It's a pretty common theme in comics for a civilian love-interest character to be granted powers similar to her namesake hero. The most notable examples that come to mind are Lois Lane's multiple transformations into Superwoman and Carol Ferris's becoming a Violet Lantern (Star Sapphire). I always enjoy this type of plot. Mostly because I love seeing how the same powers and abilities would be expressed differently from a female perspective. While I've always paid keen attention when these stories would appear, I've never before become quite as obsessed as I was when Betty (Ross) Banner became the Red She-Hulk. She had a brief 10-issue self-titled run from 2012-2013 which I thought was amazing. The art was beautiful, her characterization was well fleshed out. She was righteous, vengeful, compassionate, and of course angry. I loved every page of it. Unfortunately we haven't heard from her in the past six months. I would love a continuation of the unlikely Red She-Hulk / Machine Man team-up.
This Marvel Universe figure is a welcome addition to the small collection of Red She-Hulk merchandise we've seen so far. I just hope the release of this figure will signal a re-emergence of the character in the comics!
Here are some images of her from the comics.
Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
Here she is with 2013's Marvel Legends Red She-Hulk.
Cheers!
I honestly had no idea that there was a red She Hulk! I havent really kept up with comic books in a very long time so I guess iv missed out on a few things. I love the picture with Man Thing!
ReplyDeleteYeah Man-Thing was a surprizing addition to the book near the end of the "Route 616" storyline. I've always really liked Man-Thing and I even have a small collection of figures of him. But I realized in this story that I've never read a single story he was in. I guess I just liked the image of him. I even own the recent Infernal Man-Thing miniseries (because I'm a longtime fan of Arthur Adams), which I'm now going to have to dig out and actually read haha. You should try to grab the two Red She-Hulk GNs, I think they're great. I emntioned this back in my review of her ML figures, but I was never a fan of Red She-Hulk when she first came out (during the Fall of the Hulks sttoyline). She was too wild and I felt like she looked sloppy. It wasn't until the Defenders, Fear Itself, and her self-titled run on Hulk that her look and demeanor was fleshed out and I became a fan.
DeleteMan Thing was one of the first comics i ever read back in the late 70's and still have fond memory's of his strange tales.I truly haven't read a comic book since Todd McFarlane was still the artist for Amazing Spiderman but I might have to look into the books you listed and try to catch up a little. Recently I took a few outdoor pictures of my ML Man Thing you can check them out here if you feel like it.
ReplyDeleteI would have like her hair to not be a straight repaint of she-hulk. But that little she hulk had the best sculpt of all of them.
ReplyDeleteI must admit, I prefer Betty as the Harpy. But then I love everything mythology.
A harpy figure would be so freakin cool. I'm okay with her being a repaint. Different hair would have been nice, but it's a really nice sculpt so I don't mind.
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