Savage She Hulks #1 (2010)

Savage She Hulks #1

So, Thundra’s first meeting with her daughter does not go very well – as Lyra not only hates her mother but is ready to kill her.  Within the battle Lyra starts to tell Thundra what happened to her – but she refuses to listen, as it may destroy the future.  Thundra tries to tell Lyra that she can’t explain why she has teamed up with the Red Hulk – and as another battle is about to ensue, Lyra loses her strength and Thundra throws her through a mountain.  Always watching, the Leader and M.O.D.O.C.K. send the Wizard out to recruit her into the Frightful Four.

Lyra gets a spanking!

Lyra is trying to blend into society – but the Wizard comes to make sure that isn’t possible.  Lyra begins to battle the Wizard’s team – and is doing well until the Red She Hulk comes and, well… against the Red She Hulk, Lyra doesn’t fare very well.  She is ready to kill Lyra before Wizard steps back in and tames her – tells her that they are trying to recruit her - not kill her.  Wizard makes Lyra another offer to join his team – and she agrees, with her own intentions.

Red She Hulk congratulating Lyra on her winning....

After the attack on the Baxter Building and the kidnapping of Reed Rickards Lyra is granted access onto the “Hellcarrier” – the destroyed Hellacarrier from issue #2 of the Hulk, that the Intelligencia is using as a base.  Lyra does some investigating and finds Jen Walters in a suspended animation pod.

Original She Hulk - in the tube Luke Skywalker used in Empire...

Wow – this whole storyline is getting REAL interesting!  Thanks, mainly, I think, to Parker and Pak who came on board to clean up Loeb’s mess.  They’ve made all these characters interesting!  Even the horribly conceived Red She Hulk!  The fantastic art really helps as well!  By the way, there is a variant cover – which my LCS did not get in.  Second time they forced me to get it off ebay.  It will be here in a few days – which reminds me… I need to make an announcement of sorts.  Maybe I will make a new post to do that though… but about the issue – Kudos! – I can’t wait for the next issue! Grade: A-

Pretty Sweet Variant Cover!

Hulk 100 Project (2008)

Hulk 100 Project

The Hulk 100 Project was, in case you were living under a rock, a great project for the Hero Initiative – which is a non-profit corporation that helps comic creators in need.  There is only one printing of this book – through an agreement between Marvel and the Hero Initiative this book will not be re-printed.  Ever.  If you didn’t get this – that’s really too bad because you won’t see this book any more. 

Alan Davis Hulk Cover #1

Basically, what happens is Marvel prints out a bunch of blank covers for Hulk #1. They gave them to some artists – 126 to be exact – to create a one of a kind Hulk cover that will be auctioned off.  And, true enough, most of them went for a good amount of money.  The most was Frank Cho’s cover, it went for $ 7,500, but IT DIDN’T EVEN FEATURE THE HULK!  But my favorite was Dave Simmons:

Dave Simmons

And Herb Trimpe did a great one with some classic villains:

Herb Trimpe Cover

Hulk Family – Green Genes (2008) – The Review

Hulk Family - Green Genes

Who picked this up yesterday?  Pretty darn good issue.  It’s nice to have some good old fashion Hulk stories after the crap they have been shoveling at us this year.  The first story, titled Your Lucky Day, takes place right after the events in The Incredible Hulk #344 – Ground Zero – my favorite Hulk story.  So, She Hulk is having her class reunion (Hey!  The old ’96 cartoon had an episode where Jen Walters went to her class reunion!  Weird.)  Anyways, she sees Mr, Fixit stroll through the casino and recognizes him as her cousin.  Fixit tells her she has the wrong man – he still doesn’t want to be recognized – she says she knows it’s him.  Two mutants come to Las Vegas – they say fate brought them there – and start causing trouble.  She Hulk takes Discordia while Hulk takes on the guy whose power is transforming fear into power.  It’s pretty sweet.  As they tangle Fixit starts to hear Banner’s voice inside of him.  He begins to take out his anger on the mutant.  He gets angrier and angrier when he believes Banner is calling him an accident – and Hulk says it was fate.  Just as he’s about to lose control and beat this mutant to a pulp She Hulk stops him.  She says she knows he’s not her cousin – because her cousin wouldn’t be so mean.

This story is such a refreshing change of pace from the drivel we’ve been served lately.  It’s violent, and funny (I like Hulk’s new name for She Hulk – which is She-Me) and each of the characters actually act like the characters they are supposed to!  B

This comic also features 3 other stories – each featuring a different Hulk member – Pak writes the Skaar story, which I wish I liked better but I just can’t get into it.  The Daughter of the Hulk story is okay – turns out Hulk’s bastard daughter has some compassion for males – which she attributes to her Dad.  But if you want to hear about these stories you should get the comic and read it.  I’m just going to give a review of the first story – but what did you think of it?

Hulk #7 (2008) – The Review

Hulk #7

Spoilers below!  Look out!  I have to be honest – I don’t even feel like giving my review.  I want to stop bashing the character I love.  It’s gotten to the point where I dread even turning the cover page.  But here’s what you find when you do read the… comic:

We begin in Vegas.  Bruce explains, in narration, that the Red Hulk (ugh) has killed a Wendigo.  Everything that the Red Hulk does just gets blamed on him because he’s the original.  All the bad stuff that the Red Hulk does is all blamed on Bruce.  Well, the Wendigo – a mythical creature bound to the Canadian wilderness – has somehow left Canada and is seeking out the Hulk for revenge.  (Loeb calls them hybrids)  So, some douche parks like an idiot, almost hitting Bruce, at a casino where Wendigo’s have been killing people inside.  Bruce enters and becomes… the Grey Hulk.  Oh good, another transformation Loeb doesn’t explain.  The Hulk could never just slip into different personalities without reason until lazy writers started to write the Hulk.  Here is no exception.  What the hell Loeb?  What made him become the grey Hulk – let alone call himself Joe Fixit?  And what made him Fixit?  The fact that he’s in Vegas?  Dude, Fixit was fired… he didn’t call himself Fixit as his personality – he called himself Fixit because he didn’t want people to know the Hulk was still alive.  Anyways, the Wendigo fight the Hulk who is having a ball fighting them off.  Suddenly the Hulk is attacked by Moon Knight.  Hulk is helping people and gets attacked by one of the heroes – sound familiar? – and Hulk easily turns his attention to beating the crap out of Moon Knight until – again – he looks behind him and sees that Marvel Girl and Sentry has also come to stop him.  Then the comic let’s you know that the next issue will feature the Green Hulk again…

Now, is where I get really angry.  Because they have split the Hulk comic into two mini-stories.  So instead of getting one longer crappy story we get two crappy stories that lasts what seems like 5 pages long.  Anyways, She Hulk is recruiting female heroes to take on the Red Hulk.  She calls everyone and calls them by their real names but, Bummer!, they are all busy.  She does recruit Valkyrie and Thundra and then the 3 of them sit in a confrence and learn that the Green Hulk, Iron Man and Thor were all beaten by the Hulk.  No one mentions the fact that the 3 girls sitting there couldn’t hold a candle to any of those heroes so how the hell are they going to fight the Red Hulk.  The ladies just get get into new costumes and head out to fight.  They find the Red Hulk pretty quickly and the fight doesn’t last very long - Red makes quick work of them and then starts hitting on Valkyrie and Thundra.

So here’s my review… I have come to realize that I must have done something really bad in a former life – that’s why my favorite comic is now a sham and a horrible sham at that.  F

Frank Cho Variant

*QUICK NOTE: The guy at my LCS said that the Turner variants were incentive covers.  Like, if you order so many comics than they give you these covers.  Turns out though the deal was ridiculous.  They wanted stores to buy a crazy amount that most stores refused to do it.  This, by the way, is second hand information and in no way garunteed accurate.  But it sounded good to me so I report it to you if you know any other information about the variants please feel free to comment!

She-Hulk Marvel Legends (2008)

Marvel Legends Savage She-Hulk

This would be the short-packed figure of the line.  And of coirse this is the one that has the best part of the BAF Foom.  The head and neck!  You can see just how cool the massive figure is going to be when you look at the detail that litters this figure!  Take a closer look at the head here (as well as a She Hulk crotch shot):

Fin Fang Foom Head

Now we can get to the She-Hulk figure.  This figure is based on the Savage She-Hulk that first appeared in the comics – not the sexy lawyer that she evolved into.  Her face is done really well and the cloth dress actually comes off to reveal that She Hulk is a huge fan of the string bikini!  I think that this figure is done really well – the wild mane of hair and the expression on her face – she almost looks to be growling!  If you can find this figure consider yourself lucky because the price is already sky-rocketing on ebay!

Savage She Hulk Close Up

She Hulk (1991)

I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to post this or not.  I got it for very cheap when a Kay-Bee toys was going out of business.  Since it has to do with the Hulk I decided that I should because I want to be as thorough as possible.  So here it is.  A She-Hulk toy which is just a repainted Rouge figure.

Marvel Magazines (1992/1998)

A few of these are excuses to just reprint old comics.  The Megazine at the top reprints #333 as well as some others.  The Marvel Magazine and Marvel Age let’s you know what’s happening in the world of Marvel at the time.  My favorite cover it the Adam Kubert drawn She-Hulk and Hulk cover.

She-Hulk Variant (1996)

Wizard put out a variant on the She Hulk figure from the Toy Biz line.  It features the She Hulk in the Fantastic Four costume.  It doesn’t stand very well though – so I had to prop her up.

She- Hulk (1997)

This figure comes from that ’97 line and features She-Hulk.  Not really a big She-Hulk fan so… that’s all I’m really going to say about that.