The She-Hulk Diaries - Softcover

Acosta, Marta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401311016 ISBN 13: 9781401311018

Publisher: Hyperion, 2013

Synopsis

"Marta Acosta's The She-Hulk Diaries is an absolute delight."
--Peter David, NYT Bestselling Author of X-Men and The Incredible Hulk

"Holy moley, I was entirely won over by this. It's glorious, trashy fun. I want to see Acosta take on more Marvel heroes now, as well as do multiple follow-ups to this book. Hell, I want to see Acosta get to make this into a monthly comic." --Graeme McMillan, Wired and The Savage Critics

"Delightful..the kind of wryly self-aware pulp sensibility that translates gorgeously here. The She-Hulk Diaries is a welcoming, bidirectional gateway... and I'm hoping that means more in kind." --Rachel Edidin, Wired

JANUARY 1
CURRENT STATUS: No job, no boyfriend, no permanent place to live, no car, and most of my clothes are held together with staples and duct tape. Bank account almost wiped out. Many of my former associates have expressed a desire that I never darken their doorways again for legal and financial reasons.

She-Hulk got us got us kicked out of the Avengers Mansion. People keep posting videos online of her New Year's Eve shenanigans: twirling flaming telephone poles in Times Square, climbing the Empire State Building while dangling Anderson Cooper, dancing wildly at parties, and commandeering a motorcycle cop's ride to do wheelies across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Saying there are two sides to Jennifer Walters's personality is an understatement. When she hasn't morphed into a 650-pound, crime-fighting, hard-partying superhero, she's a single lawyer trying to get her act together. Hilarious and action-packed, The She-Hulk Diaries tells her story, as she juggles looking for Mr. Right and climbing the corporate ladder by day with battling villains and saving the world by night. Maybe she'll finally take on a case that will define her career. Maybe she won't meet one Mr. Right, but two, and she'll have to choose. Maybe bad guys will stop trying to destroy the planet so she can read her Perez Hilton in peace.

About this title

From the Author

I had a wonderful time jumping into the Marvelverse to write about shy brilliant Jennifer Walters and her rowdy sexy superhuman persona, She-Hulk aka Shulky. Jennifer resolves to improve her life, and that means that she's going to figure out a way to have a personal life in addition to her demanding legal career and her duties as superhero.

I love to write snark and banter and it was fun to let loose with Shulky's bold and confident antics. Who wouldn't want to hang out with a 6'7" jade green party girl? Jennifer is a very shy California girl in the heart of Manhattan, and I imagined her a little like Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) tossing her hat in the air -- "you're going to make it after all." She may be quiet in person, but get her into a courtroom and she's ferocious.

I fell in love with this wonderful Marvel character, and I really hope that readers of The She-Hulk Diaries will fall in love with her, too!

Marta Acosta

From Publishers Weekly

Jennifer Walters is a lawyer and the giant green Marvel superhero known as She-Hulk, now transferred from comics to prose in this super-chick-lit novel. Jen finds herself between jobs and between apartments at New Years, not to mention between relationships. She also has a PR problem due to She-Hulk's hard-partying habits. Jen signs on with the law firm QUIRC, resolving actively start looking for love and to have fun in ways that won't get her fired. Of course, because this is a She-Hulk book, this ends up involving clones, supervillains and LARPing. Acosta's research shows as she captures the personality and humor of her main character and the Marvel universe for veteran readers and the uninitiated alike. The book's only problems are romance novel and chick-lit tropes that don't fit She-Hulk nearly as well, such as her self-deprecating envy of other women's beauty. Also, despite dating many of Marvel's superheroes, Jen has been secretly pining for the book's newly introduced love interest since college, because apparently True Love doesn't happen after thirty. Still, with trademark She-Hulk moments of comedy such as a sinisterly addicting smoothie chain and a particularly random appearance of Doctor Doom, this is a fun and lighthearted read. (June)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1401311016
• ISBN 13: 9781401311018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336