Post by The Night Phantom on Jun 17, 2007 23:00:24 GMT -5
Newsarama has an interview with Peter David, who follows Dan Slott as She-Hulk writer, effective #22 in September. Some of David’s plans are a bit tentative, made in ignorance of the details of Slott’s final issues, and so David reports he’s setting his initial stories three months after #21, to give himself some time to fill in the gap. One big change: David plans not to have Jen working as a lawyer:
We can expect some seriousness in She-Hulk:
I look at it this way: Dan did such a fantastic job with stories involving Jen as a lawyer that if I try to imitate what he did, it's going to come across as watered down Dan Slott stories. I simply can't do it better than he did. I think it will be better for Jen and for the readers to take her in a substantively different direction...but, again, one that flows naturally and logically from what's gone before. I'm not going to assign her an arbitrary mission or situation in life simply for the purpose of doing something different. Once you read it, you will say, "Oh, okay, that makes sense based upon what's gone before."
We can expect some seriousness in She-Hulk:
Considering my track record, everyone is assuming that I'm going to play up the humor aspects. Maybe even go back to the Fourth wall breaking stuff that John [Byrne—NP] did. So if everyone is going on that assumption, then naturally my impulse is to go in the opposite direction. Not grim and gritty per se, but not the laugh riot that people are expecting.