Posted by Mike on 4/6/2008, 7:22 pm, in reply to "I don't think that was the point vanhelsin was making."
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Dan---sometimes I wonder that too. I mean, I don't begrudge anyone not buying a book they don't enjoy. But I guess---as a fan---I am in the camp of enjoying all the variations of She-Hulk. I love the character and would really never be able to pass up anything she is in.
Have I liked it all equally ? No---but there was never anything I downright hated. I fell in love with the character during the Savage era. I loved her getting a sense of humor in the pages of Avengers and FF. During Sensational---yeah sometimes things got too goofy, but it was a book just trying to have fun. At that time, especially, there weren't a whole lot of fun series out there. And it lasted for a very respectable 5 years.
I thoroughly enjoyed your take on the character and am totally loving what Mr.David is doing now as well. When I hear about people jumping off the book since you left----well I can understand having a favorite writer and following that writer, but didn't these people gain any kind of attachment to the character due to your writing ? If they liked it so much, they should have some investment in her to at least stick around for awhile and see where it goes.
But don't get me wrong----I'm not trying to sound like I'm a better fan than someone else--I hope this is not coming off that way. It's just that you make a good point about how drastically different takes on Batman have been but people are always behind the character. That's how I am with She-Hulk. I do wish sometimes that we all could come together and be more unified just so we can keep on having a She-Hulk solo title.
I mean, people who didn't like the superhuman law thing, well look---it's gone now. Had the book gotten canceled though it might be years if ever before this version of She-Hulk would ever come out. But if the book can keep on going and going, well there's always the chance that the version someone likes best will pop up in the book. I just want this series to last a very long time. I am so not ready to be without a solo She-Hulk book again any time soon.
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: --Previous Message--
: It's more than many people want a version of
: She-Hulk who has never existed outside of
: their head... but yes, there never has been
: a definitive version of the character and
: it's too late for there to be one...
:
:
: I don't think that was the point vanhelsin
: was making. He wasn't talking about a
: singular or definitive vision of the
: character. He was talking about how the
: character's fan-base has proven itself to be
: disjointed in what they want-- and can't
: seem to move beyond that to support the
: character with a unified front.
:
: SPIDER-GIRL has a serious fan-base behind
: the character that will support the book
: with a unified front through thick and thin.
: So even though the book is never going to
: set the charts on fire, it has weathered
: tough times while other books have come and
: gone.
:
: On the flipside, you can have an
: über-popular character like BATMAN-- who has
: gone through MANY iterations and takes
: (ranging from campy to pulp-like, from
: kid-friendly to mature-readers-only, from
: commercial to artsy, from fighting giant
: aliens & giant robots in the 50's to
: being the dark urban myth of the 90's.) But
: the ONE thing that has remained constant:
: the fans love of the concept of BATMAN.
:
: There are certain elements about SHE-HULK
: that have remained true in each
: incarnation/take on the character: her
: obvious physical attributes, powers, sense
: of empowerment, etc. And yet fans love for
: those CORE ideas have not proven to be
: strong enough to overcome those same fans'
: VERY personal takes on the character.
:
: The schisms between DIE-HARD-SHE-HULK fans--
: what some fans DEMAND the character be like,
: and other attributes that they CONDEMN if
: they're present-- is too large a gap to
: cross.
:
: Some of these fans rail on the internet how
: THAT 7ft. TALL GREEN WOMAN isn't
: "THEIR" SHE-HULK! NEVER! And
: when another writer makes another pass at
: the character a DIFFERENT set of fans make
: the SAME charges, that now THIS 7ft. TALL
: GREEN WOMAN isn't "THEIR"
: SHE-HULK!
:
: Look, if BAT-FANS can get behind a Batman
: who fights aliens & giant robots-- and
: then, later, is getting his spine snapped by
: a steroid freak in a luchadora mask... If
: those fans can realize that it's still Bruce
: Wayne, still a guy in a Bat-Cape & Cowl,
: still a guy with a Bat-Cave, a Bat-Mobile,
: and a butler... Why can't SHE-HULK fans get
: behind the character whether she's a savage
: in a torn white dress, a member of the FF
: who likes sunbathing on the roof, a comedic
: fourth-wall-breaking fighter of lame
: super-villains, a lawyer for a
: super-law-firm, or a bounty hunter hangin'
: with a skrull?
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