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Steve
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:21 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I know Doot and a few other guys wanted to contribute to this thread. Going back and re-reading PAD's very first issues in preparation -- there's a lot of picking up of the shitty Mantlo plotlines. Don't really care at all about the Hulkbusters or that Rick Jones is the Hulk. I hadn't remembered any of that. I wish I could skip ahead to the first The Leader story because that's when the book really seems to take off.
I guess at heart I really only like the Prof Hulk stories and not so much the Grey Hulk. It has to do with Gary Frank being a much better artist than Jeff Purves. (Though Dale Keown was pretty damn good.)
What say you guys?
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Bolgani Gogo
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:24 pm |
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I remember enjoying grey Hulk as a Los Vegas casino bouncer.
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Dave Toxik
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:25 pm |
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Steve wrote: I know Doot and a few other guys wanted to contribute to this thread. Going back and re-reading PAD's very first issues in preparation -- there's a lot of picking up of the shitty Mantlo AND PINKBELLY plotlines. Don't really care at all about the Hulkbusters or that Rick Jones is the Hulk. I hadn't remembered any of that. I wish I could skip ahead to the first The Leader story because that's when the book really seems to take off.
I guess at heart I really only like the Prof Hulk stories and not so much the Grey Hulk. It has to do with Gary Frank being a much better artist than Jeff Purves. (Though Dale Keown was pretty damn good.)
What say you guys? Fixed. And sounds good!
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luelyron
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:26 pm |
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Bring it. Actually, you'd be picking up with Todd McFarlane, no? Heck, pick up with the Sheriff and Hulk drinking Bruce into a stupor, Steve!
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Allen Berrebbi
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:31 pm |
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i started re-reading those with Trades from my library and I realized I only liked the stories with Frank and Keown as well.
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Steve Kipling
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:34 pm |
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I enjoyed the run....except for when it went off the rails during Onslaught and Heroes Reborn stuff. I also didn't care for the downbeat ending. After such a long run he should have ended it with cake and balloons.
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Bully
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:44 pm |
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The grey Hulk is my Hulk. Best ever. I dig the professor too, but the Grey Hulk had the ability to be played as an underdog, which resounds with me and is rare in the character's history. Before that the writer had to pit him against a giant to achieve underdog status.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:50 am |
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Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
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Steve wrote: I know Doot and a few other guys wanted to contribute to this thread. Going back and re-reading PAD's very first issues in preparation -- there's a lot of picking up of the shitty Mantlo plotlines. Don't really care at all about the Hulkbusters or that Rick Jones is the Hulk. I hadn't remembered any of that. I wish I could skip ahead to the first The Leader story because that's when the book really seems to take off.
The Hulkbusters are from Byrne's run, and Rick Jones as the Hulk are from the Al Milgrom run. None of that is Mantlo's. Also, "skip ahead to the Leader story"? The Leader is in the very first two issues of PAD's run as regular writer. I hereby declare FAIL. We can't start a thread when the first post is filled with so much misinformation. You cannot build a house on a foundation of blood and mud.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:54 am |
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Just kidding, of course. I'll contribute what I've got. I wrote reviews of these issues years ago, perfect for use in a thread just like this!!! I actually started with Byrne's first issue, issue 314.
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Allen Berrebbi
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:26 am |
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Ocean Doot wrote: Just kidding, of course. I'll contribute what I've got. I wrote reviews of these issues years ago, perfect for use in a thread just like this!!! I actually started with Byrne's first issue, issue 314. Was that the issue with best punch EVER?
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Joe Mayer
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:55 am |
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I have been meaning to get the PAD Visionaries books for some time. I should order the first one to keep up. I came on with the Vegas stories. But Professor Hulk really were some of my alltime favorite.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:02 am |
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Allen Berrebbi wrote: Ocean Doot wrote: Just kidding, of course. I'll contribute what I've got. I wrote reviews of these issues years ago, perfect for use in a thread just like this!!! I actually started with Byrne's first issue, issue 314. Was that the issue with best punch EVER? Thasstheone, yes.
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luelyron
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:17 am |
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Argh, for Crom's sake, someone post an issue!  You've all got till this afternoon, then I'll create one for #314 (and we can wade through the Doldrum issues if you want.) I have it in a reprint, but it's the only one I have out here in Cali. I must've read the annual with the Abomination fifty times! Bring da Hulk!!!
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Steve
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:46 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I'll just go ahead and start with PAD's first issue in just a bit.
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Crouton Jim
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:10 pm |
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Good Penguin Gone Bad
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:28 pm |
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331 through 467.
PAD's first issue was a fill-in, issue 328. Don't know if Steve's starting there or with the first issue of the long run.
(Two fill-ins during the era -- 360 and 389. The rest are PAD.)
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:30 pm |
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It scorched
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This thread is dry as a chip.
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Steve
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:51 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Sorry, was at a father-daughter dance at church and now I'm exhausted. Start soon.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:05 pm |
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It'll pick up. Give it time.
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Rafael
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:21 am |
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I like PAD. But I dislike Hulk. Should I read this?
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luelyron
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:27 am |
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Li'l Jay wrote: This thread is dry as a chip. I KNOW, right? I think father/ daughter dance sounds touching. Hulk 331, PAD wraps up his surroundings, then really tries some stuff I liked, kind of dark, the way I thought of early Hulk. "Addy-Addy" and that amazing puzzle piece guy in the desert and, oh, yah, Mercy---Hulk in the Fun House, the Minotaur, and ...*snikt*!! I had to sneak to the bookstore to buy my copies around this time, so the sweet conspiracy made them even more invaluable. I liked that bookstore; first set of "creepy" and magical books I ever saw were there, too. My "dark side" store. It was some chain...Waldenbooks?
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Darragh Greene
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Post subject: The Hulk, the Peter David years Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:33 am |
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I'm in for this.
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