SOURCE: A review of Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway? in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 241, No. 38, September 19, 1994, p. 64.

[In the following review, the critic offers a mixed assessment of Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?, a graphic novel by Marisa Acocella.]

The original She was launched as a regular comics feature of Mirabella in 1993 and quickly became a reader favorite. [In Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?, Marisa] Acocella continues her efforts to create a character that embodies the cultural history of a generation of upper-middle class white women. A post-feminist everywoman, She is impatient with the status quo even in the womb. A child of suburbia stuck with gender-based expectations, She manages to both laugh at and deconstruct these conventions, wryly acknowledging the role they play in shaping her life ("Barbie did introduce the concept of 'man as accessory'"). She wants to play with the...