Hulk News You Need - 9/16/15

HULK JUST CALLED TO SAY...

Carl Sandberg's That New Carl Smell comic strip featured a Hulk confounded by romance and grammar. Check it out.

PRINCESS HULK

A reddit user recently proved he's at least 50% bad-ass Dad when he made his twin daughters a Hulk Princess birthday cake. Here's hoping the matching Prince cake was Thor.

FUN HULK PANELS IN THE PIPELINE

Yesterday in his column The Pipeline, Augie De Blieck, Jr. posted some random fun panels from his comic collection, including the above panel from Black Panther #15 and a few others featuring Hulk, She-Hulk, and some other characters (as if they mattered). 

My Response to Answers.Com: 10 Things That You Can't Say Were Great About the Star Wars Prequels, Even When You're Reaching Like Mad

I made the mistake of clicking on a link on Facebook because the title immediately pissed me off. It was "10 Things That Were Great About the Star Wars Prequels."

Before clicking on the link, I could think of one great thing about the Star Wars prequels: eventually, they ended. So even though I knew I would regret it, I followed the link and it was one of these sites that's hardly even a site. Just a collection of advertisements covering every inch with a slideshow-style article. So, I really don't even have much confidence that the "writer" who "wrote" this gave a good crap about any of it, yet the argument is so just plain undeniably wrong to me that I have to write a response, right now. Even though I got up early to get more overtime, I don't care. I need to respond to this right now. Because it's wrong. And I have to respond to its wrongness point-by-empty-point.

10. Darth Maul.

The great, red mute of the The Phantom Menace is the first "great" thing the article lists, and I suppose I would agree if I suffered from some kind of chronic memory loss. Yes, Maul certainly seemed like he would be one of the great things about the Prequels back before we all actually saw the movie. In the trailers and the TV spots, his make-up was bad-ass and that double-lightsaber looked even badder-asser, and the shots from the three-way duel between Maul, Obi-wan, and Qui-Gon looked freaking awesome.

And then he said, like, one thing the entire movie. And he died right away.

Not so great.

9. The Scale

The article calls the environments of the first films "restrictive sets," And in comparison calls the settings of the Prequels "large and immersive."

I could disagree more, but only if I obtusely decided to just disagree with basic things like the writer's use of vowels and whether or not you call sets "sets" or "breadsticks." Just to be a dick.

One of the first teasers for Revenge of the Sith featured shots from all the films - prequel and originals alike - and upon first seeing that teaser, it really struck me what bothered me about these "large and immersive" settings Lucas' CGI was creating in the prequels. 

There was a shot from A New Hope of Luke looking at the two suns of Tatooine. Not long after, there was a shot of Annakin from Attack of the Clones either right before or right after slaughtering the village of Sand People, racing over the sands of Tattooine with the two suns off in the distance.

It occurred to me then that, yes, the CGI of the Prequels was slicker, prettier, and certainly created the large scale the writer of the answer.com's article refers to.

But the shot from A New Hope looked like a guy looking at two suns. Which is what it was supposed to be. And the shot from Attack of the Clones looked like an asshole in a cartoon or a video game. It may have looked pretty, but it didn't look real. It didn't make me believe in it.

8. Qui Gon Jinn

The article rightly points out that Qui Gon Jinn was one of the best parts of the prequels. I would add that he was one of the most complex jedi characters in the films, one who actually struggled with the dogma of the system he was a part of, rather than the slogan machines characters like Yoda and the older Kenobi were. 

Which is why, of course, Lucas killed him right away.

Spoilers.

7. Kenobi's Mount, the Varactyl

The article lists the lizard Kenobi rode in Revenge of the Sith as one of the great things about the prequels.

Really? Didn't it die after, like, five minutes? Who cares? 

6. Jar Jar Binks is silent in Episode III

I don't really see how this counts as a great thing about the prequels. Minimizing something that was awful in previous films doesn't make it great. It makes it barely tolerable. 

5. The High Ground

This references the moment which made no sense in Revenge of the Sith, in which Kenobi defeated Annakin because he was, like, a few inches above him.

4. Ewan MacGregor's Lightsaber noises

The article points out that, apparently, during filming MacGregor made his own lightsaber noises during fight scenes.

Yeahthat'scuteidontgiveashit

3. Count Dooku

They actually counted this as one of the great things about the prequels. Count Dooku. The Sith whose name sounds something a toddler calls shit.

2. Saber Duels

Granted, the fight between Qui Gon, Obi-wan, and Maul in The Phantom Menace was awesome. It made the fight between Obi-wan and Vader in A New Hope look like one of the lawn rake fights between Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon in those Grumpy Old Men movies.

But it was the only saber duel in the prequels I was particularly impressed with. In particular, the final battle between Annakin and Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith was, I thought, disappointingly uninspired and unsurprising.

I'd also say that while that Phantom Menace duel was great, my favorite remains the Luke/Vader fight in Empire Strikes Back. The Phantom Menace fight is great precisely because it is so slick and carefully choreographed, whereas the duel in Empire seems much more desperate and heated and that much more engaging.

1. Darth Sidious

I will grant you that Ian McDiarmid was brilliant in his role. Though the character was not written with any kind of subtlety and it remains a mystery to me how anyone could be fooled by his "manipulations." And his "No! NO!" moment in Revenge of the Sith right before he snuffs Mace Windu was so horribly done that it was one of the two moments in the theater that the entire audience laughed out loud (the other being Vader's final, unconvincing "Nooooooo" at the end of the film).

Okay, now I have to go to work. I lost OT to slap around an article saying nice things about movies. And yet I feel it was justified.

Hulk News You Need - 9/10/15

NEW HELLCAT SERIES COMING IN DECEMBER

Hulk's fellow Defender Hellcat will be getting a new ongoing monthly series starting in December. Hellcat! will be written by Kate Leth with art by Brittney Williams. Series editor Will Moss described it as "a superhero version of Trainwreck or Broad City." 

By the way, the above image is from Defenders #7 (the Busiek/Larsen volume) and has nothing at all to do with the new series. But it has Hulk and Hellcat in it, so...yes.

The Pile, an addendum

I've made a couple of changes to my original post about The Pile, and in the spirit of openness and honesty and fair play and safe driving and some other important, good things, I thought I would point them out. 

First, I added Astro Boy, Vol. 8 by Osamu Tezuka to the list of graphic novels. I didn't list it originally because I just plain forgot I hadn't read it. I suspect this won't be the last time something gets retroactively thrown on top of The Pile. 

Second, I added an exception to the list of rules governing The Pile. It reads as follows:

"8 - A special exception will be made for the Avengers: Age of Ultron blu-ray which is necessary for an extremely important event of global consequence: The Fourth Annual Martin Marvel Movie Marathon."

One might argue that it would be more than possible to ask one of the event's attendees to bring Avengers: Age of Ultron with them so that I wouldn't have to purchase it. One might also argue that your face is stupid and you smell.

The Pile: A Project

Believe it or not, this fire hazard is more than just a childish dare against gravity or a really bad attempt at organization. This is, no BS, an attempt to make my life a little bit better.

Don't worry, I'm not selling anything.

I had a discussion a few days ago with a good friend about how to make my financial life less moronic. I won't go into all the gory details, but I do tend to overspend.

For example, most of the contributors (including Yours Truly) to Trouble With Comics are part of a private Facebook group. Ever since I announced I was working on It Takes A Villain - my column about comics in which super-villains are the protagonists - I've been buying super-villain graphic novels like there would be a freaking cut-off. Like the government had decreed no super-villain graphic novels could be bought after the beginning of September. And every time I've bought one, or two, or five, I've taken a picture of it/them and posted it to our private Facebook page. Because of this, my fellow TWC contributors have seen me post pictures of - let me go over to FB to check real quick - FOURTEEN graphic novels. Probably between $15 and $20 a piece, at least (though two of those were bought with a gift card). That's between August 31st and today (September 9th). And I don't make a lot of money, guys. That wasn't smart.

Now I don't usually go on that kind of spree. I don't shop like that habitually. But I think maybe my genuine excitement over It Takes A Villain nudged me in that direction, not to mention my work on other compulsive behaviors may have made it more tempting to indulge in an as-of-yet virgin compulsive behavior in order to make up for the lack of unhealthiness in other areas of my life.

So I mentioned to this friend of mine that I was spending all this money on books even though I already had so many unread books, so many unwatched movies, so many unplayed video games. And in fact, I pay for subscriptions to Marvel Unlimited and Netflix. I have a healthy cache of Kindle books and. oh yeah, an effing library card.

We made some good plans to get my money stuff in order. While we talked, I had an idea. I told her I would take all the prose books I hadn't read, all graphic novels I hadn't read, all the movies and TV shows on DVD I hadn't watched, and all the video games I hadn't played; and I'd put them all in one big-ass pile in my office. I'd take a picture of the pile and keep it on my phone. Every time I thought of buying something online (which is too easy, man, just too, freaking, easy), I would look at that picture, and see all the stuff I've had for years - for Yuh-HEARS - that I still haven't bothered to crack open.

But now I'm going to take it one step further. I'm going to make the reading and the reviewing of all these books, movies, TV shows, video games, and comics prerequisites for buying any more media. Win-win-win-win, right? Helps me read, helps me distract myself from life, gives me material to write about, and saves money.

Now, originally my idea was that I would have to read, watch, play all of it before I could buy anything else. But, you know, that doesn't seem realistic to me. It seems like setting myself up for failure. So we're going to make it more reasonable.

Below are the lists of all the prose books, graphic novels, DVDs, and video games that are a part of this project. I've split the non-comic books into fiction, nonfiction, and poetry/drama. I've counted the number of books in each category. I'll only let myself buy new media for that particular category if A) I can afford it and B) I've read/watched/played a certain percentage in that category; the percentage is determined by just how much crap I have in that category.

The rules:

1- I have to read 10% of my total beginning Fiction Prose count (87) before I can buy another novel, novella, or short story collection.

2 - I have to read 25% of my total beginning Nonfiction prose count (29) and my total beginning Graphic Novel count (25) in order to buy something for either of those categories.

3 - For Poetry/Drama, Video Games, and DVDs; I have to read, play, or watch the entire respective category before buying any more for any of the specific category's media.

4 - The total from my percentage always rounds up. So, for example, my total beginning count for Fiction Prose is 87, I have to read 10% of that count before I can buy a new book. That means I have to read 9 books before purchasing a new one.

4 - I can't save and then double-up. For example, let's say I read 9 fiction prose books and I choose to not buy a new fiction prose book yet. Then I read 9 more. I can't then buy two new books. My window for the first new book closed. I can only buy one.

5 - Any new media I buy is added to the total beginning count for its specific category. For example, let's say in the course of The Pile I buy 4 new Fiction Prose books. Those 4 books get added to the beginning count, 87, and is now 91. Now I have to read 10 books before buying a new one instead of 9.

6 - Nothing counts until it's reviewed.

7 - Nothing from my It Takes A Villain project is counted at all towards The Pile.

8 - A special exception will be made for the Avengers: Age of Ultron blu-ray which is necessary for an extremely important event of global consequence: The Fourth Annual Martin Marvel Movie Marathon.

If you're curious at all, here's The Pile, along with a little commentary here and there.

For some reason I sorted all of it alphabetically by title. It made sense to me at the time.


FICTION PROSE

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger by Norma Howe
The Afterlife by John Updike
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (I don't care what the title is; I've read this guy, some people are going to die horrible)
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (probably from the point of view of a character from All the Pretty Horses)
Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov  (isn't that an awesome title?)
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 Edited by Dave Eggers
Best American Short Stories 1989 Edited by Margaret Atwood
Best American Short Stories 1990 Edited by Richard Ford
Best American Short Stories 1996 Edited by John Edgar Wideman
Best American Short Stories 2008 Edited by Salman Rushdie
Best American Short Stories 2009 Edited by Alice Sebold
Best European Fiction 2010 Edited by Aleksandar Hemon
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian (found this in an Ocean State Job Lot and the first few sentences didn't suck)
Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kitredge
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Ex Heroes by Peter Clines
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman
Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Flying Home by Ralph Ellison
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Gay, Black, Crippled, Fat by Adarro Minton (I know this guy)
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
Hart's Grove by Dennis McFadden (I know him, too)
Hero by Perry Moore
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Imaginalis by J.M. DeMatteis (autographed! I got to tell him about how Kraven's Last Hunt traumatized me)
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Ironweed by William Kennedy
Jack of Eagles by James Blish
Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
Legs by William Kennedy
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Man in the Blizzard by Bart Schneider
The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein (every time I read this title, I imagine David Bowie or Kurt Cobain stumbling on the line in the song)
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory
The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
Northline by Willy Vlautin (this guys is awesome: READ HIS BOOKS)
The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke
A Plague of Demons and Other Stories by Keith Laumer
Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker (I can't imagine Chandler chose this title, how could you put the word "poodle" in a Phillip Marlowe title?)
The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan
Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe Edited by Byron Preiss
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Hsun (I have no clue who this guy is)
Sir Apropos of Nothing, Book Three: Tong Lashing by Peter David
Slan by A.E. van Vogt
Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
Soldier's Pay by William Faulkner
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sum of Her Parts by Susan Wheeler Capozza (I know her!)
Superheroes Edited by John Varley
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future Edited by Gardner Dozois
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
The Teachings of Don B. by Donald Barthelme
A Thief of Time  by Tony Hillerman
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Those Who Walk in Darkness by John Ridley
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
The Unteleported Man by Philip K. Dick
Valis by Philip K. Dick
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
The Weapons Shop of Isher by A.E. van Vogt
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Wild Cards, Vol. 2: Aces High Edited by George R.R Martin
The World According to Garp by John Irving

Unread: 87


NONFICTION PROSE

500 Essential Graphic Novels by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. (I know this guy)
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Inaction by Jon Stewart, et al. (is humor nonfiction? I'm considering it nonfiction)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (I started reading this a while back and found it full-of-shit-ish, I guess I'll give it another chance)
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
Erotic Comics by Tim Pilcher with Gene Kannenberg, Jr. (I still know this guy, the second guy)
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
The Forgiveness Habit by Jo Ann Rotermund (I know her, her daughter is my best friend in the multiverse)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
How to Read Superhero Comics and Why by Geoff Klock
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Impetuous Sleeper by Donald Morrill (I know this guy, he taught me stuff)
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews by Donald Barthelme, Edited by Kim Herzinger
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill
The Second World War: Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill
The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill
The Second World War: Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
She Comes First by Ian Kerner, Ph.D. (an ex who liked receiving and not giving so much asked me to buy this years ago)
Six and Eleven: A Television News Anchor's Story by Ed Dague
Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

Unread: 29


POETRY/DRAMA

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Gilgamesh translated by John Gardner and John Maier
Inferno by Dante
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Unread: 6


GRAPHIC NOVELS

Astro Boy, Vol. 8 by Osamu Tezuka
Astro City: Through Open Doors by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson, et al.
Batman: The Dailies 1943-1946 by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, et al.
Black Panther by Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Christopher Priest and Mark Texeria, et al.
The Divine by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka, et al.
Essential Warlock, Vol. 1 by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, et al.
Fred the Clown by Roger Langridge
Hawkeye, Vol. 4: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction and David Aja, et al.
Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever by Tom Neely, et al.
Hulk: World War Hulk - X-Men by Cristos Gage and Andrea Divito, et al.
Incredible Hulk Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, et al.
Incredible Hulk: Crossroads by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema, et al.
Iron Fist Epic Collection: The Fury of Iron Fist by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, et al.
Kenk by Richard Poplak
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Vol. 1-4 by Hayao Miyazaki
New Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 1-3 by Kazuo Koike and Hideki Mori
Path of the Assassin, Vol. 3: Comparison of a Man by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, et al.
Preacher: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, et al.
Preacher: Ancient History by Garth Ennis and Steve Pugh, et al.
Preacher: Dixie Fried by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, et al.
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Rising Stars, Vol. 3: Fire and Ash
Sasquatch Edited by Josh Howard and Jim Resnowski
Swan, Vol. 1 by Ariyoshi Kyoko
The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff
Young Gods & Friends by Barry Windsor-Smith

Unread: 26


VIDEO GAMES

Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, Part 2
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Unplayed: 4


DVDS

All-Star Superman
The Fighter
Flight of the Conchords, Season Two
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pan's Labyrinth
Samurai Reincarnation
Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels
The Warrior
The Yes Men
Thundercats, Season One, Volume One

Unwatched: 10

Hulk News You Need - 9/9/15

TWC'S CHRISTOPHER ALLEN GOES BACK IN TIME TO COVER THE BIRTH OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK (AND OTHER CHARACTERS, BUT THEIR NAMES AREN'T IN THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG)

As part of the revival of the group blog Trouble With Comics, Christopher Allen has been firing up his Marvel Unlimited app to re-explore the birth of Marvel's super-hero Silver Age in chronological order in a column called Journey Into Marvelry, starting with Fantastic Four #1.

More recently, Allen covered the premiere of your favorite green-sometimes-gray goliath and mine in Incredible Hulk #1; and he invited Yours Truly to tag along. 

Today's entry covers the epic battle of silliness between the Hulk and the humorously forgettable Toad Men in Incredible Hulk #2. 

Check it out, and keeping checking back for more team-ups between me and Chris for subsequent early Hulk appearances.

GENE KANNENBERG, JR. OF COMICS MACHINE REACHES 250 COMICS IN HIS QUEST TO DRAW AND POST AN ABSTRACT COMIC EVERY DAY IN 2015

NMH friend Gene Kannenberg, Jr. - author of 500 Essential Graphic Novels and director of ComicsResearch.org - has been drawing and posting a different "abstract-ish" comic every day for the past 250 days at his tumblr Comics Machine, and he plans to do one every day this year. 

Hulk News You Need - 9/4/15

MARVEL REVEALS THAT AMADEUS CHO WILL BE THE NEW HULK, WHICH WE ALL TOTALLY KNEW ALREADY, THANKS

Surprising exactly zero people, Marvel told Entertainment Weekly today that the new Hulk - star of the title Totally Awesome Hulk - will be Amadeus Cho.

There were only a few, tiny, subtle hints that this was the case. Cho is the creation of Totally Awesome Hulk writer Greg Pak; he was a prominent character in Pak's Incredible Hulk, Incredible Hercules, and Amazing Fantasy; he guest starred in Savage Wolverine (written and drawn by Totally Awesome Hulk artist Frank Cho) alongside the Hulk; he's a teenager; and he's of Asian descent while Marvel hinted the new Hulk would stir the same kind of controversy as the female Thor and the African American Captain America.

I find it interesting that I find this interesting. I'm not peeved at this; I guess mainly because I know eventually Bruce will be back in the saddle again. I think I would be more worried if this were a different writer. I think Pak has earned some faith from us Hulk-nuts and I'm willing to give it a chance.

KICK-ASS UNCLE TRANSFORMS NEPHEW INTO HULK FOR CONVENTION

New Hampshire optician Eric Levine made his nephew Elijah's wheelchair into a Hulk costume for last month's TerrifiCon in Ucasville, Connecticut. He wanted his nephew's costume to have "butt-kicking action," so using foam, PVC tubing, and LED lights; Levine constructed a costume that included two Hulk legs 11-year-old Elijah could move with levers and the words "HULK" and "SMASH" lit up on each leg. 

Levine plans to donate the costume to another local child who uses a wheelchair. He hopes to design the costume that was originally planned for this year's con for next year: an AT-AT walker.

MARVEL DOESN'T WANT YOU LAUGHING AT THE GAG REEL WHEN YOU GET THE BLU-RAY, SO THEY RELEASED IT ALREADY

To promote the October 2nd DVD/Blu-ray release of Avengers: Age of Ultron (don't worry, mine's already pre-ordered), Marvel Studios released a two-minute gag reel which - if past Marvel gag reel previews are any indication - is the entire gag reel, thereby leaving you nothing to laugh at once you buy the thing they want you to buy. The bloopers include Bruce Banner having trouble with hammers and long words.

Hulk News You Need - 9/3/15

Is this going to be a regular thing I do? I don't know. Maybe. I make no commitments. Don't pressure me.

THE HULK WILL NOT KILL EVERYONE IN CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, ACCORDING TO ITALIAN WEBSITE

In an interview with the Italian site BadTaste.it, Mark Ruffalo says the Hulk was in the script for Captain America: Civil War, but that the green goliath was cut from the story. 

Ruffalo says the reasons were related to the Powers That Be at Marvel Studios not wanting it to be revealed just yet where the Hulk went at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. 

THE LATE HERB TRIMPE TO BE HONORED WITH IDW'S HERB TRIMPE: THE INCREDIBLE HULK ARTIST'S EDITION

13thDimension has an exclusive first look at an artist's edition of the late, great Herb Trimpe's work on Incredible Hulk. The post includes scans of a dozen pages from the book. There's no word on when the book will be published beyond, "later this year."

Thanks to Gene Kannenberg, Jr. for the heads up!

MARVEL REVEALS MORE PICTURES IN ORDER TO PRETEND NEW HULK ISN'T AMADEUS CHO

In order to detract from the fact that the star of the new Marvel title Totally Awesome Hulk will pretty much definitely be Amadeus Cho, Marvel has released new teaser cover art to pretend it could be Thor, or Iron Fist, or some guy with hair. But it's Amadeus Cho, guys. I mean, it's pretty much a done deal.