Brett White
Feb 29, 2008, 10:20 am
<a href=" http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/previews/marvel/0208/SHEHLK2026_col.jpg" target="_blank"><img src=" http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/previews/marvel/0208/SHEHLK2026_colt.jpg" alt="She-Hulk #26" hspace=10 align=left></a> Reviewer: Brett White, brett.stephen.white@gmail.com
Story Title: The Whole Hero Thing (conclusion)
“Have a little compassion for crying out loud!”
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll with Val Semeiks
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Coloring: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Lettering: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artists: Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Rainier Beredo
Production: Paul Acerios
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor In Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Published by: Marvel Comics (www.marvel.com)
The moment was bound to come when She-Hulk’s innate heroism would overcome her recent self-destructive passivity. That moment arrived this month in the form of Cazon, a green-skinned Zac Efron with the compassion of Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men won the Oscar, still too early to expect name recognition?). Jen the bounty hunter and her Skrull partner Jazinda stumbled across Cazon last issue as he fled from the slay-for-pay Kodor. Last issue ended with Cazon revealing his true nature and seemingly killing Jazinda. Jen went from being able to let this opportunity for heroism pass her by to being deeply involved.
Peter David gets a lot of mileage out of a fairly average plot by having the characters react truthfully. Jen is still in snark-mode, obviously still jaded from the events of the Civil War and whatever made her take up bounty hunting. She’s even sarcastic and cynical when her partner returns from the dead, pointing fingers and placing blame on her not going towards the light. Seeing as how Jazinda made her debut by getting her neck twisted around in her Jen-form, I think it’s going to take a lot for David to convince us when/if she does pass on. It’s not until Jen saves Larry’s life and Tanya’s soul that she realizes she’s a bona-fide hero, no matter how many checks she cashes. Jazinda, on the other hand, is still a wild-card and with Secret Invasion coming up, I have a feeling this is going to be a character to watch.
The two green-skinned males in this issue are one-note characters, but the notes are necessary to the song. Kodor is essentially a heartless beast, driven only by the desire to acquire his prey. He has no qualms about giving Tanya the Pushing Daisies treatment (it’s one of the most popular new shows of the season, still too early to expect name recognition?) and is annoyed with her response. This little exchange is exactly the type of realism inserted by David that makes the issue a notch above average. Of course Tanya is going to freak out after being temporarily resuscitated and of course Kodor is going to roll his eyes and try to off her again. As a mirror to what Jen could turn into as a bounty hunter, Kodor does just fine.
Cazon, on the other hand, could have used a little bit more fleshing out. He definitely serves the purpose of providing Jen with a completely sadistic villain that we as readers would have no problem with her killing (and when she doesn’t kill him, we get the message that Jen is never going to go down the dark road Kodor went). However, there is no reason given for why he wants Larry. It may just be for sport but why go to all of the trouble to tie him to the hull of a space ship when he could have just as easily shot him for dead. In fact, by tying Larry to the hull, Cazon gave Jen the exact motivation she needed to take him down. It’s obvious that David did this so it was Jen doing the job and coming to her senses, not Kodor shooting down the ship in an anticlimactic and off-theme blaze. Still, I could have done with seeing more of Cazon’s motives.
This is Shawn Moll’s weakest issue so far with a lot of the proportions looking rushed and slightly off. Cazon’s head looks scrunched in some panels and Kodor’s Badoon musculature is hard to decipher most of the time. And, I hate to say this, but there’s something Liefeldian about the size of Jazinda’s hand on the last page. It’s so tiny! I’m normally satisfied with Moll’s art, even though I still see Juan Bobillo's depictions when I think of this title. But with such a dramatic change in tone, a realistic artist like Moll fits perfectly. I just wish he would stop drawing Jen with her thong straps sticking out of her pants. Seriously, that’s beyond tacky.
Peter David is doing a solid job so far. It’s not as original and funny as it was in the early days of Dan Slott, but it does still feel like She-Hulk. While this issue’s plot is average and the art is questionable at times, David is competently building on the character’s past. Next issue says that Jen’s past is back to haunt her, so it looks like we’re going to get some answers.
Also, the sight gag of Kodor shooting a raccoon out of a tree made me laugh out loud. Didn’t have anywhere else in the review to work that in.
OVERALL:
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Story Title: The Whole Hero Thing (conclusion)
“Have a little compassion for crying out loud!”
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll with Val Semeiks
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Coloring: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Lettering: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artists: Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Rainier Beredo
Production: Paul Acerios
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor In Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Published by: Marvel Comics (www.marvel.com)
The moment was bound to come when She-Hulk’s innate heroism would overcome her recent self-destructive passivity. That moment arrived this month in the form of Cazon, a green-skinned Zac Efron with the compassion of Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men won the Oscar, still too early to expect name recognition?). Jen the bounty hunter and her Skrull partner Jazinda stumbled across Cazon last issue as he fled from the slay-for-pay Kodor. Last issue ended with Cazon revealing his true nature and seemingly killing Jazinda. Jen went from being able to let this opportunity for heroism pass her by to being deeply involved.
Peter David gets a lot of mileage out of a fairly average plot by having the characters react truthfully. Jen is still in snark-mode, obviously still jaded from the events of the Civil War and whatever made her take up bounty hunting. She’s even sarcastic and cynical when her partner returns from the dead, pointing fingers and placing blame on her not going towards the light. Seeing as how Jazinda made her debut by getting her neck twisted around in her Jen-form, I think it’s going to take a lot for David to convince us when/if she does pass on. It’s not until Jen saves Larry’s life and Tanya’s soul that she realizes she’s a bona-fide hero, no matter how many checks she cashes. Jazinda, on the other hand, is still a wild-card and with Secret Invasion coming up, I have a feeling this is going to be a character to watch.
The two green-skinned males in this issue are one-note characters, but the notes are necessary to the song. Kodor is essentially a heartless beast, driven only by the desire to acquire his prey. He has no qualms about giving Tanya the Pushing Daisies treatment (it’s one of the most popular new shows of the season, still too early to expect name recognition?) and is annoyed with her response. This little exchange is exactly the type of realism inserted by David that makes the issue a notch above average. Of course Tanya is going to freak out after being temporarily resuscitated and of course Kodor is going to roll his eyes and try to off her again. As a mirror to what Jen could turn into as a bounty hunter, Kodor does just fine.
Cazon, on the other hand, could have used a little bit more fleshing out. He definitely serves the purpose of providing Jen with a completely sadistic villain that we as readers would have no problem with her killing (and when she doesn’t kill him, we get the message that Jen is never going to go down the dark road Kodor went). However, there is no reason given for why he wants Larry. It may just be for sport but why go to all of the trouble to tie him to the hull of a space ship when he could have just as easily shot him for dead. In fact, by tying Larry to the hull, Cazon gave Jen the exact motivation she needed to take him down. It’s obvious that David did this so it was Jen doing the job and coming to her senses, not Kodor shooting down the ship in an anticlimactic and off-theme blaze. Still, I could have done with seeing more of Cazon’s motives.
This is Shawn Moll’s weakest issue so far with a lot of the proportions looking rushed and slightly off. Cazon’s head looks scrunched in some panels and Kodor’s Badoon musculature is hard to decipher most of the time. And, I hate to say this, but there’s something Liefeldian about the size of Jazinda’s hand on the last page. It’s so tiny! I’m normally satisfied with Moll’s art, even though I still see Juan Bobillo's depictions when I think of this title. But with such a dramatic change in tone, a realistic artist like Moll fits perfectly. I just wish he would stop drawing Jen with her thong straps sticking out of her pants. Seriously, that’s beyond tacky.
Peter David is doing a solid job so far. It’s not as original and funny as it was in the early days of Dan Slott, but it does still feel like She-Hulk. While this issue’s plot is average and the art is questionable at times, David is competently building on the character’s past. Next issue says that Jen’s past is back to haunt her, so it looks like we’re going to get some answers.
Also, the sight gag of Kodor shooting a raccoon out of a tree made me laugh out loud. Didn’t have anywhere else in the review to work that in.
OVERALL:
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