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15:34 / 29.12.01

Where's it available Cameron? My renewed interest in this character is getting uncontrollable. Like I have this big ugly monster inside me who wants to read the entire history of the Hulk.

Dear god I'm pathetic.

Anyway, seriously, where can I find that story?

Zoom.

15:44 / 29.12.01

Rubber blanket #3. And its not really the Hulk.

15:46 / 29.12.01

Colour me confused?

Comic or what?

Who published it? I'm still interested.

Zoom.

15:52 / 29.12.01

It's not actually a story published by Marvel - so technically it's not really a Hulk story. But it's clearly meant to be.

It's in Mazzuchelli's self-published comic "Rubber Blanket", and reprinted as a standalone album in several foreign languages.

Apologies for the poor scan - the book didn't quite fit in my scanner...

19:14 / 29.12.01

wait a minute -- yr mad that a Hulk comic doesn't have the Hulk in it but yr favorite Hulk comic isn't the Hulk?

19:27 / 29.12.01

It's a Hulk story in everything but name. It's about a big neanderthal-looking man-monster dressed in ragged trousers being chased by the military. Mazzuchelli has said it's a very obvious Hulk homage.

It's more a Hulk story than Hulk #34.

[ 29-12-2001: Message edited by: CameronStewart ]

20:33 / 29.12.01

>>>Like I have this big ugly monster inside me who wants to read the entire history of the Hulk.<<<

Er...have you tried the Essential Hulk reprints? Lee and Kirby, man, the originals...

12:24 / 30.12.01

I'd also be very interested in finding out the demographic that reads these titles. When I was the age that was supposed to be reading kids stuff, I was reading Sandman and Shade. Admittedly I had a brief affair with Iron Man, but I think that was 'cos I wanted to collect something like my big brother and it was the only thing available besides X-Men down the local newsagent.

14:49 / 30.12.01

Now that's something that interests me. Just before I gave up on comics, around 1988, I started reading Animal Man, and moved away from X-Men. Had I continued, I've no doubt I would have picked up Sandman and Shade and Doom Patrol, rather than doing it retroactively like I did 10 years later. Are kids comics, like the Adventures line, too kiddy? The ultimate line was meant to be aimed at a younger demographic, but the Bendis/Totleben (sp?) Ultimate Marvel Team-Up reminded me more of one of those previously mentioned titles. You constantly hear that kids are growing up faster these days, indeed, as a parent, I see evidence of it all the time. Are the comics aimed at kids not keeping up?

Zoom.

Matthew Fluxington

15:45 / 30.12.01

I can only speak for myself, but as a young teen, I gravitated towards Doom Patrol and Shade and occasionally read Sandman because they were weirder and more interesting, had cooler looking covers, were a bit more sexy but in a menacing sorta way, the writing was more clever, I related to the characters better, and the art was really appealing (I LOVE old Chris Bachalo art, Mark Buckingham, and Richard Case)

I was a very, very weird kid, so I don't think I'm a good example of anything.

20:22 / 30.12.01

It's funny, innit? We all assume that children will enjoy certain simple, primary coloured, unchallenging stories. My memories of my childhood are very different. From the Brothers Grimm to the Borribles, via Wonderland, Narnia and Never Never Land, the best children's books had nightmarish images, strong characters and muliple themes.

Kids are a slippery, unusual market. When I was a kid reading X-Men, it was the demon-ridden Fall of the Mutants, after which came the Reavers and a whole Brood storyline. Nasty villians, great characters, dense plotting, not anything like typical superheroics. I don't know which audience was Claremont's target at the time: I do know that the stories spoke to me at my age (I must have been eleven or twelve, I think).

I know that my childhood reading wasn't unique. I also know that it doesn't speak for the whole demographic. Is there anyone here who works in the comics industry (maybe a comics shop) who could carry out a bit of market research?

The Knowledge +1

17:09 / 03.01.02

from an article I just read:

Even before Jones brought his own introspective and relevant writing style to "Incredible Hulk," one of the major themes has been responsibility, for one's actions and one's emotions. Jones has shown Banner to use meditation to control his emotions and even using his transformation into the Hulk as an almost satisfying experience. "I can't tell all without giving away future story lines, but basically we saw this as an unexplored area rife with possibility," says Jones of his decision to focus so squarely on the sense of responsibility in Banner. "Is it just possible, for instance, that a guy who's been living with this terrible genie all these years finds he's become the prisoner in the bottle instead of the other way around? A result of that fear might be a tangible attempt to control, or at least in some ways bridge the gap between superego and id, Banner and Hulk, angel and demon. Assuming, of course, that it's Bruce who is the angel...but I'm giving too much away..."

Nice cover too:

16:56 / 16.05.03

Just read #54.

What the hell?

I think I picked this storyline up in the middle (Though I've read since issue thirty something)... what in god's name is going on?

I love it. I want to say that. But the revenant not-dead coleridge quoting weirdos, right? There's them. Then there's the two teams of agents tracking him and fighting each other, and, uh...

I think I'm lost.

Does anyone have a plot summary to offer?

21:18 / 16.05.03

I've been reading/skimming HULK on and off lately -- anyone else think the new issue ("54") has some bad dialogue in it? Just sort of awkward dialogue that seems to lose drama with even the punctuation?

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