She-Hulk 1.5 - Issue #5

She-Hulk : Issue #5
Genre : Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Showrunner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer : Chad Taylor

Based on the Marvel Comics characters

Cast: Jenny Slate, Michael Richards, F. Murray Abraham, Eric Andre and Richard Kind

Plot: While at work, Jen gets a call from the firm’s secretary who says that she has a visitor. She says to send them in. Moments later, in walks Holden Holliway (F. Murray Abraham) and Jen is immediately starstruck. She looks to the camera:

“He puts the Holliway in Goodman, Liever, Kurtzberg & Holliway.”

We soon find out that Holliway, one of the most respected lawyers in New York, wants her to join his firm. She is unsure of what to say, almost in disbelief. This would be an incredible leap forward in her career. He then spills the beans about why he thinks she is the right fit: they are forming a new Superhuman Law branch of their practice and they want her to lead it. She begins to show the patented Jennifer Walters self-doubt says she isn’t sure how versed she is with the superhuman world (after which she looks to the camera and winks) so she don’t know if she’d succeed. He says that he saw firsthand how great she was in the Danger Man trial and that is all she needed to see. She asks if she can mull this over and he says of course.

Afterwards, Leibovitz (Richard Kind) pays her a visit and asks what that was all about. He is also starstruck that Holden Holliway was in his firm. Jen stays tight-lipped, causing Leibovitz to become suspicious and ask if she is thinking about jumping ship. He begins to chew her out and remind her how appreciated she is here - which is only really relevant in the last few days since the Danger Man verdict.

Jen gets a message from her dad, who wants to meet for lunch. She is nervous about this since it is the first time they’ve met since public She-Hulk has become a thing. Morris (Michael Richards) is not too happy with her becoming a celebrity like she is and worries it will ruin her professional ambitions. She uses that to segway into talking about her new job offer. He tells her he thinks she should go for it but tone down the She-Hulk stuff.

Meanwhile, he says that he has done his own research and thinks her transformation might have something to do with gamma-rays, citing past precedents. She is impressed, telling him he sounds like a lawyer himself. He then moves on to his main belief: that the blood transfusion Jen received was contaminated with radiation and that is why she turns green. Jen, knowing Danger Man’s case well, shakes her head in agreement. He then says they should sue her surgeon for malpractice.

With Dr. Jameson’s words about She-Hulk still ringing in her mind, she says that they should not do that. Instead, they should focus on who attacked her and her mom. She asks him if he there are any enemies that he accumulated while working in the force that may have had unfinished business. He says the only one that got away was an underground crime organization that he tried to undercover but they were so well connected that he could never break through. It becomes clear that this case actually broke him and is the reason he retired.

When she leaves, she begins doing research on the dark web to find any clues but is unsuccessful. She gets a message from Mary wanting to go out but she ignores it. She feels guilty about potentially leaving Mary behind at Leibovitz’s firm and doesn’t know how to tell her about her dilemma.

Jen calls Holden Holliway and tells him that she is going to accept his offer. He says that that is great to hear. He is sure that she will become the greatest practitioner in superhuman law in the world. She thanks him for that.

That night, still guilty about not telling Mary, decides to go out for a night of partying on her own as She-Hulk. She spots Paparazzi Geoff (Eric Andre) following her and pulls her aside. He says that he is just doing her job. However, she is not exactly angry at him. Instead, she needs a favor.