Bold Fashion Choices--Hulk Shoot!!

No one at Marvel could resist the 1990s! NO ONE!!

Not even...

And when you remember how big the Hulk is, you have to realize how big his guns are!!

The bunny slippers are a nice touch, though...

Of course...

...who doesn't want to see the Hulk with huge guns and bandoliers?!?

Because EXTREME!!!!!!

The 90s. Never forget.

From Incredible Hulk #390 & 391 (1992)

Friday Night Fights--It Style!!

It's time to learn your Marvel history in this week's Friday Night Fights!

Most of you cats out there probably don't remember It, The Living Colossus.

Well, let me tell you, he was pretty boss.

He started in the Atlas days, as a 100 foot tall granite statue, carved by a Soviet dissident. And a visiting alien was somehow able to take over the statue and threaten the world!

 Good stuff.

After another horror mag appearance, the statue was shrunk down to 30 feet tall (by SCIENCE), and disabled Hollywood special effects man Bob O'Bryan was somehow able to use his consciousness to animate the big guy!

Meanwhile, evil scientist Dr. Vault kept sending giant monsters after O'Bryan, because he wanted it to house his own conscious, as his body was dying.

The series only lasted 4 issues, but man, what a 4 issues!! A kung fu battle with Fin Fang Foom?!?! Holy crap!!

Anyway, let's leap ahead 7 years, as the Hulk is rampaging in Hollywood, and a near-death Dr. Vault has seized control of It. The result? Inevitable fight...

It's only a flesh wound!

Well, that's enough to finish off Dr. V...

But...but...those gazillion particles of It...scattered through the air of Los Angeles...doubtlessly inhaled by thousand of Angelinos! What if Vault were still alive? And what if, thanks to their inhaling bits of It, he could now control all of those people?!? And he could make them form a giant flesh-creature, a colossus made up of other bodies, and...

Spacebooger notes that this is why snell isn't allowed to write comics.

Death of the greatest character ever is from Incredible Hulk #244 (1980), by Steven Grant, Carmine Infantino (!!), and Mike Esposito

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why?!? It, man. IT!! Now go vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Armor Wars Style!!

Sometimes the best Friday Night Fight is one that didn't actually happen...in Marvel-616, at least.

Yeah, the Watcher is breaking the rules by telling all of us about one of them there alternate reality thingamabobs.

Long story short? On this Earth, when Hulk quit the Avengers (in Avengers #2 (1963), natch), Thor also quit, because he thought Tony Stark was being a jerk--go figure. So Giant-Man and the Wasp quit, too, because without Thor and Hulk, they think "'the Mighty Avengers' is a joke!"

Ahh, but Namor and the Hulk still team-up to conquer the world, and still need to be stopped. So like a man with a hammer who sees every problem as a nail, Stark "fixes" things by making suits of armor for Rick Jones & Pym & Jan.

They're reluctant, so Tony super-charges his own armor and goes off to face the terrible twosome alone. He puts up a good fight, but ends up getting beat badly.

Fortunately, the others come to their senses, and come to help. But are they too late?

Take that, Hulk!!

Just as in "our" world, the Avengers manage to break up the alliance. But in this world, the cost is higher...

Awwwww...

Spacebooger wants the next Marvel Event to be Tony making armor for literally every hero.

Mark Waid's favorite Avengers story is from What If? #3 (1977), by Jim Shooter (writer, co-plot), Gil Kane (pencils, co-plot) and Klaus Jansen (inks)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Consider the cruel outcome in an alternate universe where you voted for someone else!! So go and vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Stranger Things 2 Style!!

Last week, we saw Ben Grimm defeat a bunch of magical beasties to rescue Doctor Strange.

This week's Friday Night Fights follows up with a much tougher job.

Dickweed sorcerer Xandu has taken control of the Hulk, and he's using old Jadejaws to keep the Thing busy while he takes on Doc.

And it goes a little something like...this:

Woohoo!!

Unfortunately, Xandu realizes his error, and he eases his grip on the Hulk, allowing Mr. Green Genes' anger to keep him pummeling Benjy.

It works...

Don't worry--Grimm hung on long enough to quash Xandu's wedding to a rock (don't ask).

Spacebooger would really, really REALLY like to see a Hulk/Thing fight in the movies...

Benjy gets beat down in Marvel Fanfare #21 (1985), script by Jim Starlin, pencils by Starlin and Al Milgrom, and inks by Milgrom

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? "Thing Duck" is worth a vote or twom I think. So go vote!!

The Magical Fruit!!

We established back in Incredible Hulk # 182 (1974) that the Hulk likes beans!

Well, let's hop ahead a year later, to Incredible Hulk #194 (1975), when once he again encounters hoboes in the woods as they're cooking dinner. Running out of ideas, Len Wein?

Anyway...

Of course, ol' Jadejaws rousts them pretty easily...

But nothing smells as good as...

Dude, you really need an agent. Think of the commercials we could set up.

These stories also suggest that perhaps Thunderbolt Ross was taking the wrong approach in stopping the Hulk. Beans are a lot cheaper than tanks and missiles...

And I have no doubt that this is the Hulk's favorite song...



It was the 60s, man.

Grey Hulk's Response To A Female Doctor Who...?

Grey Hulk has been poisoned!! He can't find a cure!! He smashes into a convention center in Phoenix, where Reed Richards is giving a speech, hoping that the genius can help him!

Also there--Ben Grimm, just a normal human at this point in time, and Sharon Ventura, a.k.a. Ms Marvel and/or She-Thing, who has been transformed into...well, a Thing. It was a very weird time in FF history...

Ah, but Banner was unaware of these changes, so he thinks...well:

Oh, Grey Hulk...

Ms. Marvel dissuades Hulk of his sexist notions...

Oh, Peter David...

Oh, there are more digs:

Hey, when you're right, you're right--that was a really stupid costume.

And when powerless Ben Grimm leaps into the fray:

Ouch. Get personal, why don't you?

From Incredible Hulk #365 (1990)