A Hulk special edition, featuring–among other things–a Champions story and a long-clamored-for reprint of “Hulk: The End,” and the first of a “Fallen Angel” two parter featuring her first experiences after having fallen to earth. Whad’ja think?
PAD
A Hulk special edition, featuring–among other things–a Champions story and a long-clamored-for reprint of “Hulk: The End,” and the first of a “Fallen Angel” two parter featuring her first experiences after having fallen to earth. Whad’ja think?
PAD
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Wow, and here I thought that *I* could be a humorless, anal-retentive bastich when it comes to comic books. Looks like this is the place to come for lessons!
Btw, during the course of my studies I was told by more than one language professor that the “ASSUME” lesson is regularly used by those teaching English, as it is such a tricky, idiomatic language which can lead one down many a wrong path if one assumes too much or incorrectly…
Now, does anyone really think that they must truly NEVER assume anything if they find that lesson useful? All it does is make a point: Think about your assumptions and if there is little or no reason for them, perhaps you may end up looking like an ášš due to those assumptions. However, if the assumption is reasonable and supported, then it may be logically valid, regardless of whether or not it’s correct/true. What’s easier to remember – what I typed above or “ÃSS out of U and ME”?? 😉
I sometimes wish that comic fans wouldn’t look at continuity the same way some people look at history.
On the other hand, maybe I should change that to say that I wish people would look at history the way comic fans looked at continuity.
Comic characters have the blessing of being fictional. They can be revisioned, reprinted, updated, retconned, killed, resurrected, reborn, cloned, time and mind-wiped, and Continuity Waved into and out of existence. All without changing the books in your collection. I think 10 years is being a bit conservative, but I know I’d have a hard time keeping 120 issues worth of stories straight down to every last little detail.
Well, it depends on the situation. To some degree, the fact that any character can be “Continuity Waved into and out of existence” hurts the stories. At this point, nobody paid any significant attention to the deaths of Donna Troy or Hawkeye. They were dead! That’s supposed to be significant! However, the fact that so many people have come back from the dead makes their deaths just another plot device.
Today, people will have a stronger reaction to Spidey changing his costume than they would to Aunt May dying for a third time. Mary Jane has been dead at least once also, so that would cause a little more fan reaction, but few would believe it was permanent.
PAD saying that he’ll ignore one line written 25 years ago? I see very little downside to that. But the larger the change, the more it makes people believe that what they’re reading now is only a temporary version of the story. Sometimes it’s necessary, and sometimes it causes more problems than it was worth.
*Finally* read FA–loved it! I do prefer this art style over the previous.
I enjoyed Giant-Sized Hulk *THough I feel a bit like him when I say that sentence out loud.*. What has gotten me annoyed beyond the point of simple distraction is the fact that half my weekly stash has mangled pages of varying degrees and a few have spines that look like Bane got to them. I dunno if it is the new distribution center in Tennessee, the printing process or both, but I am beginning to seriously consider moving to trade paperbacks due to the mess that a good portion of my $2.99 to $4.99 comics show up in.
Fred
Just read the Giant sized Hulk and loved it.
Loved seeing the Champions once more.
I was very surprise to see “Hulk the end” drawn by Dale Keown…. somehow I had no clue ahead of time that he was the penciller for that.
Loved it.
Great job to everyone working on that book.
I had a surprisingly large pile of comics, and was saving Fallen Angel for one of the last; now that I’ve finally read it, I can join in here and say that both it and Giant-Sized Hulk #1 were very good.
The Hulk story was both amusing and surprising; I couldn’t figure out what it was the Hulk was trying to do. (And then, when he got to the hospital, for some reason my first thought was that he was trying get a woman in labor there.) Nice story for both the Hulk and the Champions – and a nice bit there with “Skirt Man” 😉
And “The End” is, of course, an amazing, devestating story. I may not read this particular copy of it again, since I was fortunate enough to have a brother who grabbed me a copy of the original printing; but re-reading it here was a nice reminder of the power of this piece.
Fallen Angel was another strong issue. The compassion which Lee shows for Ayr, the consideration for her feelings – just days after Lee had fallen, and after all she had been through – it really speaks to the goodness of Lee’s character, despite all her cynicism and darkness. And an intruiging origin for Lee’s Fallen Angel outfit.
Thank you for the quality reading, PAD.