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Re: I'm neither Dan nor PAD, but let me try to answer the question for you...

Posted by Champ on 4/17/2008, 11:34 pm, in reply to "I'm neither Dan nor PAD, but let me try to answer the question for you..."
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Try eating yogurt or acidophilus supplements, Eddie. It'll keep the gas down. --Previous Message-- : I think there are two answers---one : "inside the comic book" (these are : the type of answers that get you No-Prizes) : and "outside the comic book." : : The "inside" answer is this. : Before last year, I could be charitibally : described as "stocky" and many : others would more accurately say I was fat. : Even though I weighed under 300 lbs., I was : over 260 and wore size 44 pants. I lost some : weight when I moved to my sister's house and : she began cooking healthier foods and I : stopped snacking. However, at one point last : year a light bulb flashed in my mind and I : deliberately started to eat healthier on my : own. The result so far is that I weigh 215.8 : lbs and can wear size 36 pants. : : What does this have to do with Jennifer's : changes? One of the things I did to lose : weight was eat more fiber. At first, this : was a bit painful at times. I wondered if I : was overdoing it or if I should take a : laxative. My sister even said I did not have : to eat the Fiber One bars if I did not have : to. But I kept at it and while my guts still : churn from the fiber I eat, it's not as : painful as it used to be because my body is : used to it. : : I believe that as Jennifer's body grew : accustomed to her transformations back and : forth into the She-Hulk, the pain became : less intense. I don't think it ever : completely went away, but it became more : bearable for her, and she can initiate the : changes far more quickly than she did in the : Savage era. Dan Slott has posted elsewhere : that he believed that the change back to Jen : Walters was more painful because her human : body is more vulnerable than the She-Hulk's. : : The outside the comic answer? Making the : change painful serves the purpose of making : it much more dramatic. There are plenty of : examples in the latter half of the Savage : run where Jen's need to overcome the pain of : transformation adds a bit of tension to the : scene. Poor Bruce often doesn't have a : choice whether he hulks out or not, but the : principle is the same---pain makes the : change more dramatic. : : After her first book ended, Marvel tried to : make She-Hulk much less an overt copycat of : her cousin. For the most part, she remained : the She-Hulk 24/7 so there was no NEED for : her to transform at all. When Dan Slott : brought back Jen Walters as an alter ego, he : also established that She-Hulk can change : fairly quickly once she sets her mind to it. : As Dan's successor so aptly put in the last : issue, she "always know[s] the right : thing to do. Always. Without question. It's : actually doing it that's the : challenge." But if you go back to the : first She-Hulk #1, it seems to be that : She-Hulk's transformation to Jen in the bar : in front of Holden Holliway was painful. : However, the pain wasn't so much physical as : it was emotional. For She-Hulk, it was : humiliating to revert to the human alter ego : she long ago decided that she didn't need. : : Maybe somebody else could chime in? Bueller? : Bueller? : : Eddie Cunningham : : --Previous Message-- : I've always wondered why when Bruce Banner : is : often depicted as being in extreme pain when : he transforms but outside of the first 25 : Savage issues, Jennifer rarely seems to : struggle when she changes. In fact, she : seems to change like it's nothing at all. : Is it because there is not as much conflict : between her " personalities " in : comparison to his-like how maybe Joe Fixit : or the Savage Hulk get a kick out torturing : Banner when they come out? Is it because : she does not have as potent a dose of gamma : radiation in her blood? Or is it just up to : the discretion of the writer's and artist's : that write the book at that time? : : I just wanted you guys' opinion on that : since your both writers. : : :

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Message Thread: Question for Dan Slott and Peter David - Armand 4/8/2008, 11:07 pm Re: Question for Dan Slott and Peter David - Peter David 4/13/2008, 7:33 am Re: Question for Dan Slott and Peter David - Armand 4/13/2008, 7:49 pm I'm neither Dan nor PAD, but let me try to answer the question for you... - Eddie Cunningham 4/13/2008, 7:20 am Re: I'm neither Dan nor PAD, but let me try to answer the question for you... - Champ 4/17/2008, 11:34 pm Re: I'm neither Dan nor PAD, but let me try to answer the question for you... - The Manic 5/6/2008, 4:42 pm « Back to thread

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