She-Hulk was well aware of being in a comic (see sample image), so Deadpool before there was Deadpool, if you will.īyrne took great delight in bringing back some of Marvel’s less distinguished characters, including 1940s heroine the Blonde Phantom, Dr Bong from Steve Gerber’s Howard the Duck, and the cast of slot-truck racing tie-in title U.S.
Building off a story he had written for the Thing, where Ben Grimm had berated Byrne for stringing out a fight with a villain beyond what had actually happened, Byrne produced a fourth-wall breaking series. In 1989, Byrne was invited to write a second solo series for the character, under clear instructions from senior Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald to do something ‘different’. Byrne had even given Jen a couple of extended stories, a solo tale in FF, and a Sensational She-Hulk graphic novel, in which he changed her epithet and made her permanently the She-Hulk.īyrne and then She-Hulk left the Fantastic Four. All the angst that had marred her solo series was gone, and instead Byrne presented someone who enjoyed the superhero lifestyle, whilst taking it seriously (in fairness, Roger Stern’s She-Hulk in Avengers had been similar, though under-developed). Byrne’s She-Hulk was rather different from how she had been previously seen, this Jennifer Walters being far more at ease with her superheroic identity. In this case, he replaced the Thing with the She-Hulk. In the aftermath of the first Secret Wars, Byrne decided to refresh the Fantastic Four by taking a leaf out of Lee and Kirby’s book, and shaking up the membership. Nevertheless, the character managed to pick up some fans, and rather than be wholly forgotten, she joined the Avengers shortly after her own title was cancelled.Įvidently, one of her fans was John Byrne. As the ‘Savage’ She-Hulk, she had her own series between 19.
Through a series of plot contrivances, related in flashback at the beginning of this volume, she received a blood transfusion from Bruce, and so became the She-Hulk.
Jennifer Walters is a lawyer who just happens to be cousin to Bruce Banner, alter ego of the Incredible Hulk.
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