There’s a reason why Awesome Andy was a fan-favorite character in Dan Slott’s She-Hulk and served as the “emotional center” or “heart” of the book. It is here that he really moves to the forefront. For several issues now, he’s had a relationship with an attractive partner at She-Hulk’s law firm. In this issue, it’s revealed that her love for him was just Starfox’s doing, and the spell has worn off. Now, she’s in love with Two-Gun Kid.
Andy walks the streets, dejected, and remembers his life. His creation at the hands of Mad Thinker, being used to attack Marvel’s biggest and best heroes, and the first time he was ever seen as something other than a “thing”…
…which was when he was defended by the founder of Jen’s firm. From that point on, the firm adopted him as an employee, which makes his being dumped by Mallory that much more painful. Overwhelmed by emotion, Andy shape-shifts and takes the form of Two-Gun Kid to fool Mallory. He seduces her and makes her happy, but when he shows her that he’s really Andy, she’s horrified (as she should be, because that’s rape).
Ashamed at his own behavior, Andy decides to kill himself, but at the last minute grows wings and decides to fly off and find himself.
The issue has a few pages at the end with She-Hulk, where she returns from space to find that she has been drafted to be an agent of SHIELD and no longer has a job or her own apartment. Those pages are intended to be the “Civil War” reboot of Jen, but this issue is one of the best comics ever because of the Andy story. It’s complex, it’s emotional, it has humor and pain…It’s one of the best single-issues I’ve ever read.
*Note: I have only character tagged the folks appearing in the main story. I did not include tags for all the characters in the flashbacks of Andy’s memories because those sequences simply reiterate prior appearances, where those characters are in fact tagged.