Thing & She Hulk: The Long Night

    (Marvel, 2002)
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With her green skin, green hair, and overall imposing presence, She-Hulk has a hard time maintaining a sense of anonimity. Unlike Spider-Man, she can’t simply take off her costume and blend into the crowd. The Thing has a similar predicament, what with his brutish body and horrible complexion. Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night relies too much on coincidence to illustrate this commonality, as the featured duo are depicted riding different subway cars simultaneously while facing similar situations: being harassed for their appearance by thuggish louts. Writer Todd Dezago uses this literary device several more times, giving the issue a sense of redundancy.

As the drama unfolds, a subterranean vampire cult blows up the subway, hoping to feast on trapped passengers. This brings She-Hulk and Thing together, as they forge a largely successful rescue operation. The explosion releases the ultra-powerful Dragon Man, who is being analyzed for nefarious purposes by a contingent of crooked scientists conducting their experiments nearby. Utter chaos ensues in a decidedly entertaining fashion.

There are not as many laughs in this issue as readers might expect in a teaming of Thing and She-Hulk, but the numerous characters and action sequences are rendered beautifully by the teams of Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, and Ivan Reis and Randy Emberlin.

— Brett Weiss
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May, 2002
Cover Price: $2.99
6 copies available from $1.98 		Todd DeZagoBryan Hitch, Ivan Reis