What the hell have you done to Jen?

[neuhallidae]

So while scanning down the list of Marvel's April solicits, this cover for one of the "Fall of the Hulks" tie-ins caught my eye. And not in a good way.







In other news, the solicit for the revamped Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes is out, and I am not amused. Why?



It turns out that they are just reusing the team from the aborted reboot, and there's not a new story start. So this isn't actually a "revamp" so much as just a re-numbering, which never fails to annoy me.

The fact that I'm not exactly crazy about the reboot team in the first place doesn't help.



SUPER HEROES #1
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by RONAN CLIQUET
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Variant Cover by TODD NAUCK
Captain America, Iron Man, the Black Widow, Thor, the Vision, Nova, and the Invisible Woman…a powerful collective of the greatest heroes the world has ever known. They are the Avengers, and they want it known they’re here to stay. But when Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants threaten to destroy several major cities unless their demands for mutant supremacy are met, the Avengers are forced to quit looking to the future, and start hoping to live through the day!

tags: char: captain america/steve rogers, char: hulk/bruce banner, char: iron man/tony stark, char: she-hulk/jennifer walters, char: thor, creator: j scott campbell, char: todd nauck, in-joke: nothing works that way

Comments

[shanejayell]

I've seen worse She-Hulks. Of course, her waist is WAY wrong, but....

[neuhallidae]

Actually, the thing that initially caught my attention is that the perspective on her arm, as compared to the position and size of her head and the direction her shoulder is facing, makes it look withered with a teeny-weeny hand. Then I noticed the creepy waist.

[thokstar]

It doesn't help that her arms look like they're way too short (her upper arm is roughly the size of her breast) and her forearm is not muscular enough when compared to her upper arms.

Alternatively, She-Hulk looks like she hits like a girl. Or like she accidentally had some T-Rex DNA spliced into her arms.

[midnightvoyager]

SHE HAS TINY T-REX ARMS OH SWEET JESUS

Her lower body/ass is enormous, her boobs look extruded... Her waist looks tiny PLUS sucked in, her ribcage is on a severely weird angle inside her body...

Also, Rulk's hand in the background has no wrist. Either that or he was stung by many gamma bees, causing an allergic reaction that makes it swell up almost larger than his hand.

(Gamma Bees. My god. NOT THE GAMMA BEEEEES)

[tacobob]

It's an rather awkward pose..

[lamashtar]

Re: Avengers. Oh look, more of the same. (Why is Spider-man on the cover but not in the listed line-up?)

Jen looks like one of those "pretty girl" statues.

[perletwo]

The term "pencil neck" comes to mind.

.... Michelle Trachtenberg. That's who she reminds me of, in the face. Not that I think they pulled a LAAAAANNND here, just she has that overthin, pixyish quality.

[neuhallidae]

....Wow. That dress is not flattering what it's supposed to flatter at all.

[perletwo]

I know, but it could be worse: on the quick image search I did for a comparison shot, the only other thing I could find with her face at a side-and-up angle like that was a collage of caps of her doing the "pull the sweatshirt off to reveal a bikini and toss the hair" move from Eurotrip, and those images were - gaaah. Supposed to be sexy, but just a pasty bony emaciated world of no.

[sherkahn]

Why is 21st century Alfred E. Newman leading the Avengers... oh wait, just answered my own question.

After the zombie/ape/hulk gimmicks, why not?

[seriousfic]

Why is Spider-Man wearing a webbing tutu?

[yaseen101]

That's his underarm webbing that runs from his forearm to hips that constantly disappears and reappears. It's actually part of his costume when he first appeared in the 60's.

[yaseen101]

That Superheroes #1 cover looks pretty descent at first until you notice that Spidey's left his unusually long, Iron Man's hips and Steve's odd running pose (it looks like he is about to fall over).

[stubbleupdate]

I picked up occasional issues of Marvel Adventures Superheroes when they were one-shots.

This team stuff... not interested.

[bolava]

so....in reality they haven't really canceled anything...and you still find a way to be annoyed...

[neuhallidae]

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know it wasn't allowed to be annoyed at fake relaunches, one of the most irritating practices in comics marketing. If I pretend to be happy about it, will that do?

[bolava]

yes

[neuhallidae]

Unfortunately, I'm shit at lying. Too bad.

[iondan]

Looks like J Scott Campbell's work, I don't know what his obession is with super impossibly thin waists is but his faces are pretty, cept their pretty much all the same face. How does he keep getting work?

[shadwing]

He USED to be closer to reality...his appeal for me dropped halfway though Danger Girl #7, literly half way though the book you could SEE the style change to this more extreme deformed toony style that dominates his work today.

You can look at DG #1 and DG#7 and SEE the huge style differences

[geoffsebesta]

Thigh bigger than head.

Fist smaller than eye.

No.

[joasakura]

baroque anatomy!

[aaron_bourque]

It's got Nova. I'm satisfied enough.

So...who's that guy with the mohawk?

[jazzypom]

Cheers.

Honestly, I have not a clue.

[neuhallidae]

I keep thinking he might be someone whose MA-revamp we just haven't seen yet, but I can't think of anyone who'd fit the look.

Re: Honestly, I have not a clue.

[valtyr]

I keep thinking MA Daken!

And then my brain reboots, so I have yet to proceed with that thought.

Re: Honestly, I have not a clue.

[neuhallidae]

...Ow. Now you've got mine BSODing every time it tries to process that.

[autumn_lily]

The top half does not match the bottom half! Take your memory match She-Hulk edition cards and try again!

[kamino_neko]

She-Hulk's got the lower body of a Crumb woman, and the upper body of a 12 year old girl...except for the boobs...which could very well be curled up 12 year old girls.

[halloweenjack]

J. Scott Campbell: thanking his lucky stars every day that Rob Liefeld is still alive, making him not the Worst Overpaid Artist in Cartooning.