Official Rulk Thread

[TheCorpulent1]

You read comics high? No wonder you have such weird opinions.

So I red (lolz, pun!) Hulk last night. Actually, it wasn't too bad. The mystery is kind of fun, and McGuinness' art was mostly great. I loved his She-Hulk, but I hated his Doc Samson--Samson's an inch shorter than She-Hulk, but McGuinness drew him about a foot shorter. That was weird. Anyway, Ross was kind of a whiny baby, but that's typical for Ross where anything Hulk-related is concerned. I liked Bruce's Hannibal Lecter-ish appearance at the end, too.

Really, the only things that bugged me were Samson-centric--his hair and his going ****ing crazy out of nowhere and starting the fight with the Winter Guard. 1) Samson with short hair sucks. It's a simple fact. 2) I'm thinking there's more to Samson's outburst than just frustration. He did mention the new Hulk is emitting enough radiation to turn sand to glass, and Samson is powered by gamma radiation. Come to think of it, She-Hulk seemed a bit edgier than usual while Samson was re-enacting the murder at the beginning of the issue. So even those things didn't bug me so much as leave me with question marks.

Oh, wait, no--the hair really did just bug me.

I do kind of have to question Tony's decision to just have Jen and Leonard investigate this thing, though. They provide insight into the Hulk's mind and all, but shouldn't there be SHIELD forensics guys there too? She-Hulk and Samson are smart, but this isn't exactly their field.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's more their field than anyone else's. They're byproducts of the same gamma radiation that they're investigating.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but forensics people are specifically trained to notice things about crime scenes that others might miss. I'm not saying they'd be guaranteed to find anything more than Samson and Jen did, but it seems foolish to just not have them there at all.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

so how does rick jones gain the power to transform into the hulk?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess everybody in the Marvel universe just gets mutated by gamma radiation instead of dying horrible, horrible deaths from it.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, but forensics people are specifically trained to notice things about crime scenes that others might miss. I'm not saying they'd be guaranteed to find anything more than Samson and Jen did, but it seems foolish to just not have them there at all.

Well, they might have shown up after Samson and Jen left. I'm sure SHIELD knew that their being there might be met with the opposition that they were met with. In that case, Samson and Jen are a hell of a lot more valuable than the average SHIELD agent. Bring in the big guns first, and when the coast is clear, bring in the little guys to gather the physical evidence.

Or it could be as simple as the Russian governement could have already done that and SHIELD was called in specifically to investigate the radiation residue and to confirm the attacker's identity.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess. Every procedural show I've seen has had each agency want their own experts to look things over, though. Better to be safe than sorry, especially when you're trying to build cases.

 

[PhotoJones]

It didn't bother me. I'm not reading it to nitpick the specifics of SHIELD's investigative procedures.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It didn't bother me a lot, either. I just found it a bit odd. Loeb mentioned in the Wordballoon podcast that he's not much of a details man.

 

[PhotoJones]

That's probably because, like Phaedrus, it was impossible for you to read the book without looking for something to raise an issue with.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, my Loeb-hate runs strong. Less so now, though.

 

[PhotoJones]

That's what I meant earlier about reading with an open mind and enjoying it. I mean, I could find things wrong with the best of books if I wanted to. Or I could just read the stories and enjoy them for what they are.

 

[Obi-Ron]

I'm not sure why Jen would be working with Samson and Stark in the first place. Did World War Hulk get the "Just Another Didn't Happen" treatment?

 

[PhotoJones]

I'm not sure why Jen would be working with Samson and Stark in the first place. Did World War Hulk get the "Just Another Didn't Happen" treatment?

Jen's a registered hero and the COUSIN to the Hulk. If he's involved, I think she'd want to be involved.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe that's why she had such a short fuse--she doesn't like Samson or Stark or, probably most of all, Ross.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's possible. The radiation in the air could be another reason.

 

[Xofenroht]

You read comics high? No wonder you have such weird opinions.

Yeah, sometimes I am high when I read them. But I think the weirdness of my opinions has more to do with your outlook than with me being high.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's possible. The radiation in the air could be another reason.

Maybe it's both.

 

[DACMAN]

I guess everybody in the Marvel universe just gets mutated by gamma radiation instead of dying horrible, horrible deaths from it.

Radiation all together.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah. Didn't Captain Marvel die from cancer due to radiation, though?

Anyway, whatever. The second part of Loeb's interview with Wordballoon made me like him less, although he did have some fun stories about Hollywood and Gene Simmons and stuff.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Jen's a registered hero and the COUSIN to the Hulk. If he's involved, I think she'd want to be involved.

What about her lawsuit against Stark for removing her powers? Did she drop it just because her powers were (in a lame fashion, IMO) restored?

 

[PhotoJones]

What about her lawsuit against Stark for removing her powers? Did she drop it just because her powers were (in a lame fashion, IMO) restored?

She basically dropped the suit in exchange for Stark's permament deactivation of the power-draining nanobots.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought her going through the Alpha/Beta portal deactivated the nanobots.

 

[PhotoJones]

Did it? Wikipedia says:

She amends her suit against Stark to demand the permanent deactivation of the nano-bots.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought I remembered a panel of her hopping through the portal and then coming back and transforming into She-Hulk because the trip had deactivated the nanobots, since her Alpha counterpart doesn't have nanobots. I don't know, I'm probably wrong.