Marvel Announces New Jennifer Walters Hulk Book from Mariko Tamaki and Nico Leon
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Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. She-Hulk, has been one of the most consistently well-regarded Marvel heroes, even if she’s had trouble maintaining a series since she debuted in 1980.
Marvel is giving her another shot, though, with a new book simply titled Hulk from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Nico Leon, per The A.V. Club.
Based on the creative team’s comments, the book will find Walters in a darker place, dealing with the fallout of this summer’s Civil War II event, which saw her accidental wounding by War Machine, as well as the death of her cousin, the original Hulk, Bruce Banner.
Tamaki said of Walters’ transformation after Civil War II:
Jen is absolutely shaped by the trauma she’s experienced. Much of it was inspired by thinking about how different people deal with the hard things that happen in their lives, how memory, trauma, can infuse our whole being, be a physical presence in our lives. I was really into the idea of a Hulk, of the ability to transform into something close to monstrous, that’s still human, and heroic. It was interesting to think about what’s human about Hulk and vice versa.
