Panel of the Week 1/20/10 – Hulk #19
January 22nd, 2010
I know, I know, I just did a post about a Hulk fighting the Fantastic Four. But now Fall of the Hulks is really (like, totally) getting into full swing and dammit Ed McGuinness is behind the wheel. I can’t say no to him. I would read a Gossip Girl comic if he drew it.
Well besides Rulk fighting The Thing over, get this, a misunderstanding what else happens this issue? I can tell you one thing that doesn’t happen. We don’t find out who the hell Rulk is or why he’s working with Banner. At this point I never want to know who he is. I want the Red Hulk’s identity to be the Marvel equivalent of Wilson from Home Improvement. Let’s get downright silly with it. Let’s show his real identity in silhouette. Let’s show it in off-panel reaction shots. Let’s show it in surveillance video obscured by static. You wanna screw with us Marvel? Well then REALLY screw with us. Why not let the Red Hulk change color at will? Make Red Hulk Bruce Banner’s twin brother! Make him the Void! Make him Bill Foster! Make him Steve Rogers! C’mon do it! Do it now!
Ok, I’m done.
Honorable Mentions
I don’t know why I’m buying the Mighty Avengers. It’s like an episode of the Benny Hill show. I feel like every fight scene should be played in fast forward with the accompanying trumpet riff in the background. The Sentry vs a giant sized Absorbing Man? Really?
I will admit I am enjoying Hercules being on the Mighty Avengers team. I will always support a fastball special no matter who is involved.
Joe is a loser and an outcast in his school and his life as a teenager in Joe the Barbarian #1. It’s a crying shame. One day he finds himself in a world populated by life sized versions of his action figures. Basically, the best thing that ever happened to anyone. If this happened to me as child I would have beaten the shit out of Pidge with his own green helmet and taken his spot as the left arm of Voltron. Screw gym class!
Finally, in Hulk #606 Marvel gives us a back up story to justify the $4 price tag. This story is an excuse to have She-Hulk and Red She Hulk (She-Rulk? Re-Hulk?) vogue at each other while just barely containing their perfectly spherical sweater kittens. How are there not more girls reading comics. I don’t get it.
I agree with you 100%, the world needs more Fastball Specials! (Does that sound homoerotic?) :{