Ok here's one for the ladies because I am doubting the guys will enjoy this one much. For Valentines this year my lovely husband got me the Essential "The Savage She-Hulk," a message in disguise? Who knows, but my reaction was naturally "What the...?" I didn't know too much about the She-Hulk and my previous Hulk experience was limited to the Lou Ferrigno version so I had no preconceptions about this title. So I buckled down and read it cover to cover in two days or less because that is what I do.
She-Hulk is actually criminal lawyer Jen Walters who is shot by enemies of her defendant (some goons working for Nick Trask) while being visited by her cousin Dr. Banner (the Hulk of course). Like many superhero origins the perfect set of circumstances come together at the perfect time and Whalla! A Hero is born. So in order to save her Banner gives Jen a blood transfusion (he is of course the same blood type and somehow knows that off hand) and then runs off when the police come. Well this transfusion takes effect at the perfect time for Jen because while recovering in the hospital she is once more attacked by Trask's goons and is saved by her transformation into She-Hulk!
She-Hulk appears under similar circumstances as the Hulk=when Jen gets pissed. But the transformation is painful and traumatic to Jen. At least one transformation is nessesary per issue, but its usually when Jen really needs an escape plan or just a powerful fist. As a Criminal lawyer Jen gets into all sorts of trouble and as She-Hulk she is hunted down by her own father, Sheriff Walters who believes that Jen is dead after her friend Jill is killed by Trask's men (they cut the brakes on Jen's car). She-Hulk attempts to stop the runaway car but is blocked by Jen's courtroom advasary and is subsequently blamed for "Jen's" death.
Among her other problems, Jen has trouble with love. This is the part where I expect the gents to loose interest. Jen's neighbor Zapper is totally into her, and since he is the only one to learn her secret identity early in the book, he falls for She-Hulk as well. Jen on the other hand thinks of him as a little mustashioed brother whose bad fro and 70s pants are totally unappealing; she digs this cat named Richard Rory. Rory is in town after a string of good and then really bad luck taking him from the Florida everglades to Hells Kitchen to Nevada and then LA where Jen resides. His only real friend is Man-Thing so he gets the She-Hulk thing. After knowing him two days they go to Florida together--Zapper is not happy. Later in the book Zapper and She-Hulk start dating, he is apparently undaunted by her huge greeness.
The interesting thing about this book is how Jen balances her two lives, something always comes up where she needs to be one identity or the other and sometimes both! It gets to the point where Jen doesn't want to deal with it anymore and retreats entirely into the She-Hulk. If you like chick flicks with some random violence thrown in I would give this a read but for girl-power read Wonder Woman's "The Hiketeia" or Catwoman's "Selina's Big Score."
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