Before this starts popping up on assorted threads, I thought I’d address this via a separate entry. It was said by one poster:
PAD gets dissed in aintitcoolnews.com’s review of the Hulk movie. Harry Knowles who runs that site is an idiot.
Well, I leaped two miles over to AICN to see this “dissing.” Guys…all Harry Knowles said was that my work on the Hulk wasn’t his cuppa. He said that my work on the series defined the character for some, but it was never really his thing. I mean, unless there was something further down I missed, that was pretty much it.
To Harry Knowles, the pure rampaging Hulk was THE Hulk. Accept no substitute. He’s not the only person who feels that way, and that’s fine. Different strokes. And that’s not the way I ever tried to write the Hulk, so naturally my work wouldn’t appeal to him. He didn’t say “Peter David is an idiot” or “His work sucked” or “Anyone who liked his work is a schmuck.” He just said it wasn’t for him. Like the old days when Don Thompson would say, “For those of you who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you will like.” Fine. No harm, no foul.
I mean, there are people who didn’t like my work on the Hulk and, in writing about it, trashed everything about my career and my life, and considered it a normal way to mete out criticism. Knowles made a two sentence mention about the WORK, not about me personally, and moved on.
Nothing idiotic or disrespectful there.
PAD
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