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Well, I just like characters rooted in psychology, for starters. Not just psychologically troubled, but a subject of psychology itself. But the Hulk has several layers that interest me. The Hulk you know is imo interesting, because, despite his low level intellect, he has the mind and cunning of a spirited child. He's a bit sad and a bit lonely, but also selfish and sort of unlikable as a person if you don't know him. I also like how he blames everyone else for his own misery, even if it's sometimes justified.
Then there is the fact that the Hulk mentioned above is merely an amplified, distorted character trait of a larger core personality. A personality who has a certain mental disorders (I'm a psychology student) that I find fascinating: DPD or even MPS. Or perhaps a form of autism.
There's also the fact that this particular illness (whatever it is) reflects an extremely complex mind that manifests several (possibly even endless) "mutations" of itself. Some of these were even developed into fully rounded characters with their own emotional growth. And this is still only the Hulk-out aspect of it. There are so many areas to explore.
And let's not forget about the physiological/biochemical aspects. The concepts of fight or flight, adrenaline, strength, muscles etc. are nice to write a fictional super powered character around, because they make for both good physical action feats that look cool AND a personal touch that ties these powers to the essence of his or her being. That's always cool, no matter what type of character you like.
You mentioned "Hulk smash", which, by itself, is understandably interpreted as shallow and stupid. And really, the way the character has been written in the past (as a buffoon who does nothing but smash stuff) by some writers is just plain embarrassing. I can understand why a lot of people don't like Hulk, since he's not an easy character to do right. Plus, most people base their opinion solely on what they have seen from the most well known incarnation. You know, the guy you quoted. Oh well.
Anyway, there's much more, but I don't really feel like explaining it now.
Last edited by Dinalfos on May 24th, 2007 at 09:11 PM
I don't get the Ultimate Marvel love. Outside of Spider-Man which is vastly superior to Amazing, it's rather run of the mill and it's flagship title can't be bothered to ship more than twice a year.
When Ultimates did come out, it was totally worth the wait. It's worst issue was still a really good read and it's best was probably one of the most enjoyable comics I've ever read
Well even though Ultimates only ships sporadically look how much everyone goes bananas over it. Personally I only read Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimates though. Ultimate FF is rather run of the mill imo and Ultimate X-Men sucks (also imo).
And as far as the companies go both of them are great (I only used to read Marvel until about a few years ago), but even now Marvel just makes more books that I want to read. My current comics list (not including minis like Annihilation, WWH etc)
MARVEL
Ant-Man
Avengers Initative (almost dropped this after the first ish. Glad I didn't)
Captain America
Daredevil
Iron Fist
Heroes For Hire
Mighty Avengers
Moon Knight
New Avengers (loving this)
New Warriors
Spider-Man (all titles)
The Order
Thunderbolts
DC
Atom
Countdown
Green Arrow Year One
Justice League of America
Justice Society of America
Outsiders
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