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Alchemical Night · 09-27-2016

Hello there,

Hmm... a very, very interesting advent that none the less evokes a certain ambivalence for me...

Without being overly pedantic in my reservations about the direction of SH for the past decade - something well known to a few in the community - I can't deny a certain promise, mingled with tempered reservation. Though I do appreciate that SH stories have come to follow a different path than other Hulk franchises, the previous series led to me to quietly conclude that - on a particular narrative level - that though Jen/SH has been many things, she has become something of a self parody: a cool, but I think not unjustified indictment considering how and where her story has gone in recent times.

Still, given the ostensibly radical overtures we are seeing with this emerging series, I hope that it does something which the last decade has failed to do. In the first, perhaps a more rugged and compelling psychodrama between Jen and her other self: exploration of the seemingly burgeoning duality between both identities and what has brought them to this point. In the second, I hope for a more pronounced physicality in how this is negotiated - Jen no longer quite as comfortable with the numerous conceits of her standing and career, with her angrier, gray self lurking just beneath. And SH, no longer quite the happy go lucky hero but more cloudy, complex and stormy than before.

Forgiving the pun, here's hoping for gray with the possibility of rain

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Thanks,

Alchemical Night.

09-27-2016	#11
Alchemical Night Watcher Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 258	Re: New She Hulk series on the way! Hello there, Hmm... a very, very interesting advent that none the less evokes a certain ambivalence for me... Without being overly pedantic in my reservations about the direction of SH for the past decade - something well known to a few in the community - I can't deny a certain promise, mingled with tempered reservation. Though I do appreciate that SH stories have come to follow a different path than other Hulk franchises, the previous series led to me to quietly conclude that - on a particular narrative level - that though Jen/SH has been many things, she has become something of a self parody: a cool, but I think not unjustified indictment considering how and where her story has gone in recent times. Still, given the ostensibly radical overtures we are seeing with this emerging series, I hope that it does something which the last decade has failed to do. In the first, perhaps a more rugged and compelling psychodrama between Jen and her other self: exploration of the seemingly burgeoning duality between both identities and what has brought them to this point. In the second, I hope for a more pronounced physicality in how this is negotiated - Jen no longer quite as comfortable with the numerous conceits of her standing and career, with her angrier, gray self lurking just beneath. And SH, no longer quite the happy go lucky hero but more cloudy, complex and stormy than before. Forgiving the pun, here's hoping for gray with the possibility of rain . Thanks, Alchemical Night.