She-Hulk 1.2 - Issue #2

She-Hulk : Issue #2
Genre : Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Showrunner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer : Chad Taylor
Based on the Marvel Comics characters

Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Michael Richards, Kate Walsh, Eric Andre, Richard Kind and Domenick Lombardozzi

Plot:At the cemetery, Jennifer (Jenny Slate) stands half-naked in front of her father Morris (Michael Richards), her best friend Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), and a handful of close family members. She is now of Amazonian size with green skin. Unsure of what to do, she hurries to her car. Morris, being the police veteran he is, intructs everyone there to keep this to themselves and they will try to figure out what happened. Adding on to her embarrassment, Jen finds herself unable to fit into the car so then she just starts running away.

By the time she reaches a secluded area, she has transformed back into herself and begins to cry over ruining her mom’s funeral. She calls Mary, who picks her up to take Jen back to her house. Every time Mary tries to ask something, Jen cuts her off and says she doesn’t want to talk about. It’s a one time thing and she is ready to get back to normal life.

The next day, Jen arrives at work for the first time since the attack. Leibovitz (Richard Kind) invites her back with open arms, despite having never liked her in the past. He reminds her of the case she was assigned and asks if she still up for it and she says she is. He tells her it will likely be against Mallory Book. From the other side of the room, Mary goes “oooooooo” before Phil whips his head over in her direction and she gets back to work. Jen looks to the camera...

“Ugh, Mallory Book…” Jen’s narration talks over a framed picture of Mallory (Kate Walsh). “Former Miss America AND a successful lawyer. Seriously, how is that even allowed? The face that never lost a case, they call her. Not to mention one of my biggest “rivals” in the courtroom. But only in the way that New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills are rivals....one side might always win but at least they play each other a lot, right? She’s over there living it up at Goodman, Liever, Kurtzberg & Holliway and here I am with Phil freaking Leibovitz. Why God, WHY?”

Jen gives a fake smile and says she’ll get right on it. Mary hurries to look over her shoulder on the new case. The man is named Daniel Jermaine (Domenick Lombardozzi). A former safety inspector for Roxxon Energy, he accidentally fell into a vat of chemicals. Surprisingly, he didn’t die. Mary perks up, saying this is getting juicy. Instead, Dan emerged from the vat bigger than before and with superhuman strength. Mary asks if it says that he turned green, giving Jen a nudge. He is now suing Roxxon because of the burdens his new powers have put on his life.

“A superhero unhappy with being a superhero? Ok….”

Mary asks if Jen has ever worked on superhuman law and she says that she has not - it is a very occurrence as is. She schedules an appointment to meet with Dan at his home to get to the bottom of his concerns.

Morris has lunch with his daughter, where she apologizes profusely for the incident at mom’s funeral. He says he knows that - whatever it was - was not her fault at all. He tells her that he is going to start looking into the attack on her and her mother as he thinks it might be related to his time as a police officer. She shuts him down and says that he JUST retired. She wants him to enjoy retirement, not get bogged down in stuff like that. She’ll look into it herself - as far as detective skills go, she learned from the best. He smiles and says she’ll do that while he’ll try to figure out what that whole green thing was about.

The next day, Jen goes to the bank to make a deposit during her lunch hour. While in their, a group of masked robbers enter and say they are holding the place up. Jen, finding herself scared shitless and right by the bathroom, slips into the Ladies Room under the assumption that all of the robbers are male. Instead of being in and out, it becomes a prolonged ordeal as police promptly arrive.

Jen, in the bathroom, is freaking out over being late to work. She spots a window and decides that she is going to try to climb out of it. As she does, she stubs her toe, causing her a brief spurt of pain. Before she knows it, she is big and green again and stuck in the window that she is too big for. This commotion causes the robbers to come in and check and be utterly confused by what they are witnessing. She uses her newfound strength to just break the window and turns around to face the robbers - again needing to cover herself up.

The robbers don’t know what to say so they just point their guns at her and tell her to join the other hostages. When they get out there, they find that the hostages have started escaping so they start to shoot at them and Jen. However, Jen’s bullet wound is recovers remarkably fast again. She looks to the camera: “I think this means I have to save the day even though I’ve never even hit a fly before…”

She throws a weak throw at each of the robbers but even her weak punch is stronger than a bodybuilder’s. Both men are knocked out instantly so she picks them up and carries them out to the police, all the while still covering herself up. The police thank her for her efforts and she says no problem. However, beyond the police, she finds that paparazzi and reporters have picked on the situation - causing her to hurry out of there just as she did at the funeral.

One of the paparazzi members, Geoff (Eric Andre), walks away and sends the pictures he took to a contact in his phone named ‘JJJ’. JJJ says this gold, front page stuff. “Bigfootella - like Bigfoot but feminine”. The reporter texts back and says that won’t click. “The She-Hulk, maybe?”. JJJ says he doesn’t know what that means but he likes it.

Later that day, the front page of the Daily Bugle, an online tabloid outlet, heavily features a picture of half-naked green Jen emerging from the bank. “The Savage She-Hulk Spotted in Queens!” it reads.