![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is, his definition of She-Hulk and the world she inhabits isn’t very good. The first volume feels like Slott’s attempt to define the character and the setting, so that the second volume gets to dive into the continuity jokes and deep dives he actually wants to do. The first was a 12-issue run in 2004, and the second was a 21-issue run that started in 2005. There’s technically two volumes of Slott’s She-Hulk in this collection. Every single page of this book reminds the reader that it was created entirely by men. And while, sure, Slott points out that this isn’t a healthy way to live, the entire thing just feels like the creative team is leering at her. ![]() ![]() Right from the first page, Jen is depicted as a woman who is so insecure in her self image that she just has to sleep with different men almost every night to cope with it. What I got instead was a very uncomfortable depiction of a textually strong female character as essentially a stereotypical (in 2004) comic book fan’s ideal female protagonist. When I signed up to write about the She-Hulk by Dan Slott Omnibus, I was coming in with the context of it being a fairly popular run that I saw a lot of people hold up as the definitive She-Hulk run. ![]()
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