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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on April 11th, 2013 at 11:21 am

I’m willing to settle for more MGK-recaptioned event comics that have the occasional “Call 1-800-SHE-HULK” joke. I honestly love those.

(or how about “WHAT IF: She-Hulk were Walter White’s laywer?”)

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on April 11th, 2013 at 11:22 am

*lawyer >:-(

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So….when I comment “More than likely, it’s ‘Fuck the Law'”, that is close to the answer. In that, a good law comic would forego how actual law works for narrative purposes.

Now I feel dumb…

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JCHandsom said on April 11th, 2013 at 11:51 am

Does She Hulk actually go around lawyering as She Hulk? Does she use her secret identity like Matt Murdock? Might be stupid questions but I never really thought about it.

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Jennifer is a giant green lady over six feet tall. (Unlike Bruce, she does not, as far as I know, have a non-Hulk “normal white person” form.)

This makes maintaining a secret identity problematic at best.

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Mark Temporis said on April 11th, 2013 at 2:18 pm

IIRC, She-Hulk does have a normal human form but never uses it, as her Hulk form has no drawbacks and is way hotter.

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Based on my vague memory without actually reading the comics, She-Hulk can switch back, she just doesn’t usually see the point.

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I retract my statement due to the one above it being better. Reload comments pages, kids.

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In American jurisdictions these tenets still exist but generally they are, I am given to understand, much more lax; here they are not. (Some lawyers will threaten you with a complaint to the law society when you make any comment that could be even construed as an insult. These people are pains to work against, to say the least.)

This just seems like a different, but not much better, failure of courtesy than what you’d find in America.

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Wait, so are you saying your career has never involved a boisterous Olympian god taking the stand to sing a happy song about how he beat the plaintiff into a coma?

Illusions. Shattered.

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Scavenger said on April 11th, 2013 at 5:46 pm

Still, Bob Ingersol’s The Law is a Ass column is one of my favorite series of comics commentaries..

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Now I can’t help but wonder if there are people who read your “Why I Should Write Dr. Strange” posts and come to the conclusion that you are a former medical doctor who is now a practicing Wiccan or something.

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Edgar Allan Poe said on April 11th, 2013 at 6:27 pm

This may help explain why most Daredevil stories centered on courtroom shenanigans are terrible (especially the one Bob Gale wrote).

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Lister Sage said on April 11th, 2013 at 8:47 pm

What about ‘I Should Write Judge Dredd’?
All the legality with none of the boring stuff.

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I apologize if this is a breach of Blog Etiquette, but Law and the Multiverse fits this bill and I’ve found it fairly easy to follow along, as a layperson.

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The problem is that you can’t just have She-Hulk do the lawyering, she needs a team.

A SUPER TEAM.

A Fantastic Four of Law!

She-Hulk, Matt Murdock, Forge* and Aurora**

*As a Private Investigator, which television informs me that all law offices have.

**General office head paralegal who can manage a team of other general people required to keep the office going. Superspeed helps her get around and process documents quickly.

(I’ve got no idea if any of these characters are actually available.)

SEE… She-Hulk take on the Richards divorce!

HEAR… Daredevil’s closing argument that if the armoured glove doesn’t fit, Doctor Doom you must acquit!

SMELL… Forge having to rouse special guest star Wolverine from the drunk tank!

LEARN… as Aurora goes into detail about torts and contractual law!

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How about Jamie Madrox, Attorney at Law?

For those who don’t know, Jamie Madrox, a.k.a. the Multiple Man, is a mutant with the power to create duplicates of himself in response to physical impact. It’s an involuntary defense mechanism. The duplicates have all his memories, and he can reabsorb them at will on contact. When he does, he gains the memories of any experiences they had while separate. In recent years, he’s taken to sending them out for years at a time to learn many different skills and careers, and his ability has gained the disadvantage that the duplicates can randomly embody aspects of his personality. A duplicate of his depressive side, for example, is pretty useless in a fight.

So anyways, he’s a mutant superhero with the powers of super-research and being in many places at once, but that’s it. He’s used it as a private investigator, and it sounds even better for a law firm, whether the regular kind of a law firm of one.

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Hypo-Calvinist said on April 12th, 2013 at 12:23 pm

-“why I should write She-Hulk, superhero lawyer”

When I first saw one of your “Why I should write Dr. Strange” columns, for some reason I read the title as “Why I should write TO Dr. Strange”. I don’t know whether you would be asking him for advice, or maybe you had been pen pals since 3rd grade, but I was disappointed when I got the plot outline of what seemed to be an awesome issue of Dr. Strange instead.

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Eli Balin said on April 12th, 2013 at 4:27 pm

One of the storylines in Astro City involved a criminal defense attorney who established reasonable doubt with things like “Can you be sure you saw my client, and not a shapeshifter?” and “How do you know the victim was actually dead? If the victim came back to life, can my client really be guity of murder?”

Even assuming a world in which shapeshifters and non-permanent death bordered on mundane, how well would this fly in a real courtroom?

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Really, it’s mostly a request for more “I Should Write X,” and She-Hulk/Daredevil/Manhunter just come up because hey, you’re a lawyer, and therefore you must like lawyering. I personally wasn’t that into the whole thing, but more I Should Write would be great.

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I was more aiming for “Is the law worth a damn in the superhero comic world cuz they seems to have no problems just disregarding laws as they see fit with no reprecussions (usually)” thing.

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As one of the primary suggesters, and a lawyer myself, I guess the Canadian happy-families lawyering isn’t as interesting for comics.

But yes, I’ll admit it’s 1/3rd a plea for “Why I Should Write”, 1/3rd a plea for someone, anyone, to go back to the She-Hulk of the early oughties, much referenced here, and 1/3rd a plea for a narrative companion to Law and the Multiverse, which suggests nuggets of story but does not follow them through.

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Mike Zeidler said on April 17th, 2013 at 5:16 am

For those still curious about law in comics, I would second the recommendation of Bob Ingersoll’s “The Law Is A Ass” column that ran in Comic Buyer’s Guide for a few years, handily archived here: http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/law/

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"Some lawyers will threaten you with a complaint to the law society when you make any comment that could be even construed as an insult. These people are pains to work against, to say the least.)"

As a fellow Canadian lawyer, I would note that (at least in our jurisdiction) that “threatening to report someone to the Law Society” is itself a reportable offense. You’re supposed to either do it or not, not make threats to get your way.

That being said, it’s never a good idea to be insulting to a fellow lawyer, but vocally disapproving of their litigation-relevant tactics/behavior can certainly be done, with enough tact.

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