to wait for an issue where she’s Hulk most of the time.
June 18, 2017 at 4:43 pm #135519Anthony Durrant
ParticipantWhat I don’t understand is why issue 7 came out on the 14th instead of the end of the month, as usual.
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