Across its first five episodes, She-Hulk: Lawyer at Regulation has taken fans of the Wonder Artistic Universe on an engaging and absolutely wild story. One of the most-cherished components of the series has been its connections to Wonder legend, both to the legend of Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) and the bigger landscape of Wonder Comics itself. Once more this week’s fifth episode demonstrated to exercise that, acquainting a Wonder character with the series who may be the most obscure yet. Spoilers for Episode 5 of She-Hulk: Lawyer at Regulation, “Mean, Green, and Straight Filled These Jeans”, beneath! Possibly look if you have any desire to be aware!

A piece of the episode sees Jen worried about getting new She-Hulk-sized clothes, outside of the oversized suits she as of now wears to work. Nikki Ramos (Ginger Gonzaga) and Augustus “Pug” Pugliese (Josh Segarra) in the long run get Jen associated with Luke Jacobson (Griffin Matthews), a fashion designer who specializes in dress for superheroes. While Jen at first insists that she just needs business suits that can accommodate her She-Hulk and human bodies, Luke appears to make Jen’s superhero costume for her at any rate — and obviously is also making another yellow costume for Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox).

Made by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons, Luke Jacobson first made his Wonder debut in 1986’s Dakota North #1, the first in a five-issue miniseries presenting the nominal butt-kicking private security specialist. Luke ends up being Dakota’s first case, as she’s tasked with being his guardian to shield him from fashion-related threats. Luke at last appeared in three of the book’s five issues — and has not appeared in a Wonder comic since. As Thomases would later affirm to The Comics Diary, her plan was for Luke to be gay and HIV+, however that was not ready to occur in the series’ underlying story.

“[He is based on] my companion, the fashion designer David Freelander, who passed on from AIDS in 1987,” Thomases uncovered. “I had maintained that the person should also be gay and HIV+, yet [Marvel proofreader Larry Hama] said that wasn’t the reason people read comics. That’s what I suspect, assuming the series had proceeded, we would have gone there.”

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Matthews, who is best known for his work on The Airline steward and his musical Invisible String, told ComicBook.com in 2020 that he needed to join the superhero space — to a limited extent to add more positive representation to it.

“It’s so interesting that you asked that because we’re inside of this conversation about representation,” Matthews made sense of at that point. “It’s what we’ve been accomplishing for all of 2020, just discussing people of color and dark gay lives. I adored Dark Panther so, so, so much. Furthermore, I just maintain that there should be gay people on screen. I need to be a goddamn superhero. I think it’d be so cool to enter that world, because it just feels as we don’t exist in that world. There is no such thing as us there. At the point when I was growing up, I never saw myself. I adored Spider-Man. I adored Batman. I saw those films, and I adored those films, however I never saw myself. The closest thing I could say was ‘Perhaps I’ll be Robin.’ And I would just cherish in 2021, in the new year, I couldn’t want anything more than to see some strange representation, as a matter of fact. What’s more, honest to God, I would cherish, love, love to make it happen, with my little skinny body and an absence of muscle. I need to be a superhero.”

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