She-Hulk #7 Review

Title:	She-Hulk
Contributors:	Charles Soule Javier Pulido
Publisher:	Marvel
Issue #:	7
Year:	2014
Pages:	32 Pages
Age Rating:	10+
Story Grade:	B
Art Grade:	B

Issue #7 of She-Hulk (respect the hyphen), brings the Soule back to the book. Did you catch that play on words there? Also a welcome back Javier Pulido. Charles Soule, who happens to be back a top writing form in this issue, after back-to-back disappointments in issues #5 and #6, puts out a great story once again. This book has She-Hulk and company searching for a missing scientist, and brings in Hank Pym, Ant-Man for those of you unfamiliar, for the cameo assist.

Charles Soule is back in top writing form in this issue. After a failed two-issue lead up to a  story arc finale that never matured, Soule chose to bring Jennifer Walters' story back to a formula that works which is where he started it; a fun little adventure with a cliffhanger preview of the next issue.

It's unfortunate that this book includes She-Hulk doing the equivalent of stomping on ants [literally ants], and knocking the teeth out of domesticated cats. Since when do superheroes resort to animal abuse? I mean sure, She-Hulk and company are shrunk down during this excursion, but still, it's not a popular thing to portray these days. And while I enjoyed it for what is was, I could see PETA taking issue with these action sequences.

Outside of the animal abuse stuff, this formula of storytelling is where Soule has excelled in the She-Hulk story. Issue's #1 - #4 were exceptional in their entertainment value, and it is good to see Soule coming back to the original format. I don't know if he got busy with his numerous other projects or if he was experimenting, but it wasn't working in Issues #5 and #6. Maybe he saw the failings and decided to do a reboot in #7 to return Walters to her glory.

While it is nice to have Javier bringing some depth back into the art, his work isn't without some issues. The book kicks off with Javier doing four panels, which include Jennifer, a scientist and Patsy. The four panels are identical except for a shrunk down Captain America changing positions. And by identical, I mean, the exact same poses, facial expressions, positions and postures. Talk about copy & paste artwork. The characters have an important, yet boring, dialog through the four panels, and Pulido could have done some fun things to prevent boredom from setting in, but instead he chose to change nothing in all four panels. It was a disheartening start to the book. Readers don't pay to see the same panel used in a cut and paste fashion. But in the end, the story really picked up some momentum and that problem was all but forgotten. Even with this particular art snafu, I am so glad to have Pulido back, I mean look at the depth in the art. Yay for Shadows!


All in all, this was an entertaining book that I enjoyed. It actually made me glad I didn't remove She-Hulk from my pull list after the epic fail in issues #5 and #6. I grade this book a solid B. The story gets a B losing some points for the animal abuse sequences and the art gets a B losing some points for the four cloned panels in the beginning.

Until next time... Remember that danger is a matter of perspective.