Sensational She-Hulk #41
Sensational She-Hulk #41
Title: "Rock & Ruin"
Writer: John Byrne
Penciller: John Byrne
Inker: John Byrne
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Editor: Renee Witterstaetter
U.S. Archer, Al, She-Hulk and Weezi approach the remains of the Star Stop Cafe,
which has been under attack by Spragg!
Jen gives the readers a quick recap on what has led up to the situation, but
Weezi stops her, and asks why she is making sexy poses while talking. Jen
explains that she is doing it to give the readers something interesting to look
at while she is doing all the exposition. This discussion is interrupted when
the truck gets hit by a meteor! Spragg is continuing his attack on the Star
Stop!
She-Hulk
plans to take her flying car out into space in order to confront Spragg
personally. Weezi joins her, now dressed in a space suit. She-Hulk wonders if
Archer has a space suit in her size. Archer says no, but she won't need one.
He gives her an "oxygen pill" from Al, which will temporarily adapt her body to
function in outer space. He then gives her a special communication device that
will allow her to talk to Weezi despite the vacuum of space.
Soon, Jen and Weezi fly into the meteor swarm, and She-Hulk starts smashing
rocks! Jen is being careful not to hurt any of the Hill People until she can
find out why they are now fighting on Spragg's side, and figure out which one is
Spragg.
Spragg answers that question for her--they are all Spragg! After he and the Hill
People were shot into space, the other Hill People chose to go on their way
peacefully out into the galaxy. Spragg wound up falling into a wormhole near
Jupiter, where he telekinetically pulled along some of the rocky material that
composes Jupiter's ring. The wormhole deposited him near the Star Stop. Spragg
spread his consciousness among some of the larger stones, and used the small
ones as meteors to attack the station!
She-Hulk wants to know why he had to start attacking people again, rather than
try to make a fresh start. Spragg declares that as long as there is flesh alive
in the universe, he will continue his attacks! Then, while Jen is distracted
talking to the "main" Spragg, one of his other bodies rams her from behind!
She-Hulk is caught off guard, but then pounds the Spragg into rubble! She-Hulk
continues to smash away at the Spragg squad, but then sees that Weezi is under
attack! The car is being pummeled to pieces by rock bombardment! Jen races back
to the car to protect Weezi! Weezi tells her that the engine and control
linkages are all destroyed; they are stranded there, until either Spragg
finishes them off, or until their oxygen pills wear off!
We cut to John Byrne and Renee Witterstaetter talking about how the issue came
up on page short, and how they have to fill that gap. Coincidentally enough,
this scene takes up the page.
Site for Sore Eyes rating: 7 out of 10
Byrne's art is still nice, but his storytelling is getting VERY skimpy. We spend several pages on recap and exposition (sometimes repeatedly--even Byrne started complaining about how many times we were seeing the same flashback panel) which could have been told in half the space. We then spend another page with Jen and Weezi having a debate about the exposition! And then to top it all off, we have a page wasted on Byrne and Renee discussing a missing page.
Review by Dermie
Picture by the Leader