"The End" Week: She-Hulk #15!

I've mentioned Savage She-Hulk #25 before, as one of the first last issues I ever read; but Jen is probably more blase about it than most, since I think she would've had, um, like at least four after that and before this one! From 2023, She-Hulk #15, "Girl Can't Help It, part 5" Written by Rainbow Rowell, art by Andres Genolet, color art by Dee Cunniffe. Cover by Jen Bartel.

Jen had spent most of this series getting closer to Jack of Hearts, but had been tempted by the handsome, roguish Scoundrel; who has been revealed as less dashing and more of a cad, as his client Drapurg was going to blow up New York City! Scoundrel was trying to save Jen, for himself; but she can't let NYC blow up, and calls Jack before he crushes her phone. (I don't have the previous issues next to me, but Scoundrel had "magically fortified" powers and a space yacht, so he wasn't coasting entirely on his looks!)

As Drapurg's alien horde attacks the city--I think the plan was, get the super-heroes in fighting them, then blow them all up--Jen's friends, and enemies, in her fighting social "Punch Club" commence punching them. Jen ties up Scoundrel, who was game at first, then races through the fight in Central Park trying to find the hidden bomb, in a fountain. A quick search says there's over 200 in the park, but I think that dumb thing means drinking fountains...it's probably in Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, 'cause that's maybe the first one to show up on Wikipedia! It appears to get destroyed, but Jack was there to absorb all the energy. (The dialog makes it seem like Jack sucked the juice out of it before it blew, but it's drawn more like it exploded and he just took it in, and the fountain was wrecked, so...)

Full of energy, Jack is free to kiss Jen without messing with her gamma powers, then flies off to release the excess energy into the sun. Titania and Ben watch him go, with Titania commenting "holy crap, Walters. You sure like 'em weird," while Ben is surprised Jack wasn't dead...to be continued in Sensational She-Hulk #1! Yet another Marvel relaunch where the first issue got more variant covers than the series got issues; but she'll be back.