So when I put in an order at the online store I use for the stuff I missed this month, I forgot The Rush #3. I'd already checked two of the stores in the general area for it prior to that, so it might be a while before I get around to reviewing it. In the meantime, here's two more comics from two weeks ago.
Moon Knight is trying to find Zodiac, without much success, but 8-Ball points him to Manslaughter Marsdale, who wittingly or not, points him to "the Clown". Which clown? Obnoxio, the one from Circus of Crime? Can't really tell, because Zodiac already cut his head off and took it with him to meet Marc's psychiatrist. Got green hair and a green star over one eye, which I don't remember the Clown from Circus of Crime having. Also, while Tigra is helping Marc out, she's also really there because Black Panther has asked her to keep an eye on Marc. Booo, fuck off T'Challa, go back to ruling your own country through some "divine right by combat" bullshit.
Sabbatini's doing a pretty good job of aping Cappuccio's art here. Linework's a little looser, more jagged, but overall, the book looks largely the same. Although I suspect Rosenberg's color work helps there, too. The one issue is some of the staging in the panels is wonky. There's one, when they've caught up to 8-Ball, where Reese points to something spraypainted on the wall behind her and asks Marc what it is. But I honestly can't tell what it is, because Marc's arm is covering part of it from out perspective. Maybe that's intentional, though I'm not sure why that would be.
Also, MacKay has Moonie do the "imperil a guy until he snitches" bit. Only, unlike Batman dangling people off rooftops, he dangles 8-Ball over a car shredder. And this works, of course. I'm not surprised Moon Knight would try that; he's a brutal vigilante on a good day. Little disappointed it works, though. Be nice if writers would stop acting like that crap gets results all the time.
Jennifer gets interrupted on her way to her new job by Titania, who just feels like fighting a bit. So they fight, but Jennifer lets a little too much slip about her current status, to the point Titania is confused and irritated about feeling bad for her. Jennifer gets the fight delayed for the time being so she can get to her new job, working for her old rival (from the Dan Slott run) Mallory Book. And the Wasp is going to let Jen live in the same apartment she loaned her in Sensational She-Hulk, which still has a bunch of her clothes.
Then Jack of Hearts shows up and passes out in her doorway.
So Rowell's trying to get back to excellent lawyer She-Hulk, and clothes horse She-Hulk, while not entirely discarding everything since, I guess when Thanos put her in a coma in Civil War II. She-Hulk's been away from this sort of life for a while, and she's trying to get back to it. How she plans to "reinvent" herself, I don't know. Reaching a sort of detente with Titania might be a start. Where they don't get along, but they aren't engaged in life-and-death fights all the time. Although that's more a sign of progress for Titania than She-Hulk.
In terms of Jennifer and She-Hulk, Antonio goes more towards her portrayal in the Dan Slott runs, with Rich Burchett or Juan Bobillo as artist, as opposed to John Byrne. Jennifer is portrayed in ways that make her look very small, even around Mallory. Heck, Janet van Dyne is only about 5-4, and she and Jennifer look to be the same height. And her body language shows her hunched over, arms pulled in close to her body. Antonio's She-Hulk is confident, unsurprisingly, and tall, but also more muscular than she was in Sensational She-Hulk, while not anywhere close to how she's looked in Avengers the last few years. Still emphasizes the idea that she's strong, that she's got a lot of power.
I do question Jennifer's feet not changing size when she's She-Hulk. She took her shoes off to fight (sensible), but was able to slip right into her heels without changing back to Jennifer.
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