Review: ‘The Sensational She-Hulk’ #6 Gets Better
by Benjamin Hall
Summary
It is time for a vacation for Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk and her significant other. Their destination is in outer space. Yet, will Ms. Walters really be able to escape her recent troubles? Even if she can escape those troubles what about the ones that may crop up next?
Overall
6.9/10The main cover is by artist Jen Bartel. It does a nice job of suggesting a space adventure without giving away the entire plot. Bartel also does a good enough job with combining the suit and pose that it is rather hard to tell if the pose is unrealistic. While the background colors, specifically for the planet, help draw the eye. Not to mention the sense of depth is pretty astounding.
Artist Ben Harvey provides the visuals for one of the variant covers. Harvey goes for humorous in design while also doing a bit of caricature style realism.
The stormbreakers variant is by artist Nic Klein. It has decent colors, but the worm’s eye view arguably hurts the design’s appeal.
There are two variants of an image of Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk’s head that artist Mark Brooks creates. One of them has colors and text and the other is a 1:50 virgin sketch cover. They both show a good understanding of how to draw a face. Also the texture of the hair is fantastic on both. Unfortunately, due to the minimalistic design, and being variant covers, both are (in this professional’s opinion) cash grabs rather than true works of art.
Artist Ig Guara and colorist Dee Cunniffe provide better visuals than in The Sensational She-Hulk #5 (2024). This is mostly because Ig Guara is not apparently rushing to do the art. Guara also does a noticably better job with keeping on model. However, Guara does fail to create a setting in a way that mirrors the text description She-Hulk gives it. As far as the color palette goes Cunniffe does not always do well with human skin pigmentation. For example one of the human characters comes out looking kind of purplish pink.
The scripting and lettering are by writer Rainbow Rowell and letterer Joe Caramagna, respectively. Rowell creates an interesting set-up for this arc with a few references to past moments in Marvel’s history. Although the script is a tad verbose at times Caramagna does fine with placing all the text. Though it may be hard to read for those who have a problem with small font. However, this is not entirely Caramagna’s fault since Ig Guara arguably shares some of the blame with the sizing of panels.
The Sensational She-Hulk #6 is out now from Marvel.