It’s a miracle. Peter David actually wrote a worse issue of She-Hulk than the first one. This issue, featuring a fight scene in a mall (for three dollars–a trip to the mall… Marvel should have at least gotten in some product placement beyond Lego®s since Lego®s don’t really need advertising, being Lego®s and all), finishes up the story from last issue and should have taken all of seven pages. There’s no plot (amusingly, it’s called an episode, not an issue, on the credits and recap page) and no reason to read it. It’s utter garbage.
Not miraculously, Shawn Moll’s art is worse this issue than last (it’s not a surprise, something about it suggests it can only get worse). It isn’t just the static figures or the terrible proportions, it’s the faces. Moll can’t keep a consistent face from frame to frame. Just terrible.
There’s also a “One Year Later” feel to the book, since David’s trying to deceive the reader (we pay three dollars to get our chains yanked for an issue and then the reveal is idiotic)… It’s moderately offensive, but I guess it’s my own fault for trying a new mainstream title these days.
What’s most amusing (besides me wasting six dollars) is how little David tries to do with the book. It’s all about his frequent deceptions, great or small, instead of being about She-Hulk. He did more character development in a panel of X-Factor than he does in two issues (his first two issues). I mean, I know he’s Marvel exclusive, so does that mean he just isn’t going to work anymore? If so… if, once salaried and benefited, writers and artists don’t care about providing readers with quality content (I’m not talking about Moll here, that guy probably does care, but he simply cannot draw–David doesn’t even turn in a competent script here), why the hell should anyone care about creators’ rights?
I’m just being a jerk on the creators’ rights thing, but David’s poor work here is almost hostile toward the paying reader, something I’m not familiar with in his other work. It’s not quite Frank Miller spitting in fans’ faces every issue of ASBAR, but this comic is so terrible, so incompetent… it’s closer than not.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Lingster // Dec 22, 2007 at 7:09 am
Meow! I’m not enjoying Peter David’s run, either, but I don’t think it’s quite as bad as you make it out to be. Also, I think the very negative rating on Moll is unfair.
That said, I don’t understand what Peter David is trying to do with the book. Three issues in I doubt it’s because he has some grand plot that will make it all seem cool in hindsight. (Obviously there’s going to be a Secret Invasion tie-in.)
Have you seen the sales figures for She-Hulk #23, though? Not good - I wrote them up here.
2 Andrew Wickliffe // Dec 22, 2007 at 10:40 am
Lingster–
Actually, I was nice on the issue #22 write-up because I have/had respect for David’s other work (though it’s all taken a hit lately, quality wise).
As for Moll, I disagree… I think I was nice enough not to take the time to get comments from his illustrating teachers in regards to what they think about people paying to see his work…
(love your chart by the way, looks great)
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