She-Hulk #26 is Crap

Let me just say, right off the bat, that Shawn Moll's art is really good.

Otherwise, the only really noteworthy thing in She-Hulk #26 is that four of the six characters appearing in this issue are green. Peter David is just piling green people into the comic, for no apparent reason. I don't know what's wrong with the man. He's got green serial killers, green bounty hunters, green assassins. Maybe he thought it would seem funny on the page. (It doesn't.)

Growing up, I actually knew a girl who was green. I can't think of her name right now, but she stood behind me at my First Communion procession. She had a greenish tint to her skin. And I remember thinking at rehearsal that I was imagining it - that she wasn't really green - but then at the ceremony her family showed up, and about half of them were also green. So I guess it was a genetic thing.

Remarkably, she doesn't show up in this issue.

She-Hulk #26 also features the slowest interstellar spacecraft ever. This Badoon spacecraft is so slow that in six pages it manages to gain about 300 feet of altitude. It's worth noting at this point that the Badoon home world is 42 light years away, orbiting the star Capella. Astronomers have calculated that Capella is moving AWAY from the Earth at almost 19 miles per second, and if you do the math you'll realize that poor Badoon ain't ever getting his green ass home.

Update: By the way, if you're not reading Ultimate Spider-Man, you are really missing out. Issue #119 came out today and it is everything a comic should be. In addition to writing the best comic in the universe, one of the things I like about the writer of USM, Brian Michael Bendis, is that he's not a self-important dick. His letter column on his original Powers run (more than a few years ago, now) was probably the best letter column ever, because he would take the most hostile letters and just have fun with them. He'd be rude and obnoxious to his fans, just for a cheap laugh, and they'd be right there with him. To my knowledge he has never whined in public about the negativity of his critics.

But really, if PAD's going to churn out comics this shitty, maybe whining is all he's good for anymore.