Dan Slotts: She Hulk

I think the book is a winner. I almost choked to death when I read the bit where Spiderman is on the Witness stand and accuses JJJ of being racist...

Great entertainment all the way through...

Yeah, Slott is the best thing going for Marvel right now. The dude's incredible.

The series hit a high note for me with the marriage of She-Hulk and John Jameson. The back-up story involving She Hulk trying to win over JJJ is my favorite comic of 2006.

Now if they'd just bring back The Thing.

It's a good comic. I can't remeber what issue it was but there was one were Spider-Man was sueing Jameson for I think it was defamation, and when he was on the stand he said Jonah hated him because he is black.

If anyone could tell which issue that was, it would be appreciated.

It's issue #4 of Slott's first run, which is in the "Single Green Female" trade collection.

Everything I've read by Slott is amazing. I've just started picking up She-Hulk and it's easily one of my favourite things to read each month.

So far, I've read Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, the Thing and most of the current run of the She-Hulk series. If you guys know of anything else of his worth checking out (besides the rest of his She-Hulk stuff which I will be buying), please let me know what it is and in what format it's available!

ARGH: Smeagol posting here again.

My favorite Slott of all (so far) is the 5-issue Spider-Man/Human Torch miniseries with Ty Templeton. Not only was each issue a great standalone story, but it was far and away the best either character has been written in decades. Unfortunately, it's only available in "digest" format (called "I'm With Stupid"). Try to find the back issues (heck, there's only five of them)-- Templeton's art warrants being seen at full size. And you'll never look at the Spider-Mobile the same way again. Spider-Man and Ben Grimm are THE two comic characters this man was born to write.

He recently did a Two-Gun Kid story (that ties into the She-Hulk series) as part of Marvel's current series of one-shot Westerns. I assume the whole bunch will be traded when they're done.

His 4-issue G.L.A. series from a year or so ago was brilliant-- darker than She-Hulk, and wickedly funny. It's collected in a trade called "Misassembled." Unfortunately, I don't believe it includes the one-shot sequel from last year, "GLX-Mas."

I don't have specific issue information to hand, but I know he worked on some of DC's books based on their TV cartoons (Batman, for certain. Maybe others, I'm not sure).

Earlier this year, the Mr. Comics imprint released his one-shot called Big Max with art by James Fry (about a gorilla superhero protecting a world of humans). I guess his current Marvel contract won't allow him to write any more Big Max adventures for awhile, but seek it out-- it was vintage Slott.

And while he wrote a lot of issues for various licensed characters (like Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls), his best work in that area was on the Ren and Stimpy comic, where he had a fairly long run, and did some interesting and innovative stuff. I have no idea if any of that's been collected.

Slott's Thing series, which I picked up on recommendation from our own BobClark, was gold, and tragically cancelled just as I got into it. That's the way it goes, I guess. He's a great superhero writer. His comics are funny, interesting, entertaining, and thankfully veer far away from all the dour grittiness that's all but killed the genre. He seems interested solely in writing entertaining stories about people in gaudy costumes punching eachother and cracking wise. I can get behind that.

Bendis/Slott interview:

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazi.../001357536.cfm

Lengthy and light, but fun.

So far I've only got the first two trades of the She-Hulk series, but it's enough to cement my love for the series. Between this and the GLA: Misassembled mini-series (great book), I'm willing to read just about anything that Slott writes. I'm really looking forward to the collected edition of The Thing.

There is talk that if the Thing TPB does well they might bring back the ongoing series.

Honestly, I can't believe this series didn't do better. I'm not even much of a Marvel fan, but if Slott's stuff isn't pretty much everything they could ask for, I don't understand what is.

How do you not love Awesome Andy?

I love this guy. When Bendis drops Ultimate Spidey Slott would be my fanboy pick to replace him.

Any one have any ideas what the ultra secret new Marvel project he is working on might be?

On a podcast this week, Bendis (who often jokes about how badly Kirkman wants USM, and the lengths he'll go to keep him from getting it) listed a sort of "order of succession" if he leaves the book: Slott, Brian Reed, Zeb Wells (personally, I'd dump Reed from that list and put Sean McKeever in his place). But since Bendis has USM already plotted out through issue #130 and counting, it's unlikely he's going anywhere (though Bagley leaves after #110).

Everyone's being tight-lipped about Slott's new project. It's been strongly hinted that it "comes out of Civil War", and while that doesn't narrow things down much, it does mean that it won't be some kind of "retro-pigeonhole."

Knowing Slott's affection for the smaller characters, I'm guessing a Speedball series.

Yeah, I love that Slott wallows in all the Silver/early Bronze Age characters that aren't considered "hip" anymore. His vision of the Marvel Universe is the right one as far as I'm concerned.

I'd rather see anyone than Kirkman take over USM, but Slott could bring a humour and zip to SPidey not seen in a long time.

Following what's been going on in Civil War: Frontline...I would love to see a Speedball ongoing. If Slott could maintain a decent balance between the serious and funny, Speedball could become an all-new character. A tragic figure that's equal parts Spidey and Robert Oppenheimer.

I just hope that Marvel doesn't pull some stupid shit and whacks him for a cheap casualty for the Civil War maxi-series.

Back to Shulkie, Slott and related matters....She-Hulk is virtually a contracted superhero for the US now. She's defending Speedball and working with a few of the Super Agents types (if you can call them that). How will her turncoat behavior to the Superhuman community be handled after the Civil War event and do you think that Slott has the skills to portray it.

I'm willing to bet even money on Stark's side collapsing under its own way and giving way to some sort of compromise regarding the Superhuman community. This will put She-Hulk in a new light, as she is a person who worked both sides of the fence for personal gain.

This sort of Machiavellian personality trait (more on display in Civil War: Front Line and other books) doesn't reconcile with the fun She-Hulk from Slott's book. In a nutshell, I'm just wondering out aloud how Slott is going to handle She-Hulk post Civil War.

Finally got around to reading the first Slott series, and damn it's great. Not only is She-Hulk dead-on perfect, but he just nails Spidey, the Thing, and Hercules. He even got me upset when it looked like Awesome Andy wasn't going to make it. Just wonderful wonderful stuff.

I think this comic is balls. Slott seems to think that good writing consists of cramming in twice as much dialogue as a Bendis comic, while neglecting to make any of it witty or interesting. It's just endless chatter.

Awesome Andy, however, lives up to his moniker. Maybe because he never talks.

One year later and all I have to say is this. Slott's last issue of She-Hulk was more entertaining than Civil War.

In regards to Supremo's point, I think that you're coming at from the wrong direction. If anything to find fault with in Slott's run, it's his overabundant desire to appeal to the fans of Marvel's down and obscure times. It's not fun or easy for newer readers to make their way through, but if you stick with it...it pays off.

The dialogue is key, even though Slott does try to forcefeed the pop culture moments into scenes that don't deserve them.

I'm dubious about Peter David taking over the title (interview here and here) since it sounds like he's doing away with the lawyering and the humour. His reasons for doing what he's doing are solid enough, but it's a shame to lose the whole scenario Slott concocted just because he doesn't think he can do justice to it. C'mon, man, push yourself!

"No, don't touch the radio! Those are preset! PRESET!"

It's time that he moved on. I look forward to his work on Spidey in January.

In terms of David, ever since his big return to Marvel...I've been pretty indifferent to the guy. Hopefully, he'll shine on She-Hulk.

Conversely, for me, his work on X-Factor made him virtually the only candidate to succeed Slott on this book. He's got the humor down, but it's his own style: I'm sure it was tempting to just get someone to ape Slott's approach, and that would have been disastrous. This won't be the She-Hulk book that Dan Slott got me (against all odds) to try, but it won't be a pale imitation of it, either.