Originally posted by abhilegend
Sorry to burst your bubble carter but it did happen and its one of Joe Casey's regrets.Captain Nate, a Hulk fan, asks: A Snake? A SNAKE?!?!?!
JOE CASEY: This one'll haunt me forever. This is going back a ways,
but I'll try and explain ... I had two things in mind when it came to that particular scene. I�m sure it won�t make a bit of difference to the fans, but since you asked � The first and most important thing was Bruce Banner's grief over the death of his wife. Even when he was Hulked out, I still wanted it to affect him. I wanted both Bruce and the Hulk to be sick with grief. If you've ever lost a loved one then you know that, sometimes, it's an effort to even breathe. The sadness can be *that* crippling. The secondary thing about the snake was ... well, I hate to lay blame, but my good friend, Ed McGuinness, just drew that damn snake too SMALL.
My vision of Princess Python's snake comes from the classic AVENGERS #60 (the wedding of Yellowjacket and the Wasp). In that issue, the great John Buscema drew the snake thicker than an oak tree trunk. It was massive. *That's* the snake that I thought could cut off a GRIEVING Hulk's air supply. Could that snake have taken out the Hulk if he was operating at 100%? No way. He would�ve ripped that thing apart like King Kong in the �76 remake. But that's not what the situation was. And, unfortunately, Ed drew the snake about as thick as a rope so, naturally, the readers screamed bloody murder. In hindsight, I don't blame them one bit. Unfortunately, my time machine is broken so I can't go back eight years and fix that particular snafu. Actually, if I *had* a working time machine, there's plenty of things I'd have to fix first before I got to anything comic book-related ...
It was a story told. We do not accept that. Sorry. Even Doc didnt believe it. Nice try. Also, lol at you listening to writers all of a sudden. You're a funny guy.