[Mr Burroughs]

Ha – I had just found that board and was going to post it here. Good catch.

Since Sharapova turns 19 in two months, I had figured she stopped growing a while ago. But those commenters have some terrific theories about her, and there are links to comments she's made about "growing into my body" or "still growing" as recently as four months ago. A lot of the commenters are convinced she's already hit 6'3'', but I'm not sure how much of that is camera angles and heels and etc.

I can say something pretty uncontroversial: I want Sharapova to stop complaining about her size and start bulking up already. She's barely 130 pounds! If you go by BMI, she's actually underweight right now. It shouldn't be that hard for Sharapova to eat a little more and hit the weights, and put on 10-15 pounds over the next year or so.

One nice thing about following Sharapova is that she's so famous, and such a sports sex symbol, that she's always getting asked about her height and her size. There are dozens of clips or articles where she muses about her latest growth spurt, and then giggles. Who can get tired of that? The only thing better would be if she starts getting asked about her steadily growing shoulders and biceps, and then giggles as she flexes.

[Mr Burroughs]

Oh, I didn't explain that well. The comic has stories which take place in the current Luba storyline (contemporary) and it also has flashbacks.

[Mr Burroughs]

It's actually pretty hard to tell if She-Hulk has kept her muscles from the last issues, because Bobillo is such an erratic-ass artist. He draws a flashback panel to when she was at her biggest, and in most of her fight scenes in this issue, she looks just as big. But then there'll be a random panel, right after one of the "she's still huge" panels, where she looks skinny again.

Bobillo's just exasperating. And he needs to learn how to draw womens' legs already.

[Mr Burroughs]

I actually have a page-by-page version of that second "Monkeyman and O'Brien" story – the one where she gets zapped by the size ray and starts growing out of control. It was originally printed as six one-page installments in the "Dark Horse Extra" free comic. I can post these pages if ya'll would like.

"Monkeyman" comics are hard to find, but you can score the TPB of that origin story and the three-issue mini-series pretty easily for like $18. The origin story is probably the best bit – nothing beats that spread page of O'Brien wearing gym clothes and flexing her muscles as she marvels at how big she is. But there's a pretty awesome part in issue #1 where the characters are working, and one of them (Aki, Ann O'Brien's assistant) re-tells the characters' origin story. There are panels showing the old, scrawny O'Brien knocked out the floor wearing a green T-shirt, which her thin arms are sticking out of. Cut back to present day – O'Brien is wearing a very similar green T-shirt, and her arms are bulging and stretching it to the seams.

[Mr Burroughs]

Thanks, I've been looking for all of the "Amazon Polaris" issues for years, ever since I read Uncanny #250 and realized she went through this. There are more Polaris pics in #254, and #255. In #254 there's a scene where Moira McTaggart is running tests on Polaris to determine how she got so big – lots of cool dialogue. In #255 she wrecks house on some Reavers.

The problem with this character arc, though, is that it comes from the era when Uncanny was coming out twice a month, and the X-characters were scattered all over the world – Claremont's scripts for each issue would jump from character to character, sometimes giving us as little as 2 pages of story about what the people in Polaris's story were up to. In issue #258 she's trapped by Legion and then in #274 she has her powers drained … I was unable to figure out what happened to her in between because the plotting was so jumpy. She may have appeared in X-Factor in this time period, too.

[Mr Burroughs]

Yeah, I can't find that clip either – The Process doesn't seem to have clips.

[Mr Burroughs]

I think I first got into it from the Genesis game "Altered Beast," where you could collect power-ups that made your human character grow bigger and bigger until he/she burst out of her clothes and turned into a monster.

Next thing was probably the Daryl Hannah 50ft Woman remake.

[Mr Burroughs]

Not to beat a dead horse, but if anyone gets a preview of the issue or sees some pages, please tell us whether She-Hulk has kept her bulked-up muscles from the last issue of series 1.

[Mr Burroughs]

Count me in. Best example I’ve seen thus far was in the "Attack of the 50 Ft Woman" remake with Daryl Hannah, when she looks down at her feet and her growth is warping the fabric of her shoe.

A runner up is probably "Compounding Interest," when the main character is giving Brenda a massage and notices her feet are now as big as his. I was hoping Hunter would throw in some updates on that issue later in the story, as Brenda grows 8-10 more inches in height after that scene. Feet and hands are probably my favorite body part to compare in before-after growth stories.

[Mr Burroughs]

I have these issues at home; they were cool when they came out, but got eclipsed by the She-Hulk series that came a few months later.

The physique here is cool, but the thing I don’t love is the angry, veins-pumping "savage" She-Hulk. It’s far cooler in issues #8-12 of the She-Hulk series, when Jen pumps up willingly, shows off her new muscles, and then maintains this kind of "aw-shucks" reaction to the way her new strength affects her surroundings. The awareness of her physique is much hotter, on a deeper level, then the generic "hulk-out" seen here.

BTW, I’m not dissing your page scans. Thanks for posting them! I just need to reminisce about She-Hulk #8-12 once in a while until October rolls around and we see if Dan Slott lets Jen keep her muscles …

[Author]

Posts