She-Hulk Vol #25-26 (2008): The Whole Hero Thing 

She-Hulk and Jazinda are supposed to be bounty hunters, but in this arc they quickly become vigilantes, looking for a man who blew up a bar last arc.  Now, Jennifer happened to be in the bar at the time, so it makes sense that she’d want to track him down.

While they’re on their way to Ohio, an alien spaceship lands on their RV and when the hatch opens, they find an alien named Cazon who has been infected with gamma rays who asks for help, but She-Hulk says she’s done being a hero.

Cazon is being hunted by a Badoon warrior.  

But in a twist, it turns out the Badoon is the good guy and Cazon is a villain who shoots Jazinda in the head.  Jazinda’s not dead, though, and after a too-long fight between Shulk and the two aliens, Jazinda kills Cazon.

There’s a lot of things that seem like they’re going somewhere.  The aliens reference She-Hulk’s history as one of the cosmic Magistrati (from Dan Slott’s run on this title).  There’s a thing where we’re not sure if Jazinda was killed by the gunshot and then resurrected or simply was regenerating from the wound.  There’s a whole subplot with two campers who are drawn into the drama. But none of it really seems to be going anywhere.

This is not Peter David’s best work.

There’s a couple short stories at the end of issue #25.  The first one seems to be seeding a future story where Man-Elephant gets re-christened as Behemoth.

It’s actually a pretty interesting story.  Man-Elephant is a dude in armor from an old She-Hulk story, but now he’s been bankrupted by Tony Stark so he travels to India for enlightenment where he meets a woman claiming to serve Ganesha.  She gets him to touch a magic gem that turns him into Behemoth–who is essentially Man-Elephant but without needing armor.

The second back up is dumb. She-Hulk storms the Marvel offices to attack four editors that just about nobody has heard of because she thinks the new direction of her comic sucks.  Juggernaut has a cameo.  Meh.

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