Yesterday it came to my attention that screenwriter
David S. Goyer had made some more than unpleasant remarks about Marvel's
character She-Hulk, while at the same time joking (because it's ever so funny)
that comic fans didn't get "laid".
Well, in a recent interview Stan Lee, who co-created
the character, responds to Goyer.
When Lee, as writer, co-created She-Hulk with artist
John Buscema (the character debuted in February of 1980, in Savage She-Hulk #1), he was absolutely focused on his
gamma-green superheroine having brains. Lee tells The Post’s Comic Riffs this
evening, in response to Goyer’s words: “I know I was looking for a new
female superhero, and the idea of an intelligent Hulk-type grabbed me.”
So, did Lee intend for Hulk and She-Hulk to be
“kissin’ cousins,” as it were — in other words, was Walters created to be
Banner’s brawny, X-rated plaything? “Never for an instant did I want her as a
love interest for Hulk,” Lee tells Comic Riffs tonight. “Only a nut would even
think of that.”
Goyer insists She-Hulk was created, physically, as a
“male power fantasy.” So, how about She-Hulk’s tremendous physique, Stan the
Man? “As for her looking beautiful and curvy,” Lee tells Comic Riffs, “show me the
superheroine who isn’t.”
In all fairness, almost every character in the comics
follows the same aesthetics canon, the superheroes are for the most part buff
while superheroines have for the most part big breasts, but so what!? Should we
start calling Superman a male stripper, Mr. Goyer?
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