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Incredible Hulk to end

To be quite honest my interest died when Peter David left the title way back when and nothing I've seen has done the least little bit to revive it.
 
I'm actually liking Jeff Parker's run on Red Hulk, although the new villains are starting to outshine "Rulk". I haven't been following Red Hulk in Avengers though.


I wonder-since IH seems to be heading in another nontraditional direction-if the AVENGERS movie will see a return to the status quo or even have Hulk join the Avengers on a regular basis. Marvel does have a tendency when their movies come out to do that sort of thing.
 
^ I think that is why Red Hulk is on the team. I would suspect that by the time "Avengers" comes out we could have a single whole Hulk again. It would be cool if just Banner joined the team.
 
Renumbering has never really bothered me. I mean if a good story is told at #1 or #600, it's still a good story and that's what mainly matters to me. But then again, continuity doesn't especially interest me, so I'm weird. I like the past stories, but their existence in canon (or lack there of) doesn't make me like or dislike the past or current stories anymore because if it's a good story, that trumps everything. And if I can't get over its place in continuity, then I'm worrying about the wrong thing and the story's failed.

I will say that 90% of creative decisions from comic book companies leave me scratching my head. But I must commend them for being creative. Some of these characters have been around for 50+ even 60+ years, it makes sense that they start to grow stale. So I do commend the editors for allowing Bruce Wayne and Steve Rogers to be killed for a while, for Planet Hulk to happen. Utopia, Schism, Final Crisis, everything going on in GL (minus the retread of Hal Jordan, because that is regressive). While I may not enjoy all the resulting stories or the core of the decisions, I commend them for trying. It would be super easy to continue to tell stories of Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Archangel, Iceman and Kitty in the mansion with a very friendly Professor X or for Bruce Wayne to constantly be suiting up and fighting average gangsters.

Anywho, that said with the Hulk, Jason Aaron is a fantastic writer. However, by my counts he'll have 4 books in November. Wolverine and the X-Men, Wolverine (solo), Hulk and his creator owned work Scalped. Unless he has one of those written far in advance, I'm worried that the work load will start to hurt his work.
 
Admiral_Young said:
@DarthPipes 'Cause Marvel apparently doesn't know what to do with the character now that Greg Pak will be concluding his run and I suspect that Jason Aaron's pitch was the most interesting and "different" to them. I'm kind of looking forward to it. Aaron's developed into a pretty good writer.
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Aaron's doing a great job with Schism.
 
^ Yep. That's pretty much why I am interested with this new Hulk run. I've really been on and off since Pak concluded World War Hulk and started writing Incredible Hercules which I was never into.
 
I picked up the final issue and thought it was a fitting ending to his run, I've not really followed the final Wish War arc so things were a little confusing (was waiting for the trade) but enjoyed it. Interesting what happens at the end and am looking forward to what Jason Aaron has planned.
 
^ Again? The last time was during Heroes Reborn if I recall, and that still feels recent enough. I hope they know what they're doing.

I have mixed feelings about the cover art. It doesn't convey the essential pathos of the character like Kirby's #1 cover does, and the head seems way too small. It's easy to get the Hulk wrong both in presentation and content, but I'll probably give it a go.
 
I have complete faith in Jason Aaron that he knows what he's doing and this story continues from Pak's arc and was set up in the final issue. Marc Silvestri is doing the art, not a big fan of his but I'll give a shot.
 
gonna take some time getting use to Aaron after Pak's run. still, i like Aaron's work and i like Silvestri's artwork. looking forward to it.
 
I'm so happy the book isn't called The Incredible Hulks any more, I'll give it a shot on that alone. :p
 
Yeah, but the Hulk Family is still around.

Skaar is apparentally joining the Dark Avengers, Betty/Red She-Hulk is joining the latest incarnation of the Defenders, not sure about Lyra, and Rick and Jen are part of a new monster group. Ross of course has his own book and is an Avenger now. Heard rumors that Betty is going to show up at some point in both the main Hulk titles at some point.
 
Wait Marvel is bringing back the
Dark Avengers
book?
Missed that news. Guess I'll google to see who else is involved.
 
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