She-Hulk Is the Same Thing As Hulk, Right?

[informationgeek]

Soooooo, about Avengers #2...














.....................................what the hell was that crap?

Comments

[reveen]

Wow, uhhh... is Jennifer doing a bit or something?

[berani00]

This was her back when she was Grey She-Hulk, right?
...Right?

[deh_tommy]

I think even Grey She-hulk was (however barely) more articulate than this. She was at least a violent beast driven by fear and grief, whereas this just seems like a generic “Hulk smash” persona.

[zachbeacon]

So what's the first instance of this kind of thing anyway? The Search for She-Hulk arc in Avengers?

[lordultimus]

Marvel fans: Hooray! Bendis is gone! Finally characters will act the way they're supposed to!

Jason Aaron: Hold my beer.

[kore]

HAH. //sob

[every_spiegel]

My thoughts exactly.

[dcbanacek]

What the HELL knocked a CELESTIAL on it's ass?

Also, I don't think Jennifer talked like that back in her ORIGINAL series from almost 40 years ago... geez, time flies.

[deh_tommy]

I think this is the first time main-universe She-Hulk actually talks and acts like this (I think).

[crinos]

...Hey remember that time that She Hulk slept with the Juggernaut? And everyone gave her shit over it and slut shamed her in a court of law for it because apparently sex between two consenting adults is something worth being embarrassed over? And so they retconned it that it was a Jen who was a tourist from a parallel reality, and they explained that this parallel reality has people come over all the time and that's the reason for all these weird OOC moments and contradicitons in Marvel comics? Because apparently having sex with Juggernaut was such a black mark on Jen's ledger it had to be removed,

I'm not saying this characterization isn't more embarrassing than that subplot, but its pretty close.

[zachbeacon]

Well on fairness sleeping with a client is shady no matter who they are. I've always treated the comics by the writer responsible as non-canon so I probably wouldn't give it a second thought if not for Slott's need to retcon it away.

Aaron's Jen just seems another case of people not understanding that Bruce's big green (or grey) counterpart is the way he is because Bruce is mentally unstable, not because he's the Hulk. I dislike any attempt to apply the same logic to Jen, the Rosses, Amadeus, ect that they do to Bruce.

[philippos42]

No, this is far more embarrassing than banging Cain Marko. This is Marvel not even caring. I hope this book tanks, but I'm not hopeful this book tanks. This may be a lasting characterization for Jen now.

[kore]

I don't know who that is, but that is not my Jen.


(Tiny irrelevant nitpicky detail, but....she's from L.A.!)

[philippos42]

She's very definitely from Los Angeles. Marvel seems obsessed with dragging characters from the rest of the USA to NYC though. She-Hulk (L.A.) and Howard the Duck (Cleveland, I think?) were in the same office building in Brooklyn for a while.

[ericadawn16]

Did you ever read The She-Hulk Diaries?

[malitia]

The Loki parts are also postable from this in the "let's anger the fans" category. :/

[flint_marko]

What does he do?

[scorntx]

Hey, kids, remember when the Celestials were, like, super-duper unstoppable?
And by unstoppable we don't mean "needs a Hulk to stop", we mean "can't even be scratched by super-charged Odin" unstoppable?
Remember those days? Do ya, huh? Do ya?
Back before every five weeks there's a dead Celestial just... dropping out of the skies?
Logos, the Beyonders, that stupid axe from Remender's Avengers, freaking Kang, KANG of all people...

They've gone from utterly impenetrable and inscrutable beings to a whole species of freaking Waspinators.
(only without the lovableness, obviously.)

[gnarll]

So much this.

[lordultimus]

At least Logos lampshaded their Worfiness.

[strejdaking]

What's in-universe explanation for Jen acting like this?

[every_spiegel]

Funny thing is I don't know Jen at all and I also read this community via rss so I didn't see the preview text or tags, I plainly guessed from the title of the post that it is about Avengers #2.
Good job, Aaron, good job -_-

[matrix_dragon]

What the HELL.

[randyripoff]

I just read this.

Every. Single. Character. Felt. Off.

As if the last 50 years of characterization were basically ignored. Everyone is way too glib, and the big reveal of the heel wasn't exactly hard to figure out well ahead of time.

This just wasn't good. At all.

[katefan]

I don't know who is to blame, the writer or the editors. Or both?

[gnarll]

I reread it pretending to myself it was an Exiles story and these were alternate universe versions of the characters. Much better.