The Unfortunate Sound Effects of The Savage She-Hulk
I spent a good amount of time reading through The Essential Savage She-Hulk today, and let me tell you: Even for a book where a giant green woman rampages around Los Angeles wrecking cars and jacking up the occasional mobster so that he'll turn State's Evidence, that thing's got a lot of sound effects.
Page for page, it might just be the noisiest comic I've ever read, and considering that I consider a panel without an explosion to be a panel wasted, that's saying something.
And they're not just the regular kind, either. I'm only a few issues in, and already I've counted three TBUNGs, along with KRIMPLLL, DAKRUNCH, and, my personal favorite, KAR-CROOM--a sound effect that, considering it's the noise made by Shulkie chucking a Volkswagen at an eighteen-wheeler, really should've been "KAR-TRUK!"
There is, however, one sound effect right at the climax of Savage She-Hulk #2 that stands out even among those, one that writer David Anthony Kraft maybe should've thought about a little harder before he went ahead and slapped it onto a a scene where a buxom green Amazon stomps around in a ripped-up hospital gown:
I mean really: That's got to be the most judgemental lamppost in comics history.
13 Comments:
Does the Essential line come with color now, or have you been playing with photoshop?
8/28/2006 2:04 AM
The colorized sound effects are my doing, but if Marvel really did start putting out versions where the sound effects--and only the sound effects--were rendered in vivid, glorious color, I would totally buy them all.
That's just how I roll.
8/28/2006 2:07 AM
KRIMPLLLL
8/28/2006 3:22 AM
The lamp post makes a fair point. That ripped dress leaves nothing to the imagination.
8/28/2006 10:35 AM
Perhaps that is not a sound effect, but She Hulk herself yelling after her prey.
8/28/2006 12:27 PM
They have ESSENTIAL SHE-HULK????
SAVAGE She-Hulk??
What ISN'T "ESSENTIAL" at Marvel?
Pretty soon they'll be releasing "ESSENTIAL US-1"
*sigh*...I'm gonna have to get it anyway.
If for nothing else the MAN-THING and RICHARD RORY appearances.
DAMN YOU, MARVEL!!
~P~
P-TOR
8/28/2006 12:57 PM
Is She Hulk hanging out under an overpass in that last panel?
8/28/2006 1:15 PM
There is literally no way I wouldn't buy Essential US-1.
I'm hoping they do Rom sooner or later. I need four or five phonebooks of a run I could probably buy for eleven dollars as single issues.
8/28/2006 1:38 PM
I suspect (though I'm willing to be told otherwise) that they'd have problems reprinting Rom due to copyright issues.
I totally had no idea that white thing She-Hulk wandered around in was a hospital gown. (A... really solidly made hospital gown, I guess.) I'd always (well, for some definition of "alwats" that means "occasionally noticed while reading very old copies of Savage She-Hulk".) Thanks, Chris!
Brandon -- Yeah, she's "roadside."
8/28/2006 6:55 PM
What exactly is not essential about US 1--or, as we know it around the ISB, the greatest series of all time?
8/28/2006 8:34 PM
OMG! I love that "SKANK" panel! I want it on a T-shirt!
Now I have the urge to thumb through my Essentials to try to find a sound effect that can outdo "SKANK" (although I suspect it can't be topped).
Nice work on coloring the sound effects, by the way. They really pop out like that.
"uusvxjf!" -- hmm, not sure when that sound effect would ever come into play.
8/28/2006 11:41 PM
That is classic! It seems really uncalled for and right out of nowhere. Perhaps the lamp post is jealous of She-Hulks non-lamp post shape?
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