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My proposal for an Ultimate She-Hulk mini-series, in keeping with Marvel's current push for more "teen-oriented" books:
Ultimate She-Hulk: "Mean, Green, and Seventeen"
Welcome to posh Simonson High, a private school in Byrne County, Southern California, where the campus social heirarchy is dominated by a clique of sentior girls known as The Sensationals.
Their leader is Jen Walters, a champion debater with her eyes on law school, whose keen fashion sense and girl-next-door looks belie a wicked intelligence, and guiltless capacity for manipulating others. Her popularity "inspires" numerous copy-cats among the school's female population.
At Jen's side is Louisa 'Weezy' Mason, VIP of the girls basketball team. Her stealth on the court has earned her the monicker, "The Blonde Phantom". Because of her insecurity about her looks, she exists in a mutually parasitic friendship with Jen: Weezy hopes for beauty-by-association, Jen wants a leuitenant who will never steal attention from her.
Then there's Mallory Book, daughter of Byrne County's Mayor. She got a nose-job for her 16th birthday, and wears Manolo Blahniks to homeroom class -- but finds that everybody's still more interested in Jen, Jen, Jen. Mallory hopes to change that, eventually...
And finally, Marsha Rosenberg: "people-smart", genuinely friendly, open-minded. A good judge of character -- most of the time. She joined the Sensationals, after "blossoming" in sophomore year. She likes their camaraderie on an *individual* level, but she keeps quiet about her reservations about their cruel group behavior. But for how much longer?
At the bottom of the high-school feeding order is Mary 'Skeeter' MacPherran: academic scholar and Shakespeare lover (her fave character, naturally, is Titania, vengeful Queen of Faerie). She is desperate to cut ties with her 'white trash' family. She and Marsha were best friends until eigth grade.
Currently, the entire Byrne County is abuzz with scandal. There's a maximum security penitentiary just outside of Slott, where pharmaceutical manufacturer Brand Med is allegedly conducting involuntary vaccine experiments on inmates serving life sentences, with the tacit approval of chief warden, Morris Walters (who is Jen's dad). Blurry leaked photographs suggest that one convict has already reacted negatively to a prototype hormone treatment, becoming some kind of uncontrollable "abomination".
During the regional inter-school debate championships, Jen successfully argues that criminals serving life sentences can help pay their debt to society, during the remainder of their lifetime, by participating in the controversial experiments. (When Marsha asks jen if she really meant that, her reply is "Like I would care about a bunch of stupid criminals -- I just needed one more award to beef up my transcript.")
One fateful evening, while joyriding outsude city limits in Jen's SUV, the Sensationals decide to give Skeeter a good scare, by trailing her pick-up truck, as she drives home alone. A high-speed chase begins, and the girls crash into a Brand Med van transporting plasma samples from the infected prisoner. Jen, Marsha, and Skeeter incur bloody flesh wounds in the accident.
Jen awakens the following day with green skin, extra muscle mass, and heightened strength and reflexes. Much to the suprise of her family and loved ones (not to mention therapists and conselors), Jen is not traumatized by her new-found "uniqueness" -- in fact, she loves it!
Brand Med CEO Malachai Donalbain hails Jen's case as an "unexpected miracle", and she returns to school, even *more* popular -- and self-centered -- than ever!
I'm not sure *exactly* what happens next, but I know for sure that Marsha and Skeeter will develop powers, similar to their 616 selves (Volcana and Titania, respectively), except with the ability to change back into their original forms. They end up conspiriing to cut Jen down to size. Mallory gets jealous that she didn't get any powers from the accident, and begins plotting to ursurp Jen through more conventional means: gossip, under-handedness, sabotaged five-way phone calls, etc.
Somewhere in the middle of the story, the so-called Abomination is freed from a holding cell, after somebody hacks into the prison's security system. The guilty party is a nerdy, introverted sci-fi geek named Wesley 'Crusher' Creel, who works as a data entry clerk in the Simonson High library by day, and spends his nights "absorbing" conspiracy theories and pseudo-science from gonzo news websites.
In the end, She-Hulk ends up saving the town from the rampaging Abomination, and further cementing her 'local hero' role.
But just when things look perfect for Jen, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter turns up with some awful news -- she can forget about law school. Once Jen turns 18, she must become a member of the Ultimates!
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Ultimate She-Hulk: "Mean, Green, and Seventeen"
Welcome to posh Simonson High, a private school in Byrne County, Southern California, where the campus social heirarchy is dominated by a clique of sentior girls known as The Sensationals.
Their leader is Jen Walters, a champion debater with her eyes on law school, whose keen fashion sense and girl-next-door looks belie a wicked intelligence, and guiltless capacity for manipulating others. Her popularity "inspires" numerous copy-cats among the school's female population.
At Jen's side is Louisa 'Weezy' Mason, VIP of the girls basketball team. Her stealth on the court has earned her the monicker, "The Blonde Phantom". Because of her insecurity about her looks, she exists in a mutually parasitic friendship with Jen: Weezy hopes for beauty-by-association, Jen wants a leuitenant who will never steal attention from her.
Then there's Mallory Book, daughter of Byrne County's Mayor. She got a nose-job for her 16th birthday, and wears Manolo Blahniks to homeroom class -- but finds that everybody's still more interested in Jen, Jen, Jen. Mallory hopes to change that, eventually...
And finally, Marsha Rosenberg: "people-smart", genuinely friendly, open-minded. A good judge of character -- most of the time. She joined the Sensationals, after "blossoming" in sophomore year. She likes their camaraderie on an *individual* level, but she keeps quiet about her reservations about their cruel group behavior. But for how much longer?
At the bottom of the high-school feeding order is Mary 'Skeeter' MacPherran: academic scholar and Shakespeare lover (her fave character, naturally, is Titania, vengeful Queen of Faerie). She is desperate to cut ties with her 'white trash' family. She and Marsha were best friends until eigth grade.
Currently, the entire Byrne County is abuzz with scandal. There's a maximum security penitentiary just outside of Slott, where pharmaceutical manufacturer Brand Med is allegedly conducting involuntary vaccine experiments on inmates serving life sentences, with the tacit approval of chief warden, Morris Walters (who is Jen's dad). Blurry leaked photographs suggest that one convict has already reacted negatively to a prototype hormone treatment, becoming some kind of uncontrollable "abomination".
During the regional inter-school debate championships, Jen successfully argues that criminals serving life sentences can help pay their debt to society, during the remainder of their lifetime, by participating in the controversial experiments. (When Marsha asks jen if she really meant that, her reply is "Like I would care about a bunch of stupid criminals -- I just needed one more award to beef up my transcript.")
One fateful evening, while joyriding outsude city limits in Jen's SUV, the Sensationals decide to give Skeeter a good scare, by trailing her pick-up truck, as she drives home alone. A high-speed chase begins, and the girls crash into a Brand Med van transporting plasma samples from the infected prisoner. Jen, Marsha, and Skeeter incur bloody flesh wounds in the accident.
Jen awakens the following day with green skin, extra muscle mass, and heightened strength and reflexes. Much to the suprise of her family and loved ones (not to mention therapists and conselors), Jen is not traumatized by her new-found "uniqueness" -- in fact, she loves it!
Brand Med CEO Malachai Donalbain hails Jen's case as an "unexpected miracle", and she returns to school, even *more* popular -- and self-centered -- than ever!
I'm not sure *exactly* what happens next, but I know for sure that Marsha and Skeeter will develop powers, similar to their 616 selves (Volcana and Titania, respectively), except with the ability to change back into their original forms. They end up conspiriing to cut Jen down to size. Mallory gets jealous that she didn't get any powers from the accident, and begins plotting to ursurp Jen through more conventional means: gossip, under-handedness, sabotaged five-way phone calls, etc.
Somewhere in the middle of the story, the so-called Abomination is freed from a holding cell, after somebody hacks into the prison's security system. The guilty party is a nerdy, introverted sci-fi geek named Wesley 'Crusher' Creel, who works as a data entry clerk in the Simonson High library by day, and spends his nights "absorbing" conspiracy theories and pseudo-science from gonzo news websites.
In the end, She-Hulk ends up saving the town from the rampaging Abomination, and further cementing her 'local hero' role.
But just when things look perfect for Jen, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter turns up with some awful news -- she can forget about law school. Once Jen turns 18, she must become a member of the Ultimates!
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