If you're not watching "American Gladiators", you probably haven't seen Jennifer Widerstrom. She's gorgeous and has a very sexy and athletic build. If she can act, Widerstrom could (with a little help from CGI) play both parts in a She-Hulk movie.

I have mixed emotions about this article in the Guelph-Mercury of Ontario, Canada. On the one hand, I'm glad that the guy has found his niche drawing pictures of mammary un-glanded reptiles. On the other, I'm lying and don't care about him one way or another. Here's the most important bit:

When Ryan North was a kid in Ottawa, the comic shop was next to a pornography store and he always felt it was unsavory to go inside.

"Even today a lot of comic shops have giant images of She-Hulk in a bikini in their window, so it's not a very inclusive environment and the medium still has this stigma of being for nerds and socially underdeveloped people," says North, whose webcomic, "Daily Dinosaur Comics," is viewed by an average of more than 100,000 people each day online.

This. Absolutely. Rocks.

Check out this animation, and this sketch.

Here's a site that keeps track of all the She-Hulk Comics up for auction on eBay. It's a pretty good resource, not unlike Chesty Virago, which tracks all, ahem, well-developed superheroine art that is listed on eBay.

I've found eBay to be a great resource for finding stuff I like.

I've decided not to review She-Hulk from now on, because it makes me sad. However, other people are still reviewing it and I can link to them without getting emotionally invested in it.

My favorite review was at "The Buy Pile" - a Comic Book Resources blog by Hannibal Tabu. Tabu breaks comics up into the 'buy pile', the 'read pile' and the 'no, just no' pile. Not only does he put She-Hulk #28 into the last pile, meaning it is worth neither the reading nor the buying, he puts it at the bottom:

Remember when Jen Walters was smart? "She-Hulk" #28 has her whiny, tricked and -- best of all -- tossed in jail. Here's a short story about the title's direction and the surly state of its protagonist: no.

[The Buy Pile - 4/24/08]

The original art for the first appearance of She-Hulk from Savage She-Hulk #1 is available in an eBay auction right now, through Apr-23-08 15:31:41, eBay time. Check it out!

I am the picture of restraint: I stayed away from the Peter David super-strong vagina thesis for three whole days. Why? It's too easy. It's like shooting dead fish in a barrel. Still, the wait was hard.

For those of you who missed it, Peter David (or Skrull Peter David) posted the following to Newsarama on April 12th:

I think any normal man who would have sex with She-Hulk is courting disaster. I don't care how stiff your stiffy is: She-Hulk's vaginal muscles alone, if she were to orgasm, would be enough to earn you a trip to the E.R. The price of a tumble with She-Hulk being broken bones pales in comparison to the prospect of a broken boner because, yes kids, it can break, and not all the king's horses, men or Viagra will put Humpty back together again. Lambskin Trojans? Forget that. Tony Stark must have used an amored condom. The Invinicible Iron Man Thing.

TGK'S SHE HULK CRUNCH by ~deceased-mutt on deviantART

Pretty cute! If you're unfamiliar with him, the Impossible Man is essentially a Marvel Comics fusion of Mister Mxyzptlk and Plastic Man. A mischievous alien with seemingly unlimited powers, he has the ability to become anything he can imagine. (His sole limitation is that that his colors are restricted to purple and green.) In this image, he apparently became an automobile and tried to lure She-Hulk into sitting on his backseat.

Also check out this great Wonder Girl sketch by the same artist who did the inks, ARTGK.

Here's a pretty f*****g hilarious send-up of Stan Lee, by Warren Ellis.

One of the things I like about Warren Ellis is that he is genuinely curious about the new. He brings a hands-on technology feel to his work that makes for very cool comics. Two examples: The Global Frequency was an amazingly novel and well-executed comic, one of my all-time favorites; and I think his interpretation of the Fantastic Four in Ultimate Fantastic Four remains the only compelling bundle of ideas injected into that moribund franchise in the last thirty years.

In UFF, Ellis equipped Dr. Doom with a Nintendo controller used to operate an army of Bluetooth swarmbots! By rooting the technology of Doom and Richards on contemporary platforms and physics theory, Ellis made the the characters seem realistic and worldly.

Anyway, I'd love to read a Warren Ellis She-Hulk story.

Vincenzo Cucca's take on She-HulkAccording to the Comic Book Resources forum, Vincenzo Cucca and Barbara Ciardo have been signed as the new artist and colorist for She-Hulk. I have not been able to find this verified on the Marvel.com site, so take it with a grain of salt for the time being.

There's not much info immediately available on Cucca, so I'll have to make a project of it. I did find that he was part of Crossgen's associate penciller program, and took over Meridien after Steve McNiven left. McNiven, obviously, is now one of the biggest stars at Marvel and perhaps the brass thinks Cucca might spark a similar level of popularity. Most of what's been written about him is in Italian, so it's not much of a stretch to assume he's from there.

I'll keep you informed as I learn more.

Update: Confirmed by Joe Quesada.

M01801 sh by ~parmaali on deviantART

Awesome She-Hulk illustration.

Update: Here is an equally awesome and entirely unique She-Hulk concept.

I really want to say something nice about She-Hulk #27, so how's this: the opening two-and-a-half pages are really good. Also, the jail scene in the middle of the book is cute.

Otherwise, it's just sort of lame. It's not just She-Hulk that's lame, either. The quality level of several of this week's Marvel books was just not what it ought to be. As an example, the Ultimate line has turned to garbage, with the exception of Ultimate Spider-Man and partial exception of Ultimate X-Men. I've been buying the whole line for years (though I cut off Ultimates 3 after the first craptacular issue), but I decided today, after another moronic Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate Iron Man and Ultimate Human that I'm just done. I'll keep buying USM from now on but that's it.

io9, the Gawker Media blog that covers all the geekdom not covered by it siblings Kotaku and Lifehacker, dissed our green gal today! I couldn't believe my eyes as I read the snarky conclusion to io9's write-up of Stan Lee winning an award:

Someone who's attending the convention - running April 18th through 20th at the Jacob K. Javits Center - please, please ask him what the hell he was thinking when he came up with She-Hulk. And, punsters out there, don't even think of answering "the green."

Take everything that makes the Hulk cool, and make it hot. With breasts. How is that NOT a great idea?