A kick up the eighties…

Is an expression which could be used to describe what She-Hulk does to Marvel Editorial in this next recreated page of she-hulk:-

As this comic is one of the last ones that John Bryne either wrote or drew for Marvel before going over to Dark Horse for quite a few years, there could be quite a lot that could be read into this and the proceeding page where Marvel editorial are portrayed of being much more interested in a target audience than the actual story per se…

We can already say with a fair degree of certainty that She-hulk is speaking for John Byrne in the rest of the comic as well

So I guess its very fortunate that Jim Shooter was not around when this comic was made, not that it would have even made it to print

For everything that is or isn’t said or inferred by featuring Marvel editorial interference in this comic, it still got approved by Tom Defalco himself

Still after kicking out the Adam Hughes pages and the Editorial team (who she literally gives the boot to) for being too “obvious”, she-hulk moves right onto suggesting to cancel her comic…

Renee however still has some pages of samples to show her and this time its a writer who is going to try at being an artist…

This will make for a rather interesting artistic experiment NEXT WEEK

Editorial Interference…

Is what appears to be happening in this next recreated She-hulk page:-

Firstly She-Hulk reacts to Terry Austin’s “Popeye” page by saying “Close but no Segar.”… (in reference to the creator of Popeye…) (and Jb sneaks in a "Thanx Terry!" just below the first panel)

Next Tom Defaclo and Mark Grunewald make an appearance- yet another indication that the meeting between She-hulk and Reene in this comic is taking place in a Marvel Universe where "The Sensational She-hulk "is a comic that is licensed by the real she-hulk that attempts to portray her real life experiences (subject to artists interpretation) which somehow happens to be available for purchase in the real world in which we live

Anyway - way back when this comic was made, before Bleeding cool even existed, before Dan Didio was even heard of - and Bob Harras was just a up and coming editor at Marvel we have a demonstration of “Editorial Interference” with apparently Tom dictating to She-hulk via Marks overly loquacious translations what Editorial says her comic has to be…

Tom is portrayed as I guess a New Yorker of Italian descent unable to express  much more than a few words

Whereas Mark is almost the complete opposite

Of course these are exaggerations (as far as I know) done for comedy effect so Tom and Mark are a true Comedy duo, chalk and cheese…

All this is down I guess to suggest or imply that neither really know as much as they think they do about comics, ability to vocalise this notwithstanding

Lets see how right I am on on this as they foist onto She Hulk pages drawn by a “babe artist” asked to make a comic for “proto-adolescent teenage boys”…

Sounds like the next few pages might go further than Howard Chaykin did…

We will find out, beginning NEXT WEEK