MattBrady
01-06-2005, 02:21 PM
<img src="http://www.newsarama.com/quarterbin/SheHulk14.jpg" width="175" height="269" border="0" align="right"><i>by Ryan McLelland</i>
<b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b>
Marvel Comics
April 1990
Written by Steve Gerber
Pencils by Bryan Hitch
Inks by Jim Sanders III
It was reading the current brilliant <b>She-Hulk</b> series that caused me to search the bins for the 1990’s <b>Sensational She-Hulk</b> series. I had found the trade paperback collection of the first couple issues by John Byrne and reveled once again at how fun the character was. Searching the bins I found a number of issues but once again a special guest-star on the cover of <b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b> drew me right in.
In Part 1 of The Cosmic Squish Principle, we meet a bald man sitting in a director’s chair on some far off moon. Is he a Watcher, that weird race of bald men that sit on moons for the purpose of…watching things? No. This bald man is something different from a splinter faction of the Watchers. He is…a Critic, complete with smoking pipe, a great pair of shades, and the aforementioned director’s chair. The Critic shows us a blunder in which a massive toilet plunger accidentally reverses the pull of a black hole thus bringing chaos to the entire galaxy. Damn toilet plungers!
On Earth our fair maiden of grassy green skin is driving through Vermont when some intergalactic cowbell she has makes her car die. The cowbell has a hissy fit and She-Hulk just watches as mystical powers shoots forth from this thing. Finally the anomalies stop and She-Hulk is left with just an empty frame that when she puts her hand through, her hand disappears. Where would her hand go?
Cleveland actually. Marvel’s favorite fowl, Howard the Duck, is looking through his refrigerator when a big green hand suddenly lunges out at him. This scares Howard greatly, since all the duck wanted was something to drink, but he decides his time is better spent on the couch and away from his weird green hand fridge. It’s not long before Howard’s gorgeous redheaded girlfriend Bev comes home from her long day of training to be a ninja and thinks that she may have jumped on the ‘ninja bandwagon’ too late.
With She-Hulk back in New York and suddenly becoming weaker, the Critic decides to bound into action to try and stop Earth from activating the portals (the frame cowboy thingie). The Critic lands in the middle of a computer store where Howard is trying to sell a computer to a surprised customer (its not every day that you see a duck trying to sell you something, of course). The Critic tells Howard he needs his help and when Howard refuses, he’s sealed in a bubble and forced to join the Critic anyway.
She-Hulk is with a friend trying to figure out the whole other cowbell/frame universe and her friend actually figures out that the frame is a portal to the Baloneyverse. The friend tries to explain further but Howard, in his bubble, suddenly comes crashing through a wall. Introductions between the two are very brief as Howard points out that She-Hulk’s friend is falling INTO his desk. Quickly snapping into action, She-Hulk grabs Howard and jumps into the frame to save her friend. The two pop out into the Baloneyverse where She-Hulk inexplicably becomes her alter-ego Jennifer Walters…finding that she is unable to change back.
She-Hulk and HOWARD THE DUCK! Written by the one and only Steve Gerber? With art by the soon to be adored by women and envied by men, but at that time drawing mostly like Alan Davis Bryan Hitch?!? A seedy Watcher called the Critic and a place called the Baloneyverse? I have no clue why I didn’t know that Gerber wrote She-Hulk and that he put his most famous creation in the book, but once I found this issue I had no choice but to hunt down these other issues for more Gerber Howard the Duck goodness. The pencils of some guy named Bryan Hitch, who can even make She-Hulk look good in an over-large pink turtleneck, help out Gerber’s quirky story. <b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b> is really more great She-Hulk fun and a comic you can pick up for one shiny quarter.
<b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b>
Marvel Comics
April 1990
Written by Steve Gerber
Pencils by Bryan Hitch
Inks by Jim Sanders III
It was reading the current brilliant <b>She-Hulk</b> series that caused me to search the bins for the 1990’s <b>Sensational She-Hulk</b> series. I had found the trade paperback collection of the first couple issues by John Byrne and reveled once again at how fun the character was. Searching the bins I found a number of issues but once again a special guest-star on the cover of <b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b> drew me right in.
In Part 1 of The Cosmic Squish Principle, we meet a bald man sitting in a director’s chair on some far off moon. Is he a Watcher, that weird race of bald men that sit on moons for the purpose of…watching things? No. This bald man is something different from a splinter faction of the Watchers. He is…a Critic, complete with smoking pipe, a great pair of shades, and the aforementioned director’s chair. The Critic shows us a blunder in which a massive toilet plunger accidentally reverses the pull of a black hole thus bringing chaos to the entire galaxy. Damn toilet plungers!
On Earth our fair maiden of grassy green skin is driving through Vermont when some intergalactic cowbell she has makes her car die. The cowbell has a hissy fit and She-Hulk just watches as mystical powers shoots forth from this thing. Finally the anomalies stop and She-Hulk is left with just an empty frame that when she puts her hand through, her hand disappears. Where would her hand go?
Cleveland actually. Marvel’s favorite fowl, Howard the Duck, is looking through his refrigerator when a big green hand suddenly lunges out at him. This scares Howard greatly, since all the duck wanted was something to drink, but he decides his time is better spent on the couch and away from his weird green hand fridge. It’s not long before Howard’s gorgeous redheaded girlfriend Bev comes home from her long day of training to be a ninja and thinks that she may have jumped on the ‘ninja bandwagon’ too late.
With She-Hulk back in New York and suddenly becoming weaker, the Critic decides to bound into action to try and stop Earth from activating the portals (the frame cowboy thingie). The Critic lands in the middle of a computer store where Howard is trying to sell a computer to a surprised customer (its not every day that you see a duck trying to sell you something, of course). The Critic tells Howard he needs his help and when Howard refuses, he’s sealed in a bubble and forced to join the Critic anyway.
She-Hulk is with a friend trying to figure out the whole other cowbell/frame universe and her friend actually figures out that the frame is a portal to the Baloneyverse. The friend tries to explain further but Howard, in his bubble, suddenly comes crashing through a wall. Introductions between the two are very brief as Howard points out that She-Hulk’s friend is falling INTO his desk. Quickly snapping into action, She-Hulk grabs Howard and jumps into the frame to save her friend. The two pop out into the Baloneyverse where She-Hulk inexplicably becomes her alter-ego Jennifer Walters…finding that she is unable to change back.
She-Hulk and HOWARD THE DUCK! Written by the one and only Steve Gerber? With art by the soon to be adored by women and envied by men, but at that time drawing mostly like Alan Davis Bryan Hitch?!? A seedy Watcher called the Critic and a place called the Baloneyverse? I have no clue why I didn’t know that Gerber wrote She-Hulk and that he put his most famous creation in the book, but once I found this issue I had no choice but to hunt down these other issues for more Gerber Howard the Duck goodness. The pencils of some guy named Bryan Hitch, who can even make She-Hulk look good in an over-large pink turtleneck, help out Gerber’s quirky story. <b>Sensational She-Hulk #14</b> is really more great She-Hulk fun and a comic you can pick up for one shiny quarter.