She-Hulk is a 2022 comic book series, focused on the titular character. As of Jan 2022, it’s written by Rainbow Rowell, with art by Rogê Antônio and color by Rico Renzi.
Following on from the Avengers World War She-Hulk arc, it sees Jennifer Walters rebuilding her life and career again. She’s lost some of the power she had, she’s left the Avengers and she’s started a new job.
She’d like to focus on being Jennifer, not just the She-Hulk, for a while. This is not quite going to plan.
The series ended with issue #15, with a sequel series by the same team, The Sensational She-Hulk (2023), launching in 2023.
The first issue was released January 19, 2022.
She-Hulk provides the following tropes:
- Amnesiac Hero: Jack doesn't remember how he came back or why.
- Battle Strip: Jennifer takes off her suit jacket and skirt to fight Titania since she doesn't want to ruin her only suit. After Janet Van Dyne lends her an apartment full of new clothes, Jennifer has no problem transforming and tearing her suit.
- Blood Knight: Titania and Jennifer herself both have elements of this. They like fighting each other, as there aren't many situations where they can cut loose without consequences.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Not initially used in the series, unlike previous She-Hulk titles. It's then played for drama near the end of the first arc, when Jack's seemingly dying after absorbing zero energy. Jen rips through the page, confronts the reader and rages at the narrative.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Jack of Hearts returns for the first time in a decade or so. Mallory Book also reappears after being absent since 2014.
- Awesome Android, aka Andy returns after a two year absence in issue #3.
- Marsha Rosenburg/Volcana reappears in issue #5 for the first time since 2015. The same issue also features a cameo of Karnak, who like most of the Inhumans had been Put on a Bus at the end of Death of the Inhumans.
- Crazy-Prepared: Jen asks Reed for an appointment to check her gamma levels later at his lab, only for Reed to pull out a radiation monitor he just happens to be carrying on his person.Jen: You carry a radiation monitor?Reed: Of course. When your life has been radically altered by radiation, it's only prudent. I'm surprised you don't have one.
- Fictional Document: In issue #12, Jen's book club meeting is supposed to be discussing The Prince The Crown The Blood The Sword ("Now a major motion picture"), but nobody except Jen has actually finished reading it. When the meeting's interrupted by Captain America, needing help with a crisis, everyone's very eager to break off and help him. As they leave it turns out that Cap, who's not part of the club, is the one other person who has read the book. He's a fan.Captain America: I love this book. That ending! Wait, have you read the ending? I don't want to spoil it.
- Fight Clubbing: Jennifer and Titania, after tearing up a street and acknowledging that they both like fighting each other, agree to meet in a vacant lot to continue their fight so as to not get in anyone else's way or cause too much damage.
- Foreshadowing: A large, apparently mentally impaired man runs afoul of Jack when they were out on a stroll. His diminutive wife comes along and disarms the situation, deftly dismissing Jennifer's concerns with arguments that they simply want to live in peace and didn't actually hurt anyone. Turns out these people were responsible for restoring Jack to life because they wanted to use his radiation absorbing abilities to steal Jen's gamma and become Hulks like her. It went wrong, turning her husband into a brute while she got a mutation similar to Gremlin.
- Friendly Enemy: Jennifer and Mary have become so used to fighting each other they treat it as something casual. They even set up a private fight club between the two of them so they can blow off steam without causing too much damage.
- The Ghost: The alien warlord Drapurg, "He of the Horde", is Scoundrel's employer and the villain of the final arc. Although his horde attacks New York, Drapurg himself is never seen.
- Lady in a Power Suit: Jennifer’s boss Mallory Book. It’s not a new look for her.
- Lighthearted Rematch: Round 2 of Jennifer vs Titania, as part of their agreed-upon Fight Clubbing at a construction site. They don't pull any punches, but it's considerably less serious than a typical fight.
- The Needless: Jack admits that he lost the need to drink, eat and sleep since he obtained his powers in college, so having normal human needs are very surprising to him. According to Jack, the last time he ever ate something was when Bush was president.
- Not What It Looks Like: Ben Grimm happens upon Jennifer and Titania's rematch and steps in to help Jen, thinking it's a serious fight.
- Pinned to the Ground: In issue 15, She-Hulk ties up The Scoundrel for selling a bomb to some aliens to blow up New York and pins him to the ground with her foot on his back.
- Spinoff: From Jason Aaron's Avengers, picking up Jennifer's storyline in the wake of World War She-Hulk.
- There Are No Therapists: Discussed, as Patsy asks Jen if she's in therapy again, and Jen replies that she'd rather drink nuclear waste than talk to Doc Samson about her life. Patsy points out that Samson's not the only therapist in NYC.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Half of Jack's body is purple and he has smoke coming out of one eye. This doesn't attract any attention when he goes to a park.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Issue #8 is a Villain Episode showing the origins of Mark and April, whose attempt to become perfect Hulks went horribly wrong.
