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She-Hulk #21-23Issue(s): She-Hulk #21, She-Hulk #22, She-Hulk #23 Review/plot: She-Hulk and Weezie return to Weezie's apartment to find that it's been ransacked. Weezie notices that a particular file - the "Rosebud" file - has been taken and starts to act funny. She sends She-Hulk home. As She-Hulk is leaving, she notices an Abominiation shaped footprint. ![]() The next day, Weezie doesn't show up to work, and Weezie's daughter Wanda comes to the office looking for her. ![]() Wanda tells She-Hulk that the Rosebud file had something to do with Weezie's days as the Blonde Phantom during the Golden Age (Wanda accidentally says Phantom Blonde). She-Hulk uses her Avengers access to access Weezie's phone records, and then takes Wanda with her to go look for Weezie. Weezie, meanwhile, is in Las Vegas, investigating a wealthy, and old, casino owner named Dutch Rosenblatt. She gets repelled by his guards and winds up meeting a Jasper Keating, the head of the American Purity Foundation. To help fight his war for the "soul of America", he's got a super-hero, Captain Rectitude. ![]() After they leave, Weezie is kidnapped by the Abominatrix. ![]() She-Hulk and Wanda later show up in Vegas, and the Abominatrix attacks. ![]() She-Hulk defeats Abominatrix, who reveals that she's working for Keating. Keating is going after Weezie because he wants Rosebud, which turns out to be a nuclear bomb. The bomb was stolen in the late 1940s and hidden somewhere in Nevada. Dutch Rosenblatt, then a mobster, was the prime suspect. She-Hulk goes to Rosenblatt and learns that the bomb is remotely connected to his pacemaker, so when he dies all of Vegas will be blown up. So She-Hulk and Wanda fly back to New York and go to Mr. Fantastic. She-Hulk wants to use the Fantastic Four's time machine to see where the bomb was hidden. ![]() They arrive in Vegas in 1946, and break up a mob battle to get in good with Dutch. ![]() Meanwhile, the All Winner's Squad has teamed up with the Blonde Phantom to look for the stolen nuke. ![]() So that puts them in conflict with She-Hulk. ![]() ![]() But they learn that the bomb is hidden inside a statue at the casino, and go back to the present. Mr. Fantastic gives She-Hulk some info on Jasper Keating, confirming that he's as much into corrupt money making and crime as he is into his anti-smut campaign. And there's also these winning joke origins about his two villains. ![]() Clever. :-\ Meanwhile, Sue has designed a costume for Wanda, making her the Phantom Blonde. ![]() Then they go back to Vegas, rescue Weezie, and fight Keating and his goons. ![]() ![]() Dutch has a heart attack during all the excitement, but She-Hulk throws the nuke into the atmosphere before it explodes. ![]() It's actually kind of sad. This is like the third? fourth? time that Gerber has done a story attacking the moral majority crowd. The first time was a big deal, but after that it's kind of tired, especially since the stories are all very cartoony and shallow. Generally speaking, we've got horrible art and a boring, unfunny (and not for lack of trying) story. I can't tell you how exhausting it is to write plot summaries for comics that no one gives a shit about, me included. But at least it's over with. Let's take a break and then come back with Simon Furman and Death's Head, yes? Quality Rating: D Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A References: N/A Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A Inbound References (1): showCharacters Appearing: Blonde Phantom, Captain Rectitude, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Phantom Blonde, She-Hulk CommentsJasper Keating was based on the real-life Charles Keating. Posted by: Mark Drummond | June 30, 2015 5:43 PM Comments are now closed. |
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