Official Rulk Thread

[Mr. Green]

It's a pretty well-proven fact that people tend to b**** more than they tend to praise. Which, really, is the way it ought to be. No one wants to stand around repeating how awesome something is day after day.

Yeah, there's just so much to talk about with Hulk. There are so many lingering questions and a bunch of things that don't even make sense.

I just can't bring myself to drop the title because Hulk is my favorite character and it's at least pretty fun to see all the random fight scenes and the art is really great...

That doesn't mean that I don't want a new, top-tier creative team to take over.

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

Why would Clay actually become a Hulk in the first place, though? Bruce becomes the Hulk because of his multiple personality disorder and inferiority complex, Jen becomes She-Hulk because of her repressed nature, and I could easily see Ross becoming the red Hulk out of frustration that's built up over all his years of losing to the Hulk. But Clay Quartermain seems like a pretty normal, well-adjusted dude.

Thats true but even Clay might be harboring years of hidden resentment and jealousy towards the "Superhero" types.

And there are all sorts of characters that seemed pretty normal that were effected by Gama Radiation in ways that mirror Banners.

 

[KangConquers]

It's a pretty well-proven fact that people tend to b**** more than they tend to praise. Which, really, is the way it ought to be. No one wants to stand around repeating how awesome something is day after day.

Is that why this thread has more posts than Captain America, despite Cap selling as about as much as Rulk?

 

[Spade]

Basically. When things are pleasing everyone, there's little to say that hasn't been said before. When you get titles like this one, it divides people and the debates keep the discussion going. Alternatively, some titles have low readership and garner hardly any posts in their threads, but that's another issue.

 

[Mr. Green]

Who do you guys think would be a good writer for Hulk. Of course Pak is an obvious choice, but besides him...

Not everyone really gets the character and even good writers have trouble doing well on the title. PAD has certainly made his mark on Hulk much in the same way that Ennis had made his mark on Punisher but likely wouldn't want to write the book again. Bruce Jones had an interesting direction for Hulk a few years back but most fans tend to be pretty anti-Jones run. The only other writer who has touched the Hulk recently besides Pak is Daniel Way and that was pretty awful.

So what writer, famous, up and coming, or otherwise would you like to see have a go at Hulk? Van Lente? Mark Millar? Bendis (seems to avoid using the Hulk like cancer)?

 

[Anubis]

I still say this whole Red Hulk Bulls**t is a dream or something. It just doesn't make any sense. Namor?!? Teaming up with Stark?!? After all that's happened?!? I mean, wtf are the editors getting paid for?

 

[Mr. Green]

Hahahahaahaha! Yeah, I forgot about that-- that makes no sense whatsoever.

Buy you're right. In certain cases the blame has to fall on the editors rather than the writers. The editors should KNOW how Mjolnir works and they should KNOW that Namor wouldn't be teaming up with Stark right now.

But it wouldn't hurt to have a writer that knew those things too...

 

[Obi-Ron]

It also takes 3 days for a rocket to travel from the moon to the earth. That's a long time to hold one's breath.

Just sayin'.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, if they got there under Mjolnir's power, that's not really a problem. Mjolnir's taken Thor all over the universe much faster than any rocket could travel.

 

[Anubis]

Which was kinda stupid. All he did was throw the damn thing and held on for dear life.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Supposedly, he'd mastered some way of controlling it with fine-tuned precision, and he was so strong that he could throw it hard enough to travel super-fast. I personally maintain that Mjolnir was just capable of negating gravity, myself. It's slightly less stupid, and it fits with Mjolnir's ability to pretty much break all sorts of other physics.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, whatever helps ya sleep at night.

 

[Obi-Ron]

From the earth to the moon Rulk used the hammer, but for the return trip he just jumped.

 

[Anubis]

Best not to think about it too hard.

 

[WolfCypher]

From the earth to the moon Rulk used the hammer, but for the return trip he just jumped.

Not that I want to defend this series or anything, consider that there is no gravity on the moon. So I guess Loeb stretched that into an excuse to have...well, Rulk jump back to Earth.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

There is indeed gravity on the moon. It's 1/6th that of Earth, I think (I could be wrong on the exact number, but I don't feel like checking Wikipedia). Either way, presuming Rulk could muster enough power behind his jump to break free of the moon's gravity field, he could conceivably just float through space until Earth's gravity grabs him and pulls him back down. Remember, once you're moving in a direction in space, air resistance is so tiny that you'll continue in that direction for practically forever, so all he'd have to do is aim himself at Earth and break free of the moon's gravity. The vacuum of space and the gravity of Earth would take care of the rest.

 

[wobbly]

There is indeed gravity on the moon. It's 1/6th that of Earth, I think (I could be wrong on the exact number, but I don't feel like checking Wikipedia). Either way, presuming Rulk could muster enough power behind his jump to break free of the moon's gravity field, he could conceivably just float through space until Earth's gravity grabs him and pulls him back down. Remember, once you're moving in a direction in space, air resistance is so tiny that you'll continue in that direction for practically forever, so all he'd have to do is aim himself at Earth and break free of the moon's gravity. The vacuum of space and the gravity of Earth would take care of the rest.

In theory this could work but then there's the not so little problem of calculating the trajectory so that the Earth is in your path when you float through it's orbit: ie: If Rulk just jumped right at the Earth as he saw it from the moon, by the time he got there (around 3 days at least) the Earth would be long gone.

It's like Anubis said... Best not to think about it too hard. Loeb certainly didn't...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, if you can buy the conceit that Thor could throw Mjolnir hard enough to have it take him from galaxy to galaxy before even he dies of old age, it shouldn't be too hard to accept that Rulk could muster enough leg-power to get himself to Earth quickly enough that he wouldn't need to calculate too much.

 

[wobbly]

Well, if you can buy the conceit that Thor could throw Mjolnir hard enough to have it take him from galaxy to galaxy before even he dies of old age, it shouldn't be too hard to accept that Rulk could muster enough leg-power to get himself to Earth quickly enough that he wouldn't need to calculate too much.

Well...Thor is not quite the same as I think it's implied his hammer uses magic to help him get around so quickly. With non magical characters the writers will usually reference a warp drive (or something equivalent) to get them over long distances fast.

But don't get me wrong here, I don't have a big issue with the feat (I've seen and happily accepted more outlandish stuff from comic books), but it doesn't stand up to any kind of real world physics in the slightest*, and it was your mentioning them that prompted my response.

*For instance, even if Rulk could muster up enough power to push him off the moons surface at 10,000 mph it would still take him about a day to get here. Earth travels through space at around 60,000 mph....He aint gonna make it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, I don't even know why I tried to justify it. It was a dumb feat in a dumb book.

 

[Mr. Green]

Best not to think about it too hard.

Damn, Anubis. You've been cracking me up on this thread. I laugh my ass off every time you say it's just a dream.

 

[Mr. Green]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080824-HulkFamily.html

Here's a cool interview with some of the Hulk editors and writers and it talks about the Hulk family and a big Hulk Family one-shot they're doing pretty soon as well as a Skaar: Son of Hulk Presents one-shot.

AND HULK HAS A DAUGHTER! Holy crap, I can't believe it... And it's with Thundra! And now they're saying that Scorpion might be related to Banner somehow too (we did see Banner nail her mom in the HoM tie-in if I remember correctly).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Huh. So they're just, like, manufacturing a family for the Hulk from existing characters?

 

[Obi-Ron]

Wow, and I thought Superman was a deadbeat dad.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Only in the movies.