She-Hulk #21 solicit

[Kevinroc]

COVER BY: GREG HORN
WRITER: DAN SLOTT
PENCILS: RICK BURCHETT
INKS: CLIFF RATHBURN
COLORED BY: ANDY TROY
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE

THE STORY:
"ANOTHER ME, ANOTHER U"

Ever notice how in some Marvel comics, characters who are SUPPOSED to be dead show up with NO explanation whatsoever? Or in the wrong costume? Or acting in a way they NEVER have before? Well guess what, True Believer, there was a reason. And that reason is going to have She-Hulk and her friends working on some of their STRANGEST cases yet! Don't miss it-- 'cause this is the issue that fixes 90% of Marvel's continuity problems-- from NOW ON!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

PRICE: 2.99
IN STORES: 2007-07-25

What is Slott's idea to fix Marvel's continuity problems? Somebody hit a wall and reality changed? Cracks in continuity that the universe tries to correct (which PAD basically used during his Captain Marvel run to explain away the Bruce Jones Absorbing Man story)? Parallel worlds occasionally overlapping with the main Marvel Universe? Something else?

And more importantly, what will this mean to Hulk and the idea that he's killed people throughout his rampages? Will that be brushed aside as one of the continuity problems?

[Arilou]

Skrulls.

When something is wrong, blame the skrulls! Insidious Skrulls are infiltrating Earth and appearing as your greatest heroes! Whenever a character does not act like himself he has been impersonated by a Skrull (this also explains how Wolverine can be on every team, ever) Whenever you see any signs of skrull activity, contact your local authorities so that we can safely dispose of the slimy shapeshifters!

This message was brought to you by the Kree Ministry of Information. Hail Ronan!

[Qoorl]

Clones.... from the Infinity Wars....

[coachmat05]

I think it has something to do with the time related story at the beginning of the restart of the series. Call me crazy, but its how I see it.

[Flâneur]

Wanda did it. Repeat that to yourself everyday; it's the most important of life's lessons.

[Gnarl]

Whatever it is, it will likly be used to push the message that casual sex is not for women. And any woman who ever had a one-night stand should gain a reputation, or turn out to have been abused.

I'm not waiting around for it.

[Miss Kitty Fantastico]

She-Hulk's going to find the issue of Uncanny X-Men where she slept with Juggernaut, and sue Marvel for defamation.

No, seriously, that's my bet. The running meta-gag from the beginning with She-Hulk has been that the issues we read (as well as others, covering all the 'legitimate' heroes, as opposed to Daredevil and Spider-Man and so on) are published in the Marvel U with the heroes' approval, overseen by a federal agency (the Comics Code, up to 2002, but presumably there's a current agency that fulfils the same role now), and can be used in court as evidence. Obviously there's some differences - we see Spider-Man's identity in vol.1 #4, for instance, when there's no way at the time that 'MU-Marvel', the Marvel that exists in the Marvel U, could have known it - but I'm inclined to just leave those minor instances to suspension of disbelief. Essentially, the comics we read are real comics in the Marvel U, and are regarded as fact.

At the same time, there's been this recurring notion that people think She-Hulk slept with Juggernaut (as we saw in an Uncanny X-Men issue ages ago), which she vehemently denies.

So, what if MU-Marvel got it wrong? Whoever was writing Uncanny at the time heard a rumour that Shulkie had done the deed with Juggernaut - maybe Juggy made it up to boast, maybe it was just a random rumour - and believing it to be true, put it in the book. After all these years I seriously doubt that heroes bother to read the preview copies MU-Marvel sends them for their authorisatin - they likely just skim a few pages to see if they remember the basic story, and sign off on it. And it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility that the Code, being a federal agency, could not do its job properly, and instead just stamp whatever MU-Marvel sends them. So the Uncanny issue got printed as a Code-stamped MU-Marvel comic, which is why everyone thinks She-Hulk and Juggy gave physics a workout.

So I figure sooner or later, Jen is going to ask someone why they insist she and Juggernaut slept together, and they'll tell her they read it in a comic. She'll hit the stacks in the GLK&H basement, find the comic, realise it's wrong, and demand a retraction. Having become complacent (and fearing the consequences of every comic they've put out being fact-checked), MU-Marvel and the comics agency insist that She-Hulk's memory is at fault, and a court case ensues: She-Hulk sues MU-Marvel for libel, and MU-Marvel's lawyers drag up Clay Quartermain and Tony Stark and Wolverine and so on to testify that she's been known to sleep around, so that in the course of prosecuting her claim Jen has to deal with the consequences of her recent choices (and in the process, establish that just because She-Hulk's had a few casual encounters doesn't mean she's a slut and everyone can lay crap on her).

And there's your continuity fix: the Marvel Universe is real and entirely consistent - but sometimes the writers get stuff wrong.

[Hatut Zeraze]

Perfect!

That works for me, because that is what really happens!!

[Red Orion]

All I know is that it's going to be stupid and ill-conceived like most of Slott's work.

[Soundrave]

All I know is that it's going to be stupid and ill-conceived like most of Slott's work.

Eric Carnaby?

[ivesaidway2much]

And there's your continuity fix: the Marvel Universe is real and entirely consistent - but sometimes the writers get stuff wrong.I like the idea of returning She-hulk to the court room as I thought those were the best issues of the series. But this doesn't seem like much of continuity fix to me. This kind of logic could be used to justify anything from an unexplained change in the length of She-hulk's hair to questioning whether or not Steve Rogers was secretly a woman and Nazi symapthizer. It seems like more of continuity destroyer (maybe that book you read happened or maybe it was just the fantasy of some random libelous author) than a fix to me.