I'd heard some good things about the She-Hulk comics, and since I'm fond of titles like Ultra that delve more into supes' private lives, I picked up the first trade.
She-Hulk's not having a good time at the beginning. She loses her job, gets kicked out of the Avengers' Mansion, and even gets dumped by an underwear model for being "too shallow." Girl needs an intervention.
When her new boss insists he's hiring Jennifer Walters the lawyer, and not She-Hulk the hero, she's got to learn how to go through life without being green and invulnerable all the time.
The stories in this are fun and engaging -- a superpowered "Ally McBeal" that deals with Jennifer's job at a top "supernatural law" firm.
She's got some great cases in the first issues -- a man suing the company responsible for the accident that turned him into a superhero and a ghost that wants to testify at his own murder trial. An issue that has Spider-Man suing J. Jonah Jameson for libel seems more like an issue of Spider-Man with a She-Hulk cameo, though -- we barely see her. And while the Southpaw story line has its interesting points, I found myself disliking the annoying brat who's been dumped into Jen's lap.
There's lots of fun comic fan shoutouts, too -- my favorite is old FF foe the Awesome Android, who's now a gofer for Jen's law firm named "Awesome Andy."
The biggest problem -- the art. While the cover art is great, the interior art by Juan Bobillo makes She-Hulk look like Shrek. In a leotard. That's ... unfortunate.
I've heard there's a change in artists later, and I hope its so. But until then, the stories will keep me reading, but the art is weak enough that I'm only buying the trades.
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