Dan Slott usually does single issue stories or two issue stories and there are some two parters in these many issues of She-Hulk. Laws of Attraction runs eight issues (nine if you count the not traded #14, which I read, and ten if you include the Two-Gun Kid special) and there's actually not a lot going on in them, for a Slott She-Hulk story anyway. There's the “Civil War” tie-in, which is a bit of a throwaway, though it does move plot A, “She-Hulk gets married,” forward. Attraction's only got three or four plots going on and it does feel like a complete narrative gesture in resolving some raised issues, but there's also a certain amount of baiting going on. Slott's either daring Marvel to cancel the comic or he's trying to insure he doesn't lose long-time readers. Something... There are cliffhangers, little emotional cliffhangers, which just don't feel feel right.
It's too bad, because so much of Slott's She-Hulk does feel right. I hadn't read the comic in... seven months, six months, one of those, and coming back to it was relieving. Slott does a great job with the character, but so little happens to her--while so much is going on around her. She-Hulk's always been a quirky examination of comic books (as opposed to a serious one, like Kyle Baker's Plastic Man), but this story is obese, as opposed to voluptuous. Slott's dealing with his story-lines, which he has too many to handle, a “Civil War” tie-in, a “Planet Hulk” tie-in, and something gets lost. Slott writes scenes of a decent length and each issue has them and they're nice and they give the impression of something nicer going on, in terms of a reading experience, than one's left with at the end of Laws of Attraction. He's really going for a TV feel--each issue seems to take place a week after the previous one, which helps give these issues some deceptive weight. But I don't like using my brain so much when it comes to Slott's She-Hulk. I want to submerge myself in the experience, not analyze it and these issues are riper for analysis than they are for mud-bathing.
