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April and Mark Booth, self proclaimed super-geniuses, and class-one free roaming narcissists, have captured Jennifer Walters in the basement of their three story walkup. Now April reveals their plan to drain the She-Hulk of her gamma. With Jennifer bound in some hybrid metal restraints, her only hope is to use some lawyer negotiating skills to convince one gamma regressed brain and a gamma enhanced “brainiac” to let her go.
Before April can impress her prisoner with a barrage of ten-dollar words, a depowered, half-a-blue-face, Jack crashes the party. She-Hulk’s man-crush has arrived just in time to stop the Booth’s from using zero-fluid energy in their egotistical experiment. April’s “megamind” is convinced it can control the radiation. Jack of Hearts knows otherwise!
Will She-Hulk be drained of her perfect DNA coding sequences? Can Jack reabsorb all the energy he lost in mere seconds? Why is everything so white and papery? Collect the series to find out!
Reviewer Notes
Hear that sound? It’s the sound of diehard Savage/Sensational She-Hulk fans being collectively bummed out. I was a fence sitter through the early issues of She-Hulk volume four. I endured the “slice of life”, lazy day conversations in the apartment living room. I twiddle my thumbs through the “slice of life” restaurant conversations. I even patiently waited during the “slice of life” walks on the boulevard watching lovebirds drink coffee.
I was ecstatic when we were offered an actual storyline involving the Booth creeps. Now the brakes have been pulled on the train in order to shoehorn in She-Hulk’s first fourth-wall break in nine issues. My question is why. In the previous volumes it was used to inject humor. This time Rainbow makes it awkward and somewhat confusing. Is She-Hulk talking to us as readers, or is she berating the writer for her predicament?
It appears as if our heroine tries to rewrite the scene (ie. like in the Netflix series), but the outcome seems to turn out the same as if the fourth-wall break never took place. My patience is really wearing thin. I want to like this book, but I could spend my money elsewhere. I’m giving this issue two out of five stars.
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