UPDATE: Although I’m keeping this “Fallen Angel” artwork at the forum top for the next few days, new blog entries are right below! So just scroll past.

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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

Okay, now this line I KNOW was from Comedy Central. On last night’s “Daily Show” Jon Stewart, in reporting on the House voting for an amendment banning flag burning, quoted a pea-brained politician who showed so much disdain for the Constitution he’s supposed to be upholding that he actually said, “Some people like hiding behind the First Amendment.” To which Stewart riposted, “That’s because they keep being shot at by people hiding behind the Second Amendment.”

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The “Hulk” promo half hour debuted tonight on MTV at 10:30 PM EST (which I guess means that if anyone on the West coast is reading this, you can turn on the set in seven minutes and watch it.) Aside from interviews with Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Avi Arad, Axel Alonso, Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, and even (gasp) me, it also features a few more extended sequences of the Hulk in action, some of which I thought looked quite nifty. And hey, the show is worth it, for nothing else, for the naked Hulk aerobics sequence. Seriously.

Anyone who missed it can catch repeats at:

June 12 4:30pm

June 13 8:30 pm

June 14 1:30pm

June 15 4:30pm

PAD

The first issue of the new series that ties in with the animated version, but also seeks to strike a bit of a different course, hits the stands today. There’s a nice review of it on a website called www.comicsnsuch.com.

PAD

No, we don’t know how it got skipped, either. But here it is:

Artwork by Brian Stelfreeze, who bythe way did indeed do the cover for #5.

The government has announced that we can expect a terrorist attack from Osama bin Laden (whom the President swore to bring in “dead or alive” before we couldn’t find him) utilizing a weapon of mass destruction (the kind that Saddam Hussein had when we turned our attention from Afghanistan to bomb Iraq so we could find Saddam’s WMDs except several months later they’re nowhere to be found and Tony Blair is being raked over the coals for it) sometime within the next two years, which would take the current administration well beyond the next election year.

Now of course no one, absolutely NO ONE, would be unpatriotic enough to even consider the notion that a public kept fearing for their lives from terrorists would be even more reluctant to consider trivial matters like the economy and the environment come 2004 and want to stick with the administration which is protecting us all from evil terrorists plans (like 9/11 which happened during that same administration’s watch.) In fact I would be shocked–SHOCKED–to learn of such blatant and cynical manipulation on the part of the government.

PAD