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Why can't they be taken seriously?< RANT >
I have been a fan of comic books for years and two of my favorite characters, one Marvel and one DC, are always getting the short end of the stick.
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Power Girl has had 2 series, She Hulk had at least 3, and both were cancelled because they weren't considered popular enough.
BULLSH#T!
I seriously think that the editors were trying to target the comics to the wrong audience.
They wrote books for a mainly female audience -FAIL
Or horny fanboys - FAIL
Then even tried to make them full-blown dramatic superheroes like their male counterparts - DOUBLE FAIL
(Power Girl/Superman, She-Hulk/Hulk if you don
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The cleavage windos is simple she even said she has it because she doesnt have a proper symbol which again is because of her messed up origin Donna Troy is also anther example of a messed up origin that was basically shelved when dC had the bright idea to wipe out 40 years of charater history with their Icon heroes.
As for She-Hulk she cant be taken seriously because she has been for years been written as tongue in cheek which you can balem John byrne for that. The second She-Hulk series he wrote and drew was WAY too campy and Jen fought D class Marvel villains which not even Spider-Man would touch!
Even bringing Titania into her next 4 series wasnt taken seriously. Titiania used to beat the living shit of Jen! Hell she bludgeoned her in Secret Wars before Doc Ock and The wrecker and his Wrecking crew showed up!
Yet in her own series which was played and written for laughs Titania became an on going joke where she would get knocked out in ONE freakin punch!
She-Hulk had alot more respectability when she was in the Fantastic Four and not even when she was in the Avengers.
Her first series the Savage She-Hulk back in 78-79 was her best sadly after that not so.
I sort of had the same sentiment why there aren't popular mainstream African-American and Asian superheroes, unfair world isn't it?
On a strictly art note, you draw them absolutely fantastic! I'm now officially a big fan of the way you draw She-Hulk; it seriously bugs me when people draw her skinny or no taller than other women. She's one of the HULK CLAN, she ought to be big and muscle-y, y'know? You pretty much hit the nail on how she ought to be built. Excellent work!
Peter David himself once said this: "She-Hulk has the potential to be our Wonder Woman. A powerful female with a strong moral center and a determination to do what's right. She's also a unique combination of brains and brawn. The ideal She-Hulk story is one that plays on both aspects of her make-up, the intelligence combined with her strength."
And yet, so many writers forget that the reason she's so promiscuous because she's ultimately lonely and wants someone to accept her as she is. Forget the many trials and tribulations she's overcome to get as far as she had. And they turn her into a piece of brainless eye candy.
Of course, this a problem frequently encountered with female super heroes. Especially those considered as the Distaff Counterparts to male heroes, such as She-Hulk and Power Girl. Even Wonder Woman has been trashed pretty badly, as evidenced by some of her recent costumes.
As for how to handle She-Hulk so that she were to get the props she deserves, if I were writing her, I'd start by giving her a new nemesis. Titania is a great opponent for She-Hulk in that she's obsessed with defeating her and has the muscle to back up that determination. But I think that Jen also needs a nemesis with brains to challenge hers in the legal arena. A crime lord of sorts (preferably female) on the scale of someone like the Kingpin, but more sadistic. Someone who flaunts how she's above the law, and thus making it a challenge for Jen to think of ways of making charges against her stick.