Comments on: My Itchy Fandom: The Incredible Hulk http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/ no, really, there are some comics you really should read Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:58:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Nick http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/comment-page-1/#comment-135170 Nick Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:07:38 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/#comment-135170 So in short HULK BAD!!! Sorry, I have to make the stupid joke, lol. So in short HULK BAD!!!

Sorry, I have to make the stupid joke, lol.

]]> By: tavella http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/comment-page-1/#comment-134822 tavella Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:46:49 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/#comment-134822 Eh. I knew it wasn't going to have any sort of satisfactory ending from the beginning, which is why I saved my money. Marvel wasn't going to have their big shiny heroes Tony and Reed responsible for genocide, so you knew that it was all going to be revealed that they were totally innocent. I enjoyed Planet Hulk, but I quit Hulk itself in the WWH prelude issue where Doc Samson, acting as Reed's errand boy to make sure that Amadeus Cho was locked up for the crime of being not quite as intelligent as Reed is, starts a fight with massive property destruction -- and Jennifer Walters is the one shrinking down in shame and self-blame at the end. Because she's not a rich white man, and so she doesn't get to make any moral decisions; her job is, like all the rest of the superheroes who don't fit the rich white male futurist description, is to nod and do what they tell her to do, because she's not smart enough to make any moral choices on her own. Oh, and worship the RWMs for protecting her from the burden of deciding anything on her own. Eh. I knew it wasn’t going to have any sort of satisfactory ending from the beginning, which is why I saved my money. Marvel wasn’t going to have their big shiny heroes Tony and Reed responsible for genocide, so you knew that it was all going to be revealed that they were totally innocent.

I enjoyed Planet Hulk, but I quit Hulk itself in the WWH prelude issue where Doc Samson, acting as Reed’s errand boy to make sure that Amadeus Cho was locked up for the crime of being not quite as intelligent as Reed is, starts a fight with massive property destruction — and Jennifer Walters is the one shrinking down in shame and self-blame at the end. Because she’s not a rich white man, and so she doesn’t get to make any moral decisions; her job is, like all the rest of the superheroes who don’t fit the rich white male futurist description, is to nod and do what they tell her to do, because she’s not smart enough to make any moral choices on her own. Oh, and worship the RWMs for protecting her from the burden of deciding anything on her own.

]]> By: Michael Rawdon http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/comment-page-1/#comment-134768 Michael Rawdon Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:24:51 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/02/my-itchy-fandom-the-incredible-hulk/#comment-134768 My theory after reading WWH #4 is that #5 is basically going to be a Hulk/Sentry slugfest, then the Sentry (or the Void, it hardly matters which is which anymore) is going to go berserk, clobber the Hulk but good, and the other heroes are going to have to rein in the Sentry while the Warbound spirit the Hulk away for whatever's next in his comic. So basically I agree with you. The biggest downside is that basically World War Hulk should have been the story that "put right" the disastrous events of the Civil War, but basically Marvel is too invested into the whole Initiative BS and it can't reasonably write out Tony Stark (who at this point is basically no better than Doctor Doom) or Reed Richards (who's not far behind him), so the company really has little choice but to soldier on with all the claptrap it's been giving us since handing Mark Millar the keys to the kingdom for Civil War. My theory after reading WWH #4 is that #5 is basically going to be a Hulk/Sentry slugfest, then the Sentry (or the Void, it hardly matters which is which anymore) is going to go berserk, clobber the Hulk but good, and the other heroes are going to have to rein in the Sentry while the Warbound spirit the Hulk away for whatever’s next in his comic.

So basically I agree with you.

The biggest downside is that basically World War Hulk should have been the story that “put right” the disastrous events of the Civil War, but basically Marvel is too invested into the whole Initiative BS and it can’t reasonably write out Tony Stark (who at this point is basically no better than Doctor Doom) or Reed Richards (who’s not far behind him), so the company really has little choice but to soldier on with all the claptrap it’s been giving us since handing Mark Millar the keys to the kingdom for Civil War.

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