How is the Hulk like a Bag of Skittles?

February 5th, 2010 by Paul Puglisi Leave a reply »

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 is the hardcover collection of the story that ran through the Hulk comic last year. We have a new Hulk introduced and he is Red and we have no background on him except that he seems intelligent, psychopathic, and gets hot when he gets mad.

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.

When the Hulk comic rebooted under Hulk (not The Incredible Hulk) it went through a good number of issues where the Green Goliath wasn’t even seen.  Which pissed me off.  I ended up deleting the comic from my pull list because I figured that it is only logical that if the comic’s title was Hulk, you should expect the Hulk to appear in it at some point.

So I am happy that they have collected this story, which seems to be part 1 in a long overarching series which is followed up with Hulk No More so far.

The writing is average with contrived scenes that use over used cliches to keep the identity of the Red Hulk a secret. Even having Rick Jones being tasered mid sentence when he was going to reveal the identity to, an ever diminishing into the distance, Green Hulk (which is silly since the Hulk was so far away that Rick’s revelation would have never been heard by Banner, it was solely for the reader and cut off clumsily to the point it wasn’t even necessary except for a manufactured moment.).

The second part of the story centers around She-Hulk and her team of super powered girlfriends, which I think was written to give the artist and by extension fan boys the opportunity to look at huge boobies in spandex and the She Hulk in hip-hugger jeans over a latex one piece body suit.  Where Marvel lauds itself as having strong and realistic characters, their female characters are still somewhat stereotypical and weak and used in a rather insulting manner at times.

And tucked into this second part is an invasion of Wendigos from Canada and Moon Knight along with Sentry and Ms Marvel in Las Vegas.  However unrelated it is with the overall story of the Red Hulk, it was fun to have Joe Fixit show up for a few panels.

Apparently the Red Hulk is going to be a staple of Hulk books right now until the final reveal of who he is will commence with a year long crossover and mini series as most non events in comics are handled in this day and age.  But I enjoyed the story minus the few gripes, the art is great, and it has what Hulk comics should have in it:  fights, the Hulk yelling Hulk Smash, and the ever funny, Hulk taking something said by the Avengers the wrong way and him handing the Avengers their asses.

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