Peter David

I had almost forgotten it was still being published, but Peter David finally managed to kill the successful She-Hulk franchise he inherited from Dan Slott. From the February, 2009 solicits:

SHE-HULK R.I.P.!
She's been savage. She's been sensational. She's been an avenger. She's been a lawyer. She's been a bounty-hunter. But there's one thing She-Hulk has always been, in all of her many series... cancelled. But it hasn't stopped her yet! In this oversized final issue, Peter David brings his run on the Jade Giantess to a close... but can Jen use her last remaining pages to save her friends from a truly mammoth threat? Catch her now, before someone turns her red!

I saw this coming after PAD's second issue. It's a shame that Marvel was willing to turn over a successful book to a guy who doesn't seem to be particularly interested in superhero comics or Marvel continuity.

Sad, PAD: you ruined something we loved.

As evidence of the ongoing propagation of the Peter David and the Vagina of Doom meme, I offer this episode of webcomic Diesel Sweeties. At the rate he's going, Peter David's primary contribution to She-Hulk lore will be his super-strong vagina monologue.

I was reading an article at CBR and found this quote from Peter David:

Peter [David] said in the sixties, if books contradicted each other, Marvel said "Come up with an explanation and if we like it we'll give you a no-prize!" Now, there are threads online about how She-hulk is doing one thing in her own book and something else in the hulk's book, and Marvel clearly doesn't care any more. It was a shock to writers in the sixties that people cared about stuff like that.

It was a shock that readers expected consistent characterization across books? Really?

My perception is that Peter David doesn't pay much attention to what other Marvel writers are doing in their books - he's probably the least attentive writer at Marvel currently where cross-book continuity is concerned. So it is pretty bold for for him to declare that Marvel as a whole "doesn't care" about the area where he most obviously underperforms.

Peter David was speaking on a panel at Wizard World Philadelphia when he made the remarks. Check out the full story at CBR.

She-Hulk #29 ReleaseHold onto your hats, true believers, but it seems She-Hulk #29 actually has something interesting in it. I won't give away the spoiler, but despite containing a lot of the same flaws we've seen throughout Peter David's run, he manages to pull #29 out of the shit pile in the last page or two.

(Nobody's more astonished than me.)

Also make sure to pick up King Size Hulk #1, for some amazing Frank Cho illustration featuring She-Hulk, as well as an Art Adams short featuring the Red Hulk versus the Wendigo.

Fantastic!

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.