Despite some great material involving the following ideas... I'd still get rid of them...

Skaar, Lyra, the whole "child abuse" element added to the Hulk's origin by Bill Mantlo, the whole "Bruce killed his father" element added to the Hulk's origin by Peter David. Remove those things and the character will be "fixed" as far as I'm concerned.

Bruce Banner, constantly on the run from the government, other superheroes, and villains, trying to rid himself of the savage Hulk that he turns into under moments of extreme stress. Despite the danger, he often finds himself uncontrollably drawn into helping people. Behind the scenes, Betty Ross, Leonard Samson, and Jennifer Walters work to help him as much as possible.

Basically, take the best of the comics and the TV series, keep it as simple as possible, and make it an ongoing horror/suspense book.

Monk's got it! Nothing further, your Honor.

Agreed. Put Monk on the title now.

And make the U-Foes kick-ass again.

I also wonder if there is a way to translate the "Russian terrorist" element into a more modern plot thread (and NOT skrulls).

Bruce Banner takes a job as the cruise director on a luxury ocean liner, believing that the placid calm of the deep sea can soothe the savage breast of the Hulk.

But he is wrong, dead wrong. Nobody on board can figure out who is the Hulk. Maybe a few people here and there get eaten. Maybe that's a little much.

After a while, Banner applies to work on a different cruise ship. Repeat.

And the Swedish bikini team are passengers on the boat.

Of course. The possibilities are endless.

And it's a gay cruise ship, and there is a YMCA on board.

....


Too soon?

I could not have said it better myself. (Well, given enough time to prepare...)

I agree wholeheartedly.

Stuff like that could be captured in a single story arc. Hulk and Banner turn out to have different views on gay marriage, and Hulk becomes a hero to the gays.

"Hulk know what it feels like to be called different. HULK NOT DIFFERENT!! HULK SMASH!"

The gays eventually turn on him because he has cankles. And though Bruce is a raging homophobe, he is super-thin and likes to wear purple.

Guest-starring Northstar!

Puny humans try to fix Hulk? Hulk fix puny humans but good!

PUNY HUMANS, LEAVE HULK ALONE!

Re-name him David Banner and have him go from town to town each issue, embarking on a new adventure each issue. When you open the last page, which always shows David leaving town, hitchhking, a computer chip should play that sad piano music they always played at the end of the TV show.

Cool! And a little spot that if you lick it tastes like Kool-Aid.

Its a cruise ship...Charo has to guest star every month!

That would work, yeah.

What is this a reference to?

I don't know. Does it sound familiar?

There might have been a Deep Thought by Jack Handey that had something like that. Those things are deeply embedded in my psyche.

I'll bet that's it. A friend of mine used to have something similar in her voicemail message, and she was a big fan of the Deep Thoughts.

I just did some Google-Fu, and there is a Deep Thought just like it ---



I had all three books and read them until they fell apart in the early 90's.

http://www.adelepham.com/deepthoughts/handy.htm