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She-Hulk #10-11
#10 and #11
Book Released: 30 Aug 2006
Posted 28 September 2006
Writer: Dan Slott
Artist: Rick Burchett
Artist: Greg Horn, Covers
Ink: Nelson (#10); Cliff Rathburn (#11)
Publisher: Marvel Comics
3.40 out of 5 Stars
Reviewed by J. W. DeBolt Jr.
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In case you haven’t been following She-Hulk, she became romantically involved with Colonel John Jameson, known as the astronaut and test pilot son of Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson (who tangled with Spider-Man after a moon rock he brought back turned him into the Man-Wolf). John flew them to Las Vegas and they got a quickie wedding.
The humor in She-Hulk — both explicit and inherent in the story convolutions — is one of the main reasons I buy it.
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Meanwhile, She-Hulk’s co-worker at the law firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, and Holliway, one Augustus Pugliese, or “Pug,” who has had a long-time crush on She-Hulk, discovers evidence that her feelings for Jameson are the artificial result of an encounter with Starfox of Titan (brother of Thanos). Starfox has the ability to make people fall in love, and while the effects are normally temporary, She-Hulk’s feelings for Jameson continued after Starfox was banished from Earth. Further, Mallory Book, a paralegal at Goodman, Lieber, has fallen head-over-heels for Awesome Andy, an Android created by the Mad Thinker who later developed sentience and rejected his creator. Andy can temporarily gain the powers of anyone he touches and has certain shape-shifting abilities.
Pug is on the verge of figuring out how this love bug is being transmitted and tries to get the evidence he has into She-Hulk’s hands. However, he reaches She-Hulk and Jameson just after a secret super-villain has sent a robot spider to Jameson that triggers his change into the Man-Wolf. The Man-Wolf seriously injures Pug and his evidence falls into the hands of Book. And what she learns may break Awesome Andy’s android heart.
One subplot deals with the mystery of Artie Zix, the General Manager of Goodman, Lieber. Office reference librarian Stu Cicero figures out who Zix is — much to Cicero’s misfortune. Another subplot that is lightly touched on is the current-time existence of Two-Gun Kid, who has to remain in the present as a result of a Time Trial (you’ll have to see previous issues for an explanation of that!
The humor in She-Hulk — both explicit and inherent in the story convolutions — is one of the main reasons I buy it. The stories today are told in the same vein as in Sensational She-Hulk, but toned down to be a bit less silly. The Greg Horn covers are another major reason. Each is worth framing. Issues #10 and #11 are both pastiches. Issue #10 sports a monster-movie poster look with the title “I Married a Man-Wolf!” On issue #11, we see Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting with our eponymous hero and her husband planted in the scene.
I won’t spoil the ending of issue #11, but I can say that I certainly was not expecting what happened. For a clue, go back and look at Creatures on the Loose #35 from 1975.
This is a great book. Drama, humor, mystery, oddities, obscure character appearances, maintaining decades of continuity (my favorite aspect) and it is tied in to Civil War without losing its character. Check it out.
—CCdC—
Cover image used without explicit permission in accordance with the "Fair Use" provision of US copyright law.
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