Today was a quiet day. I needed rest. All I was able to accomplish was to read Marvel Monsters Group – Monsters on the Prowl, The New Fantastic Four – Monsters Unleashed, and finish Marvel’s She Hulk – Single Green Female.
I found it interesting how all the Marvel characters seem to come and go in the different comic books. I found it a little disturbing that one version of Hulk was very “simple” and the other was just plain rude but obviously more “brainy”. So…is Hulk brainy or simple? I don’t like that they don’t keep it one way or the other. Maybe it just depends on whether or not he’s having a good day? Or if he has had enough to eat? Note to self about this…make sure everything actually is the same if writing comic book stuff. It irritates the reader when the fantasy falls apart.
So I still need to finish X-Men. I have put 2 movies on the list I want to see. Transformers and Ghost Rider.
That’s about it for today.
Any particular comic character changes both with different writers and artists, and simply over time with different developments such as new powers, further mutations and the like. Hulk tends to get redosed with gamma radiation and/or suffer some sort of psychological event that changes the Banner/Hulk mix every few years. The most common version of Hulk is green, stupid and usually very angry. Another version from the late 80′s and early 90′s [my personal favorite Hulk] is the smarter, grey incarnation featured in the Art Adams Fantastic Four story. This Hulk is of more or less average intelligence, smart enough to know he’s the Hulk and nothing can really affect him, so he tends to just be a really grumpy ass most of the time rather than a rampaging simpleton. Grey Hulk tends to wear a suit and tie, and he worked [for] the mob for a while as a Vegas bruiser named “Mr. Fixit”. It’s worth noting that in the original Lee/Kirby stories from the early 1960′s Hulk was grey and didn’t seem to have quite the limited vocabulary that the “classic” green brute does, even if he wasn’t quite up to seeking gainful employment. There have also been a few very intelligent “Professor Hulk” incarnations where Hulk and Banner’s minds and personalities are harder to separate.
[edits] – Jerry