Well right now Marvel has a Green Hulk. a Red Hulk, a Grey Hulk, a Blue Hulk like creature, and I suspect if they could pull it off we would have several other Hulk colors.
Hulk: Green Hulk/Red Hulk 
Oh and he seems to be something that Dr. Samson and Gen Ross put together to kill Banner’s Green Hulk.
This isn’t a great story, but it is fun and what Hulk comics should be: Huge fights with major amounts of property damage.
I wrote about my thoughts on Captain Aubrey and now it is time to talk about Dr Maturin. I was just watching Master and Commander and something occurred to me. Maturin, being an intelligence agent, a staunch supporter of liberty but a hater of war and violence because of his background as a doctor, has a violent and deadly side to him.
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I started reading The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
The first section is on essentially what we would call infrastructure. The first chapter on Roads. And as I read it I was enthralled with how a good road system is vital to a thriving country. Blanning charts the travel times between cities and how they were shortened as better roads were built and maintained.
The amusing thing is how even in the 1640s through the 1800s people complained about traffic as we do now and how engineers still can’t figure out how to solve our traffic problems (So don’t be too hard on them since even with only a small number of roads and carriages they couldn’t figure it out).
I’m currently reading the Chapter on Waterways, which chronicles the use of rivers, canals and coasts to travel and trade. And Blanning does put to bed the misconception that water travel as faster than overland travel in the first few paragraphs. But also shows that certain European countries took advantage of their natural waterways to increase trade and decrease the cost of shipping goods.
So far this is a great book.
Here in America we are pretty proud of the fact that we kicked British ass 200 or so years ago. I am here to say that it was a fluke. Well not a fluke but more of a happy accident, that we happen to get support from the French when we did was essential. Because, if our declaration of independence happened 25 years or so later than 1776 our it would be a pipe dream and stories would be told of how some rebellious dissenters were defeated quite easily. If at all remembered as anything other than a small skirmish in the Great War for Empire.
And we would be Canada Lite. » Read more: The War for All the Oceans
I couldn’t wait so I used my Xmas loot of Barnes and Noble gift cards to purchase the next four O’Brian Aubrey novels; The Fortune of War, The Surgeon’s Mate, The Ionian Mission, and Treason’s Harbour. All trade paperbacks (of course I still have the Easton Press editions coming, I just couldn’t wait to start the next volume).
Right now I’m in reading The War for All Oceans (a post about this book to appear soon) a great book on the Napoleonic Wars and the British Navy. Picking up The Fortune of War from my nightstand with all intention to just read the first couple of paragraphs just to size up how O’Brian opens this story. Alas, that first few paragraphs became 77 pages last night. I am going back to The War for All Oceans, since I am close to finishing it and it compliments the O’Brian series quite nicely.
It feels good to be back with my old friends of Aubrey and Maturin. And this book has the makings of a great story.
We left Aubrey with a badly damaged Leopard on Desolation Island making repairs. The opening of The Fortune of War has the Leopard making port in New Holland and Aubrey recounting his passage across the South Atlantic chased by the Dutch Ship of the Line Waakzaamheid. Which made me think back to one of the most powerful scenes O’Brian has written. We learn that Maturin’s false intelligence he planted with the American operative has taken root and now Aubrey and Maturin have been ordered back to England.
Since this novel takes place at the eve of the War of 1812 the American Navy will take a prominent role. I am very interested in seeing how O’Brian portrays them.
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