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There was a scene in a Hulk book where Red Hulk was riding the Silver Surfer’s surfboard and wielding a big cosmic ax while screaming about how doing so was more fun than getting laid.

It was then where I realized I was okay with this comic.

I was about to throw out my usual complaint that the strip goes several panels too long, but you nailed it on the last one. kudos!

Jeph Loeb wrote Commando. Therefore he will always be amazing

I haven’t read Pak’s Hulk yet (and never will read Loeb’s) but the last four panels did it for me!

Yup, the Hulk series is total crap. Crap-ola. It’s a good thing, too, because all the $3.99 comic books have forced me to stop buying series that once were good but now are crap-ola.

I blame the editors more than the writers. But it’s true, when I see the name Jeph Loeb, it’s a dependable sign that I can save my money.

Heh. I figured Josh was going to start going on about “having” to buy certain books just to follow some dumb crossover. Pleasant surprise, then.

Gotta love fanboy binary thinking. “If you don’t like what I like, you must like what I hate!”

Poor ol’ Loeb.
He gets no respect.

……

Probably deserves it.

or not.

The Red Hulk is Mephisto, right?

I loved the expression on the faces of the running customer, the lady and her kid.

hahah.

Josh defending Jeph given how he would proably do the most hating has got to be a first for this strip for after all the red hulk if nothing else proves what could happen if the hulk could truely be his nastiness. though did not care for a red version of she hulk.

Heh. This is one of the strongest comics you guys have put out in a while, possibly the strongest since the Watchman Video Game one.

Josh makes me laugh.

I almost started buying Fall of the Hulks after being entertained by (Van Lente’s?) Savage She-Hulk. Thanks for pulling me back from the ledge.

I will however pay $0.25 or so for these someday, just to see all of the series sins in context.

I enjoyed the first volume of Red Hulk. I’ll probably buy subsequent TPBs at some point in the future, every time I feel like reading something silly and full of things hitting each other.
But Hulk protecting the world from an evil Bruce Banner? Really? It might be good in execution, but how exactly does he mean “created”? And to think the same guy wrote Planet Hulk.

Jeph Loeb wrote Commando. Therefore he will always be amazing

He CO-wrote Commando. He also CO-wrote Teen Wolf. The parts of those movies that sucked were probably his contributions.

I understand what this strip was going for, but honestly, nothing is as bad as a Jeph Loeb book. Chuck Austen or a 90s Ben Raab book MAYBE, but that’s about it.

“polish a character’s nut sack”?

I have to use that line some time.

hee-heee….

That’s the funniest in a long while!

The way the final four panels just escalate the horror is fantastic!

Did you know Jeph Loeb created both “Loose Cannon” (for DC) AND “Red Hulk” (for Marvel) ?

I just discovered this fact when I was going through my collection and culling the shitty older books and found Loose Cannon #3. He was one of those Bloodlines characters.

“… honestly, nothing is as bad as a Jeph Loeb book.”

I’d put a Judd Winick book up to that test.

Bwahahahahah

I’d put a Judd Winick book up to that test.

I intensely dislike Judd Winick books (where is he these days), but he’s nowhere near Loeb. The Judd Winick stories I read at least are able to go 20 pages in a row without a glaringly stupid plot hole.

Sorry, anonymous was me.

Dalarsco, while the strip is funny in making the equivolency, that’s not the true case in the books.
Pak’s Inc. Hulk is really good, and plays off a lot of Peter David’s run.

If you accept the premise that Banner is a MPD, and that all Hulks are part of him, which includes Fixit and especially, Maestro, then the idea of Hulk protects the world from Banner is an intriguing concept.

I haven’t read any Hulk book in years (unless you count Peter David’s She-Hulk). What little they say here makes me glad I’ve been missing them.

The Jeff Parker books are quite good, though. And they do elevate the whole thing over the usual crossover crappy standards.

Pity he is precisely the one guy who is NOT writing a regular Hulk book…

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

@Scavenger: Ya, my first thought was that it sounds cool, but I thought for a second and realized that it depends on exactly what is meant by “created”. Is it simply that overall Banner was a pretty terrible guy and when the gamma bomb split his personalities in such a way that the two “in charge” were his sparks of goodness then it’s neat. That reminds me of how Robinson used Grundy in Starman. But if the existence of Hulk was caused by some mystic force or something then it could be really, really bad.

My favorite of all Ive read.

Hilarious!

The mother and child’s faces are gold.

@Scavenger: Ya, my first thought was that it sounds cool, but I thought for a second and realized that it depends on exactly what is meant by “created”. Is it simply that overall Banner was a pretty terrible guy and when the gamma bomb split his personalities in such a way that the two “in charge” were his sparks of goodness then it’s neat. That reminds me of how Robinson used Grundy in Starman. But if the existence of Hulk was caused by some mystic force or something then it could be really, really bad.

I haven’t read it and can see how it could be bad. I just think it’s a next level insult to call something “Loeb bad.” There’s bad and there’s “Loeb bad.” The latter is once in a lifetime bad. The only guy I feel regularly attains “Loeb bad” outside of Loeb is Brad Meltzer. Even Chuck Austen to my knowledge has written at least 2 or 3 good stories, which is 2 or 3 more than Loeb, so even he’s not “Loeb bad.”

I see your point, T., but isn’t saying Loeb is worse than Austen because Austen wrote a couple of good stories like saying a guy who punches you is worse than a guy who stabs you as long as the stabber loaned you a quarter one time?

There’s an enormity of offense issue, is what I’m saying.

The only guy I feel regularly attains “Loeb bad” outside of Loeb is Brad Meltzer.

Judd Winick!

Even Chuck Austen to my knowledge has written at least 2 or 3 good stories

For reals?

Hey FGJ, didn’t you read Austen’s WAR MACHINE?

*Note, that was a joke. Please do not attempt to read Austen’s WAR MACHINE. That goes for all of you, never, under any circumstances, sober or not, attempt to read Austen’s WAR MACHINE.

Phew – stealthwise you had me going for a minute there. War Machine was terrible.

That said I enjoyed his two-parter with Gambit in Ultimate X-Men and I’ve heard his Metropolis miniseries is good.

Loeb gets a lot of shit and deserves a lot of it for some things he has written. Not everything though. I will punch anyone who has read Superman: For All Seasons and puts in the same category as his new stuff. Also JLA Meltzer sucked big time, but Archers Quest in Green Arrow was excellent. Austen had one highlight and that was the same as Winnicks most recent – Exiles. Claremont is the only person to suck on Exiles.

Please do not attempt to read Austen’s WAR MACHINE. That goes for all of you, never, under any circumstances, sober or not, attempt to read Austen’s WAR MACHINE.

I actually got the first three issues, as I was interested in the format.

I stopped when the cliffhanger featured them finding Darkhawk.

Austen had one highlight and that was the same as Winnicks most recent – Exiles.

Wow, Austen’s one highlight, apparently, and it still had people at the time wishing Winick would come back to it!