She-Hulk #22

History

Dan Slott ended his celebrated run on She-Hulk with issue #21, at which point Marvel handed the title to Peter David, a writer already associated with the Hulk franchise through his acclaimed twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk. David used his first issue to reframe the book's premise entirely, moving Jennifer Walters out of the courtroom and into a mobile bounty-hunting operation, and introduced Jazinda as her Skrull partner — a character whose complicated mythology (daughter of Super-Skrull, bearer of the Sy-Torak Gem, branded traitor) gave the run its ongoing dramatic spine. Interior art was handled by Shawn Moll, while Mike Deodato Jr. contributed a self-aware cover depicting She-Hulk grabbing the hands of the cover artist himself — a meta-fictional touch appropriate for a title with a long history of fourth-wall humor. David also documented, after the series concluded with #38, that undisclosed editorial decisions placing She-Hulk in Jeph Loeb's concurrent Hulk series in a contradictory characterization hurt readership momentum during his tenure.

Trivia · 9 facts

• First appearance of Jazinda (Jazinda Kl'rt-Spawn), a Skrull agent and daughter of Super-Skrull Kl'rt, who becomes She-Hulk's bounty-hunting partner throughout Peter David's run.
• First appearance of Hi-Lite (Rockwell Davis), the minor supervillain and the duo's inaugural bail-skip target, who is also revealed to be a cousin of Absorbing Man (Carl Creel).
• First appearance of Freeman Bonding Inc., the bail bond firm that employs Jennifer Walters and Jazinda and serves as the operational base for David's entire run on the title.
• Peter David's debut issue as writer, succeeding Dan Slott, whose final issue was #22's immediate predecessor; David uses the issue to explicitly reframe Jennifer Walters's role from lawyer to bounty hunter.
• Interior pencils by Shawn Moll; cover by Mike Deodato Jr., whose cover depicts She-Hulk breaking the fourth wall by grabbing the cover artist's own hands — a nod to the series' self-referential storytelling tradition.
• Titania (Mary MacPherran) appears still miniaturized from Hank Pym's Ant House supervillain prison (established in She-Hulk #12) and attacks She-Hulk from inside her ear canal during the Absorbing Man confrontation.
• The issue's final pages establish that the woman impersonating Jennifer Walters — who survives a broken neck — is Jazinda, though her identity is not confirmed until the following issue (#23).
• The entire Peter David run beginning with this issue, along with related crossover material, was later collected in the She-Hulk by Peter David Omnibus, gathering She-Hulk (2005) #22–38, She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision, X-Factor (2005) #33–34, Sensational She-Hulk #12, and material from She-Hulk Sensational #1.
• A continuity note in this issue connects Absorbing Man's boxer alias 'Rocky Davis' — first seen in Daredevil #1 — to the name of his actual cousin Rockwell Davis, a connection not confirmed in-universe until Daredevil: Yellow #1.

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