Janne Pietikainen
Oct 30, 2007, 02:04 pm
She-Hulk #13
December 2006
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Story Title: Mind Field
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Eros is ruled guilty of using his love powers on the unwilling and he is also found responsible for Thanos’s past crimes. She-Hulk wishes to re-examine the evidence, so Moondragon sends Jen's mind inside Thanos’s mind. There She-Hulk finds a mental barrier that guards something that Thanos wants to hide. Also Starfox joins She-Hulk inside Thanos’s mind as Thanos tries to kill them inside his memories. The Stargod follows She-Hulk to Titan and fights Thanos in the physical plane, while She-Hulk and Eros investigate his hidden memories. They find out that Thanos has made synthetic duplicates of himself. These clones are so similar to the real Thanos that even telepaths or cosmic beings aren’t able to tell the clones apart from him. They also find out that Thanos had sent his female aide named Seductra to capture Eros, who was then imbued with false memories. Thanos had also used his devices on himself, because the plan wouldn’t work if they didn’t both believe that Eros had used his powers on Thanos when they were kids. She-Hulk realizes that this Thanos is one of the synthetic duplicates, because the real Thanos wouldn’t ever do something like that to his own mind.
She-Hulk and Eros return from Thanos’s mind and reveal the truth to the rest. The Thanos clone comes to the conclusion that the real Thanos had made all this because he might have found it funny. The furious She-Hulk takes down the clone and the Stargod finds out that Jen doesn’t really love him. It turns out that Eros couldn’t control his powers, because of irreparable brain damage caused by Thanos’s devices, and he agrees for Moondragon to telepathically shut off his love powers. As a punishment he will seek the forgiveness of his victims. Jen and John are left wondering what they will do with their marriage. Meanwhile on Earth, Pug drinks the love potion to make himself stop loving Jennifer.
Characters:
Adam Warlock (flashback)
Augustus Pugliese
Black Panther (flashback)
Captain America (flashback)
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell, flashback)
Captain Marvel (Phyla)
Cyclops (flashback)
Drax the Destroyer (flashback)
Dr. Strange (flashback)
Firelord (flashback)
Iron Man (flashback)
ISAAC
Mallory Book
Mentor
Moondragon
Morgan le Fay (disguised, flashback)
Namor (flashback)
Pip the Troll
RT-Z9
Scarlet Witch (flashback)
Seductra (flashback)
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer (flashback)
Spider-Man (flashback)
Stargod
Stargod
Thanos (flashback)
Thanos (synthetic duplicate)
Thor (flashback)
Titans
Wolverine (flashback)
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She-Hulk #14
February 2007
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Story Title: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Awesome Andy But Were Afraid To Ask.
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Uncredited
Letterer: Uncredited
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Origin: Awesome Andy
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) tells her husband, the lupine Stargod (John Jameson), that she wants an annulment, because her emotions had been manipulated by Starfox. Unbeknownst to them, her emotions were later manipulated by Awesome Andy, who had accidentally copied Starfox’s euphoria powers. John is devastated, because his feelings are still real. Starfox guarantees that he had used his powers only on Jennifer and her workmate Mallory Book.
The devastated Awesome Andy takes walk through places important to him and takes a look back to his past, how he was created by the Mad Thinker to be used against the Fantastic Four and other super-heroes. The Thinker had eventually sent Awesome Android, like he was called back then, against the mighty Thor, whose worthiness the android then copied, thus developing a sentience. Afterwards the android went to Holden Holliway, the lawyer who got the authorities to declare this android a living being. Holliway also let Andy pay him back by working at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway. There Andy got friends and a “chest-top display” with a wi-fi link to his cpu, which Andy could use for communication.
Andy goes to get his stuff at the Excelsior apartment building and overhears the Two-Gun Kid and Mallory Book. Mallory literally runs into the Kid’s arms after being freed of the emotion manipulation and dumping Andy, and tells the Two-Gun Kid to stay with her and GLK&H.
Andy sleeps the night under a bridge. Andy is devastated for the things he unknowingly did to Mallory and cannot live with them. The following day he climbs to the top of Empire State Building and jumps off. He develops wings on the way down and flies away to look the answer to whether he’s a person or a thing.
She-Hulk is taken back to Earth by RT-Z9. John decided to stay in outer space and possibly visit his friends in Other-Realm. On her way to her apartment, Jen runs into “Dottie”, who’s moving out. Dottie tells Jen that also Awesome Andy and the Two-Gun Kid are leaving. Jen rushes to their apartment, but finds only Andy’s chest-top display with “goodbye.” written on it. She then runs into men carrying her things out of her apartment. She is informed by Agent Clay Quartermain that she’s been drafted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and that her new home will be the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.
Characters:
Angel (flashback)
Augustus Pugliese (flashback)
Awesome Andy
Beast (flashback)
Captain America (flashback)
Clay Quartermain
Cyclops (flashback)
Ditto
GLK&H (flashback)
Hawkeye (flashback)
Holden Holliway (flashback)
Human Torch (flashback)
Iceman (flashback)
Invisible Girl (flashback)
Jane Foster (flashback)
Mad Thinker (flashback)
Mallory Book
Marvel Girl (flashback)
Moondragon
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Preston Sinclair (flashback)
Quicksilver (flashback)
RT-Z9
Scarlet Witch (flashback)
She-Hulk
Starfox
Stargod
Stu Cicero (flashback)
Thing (flashback)
Thor (flashback)
Two-Gun Kid
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She-Hulk #15
March 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part One
Story Title: She-Hulk: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Even though Iron Man had promised that after the registration the super-heroes would still be super-heroes, and not just agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., She-Hulk is now part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hulkbuster unit. Her new team mates include Agent Clay Quartermain and Agent Cheesecake, a female Life Model Decoy programmed for seduction, combat and retrieval.
The Hulkbusters go to a mission to take down the Abomination in Reno, Nevada. She-Hulk confronts the villain while the others evacuate the civilians and apprehend looters. She-Hulk’s strength isn’t a match to the Abomination’s, she is able to make her stand with her fighting skills. Still, She-Hulk has to call to Doc Samson for help. Over the phone Doc Samson concludes that the Abomination’s appearance portrays his self-hatred, and She-Hulk is able to make the villain lose his guard after mocking him. The Abomination is apprehended and taken to the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. She-Hulk still won’t agree to settle a session with Doc Samson, who’s worried about She-Hulk staying in her gamma form all the time, and hangs up.
Afterwards She-Hulk tells Clay Quartermain that she’s going by the name Walters again and that she’s not sorry about being separated with her husband. She then ends up in bed with Clay.
Characters:
Abomination
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Doc Samson
Doombot (flashback)
Iron Man (flashback)
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Ms. Marvel (flashback)
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Tigra (flashback)
Yellowjacket
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She-Hulk #16
April 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Two
Story Title: Gamma Flight
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Crimson
Joins: Mr. Bobo (GLK&H)
Both She-Hulk and the Canadian mutant named Wolverine are hunting down Wendigo. She-Hulk is part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hulkbuster unit, whereas Wolverine is accompanied by the Talisman and other Sarcee people. She-Hulk and Wolverine team up to fight the beast while their back-up teams argue with each other about interfering with the battle. The S.H.I.E.L.D. has set up a security perimeter around the area, and they don’t allow the Talisman to pass.
In New York, White Rabbit fires Mallory Book as her lawyer and all the rest of Mallory’s clients have also cancelled their appointments with her. Dottie has been replaced by Mr. Bobo, an evolved chimpanzee, as the secretary of Mr. Zix, General Manager of GLK&H. The mysterious masters of Artie Zix, who’s secretly the Rigellian Recorder robot RT-Z9 in disguise, are displeased with him because he hasn’t been able to monitor She-Hulk in the Black Panther and Storm’s wedding in Wakanda or during her stay with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agency. Mallory has a date with the Two-Gun Kid, but Mallory gets upset while they’re watching A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mal is then recognized by an elderly woman who had seen Mallory on a cover of a tabloid magazine, kissing with Awesome Andy.
Back up north, She-Hulk is wounded and she passes out for a moment while her healing factor takes care of her injuries. In her mind, she is confronted by Jennifer Walters, her human form, who isn’t happy about the constant super-heroing, which is keeping her away from her friends and job at GLK&H. She-Hulk returns to the fight and throws Wolverine through Wendigo’s chest, ending the fight. Afterwards Crimson, head of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s magic-ops division apprehends Wendigo with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak before Wendigo can heal himself. Wolverine tells She-Hulk that he is holding her responsible if Wendigo escapes from the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. He then refuses She-Hulk’s advances. She is also denying the fact that she has slept with Juggernaut.
She-Hulk is unaware that the Hulkbusters have been apprehending the Hulk’s old foes for something called Project: Achilles.
Characters:
Abomination
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
GLK&H
Iron Man (in shadows)
Lewis (unnamed)
Mallory Book
Mystery being (voice only)
RT-Z9
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Sarcee Indians
She-Hulk
Talisman
Two-Gun Kid
Watcher (recording)
Wendigo
White Rabbit
Wolverine
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She-Hulk #17
May 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Three
Story Title: Shock After Shock
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Rich Ginter
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
She-Hulk and the other Hulkbusters capture several of the Hulk’s old foes. After apprehending Zzzax, it’s She-Hulk who gets to debrief the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Stark, much to Clay Quartermain’s disappointment. She-Hulk and Stark end up in bed. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Gaffer and other scientists are using the captured villains as test subjects in Project: Achilles. Unfortunately, Zzzax gets on the loose in the Helicarrier systems and takes over every piece of electronic equipment on the Helicarrier, including Agent Cheesecake, all the hover cars and Nick Fury L.M.D.s. Zzzax also releases the other villains held in stasis, but Project: Achilles has succeeded in the first stage of its experiments and the corporeal villains are treated with neural shutdown. She-Hulk is then able to recapture Zzzax in the electro-magnetic trap. Afterwards, she is holding the severed head of one of the Nick Fury L.M.D.s that is going through its old data files and repeating what it’s said before, like the other androids doing too. It gets She-Hulk’s attention when it starts talking about Bruce and a launch.
Meanwhile, at GLK&H’s comic book reference library, the Basement, Chas and Lewis notice how much Stu Cicero has changed. Artie Zix isn’t able to help Mallory Book to prevent tabloid papers from publishing pictures of her kissing Awesome Andy, so she goes to the Bar With No Name to show super-villains that she’s still something to be taken seriously. The Two-Gun Kid accompanies her, but starts a fight because he’s unaware of the criminals’ strict no-violence rule there. Mallory decides that she has to do something really big to regain everyone’s respect.
Characters:
Abomination
Artie Zix
Bar With No Name bartender (unnamed)
Batroc the Leaper
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Electro
Gaffer
Glob
Iron Man
Ironclad
Lewis
Lightmaster
Mallory Book
Mongoose
Nick Fury L.M.D.s
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Shocker
Toad-Men
Two-Gun Kid
Vapor
Vector
Vulture
Wendigo
X-Ray
Zzzax
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She-Hulk #18
June 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Four
Story Title: Illuminated
Tie-In: World War Hulk
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Kate Levin
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Beefcake
Quits: She-Hulk (S.H.I.E.L.D., Hulkbusters)
Death: Beefcake
S.H.I.E.L.D. has got a positive gamma lock in New Mexico and the Hulkbusters are leaving for the mission, but She-Hulk is nowhere to be found. She has taken the severed head of the Nick Fury L.M.D. and a hovercar, and plans to find out what S.H.I.E.L.D. has to do with the Hulk’s disappearance. Not able to trust other super-heroes after the Civil War, she goes to her old law firm, Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway for help, and luckily Mr. Zix thinks that he is able to help She-Hulk. Unknowing to them, Amadeus Cho, also known as Mastermind Excello, hacks into their systems and opens the heavily encrypted file for them. The video file reveals that Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Dr. Strange and Black Bolt had secretly launched the Hulk into space.
Meanwhile, the Hulkbusters find the Leader in one of Bruce Banner’s old laboratories in New Mexico. Gaffer provided the team another sexpionage L.M.D., Agent Beefcake, to replace She-Hulk, but he is destroyed by the villain. Crimson spends his mystic reserves and uses his own life force in his last spell. Cheesecake’s systems are failing too, but Agent Quartermain is eventually able to take down the Leader. Back at the helicarrier, the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. presumes that the Hulkbusters have captured the Hulk and celebrate. The arriving Iron Man is surprised about all this and is then attacked by likewise arriving She-Hulk. Iron Man claims to be a futurist and having saved the world by sending the Hulk off-planet, but She-Hulk calls him a tyrant like Dr. Doom. Iron Man then uses an adamantium needle to inject She-Hulk with nanites developed at Project: Achilles, and She-Hulk’s powers are permanently neutralized. Jen Walters finds out that Project: Achilles has also neutralized Ironclad, Vector, the Abomination and apparently Glob, and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had developed the weapon in case the Hulk ever returned to Earth. Jennifer tells him that he had made a big mistake by neutralizing her powers, and as a lawyer, threatens to destroy him.
Characters:
Abomination
Artie Zix
Beefcake
Black Bolt (flashback)
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Doctor Strange (flashback)
GLK&H
Glob
Hulk (flashback)
Iron Man
Ironclad
Leader
Lewis
Mallory Book
Mastermind Excello and his coyote pup
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Multiple Man (mentioned)
Nick Fury L.M.D.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Two-Gun Kid
Vector
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She-Hulk #19
July 2007
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Story Title: The Gamma Defense
Writer: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Rich Ginter
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Jennifer Walters wakes up at the Thing’s apartment, the penthouse at Atlas Towers, where she has been staying while looking for a new apartment. The nanites that neutralize She-Hulk’s powers were momentarily themselves neutralized by Mastermind Excello’s special soda but its effects are now gone. On her way down she runs into her workmates Mallory Book and the Two-Gun Kid, since Mallory also lives in the same building. Jen tells Mal about her current case against Iron Man, where she is trying to prove that superhumans have an inalienable right to their powers. At the office, Jen is furious when she finds out that Mallory is defending the Leader and she is given a subpoena by Mal.
In the Basement, Chas and Lewis realize that Stu Cicero isn’t really Stu Cicero, and hit him with long boxes until the shapeshifting Ditto is unconscious and transforms back into his real form.
In courtroom, Mallory points out that when Sam Sterns turned into the Leader, his mind changed with his body. She proves this by questioning Jennifer Walters, another gamma-transformed person (a GTP), who’s been much more uninhibited as She-Hulk, and has had many, many, many more sex partners as She-Hulk than as Jennifer Walters. Mal claims that Jennifer is addicted to being She-Hulk and therefore has no control or accountability for her actions, and claims this is what it is like to be under the influence of gamma rays.
That night, Jen is looking for a friend to talk to, and calls to Augustus Pugliese. Jen is surprised about Pug’s new look, but they don’t have time to talk about Pug’s news. Instead, they talk about the differences between She-Hulk and Jennifer Walters, and Pug tells her that he always saw them as different sides of the same person.
The following morning, the Leader’s Humanoids attack the Leader’s convoy outside the courthouse. The Leader gets free, but stops the attack and surrenders, because he’s sure that Mallory Book will win his case and prove that he’s not responsible for his actions.
At Timely Plaza, Chas and Lewis drag Ditto to Mr. Zix’s office. Ditto resists as hard as he can, so that Mr. Zix wouldn’t kill others, like he apparently did to Stu Cicero. Zix tells that he won’t be on Earth and that he won’t have to protect his secrets for much longer. Zix also confirms Chas and Lewis that he didn’t kill Stu, but transported him to the other-dimensional Duckworld, permanently.
Characters:
Artie Zix
Augustus Pugliese
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Doc Samson
Duckworlders
GLK&H
Heather Emme
Humanoids
Leader
Lewis
Mallory Book
She-Hulk
Stu Cicero
Two-Gun Kid
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She-Hulk #20
September 2007
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Story Title: The Clock is Ticking
Writers: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artists: John Watson & Payne
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Unnamed cosmic menace
Divorce: She-Hulk & John Jameson
Death: Recluses, RT-Z9
Mallory Book has got a not guilty verdict for the Leader and her phone has been ringing constantly ever since. The law firm’s senior partners are offering Holden Holliway’s chair to someone, but no one knows yet if it’s going to be Mallory or Jennifer Walters, whose case against Tony Stark seems even more promising. John Jameson has returned to Earth, as a human, and tries to get Jennifer give them another chance. Jen doesn’t want to hear it and wants John to sign the annulment paper.
Mr. Zix, General Manager of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway calls Jennifer, Mallory, John and the Two-Gun Kid in his office, and tells his secretary, Mr. Bobo, not to let anyone disturb them. In the office they find Ditto and the office interns Chas and Lewis chained to chairs. Zix imprisons everyone inside an energy field with himself and removes the Two-Gun Kid’s colts. The others learn that Artie Zix is truly Rigel Type Zeta 9, the Magistrati’s court recorder. RT-Z9 tells that he is being controlled by beings that have activated his self-destruct mechanism and shall terminate everyone inside the energy field, unless the robot is able to collect all the data he was sent to record in two hours.
Meanwhile, Stu Cicero materialises in the Nexus of All Realities in Florida. He faces the Man-Thing, who is lured away by a man throwing the monster a squeaky toy. Stu got back from Duckworld after finding Ducktor Strange, the mallard of myshtic artsh, who opened Stu a magic portal back to Earth. The man offers Stu a ride, but after Stu learns that the man is Richard Rory, Jen Walters’ ex-boyfriend, Stu leaves him in the swamp.
RT-Z9 reveals that he is controlled by the Recluses, the hidden alien race whose case She-Hulk handled as a judge for the Magistrati, the judges, jurors and advocates of the universe. The Recluses had been given a Rigellian control unit, so that they could speak through RT-Z9 during the trial. The Recluses feared that She-Hulk would one day reverse the decision of silencing the Watcher overseeing them, so they kept RT-Z9 in their control and sent him to Earth to watch over She-Hulk. RT-Z9 took the human form of Artie Zix and, by telling only half of the story, convinced Holden Holliway to left the Superhuman Law Offices in his care while Holliway went after his missing granddaughter, Southpaw.
The Recorder asks Jennifer about her trying to change the past and prevent Hawkeye’s death. She-Hulk tells that she failed anyway, but the Two-Gun Kid reveals that Hawkeye is in fact alive, thanks to the House of M, and visited him a few weeks earlier. Hawkeye had made video messages that were to be sent to his friends in case he died. Since was still alive (although hiding), he wanted to get the videos back before they were delivered. The Kid helped Hawkeye and they did get the videos, except one, She-Hulk’s. In the message, Hawkeye told She-Hulk that he loved her, and Hawkeye was really embarrassed about it and asked the Two-Gun Kid not to tell anyone about his return partly because of this.
RT-Z9 then asks John Jameson about his godhood and his relationship with She-Hulk. John tells that after being left by Jen, he had some adventures as the Stargod of Other Realm, returned to Earth and gave up his powers. John then signs the annulment papers.
Meanwhile, Awesome Andy finds Southpaw and the Mad Thinker’s safe house in Florida. The Thinker concludes that Andy is once again the Awesome Android, because its programming orders the android to home in on the Thinker in case of a hard reboot. The reboot was done by Andy himself. Now all Andy’s memories, stored powers and personality subroutines are gone.
The Recluses are satisfied with She-Hulk being depowered, but they are still worried about She-Hulk’s enhanced Magistrati abilities. She-Hulk reveals that she was retired from her post after speaking on her universe’s behalf when the Living Tribunal wondered whether to replace it with a simpler Ultimate universe.
RT-Z9 and the Recluses are satisfied with what they’ve learned, so RT-Z9 releases everyone, just before Whiz Kid, a speedster from GLK&H’s mail room, brings Stu Cicero to Timely Plaza to warn the others about RT-Z9. The robot leaves, to report back to the Recluses. RT-Z9 asks the Recluses to disengage his self-destruct sequence, in vain. In fact, RT-Z9 had not been controlled by the Recluses for some time. The Recluses had been slaughtered and Qyre the Watcher captured by a mysterious menace preparing his forces for a reckoning.
Characters:
Awesome Andy
Bobo
Chas
Ditto
Ducktor Strange (flashback)
Eternity
GLK&H
Hawkeye (flashback)
Holden Holliway (flashback)
John Jameson
Lewis
Living Tribunal (flashback)
Mad Thinker android
Magistrati (flashback)
Mallory Book
Man-Thing
Qyre (flashback)
Recluses
Richard Rory
RT-Z9
She-Hulk
Southpaw
Stu Cicero
Two-Gun Kid
Uatu (flashback)
Unnamed alien dragon
Unnamed cosmic menace
Unnamed Duckworlders (flashback)
Whiz Kid
Zoma (flashback)
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She-Hulk #21
October 2007
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Story Title: Another Me, Another U
Writers: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Various Earth A dublicates
Joins: Stu Cicero (Marvel Comics)
Quits: Stu Cicero (GLK&B)
Chas and Lewis are helping Stu Cicero to track down all the Marvel comics he missed while being exiled on Duckworld. They run into She-Hulk taking down the Rhino and ask her how she got her powers back and how the Rhino can be there after being captured so many times recently. She-Hulk claims that she privately worked things out with Tony Stark, the man responsible of depowering her, but when Lt. Stone of Code:Blue asks her who the current President is, she first answers Al Gore. Stone then takes her down with a neuro-targeting oxy-spray, arrests her and tells the rest of Code:Blue that they’ll run also the Rhino’s quantum retinal scan back at the headquarters.
That She-Hulk turns out to be an “alpha”, a vacationer from another dimension called Earth A. There, the only superhuman is the Thing, Reed Richards. Some years ago, Earth A was visited by time travelers, dinosaurs and superhumans from Earth B, our dimension. Albert E. Devoor from Interlocking Technologies has afterwards been offering a chance to go on a vacation on Earth B where people can see superhumans or even become ones if their Earth B alter egos happen to have powers. The vacationer goes through the atomic re-sequencer that beams the person’s molecules to the arrival station on Earth B, where he or she is realigned on the atomic level to match the structure of his or her local counterpart. There, Albert E. Devoor of Earth B orients the vacationers to his or her counterpart’s powers and history and Earth B in general.
Mallory Book has made partner and the firm is now called Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book. GLK&B gets to represent Devoor and the Earth A duplicates. Jennifer Walters goes to meet her counterpart, who confesses of having slept with the Juggernaut while posing as our She-Hulk. One of the extradimensional tourists is the Wrecker’s counterpart and the others ask the tourist She-Hulk to take him down. Mallory gets a phone call from Titania, whose past attack had crippled Mallory. Now shrunken to ant-size and imprisoned at the Big House, Titania asks Mal to represent her. Mal thinks of revenge, but she is talked out of it by the visiting Augustus Pugliese. Pug reveals Mallory that when he drank the magic potion to get over She-Hulk, he was indentured to Morgan le Fay, the disguised witch who gave Pug the potion. Pug is now unable to reveal the witch’s name or ever to feel anything romantic towards She-Hulk, but he makes Mal promise not to tell Jennifer. This is overheard by the tourist She-Hulk, before she is taken to a karaoke bar by the real, powerless She-Hulk. The powerless Jen wants to switch places with the other She-Hulk, because she is so disappointed with Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic and the rest of the world. Mallory Book finds the duo and tells that the firm needs Jen.
Mr. Fantastic is helping to send the extradimensional tourists back to Earth A and also the Earth B Jennifer Walters goes through the portal. Before Jen has time to materialize in Earth A, Mr. Fantastic gets an idea and gets her back. Richards realigned Jen’s atoms to match her Earth A counterpart, who was on our Earth before our Jen got the power-inhibiting nanites in her bloodstream, so our Jennnifer gets her powers back. The tourist She-Hulk isn’t unhappy about having to go back to Earth A, where she is romancing that world’s Augustus Pugliese. In this world, Stu Cicero tells that he is leaving GLK&B for a writing gig at Marvel Comics and Mallory Book hires She-Hulk back, but on the condition that she works in her human form. She-Hulk and Pug then go to a dinner, as best friends.
Characters:
3-D Man [Earth A]
Albert E. Devoor
Albert E. Devoor [Earth A]
Armadillo [Earth A]
Augustus Pugliese
Augustus Pugliese [Earth A]
Beast
Beast [Earth A]
Bobo
Captain Ultra [Earth A]
Chas
Dazzler
Dazzler [Earth A]
Ditto
Doctor Strange [Earth A]
Egghead [Earth A]
“Fireworks” Fielstein ?
GLK&B
Guardsmen (Billy, other)
Hammer & Anvil [Earth A]
Hulkling
Hulkling [Earth A]
Jack of Hearts [Earth A]
Lewis
Lt. Stone
“Mad-Dog” Rassitano
Mallory Book
Monica Rambeau [Earth A]
Morgan le Fay (flashback)
Mr. Fantastic
Ms. Marvel [Earth A]
Rhino
“Rigger” Ruiz
Scarlet Witch [Earth A]
Scorpion (Gargan) [Earth A]
She-Hulk
She-Hulk [Earth A]
Stu Cicero
Thing (Reed Richards) [Earth A]
Titania
Two-Gun Kid
Vermin
Vermin (ashes) [Earth A]
White Tiger (Ayala) [Earth A]
Wiccan
Wiccan [Earth A]
Wrecker [Earth A]
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She-Hulk #22
December 2007
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 1
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Paul Acerios
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo (standard), Ed McGuinness, Dexter Vines & Kelsey Shannon (variant), Ed McGuinness & Jason Keith
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Freeman Bonding, Inc.; Hi-Lite, Jazinda (unnamed)
Quits: She-Hulk – Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book (mentioned)
Jennifer Walters, She-Hulk, no longer works as a lawyer. Nowadays she is a bail enforcement agent, or a bounty hunter, working for Freeman Bonding, Inc. (which she calls F.B.I.), a subsidiary of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book.
Jennifer is tracking down Rockwell Davis, a.k.a. “Rocky Davis” and “Hi-Lite”. Davis possesses no superhuman powers, but he used armor capable of manipulating light beams for example in alarm systems. Davis was trying to steal a possible Holy Grail from New York Museum of Antiquities. Davis was using night-vision goggles when the guard put on the lights. The blinded Hi-Lite shot the guard in the arm with a laser and the guard got a heart attack. Davis gave the guard C.P.R. until the police arrived and arrested him. Freeman Bonding, Inc. put up $90,000 for his $100,000 bail, but Davis went missing before his court date.
Rocky Davis is found in Minnesota. Jennifer Walters is seen taking a walk around the house and the bounty hunter’s partner promises her twenty bucks if she can capture Davis without turning green. Jennifer walks in through the unlocked door and apprehends the compliant Davis. His cat is annoying Jennifer and Davis’ cousin walks behind her, breaking Jennifer’s neck. Rocky’s cousin just happens to be the Absorbing Man, the husband of She-Hulk’s nemesis, Titania.
The Absorbing Man plans to take Jennifer’s van but he is attacked by She-Hulk, jumping from the van. Yet somehow Jennifer is still inside, now pointing a gun at Rocky Davis with her neck seemingly still broken. Outside, the battle is joined by Titania, who is still miniaturized after escaping from the Big House, a prison where the inmates are shrunk down with Pym Particles. While She-Hulk is busy fighting the Absorbing Man, Titania crawls inside She-Hulk’s ear.
Characters:
Absorbing Man
Hi-Lite
Jazinda
She-Hulk
Titania
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She-Hulk #23
January 2008
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 2
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Dan Masso
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Jazinda (named)
She-Hulk’s battle against the Absorbing Man and Titania continues at a mall in Minnesota. The separate Jennifer Walters takes Rocky Davis to the van, telling a police officer that she is triple-jointed when he asks her about her seemingly-broken neck. Jennifer also explains that she is field-testing a new non-lethal restraining gun, before taking Davis inside the van and fixing her neck. She then goes after She-Hulk, who carries a subcutaneous locator device and has left a big trail behind her.
Titania is causing damage to She-Hulk’s inner ear, while She-Hulk’s healing factor keeps fixing the injuries and giving Titania the chance to cause more pain. The Absorbing Man has found a new ball-and-chain at the mall and hits She-Hulk with it, knocking Titania out of her ear in the process. She-Hulk is now able to fight back much better and breaks the Absorbing Man’s ball-and-chain. They break an aquarium, releasing a shark. The Absorbing Man, absorbing the properties of the shark, gains the upper hand and is about to drown She-Hulk, when the other Jennifer Walters arrives. Jennifer has captured Titania and throws her in the shark’s mouth, causing the Absorbing Man to release his hold over She-Hulk. The room is then filled with water and the Absorbing Man is no longer able to ignore it, causing him to turn into water as well.
She-Hulk stays to save people at the mall until Stark Enterprises arrives. She leaves with Jennifer back to New York, with Rocky Davis sleeping in the back of the van. Jennifer is demanding her twenty bucks from She-Hulk, who is claiming that Jennifer had to use her special anatomy to survive and therefore lost the bet. Jennifer turns out to be a Skrull named Jazinda.
Characters:
Absorbing Man
Rocky Davis
Jazinda
She-Hulk
Titania
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She-Hulk #24
February 2008
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 3
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Paul Acerios
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Bran, Emilee Freeman, Dona Little, Rosalind Little, Terrance Little, Mr. Park, Pierce, Tancretti
She-Hulk and the shape-shifting Jazinda leave Rocky Davis at a police station in Brooklyn, New York. She-Hulk is irritated by officer Tancretti and Rocky seems to have a crush on Jennifer Walters, whose shape Jazinda is using there. Afterwards the women take Jen’s recreational vehicle to her “home”, Dona Little’s trailer park, where Jazinda hides in human form. She-Hulk gives kids the ball-and-chain that the Absorbing Man tried to kill her with and she and Jazinda talk with Dona Little and her teenage daughter Roz before She-Hulk revs off with her motorcycle.
She-Hulk goes to Freeman Bonding, Inc. to collect her commission. She takes Pierce the receptionist’s advice too literally and parks her cycle on a chair, while Pierce is busy talking with some doctor over the phone. Emilee Freeman guarantees she will take it out of She-Hulk’s next commission before she introduces her to Mr. Park from Providence Insurance. Providence carries F.B.I.’s insurances and Mr. Park tells that he will recommend his superiors to cease providing liability coverage until Mrs. Freeman stops using She-Hulk’s services. Emilee Freeman tells Mr. Park go to hell and promises She-Hulk that she won’t stop hiring her. She-Hulk cannot resign, since she is a freelance.
Meanwhile, Jazinda has a talk with Roz Little. Jazinda tells that she was born on Tarnax IV and grew up on Zaragz’na and that both planets are now destroyed. Roz does not take this seriously and just thinks that Jazinda is strange. Roz seems to be having some father issues, since she believes that he doesn’t like her. Jazinda of course first assumes something worse. Jazinda shape-shifts in to a police officer and informs Terrance Little that his daughter was killed in a hit and run.
She-Hulk goes to a bar, where she meets Bran, a man with an Irish accent who first claims that his first name is Raisin. She-Hulk is interested, but she is tired of carefree sex. Bran then detonates a bomb and vanishes from the scene. She-Hulk digs out people, including Mr. Park, from the ruins and only a handful of people lose their lives. Afterwards Mr. Park informs her that his notes were destroyed and that he cannot remember what he was about to tell his superiors because of a mild head injury. He tells She-Hulk to be careful, so that nothing will jog his memory.
Dona and Roz Little return from shopping, and Terrance cries out of happiness, telling his daughter how much he loves her. Nearby, Jazinda watches again the transmission where her father tells that she is a traitor and that if they will ever see again, he will kill her.
Characters:
Bran
Rocky Davis
Emilee Freeman
Jazinda
Dona Little
Rosalind "Roz" Little
Terrance "Terry" Little
Mr. Park
Patrick
Pierce
She-Hulk
Super-Skrull ?
Tancretti
She-Hulk (2005) #1-12 | She-Hulk (2005) #13-24 | She-Hulk (2005) #25-
December 2006
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Story Title: Mind Field
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Eros is ruled guilty of using his love powers on the unwilling and he is also found responsible for Thanos’s past crimes. She-Hulk wishes to re-examine the evidence, so Moondragon sends Jen's mind inside Thanos’s mind. There She-Hulk finds a mental barrier that guards something that Thanos wants to hide. Also Starfox joins She-Hulk inside Thanos’s mind as Thanos tries to kill them inside his memories. The Stargod follows She-Hulk to Titan and fights Thanos in the physical plane, while She-Hulk and Eros investigate his hidden memories. They find out that Thanos has made synthetic duplicates of himself. These clones are so similar to the real Thanos that even telepaths or cosmic beings aren’t able to tell the clones apart from him. They also find out that Thanos had sent his female aide named Seductra to capture Eros, who was then imbued with false memories. Thanos had also used his devices on himself, because the plan wouldn’t work if they didn’t both believe that Eros had used his powers on Thanos when they were kids. She-Hulk realizes that this Thanos is one of the synthetic duplicates, because the real Thanos wouldn’t ever do something like that to his own mind.
She-Hulk and Eros return from Thanos’s mind and reveal the truth to the rest. The Thanos clone comes to the conclusion that the real Thanos had made all this because he might have found it funny. The furious She-Hulk takes down the clone and the Stargod finds out that Jen doesn’t really love him. It turns out that Eros couldn’t control his powers, because of irreparable brain damage caused by Thanos’s devices, and he agrees for Moondragon to telepathically shut off his love powers. As a punishment he will seek the forgiveness of his victims. Jen and John are left wondering what they will do with their marriage. Meanwhile on Earth, Pug drinks the love potion to make himself stop loving Jennifer.
Characters:
Adam Warlock (flashback)
Augustus Pugliese
Black Panther (flashback)
Captain America (flashback)
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell, flashback)
Captain Marvel (Phyla)
Cyclops (flashback)
Drax the Destroyer (flashback)
Dr. Strange (flashback)
Firelord (flashback)
Iron Man (flashback)
ISAAC
Mallory Book
Mentor
Moondragon
Morgan le Fay (disguised, flashback)
Namor (flashback)
Pip the Troll
RT-Z9
Scarlet Witch (flashback)
Seductra (flashback)
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer (flashback)
Spider-Man (flashback)
Stargod
Stargod
Thanos (flashback)
Thanos (synthetic duplicate)
Thor (flashback)
Titans
Wolverine (flashback)
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She-Hulk #14
February 2007
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Story Title: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Awesome Andy But Were Afraid To Ask.
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Uncredited
Letterer: Uncredited
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Origin: Awesome Andy
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) tells her husband, the lupine Stargod (John Jameson), that she wants an annulment, because her emotions had been manipulated by Starfox. Unbeknownst to them, her emotions were later manipulated by Awesome Andy, who had accidentally copied Starfox’s euphoria powers. John is devastated, because his feelings are still real. Starfox guarantees that he had used his powers only on Jennifer and her workmate Mallory Book.
The devastated Awesome Andy takes walk through places important to him and takes a look back to his past, how he was created by the Mad Thinker to be used against the Fantastic Four and other super-heroes. The Thinker had eventually sent Awesome Android, like he was called back then, against the mighty Thor, whose worthiness the android then copied, thus developing a sentience. Afterwards the android went to Holden Holliway, the lawyer who got the authorities to declare this android a living being. Holliway also let Andy pay him back by working at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway. There Andy got friends and a “chest-top display” with a wi-fi link to his cpu, which Andy could use for communication.
Andy goes to get his stuff at the Excelsior apartment building and overhears the Two-Gun Kid and Mallory Book. Mallory literally runs into the Kid’s arms after being freed of the emotion manipulation and dumping Andy, and tells the Two-Gun Kid to stay with her and GLK&H.
Andy sleeps the night under a bridge. Andy is devastated for the things he unknowingly did to Mallory and cannot live with them. The following day he climbs to the top of Empire State Building and jumps off. He develops wings on the way down and flies away to look the answer to whether he’s a person or a thing.
She-Hulk is taken back to Earth by RT-Z9. John decided to stay in outer space and possibly visit his friends in Other-Realm. On her way to her apartment, Jen runs into “Dottie”, who’s moving out. Dottie tells Jen that also Awesome Andy and the Two-Gun Kid are leaving. Jen rushes to their apartment, but finds only Andy’s chest-top display with “goodbye.” written on it. She then runs into men carrying her things out of her apartment. She is informed by Agent Clay Quartermain that she’s been drafted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and that her new home will be the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.
Characters:
Angel (flashback)
Augustus Pugliese (flashback)
Awesome Andy
Beast (flashback)
Captain America (flashback)
Clay Quartermain
Cyclops (flashback)
Ditto
GLK&H (flashback)
Hawkeye (flashback)
Holden Holliway (flashback)
Human Torch (flashback)
Iceman (flashback)
Invisible Girl (flashback)
Jane Foster (flashback)
Mad Thinker (flashback)
Mallory Book
Marvel Girl (flashback)
Moondragon
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Preston Sinclair (flashback)
Quicksilver (flashback)
RT-Z9
Scarlet Witch (flashback)
She-Hulk
Starfox
Stargod
Stu Cicero (flashback)
Thing (flashback)
Thor (flashback)
Two-Gun Kid
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She-Hulk #15
March 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part One
Story Title: She-Hulk: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Even though Iron Man had promised that after the registration the super-heroes would still be super-heroes, and not just agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., She-Hulk is now part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hulkbuster unit. Her new team mates include Agent Clay Quartermain and Agent Cheesecake, a female Life Model Decoy programmed for seduction, combat and retrieval.
The Hulkbusters go to a mission to take down the Abomination in Reno, Nevada. She-Hulk confronts the villain while the others evacuate the civilians and apprehend looters. She-Hulk’s strength isn’t a match to the Abomination’s, she is able to make her stand with her fighting skills. Still, She-Hulk has to call to Doc Samson for help. Over the phone Doc Samson concludes that the Abomination’s appearance portrays his self-hatred, and She-Hulk is able to make the villain lose his guard after mocking him. The Abomination is apprehended and taken to the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. She-Hulk still won’t agree to settle a session with Doc Samson, who’s worried about She-Hulk staying in her gamma form all the time, and hangs up.
Afterwards She-Hulk tells Clay Quartermain that she’s going by the name Walters again and that she’s not sorry about being separated with her husband. She then ends up in bed with Clay.
Characters:
Abomination
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Doc Samson
Doombot (flashback)
Iron Man (flashback)
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Ms. Marvel (flashback)
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Tigra (flashback)
Yellowjacket
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She-Hulk #16
April 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Two
Story Title: Gamma Flight
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Dave Kemp
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Crimson
Joins: Mr. Bobo (GLK&H)
Both She-Hulk and the Canadian mutant named Wolverine are hunting down Wendigo. She-Hulk is part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hulkbuster unit, whereas Wolverine is accompanied by the Talisman and other Sarcee people. She-Hulk and Wolverine team up to fight the beast while their back-up teams argue with each other about interfering with the battle. The S.H.I.E.L.D. has set up a security perimeter around the area, and they don’t allow the Talisman to pass.
In New York, White Rabbit fires Mallory Book as her lawyer and all the rest of Mallory’s clients have also cancelled their appointments with her. Dottie has been replaced by Mr. Bobo, an evolved chimpanzee, as the secretary of Mr. Zix, General Manager of GLK&H. The mysterious masters of Artie Zix, who’s secretly the Rigellian Recorder robot RT-Z9 in disguise, are displeased with him because he hasn’t been able to monitor She-Hulk in the Black Panther and Storm’s wedding in Wakanda or during her stay with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agency. Mallory has a date with the Two-Gun Kid, but Mallory gets upset while they’re watching A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mal is then recognized by an elderly woman who had seen Mallory on a cover of a tabloid magazine, kissing with Awesome Andy.
Back up north, She-Hulk is wounded and she passes out for a moment while her healing factor takes care of her injuries. In her mind, she is confronted by Jennifer Walters, her human form, who isn’t happy about the constant super-heroing, which is keeping her away from her friends and job at GLK&H. She-Hulk returns to the fight and throws Wolverine through Wendigo’s chest, ending the fight. Afterwards Crimson, head of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s magic-ops division apprehends Wendigo with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak before Wendigo can heal himself. Wolverine tells She-Hulk that he is holding her responsible if Wendigo escapes from the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. He then refuses She-Hulk’s advances. She is also denying the fact that she has slept with Juggernaut.
She-Hulk is unaware that the Hulkbusters have been apprehending the Hulk’s old foes for something called Project: Achilles.
Characters:
Abomination
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
GLK&H
Iron Man (in shadows)
Lewis (unnamed)
Mallory Book
Mystery being (voice only)
RT-Z9
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Sarcee Indians
She-Hulk
Talisman
Two-Gun Kid
Watcher (recording)
Wendigo
White Rabbit
Wolverine
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She-Hulk #17
May 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Three
Story Title: Shock After Shock
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Rich Ginter
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editors: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
She-Hulk and the other Hulkbusters capture several of the Hulk’s old foes. After apprehending Zzzax, it’s She-Hulk who gets to debrief the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Stark, much to Clay Quartermain’s disappointment. She-Hulk and Stark end up in bed. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Gaffer and other scientists are using the captured villains as test subjects in Project: Achilles. Unfortunately, Zzzax gets on the loose in the Helicarrier systems and takes over every piece of electronic equipment on the Helicarrier, including Agent Cheesecake, all the hover cars and Nick Fury L.M.D.s. Zzzax also releases the other villains held in stasis, but Project: Achilles has succeeded in the first stage of its experiments and the corporeal villains are treated with neural shutdown. She-Hulk is then able to recapture Zzzax in the electro-magnetic trap. Afterwards, she is holding the severed head of one of the Nick Fury L.M.D.s that is going through its old data files and repeating what it’s said before, like the other androids doing too. It gets She-Hulk’s attention when it starts talking about Bruce and a launch.
Meanwhile, at GLK&H’s comic book reference library, the Basement, Chas and Lewis notice how much Stu Cicero has changed. Artie Zix isn’t able to help Mallory Book to prevent tabloid papers from publishing pictures of her kissing Awesome Andy, so she goes to the Bar With No Name to show super-villains that she’s still something to be taken seriously. The Two-Gun Kid accompanies her, but starts a fight because he’s unaware of the criminals’ strict no-violence rule there. Mallory decides that she has to do something really big to regain everyone’s respect.
Characters:
Abomination
Artie Zix
Bar With No Name bartender (unnamed)
Batroc the Leaper
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Electro
Gaffer
Glob
Iron Man
Ironclad
Lewis
Lightmaster
Mallory Book
Mongoose
Nick Fury L.M.D.s
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Shocker
Toad-Men
Two-Gun Kid
Vapor
Vector
Vulture
Wendigo
X-Ray
Zzzax
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She-Hulk #18
June 2007
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Story Arc: Planet Without A Hulk, Part Four
Story Title: Illuminated
Tie-In: World War Hulk
Writer: Dan Slott
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Kate Levin
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Beefcake
Quits: She-Hulk (S.H.I.E.L.D., Hulkbusters)
Death: Beefcake
S.H.I.E.L.D. has got a positive gamma lock in New Mexico and the Hulkbusters are leaving for the mission, but She-Hulk is nowhere to be found. She has taken the severed head of the Nick Fury L.M.D. and a hovercar, and plans to find out what S.H.I.E.L.D. has to do with the Hulk’s disappearance. Not able to trust other super-heroes after the Civil War, she goes to her old law firm, Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway for help, and luckily Mr. Zix thinks that he is able to help She-Hulk. Unknowing to them, Amadeus Cho, also known as Mastermind Excello, hacks into their systems and opens the heavily encrypted file for them. The video file reveals that Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Dr. Strange and Black Bolt had secretly launched the Hulk into space.
Meanwhile, the Hulkbusters find the Leader in one of Bruce Banner’s old laboratories in New Mexico. Gaffer provided the team another sexpionage L.M.D., Agent Beefcake, to replace She-Hulk, but he is destroyed by the villain. Crimson spends his mystic reserves and uses his own life force in his last spell. Cheesecake’s systems are failing too, but Agent Quartermain is eventually able to take down the Leader. Back at the helicarrier, the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. presumes that the Hulkbusters have captured the Hulk and celebrate. The arriving Iron Man is surprised about all this and is then attacked by likewise arriving She-Hulk. Iron Man claims to be a futurist and having saved the world by sending the Hulk off-planet, but She-Hulk calls him a tyrant like Dr. Doom. Iron Man then uses an adamantium needle to inject She-Hulk with nanites developed at Project: Achilles, and She-Hulk’s powers are permanently neutralized. Jen Walters finds out that Project: Achilles has also neutralized Ironclad, Vector, the Abomination and apparently Glob, and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had developed the weapon in case the Hulk ever returned to Earth. Jennifer tells him that he had made a big mistake by neutralizing her powers, and as a lawyer, threatens to destroy him.
Characters:
Abomination
Artie Zix
Beefcake
Black Bolt (flashback)
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Doctor Strange (flashback)
GLK&H
Glob
Hulk (flashback)
Iron Man
Ironclad
Leader
Lewis
Mallory Book
Mastermind Excello and his coyote pup
Mr. Fantastic (flashback)
Multiple Man (mentioned)
Nick Fury L.M.D.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Two-Gun Kid
Vector
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She-Hulk #19
July 2007
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Story Title: The Gamma Defense
Writer: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Rich Ginter
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
Jennifer Walters wakes up at the Thing’s apartment, the penthouse at Atlas Towers, where she has been staying while looking for a new apartment. The nanites that neutralize She-Hulk’s powers were momentarily themselves neutralized by Mastermind Excello’s special soda but its effects are now gone. On her way down she runs into her workmates Mallory Book and the Two-Gun Kid, since Mallory also lives in the same building. Jen tells Mal about her current case against Iron Man, where she is trying to prove that superhumans have an inalienable right to their powers. At the office, Jen is furious when she finds out that Mallory is defending the Leader and she is given a subpoena by Mal.
In the Basement, Chas and Lewis realize that Stu Cicero isn’t really Stu Cicero, and hit him with long boxes until the shapeshifting Ditto is unconscious and transforms back into his real form.
In courtroom, Mallory points out that when Sam Sterns turned into the Leader, his mind changed with his body. She proves this by questioning Jennifer Walters, another gamma-transformed person (a GTP), who’s been much more uninhibited as She-Hulk, and has had many, many, many more sex partners as She-Hulk than as Jennifer Walters. Mal claims that Jennifer is addicted to being She-Hulk and therefore has no control or accountability for her actions, and claims this is what it is like to be under the influence of gamma rays.
That night, Jen is looking for a friend to talk to, and calls to Augustus Pugliese. Jen is surprised about Pug’s new look, but they don’t have time to talk about Pug’s news. Instead, they talk about the differences between She-Hulk and Jennifer Walters, and Pug tells her that he always saw them as different sides of the same person.
The following morning, the Leader’s Humanoids attack the Leader’s convoy outside the courthouse. The Leader gets free, but stops the attack and surrenders, because he’s sure that Mallory Book will win his case and prove that he’s not responsible for his actions.
At Timely Plaza, Chas and Lewis drag Ditto to Mr. Zix’s office. Ditto resists as hard as he can, so that Mr. Zix wouldn’t kill others, like he apparently did to Stu Cicero. Zix tells that he won’t be on Earth and that he won’t have to protect his secrets for much longer. Zix also confirms Chas and Lewis that he didn’t kill Stu, but transported him to the other-dimensional Duckworld, permanently.
Characters:
Artie Zix
Augustus Pugliese
Bobo
Chas
Cheesecake
Clay Quartermain
Crimson
Ditto
Doc Samson
Duckworlders
GLK&H
Heather Emme
Humanoids
Leader
Lewis
Mallory Book
She-Hulk
Stu Cicero
Two-Gun Kid
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She-Hulk #20
September 2007
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Story Title: The Clock is Ticking
Writers: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artists: John Watson & Payne
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Unnamed cosmic menace
Divorce: She-Hulk & John Jameson
Death: Recluses, RT-Z9
Mallory Book has got a not guilty verdict for the Leader and her phone has been ringing constantly ever since. The law firm’s senior partners are offering Holden Holliway’s chair to someone, but no one knows yet if it’s going to be Mallory or Jennifer Walters, whose case against Tony Stark seems even more promising. John Jameson has returned to Earth, as a human, and tries to get Jennifer give them another chance. Jen doesn’t want to hear it and wants John to sign the annulment paper.
Mr. Zix, General Manager of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway calls Jennifer, Mallory, John and the Two-Gun Kid in his office, and tells his secretary, Mr. Bobo, not to let anyone disturb them. In the office they find Ditto and the office interns Chas and Lewis chained to chairs. Zix imprisons everyone inside an energy field with himself and removes the Two-Gun Kid’s colts. The others learn that Artie Zix is truly Rigel Type Zeta 9, the Magistrati’s court recorder. RT-Z9 tells that he is being controlled by beings that have activated his self-destruct mechanism and shall terminate everyone inside the energy field, unless the robot is able to collect all the data he was sent to record in two hours.
Meanwhile, Stu Cicero materialises in the Nexus of All Realities in Florida. He faces the Man-Thing, who is lured away by a man throwing the monster a squeaky toy. Stu got back from Duckworld after finding Ducktor Strange, the mallard of myshtic artsh, who opened Stu a magic portal back to Earth. The man offers Stu a ride, but after Stu learns that the man is Richard Rory, Jen Walters’ ex-boyfriend, Stu leaves him in the swamp.
RT-Z9 reveals that he is controlled by the Recluses, the hidden alien race whose case She-Hulk handled as a judge for the Magistrati, the judges, jurors and advocates of the universe. The Recluses had been given a Rigellian control unit, so that they could speak through RT-Z9 during the trial. The Recluses feared that She-Hulk would one day reverse the decision of silencing the Watcher overseeing them, so they kept RT-Z9 in their control and sent him to Earth to watch over She-Hulk. RT-Z9 took the human form of Artie Zix and, by telling only half of the story, convinced Holden Holliway to left the Superhuman Law Offices in his care while Holliway went after his missing granddaughter, Southpaw.
The Recorder asks Jennifer about her trying to change the past and prevent Hawkeye’s death. She-Hulk tells that she failed anyway, but the Two-Gun Kid reveals that Hawkeye is in fact alive, thanks to the House of M, and visited him a few weeks earlier. Hawkeye had made video messages that were to be sent to his friends in case he died. Since was still alive (although hiding), he wanted to get the videos back before they were delivered. The Kid helped Hawkeye and they did get the videos, except one, She-Hulk’s. In the message, Hawkeye told She-Hulk that he loved her, and Hawkeye was really embarrassed about it and asked the Two-Gun Kid not to tell anyone about his return partly because of this.
RT-Z9 then asks John Jameson about his godhood and his relationship with She-Hulk. John tells that after being left by Jen, he had some adventures as the Stargod of Other Realm, returned to Earth and gave up his powers. John then signs the annulment papers.
Meanwhile, Awesome Andy finds Southpaw and the Mad Thinker’s safe house in Florida. The Thinker concludes that Andy is once again the Awesome Android, because its programming orders the android to home in on the Thinker in case of a hard reboot. The reboot was done by Andy himself. Now all Andy’s memories, stored powers and personality subroutines are gone.
The Recluses are satisfied with She-Hulk being depowered, but they are still worried about She-Hulk’s enhanced Magistrati abilities. She-Hulk reveals that she was retired from her post after speaking on her universe’s behalf when the Living Tribunal wondered whether to replace it with a simpler Ultimate universe.
RT-Z9 and the Recluses are satisfied with what they’ve learned, so RT-Z9 releases everyone, just before Whiz Kid, a speedster from GLK&H’s mail room, brings Stu Cicero to Timely Plaza to warn the others about RT-Z9. The robot leaves, to report back to the Recluses. RT-Z9 asks the Recluses to disengage his self-destruct sequence, in vain. In fact, RT-Z9 had not been controlled by the Recluses for some time. The Recluses had been slaughtered and Qyre the Watcher captured by a mysterious menace preparing his forces for a reckoning.
Characters:
Awesome Andy
Bobo
Chas
Ditto
Ducktor Strange (flashback)
Eternity
GLK&H
Hawkeye (flashback)
Holden Holliway (flashback)
John Jameson
Lewis
Living Tribunal (flashback)
Mad Thinker android
Magistrati (flashback)
Mallory Book
Man-Thing
Qyre (flashback)
Recluses
Richard Rory
RT-Z9
She-Hulk
Southpaw
Stu Cicero
Two-Gun Kid
Uatu (flashback)
Unnamed alien dragon
Unnamed cosmic menace
Unnamed Duckworlders (flashback)
Whiz Kid
Zoma (flashback)
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She-Hulk #21
October 2007
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Story Title: Another Me, Another U
Writers: Dan Slott & Ty Templeton
Penciler: Rick Burchett
Inker: Cliff Rathburn
Colorist: Avalon’s Andy Troy
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Artist: Greg Horn
Assistant Editor: Molly Lazer
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Various Earth A dublicates
Joins: Stu Cicero (Marvel Comics)
Quits: Stu Cicero (GLK&B)
Chas and Lewis are helping Stu Cicero to track down all the Marvel comics he missed while being exiled on Duckworld. They run into She-Hulk taking down the Rhino and ask her how she got her powers back and how the Rhino can be there after being captured so many times recently. She-Hulk claims that she privately worked things out with Tony Stark, the man responsible of depowering her, but when Lt. Stone of Code:Blue asks her who the current President is, she first answers Al Gore. Stone then takes her down with a neuro-targeting oxy-spray, arrests her and tells the rest of Code:Blue that they’ll run also the Rhino’s quantum retinal scan back at the headquarters.
That She-Hulk turns out to be an “alpha”, a vacationer from another dimension called Earth A. There, the only superhuman is the Thing, Reed Richards. Some years ago, Earth A was visited by time travelers, dinosaurs and superhumans from Earth B, our dimension. Albert E. Devoor from Interlocking Technologies has afterwards been offering a chance to go on a vacation on Earth B where people can see superhumans or even become ones if their Earth B alter egos happen to have powers. The vacationer goes through the atomic re-sequencer that beams the person’s molecules to the arrival station on Earth B, where he or she is realigned on the atomic level to match the structure of his or her local counterpart. There, Albert E. Devoor of Earth B orients the vacationers to his or her counterpart’s powers and history and Earth B in general.
Mallory Book has made partner and the firm is now called Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book. GLK&B gets to represent Devoor and the Earth A duplicates. Jennifer Walters goes to meet her counterpart, who confesses of having slept with the Juggernaut while posing as our She-Hulk. One of the extradimensional tourists is the Wrecker’s counterpart and the others ask the tourist She-Hulk to take him down. Mallory gets a phone call from Titania, whose past attack had crippled Mallory. Now shrunken to ant-size and imprisoned at the Big House, Titania asks Mal to represent her. Mal thinks of revenge, but she is talked out of it by the visiting Augustus Pugliese. Pug reveals Mallory that when he drank the magic potion to get over She-Hulk, he was indentured to Morgan le Fay, the disguised witch who gave Pug the potion. Pug is now unable to reveal the witch’s name or ever to feel anything romantic towards She-Hulk, but he makes Mal promise not to tell Jennifer. This is overheard by the tourist She-Hulk, before she is taken to a karaoke bar by the real, powerless She-Hulk. The powerless Jen wants to switch places with the other She-Hulk, because she is so disappointed with Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic and the rest of the world. Mallory Book finds the duo and tells that the firm needs Jen.
Mr. Fantastic is helping to send the extradimensional tourists back to Earth A and also the Earth B Jennifer Walters goes through the portal. Before Jen has time to materialize in Earth A, Mr. Fantastic gets an idea and gets her back. Richards realigned Jen’s atoms to match her Earth A counterpart, who was on our Earth before our Jen got the power-inhibiting nanites in her bloodstream, so our Jennnifer gets her powers back. The tourist She-Hulk isn’t unhappy about having to go back to Earth A, where she is romancing that world’s Augustus Pugliese. In this world, Stu Cicero tells that he is leaving GLK&B for a writing gig at Marvel Comics and Mallory Book hires She-Hulk back, but on the condition that she works in her human form. She-Hulk and Pug then go to a dinner, as best friends.
Characters:
3-D Man [Earth A]
Albert E. Devoor
Albert E. Devoor [Earth A]
Armadillo [Earth A]
Augustus Pugliese
Augustus Pugliese [Earth A]
Beast
Beast [Earth A]
Bobo
Captain Ultra [Earth A]
Chas
Dazzler
Dazzler [Earth A]
Ditto
Doctor Strange [Earth A]
Egghead [Earth A]
“Fireworks” Fielstein ?
GLK&B
Guardsmen (Billy, other)
Hammer & Anvil [Earth A]
Hulkling
Hulkling [Earth A]
Jack of Hearts [Earth A]
Lewis
Lt. Stone
“Mad-Dog” Rassitano
Mallory Book
Monica Rambeau [Earth A]
Morgan le Fay (flashback)
Mr. Fantastic
Ms. Marvel [Earth A]
Rhino
“Rigger” Ruiz
Scarlet Witch [Earth A]
Scorpion (Gargan) [Earth A]
She-Hulk
She-Hulk [Earth A]
Stu Cicero
Thing (Reed Richards) [Earth A]
Titania
Two-Gun Kid
Vermin
Vermin (ashes) [Earth A]
White Tiger (Ayala) [Earth A]
Wiccan
Wiccan [Earth A]
Wrecker [Earth A]
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She-Hulk #22
December 2007
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 1
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Paul Acerios
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo (standard), Ed McGuinness, Dexter Vines & Kelsey Shannon (variant), Ed McGuinness & Jason Keith
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Freeman Bonding, Inc.; Hi-Lite, Jazinda (unnamed)
Quits: She-Hulk – Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book (mentioned)
Jennifer Walters, She-Hulk, no longer works as a lawyer. Nowadays she is a bail enforcement agent, or a bounty hunter, working for Freeman Bonding, Inc. (which she calls F.B.I.), a subsidiary of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Book.
Jennifer is tracking down Rockwell Davis, a.k.a. “Rocky Davis” and “Hi-Lite”. Davis possesses no superhuman powers, but he used armor capable of manipulating light beams for example in alarm systems. Davis was trying to steal a possible Holy Grail from New York Museum of Antiquities. Davis was using night-vision goggles when the guard put on the lights. The blinded Hi-Lite shot the guard in the arm with a laser and the guard got a heart attack. Davis gave the guard C.P.R. until the police arrived and arrested him. Freeman Bonding, Inc. put up $90,000 for his $100,000 bail, but Davis went missing before his court date.
Rocky Davis is found in Minnesota. Jennifer Walters is seen taking a walk around the house and the bounty hunter’s partner promises her twenty bucks if she can capture Davis without turning green. Jennifer walks in through the unlocked door and apprehends the compliant Davis. His cat is annoying Jennifer and Davis’ cousin walks behind her, breaking Jennifer’s neck. Rocky’s cousin just happens to be the Absorbing Man, the husband of She-Hulk’s nemesis, Titania.
The Absorbing Man plans to take Jennifer’s van but he is attacked by She-Hulk, jumping from the van. Yet somehow Jennifer is still inside, now pointing a gun at Rocky Davis with her neck seemingly still broken. Outside, the battle is joined by Titania, who is still miniaturized after escaping from the Big House, a prison where the inmates are shrunk down with Pym Particles. While She-Hulk is busy fighting the Absorbing Man, Titania crawls inside She-Hulk’s ear.
Characters:
Absorbing Man
Hi-Lite
Jazinda
She-Hulk
Titania
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She-Hulk #23
January 2008
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 2
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Dan Masso
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Jazinda (named)
She-Hulk’s battle against the Absorbing Man and Titania continues at a mall in Minnesota. The separate Jennifer Walters takes Rocky Davis to the van, telling a police officer that she is triple-jointed when he asks her about her seemingly-broken neck. Jennifer also explains that she is field-testing a new non-lethal restraining gun, before taking Davis inside the van and fixing her neck. She then goes after She-Hulk, who carries a subcutaneous locator device and has left a big trail behind her.
Titania is causing damage to She-Hulk’s inner ear, while She-Hulk’s healing factor keeps fixing the injuries and giving Titania the chance to cause more pain. The Absorbing Man has found a new ball-and-chain at the mall and hits She-Hulk with it, knocking Titania out of her ear in the process. She-Hulk is now able to fight back much better and breaks the Absorbing Man’s ball-and-chain. They break an aquarium, releasing a shark. The Absorbing Man, absorbing the properties of the shark, gains the upper hand and is about to drown She-Hulk, when the other Jennifer Walters arrives. Jennifer has captured Titania and throws her in the shark’s mouth, causing the Absorbing Man to release his hold over She-Hulk. The room is then filled with water and the Absorbing Man is no longer able to ignore it, causing him to turn into water as well.
She-Hulk stays to save people at the mall until Stark Enterprises arrives. She leaves with Jennifer back to New York, with Rocky Davis sleeping in the back of the van. Jennifer is demanding her twenty bucks from She-Hulk, who is claiming that Jennifer had to use her special anatomy to survive and therefore lost the bet. Jennifer turns out to be a Skrull named Jazinda.
Characters:
Absorbing Man
Rocky Davis
Jazinda
She-Hulk
Titania
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She-Hulk #24
February 2008
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Story Arc: Jaded, Episode 3
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Shawn Moll
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Colorist: Avalon’s Rob Ro
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Production: Paul Acerios
Cover Artists: Mike Deodato & Rainier Beredo
Assistant Editor: Thomas Brennan
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Editor-In-Chief: Joe Quesada
Publisher: Dan Buckley
First Appearance: Bran, Emilee Freeman, Dona Little, Rosalind Little, Terrance Little, Mr. Park, Pierce, Tancretti
She-Hulk and the shape-shifting Jazinda leave Rocky Davis at a police station in Brooklyn, New York. She-Hulk is irritated by officer Tancretti and Rocky seems to have a crush on Jennifer Walters, whose shape Jazinda is using there. Afterwards the women take Jen’s recreational vehicle to her “home”, Dona Little’s trailer park, where Jazinda hides in human form. She-Hulk gives kids the ball-and-chain that the Absorbing Man tried to kill her with and she and Jazinda talk with Dona Little and her teenage daughter Roz before She-Hulk revs off with her motorcycle.
She-Hulk goes to Freeman Bonding, Inc. to collect her commission. She takes Pierce the receptionist’s advice too literally and parks her cycle on a chair, while Pierce is busy talking with some doctor over the phone. Emilee Freeman guarantees she will take it out of She-Hulk’s next commission before she introduces her to Mr. Park from Providence Insurance. Providence carries F.B.I.’s insurances and Mr. Park tells that he will recommend his superiors to cease providing liability coverage until Mrs. Freeman stops using She-Hulk’s services. Emilee Freeman tells Mr. Park go to hell and promises She-Hulk that she won’t stop hiring her. She-Hulk cannot resign, since she is a freelance.
Meanwhile, Jazinda has a talk with Roz Little. Jazinda tells that she was born on Tarnax IV and grew up on Zaragz’na and that both planets are now destroyed. Roz does not take this seriously and just thinks that Jazinda is strange. Roz seems to be having some father issues, since she believes that he doesn’t like her. Jazinda of course first assumes something worse. Jazinda shape-shifts in to a police officer and informs Terrance Little that his daughter was killed in a hit and run.
She-Hulk goes to a bar, where she meets Bran, a man with an Irish accent who first claims that his first name is Raisin. She-Hulk is interested, but she is tired of carefree sex. Bran then detonates a bomb and vanishes from the scene. She-Hulk digs out people, including Mr. Park, from the ruins and only a handful of people lose their lives. Afterwards Mr. Park informs her that his notes were destroyed and that he cannot remember what he was about to tell his superiors because of a mild head injury. He tells She-Hulk to be careful, so that nothing will jog his memory.
Dona and Roz Little return from shopping, and Terrance cries out of happiness, telling his daughter how much he loves her. Nearby, Jazinda watches again the transmission where her father tells that she is a traitor and that if they will ever see again, he will kill her.
Characters:
Bran
Rocky Davis
Emilee Freeman
Jazinda
Dona Little
Rosalind "Roz" Little
Terrance "Terry" Little
Mr. Park
Patrick
Pierce
She-Hulk
Super-Skrull ?
Tancretti
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