WWH: Smash All Puny Humans
WWH: Smash All Puny Humans
May 02Today is the start of World War Hulk. The Initiative still isn’t over, but I’m relaxing my grip on it. It’s not Civil War – I don’t need to get them all. Really The Initiative is Marvel figuring out a way to brand what would normally be the downtime between major event story arcs.
And I realized something today, as I started reading the WWH books – I’m really looking forward to it. Civil War was a car crash – the idea of the heroes of the world fighting one another, allying themselves with the bad guys, etc. It was a good statement to make, a super-hero prism taking a look at the stuff happening in the politics of the real world, but while it was intriguing, while I had to slow down and take a look, it wasn’t what I’d call fun. And in the end, there’s only a small handful of heroes I’m that happy with as characters. Spider-man. Thing. Ummm. Punisher, sort of. Luke Cage, m’man. Most of the Mighty Avengers really – fight the power. And Omega Flight, but that’s kind of a knee-jerk thing. We’ll see where it ends up – the writer didn’t get the CSIS acronym right, so this may not go well.
And that’s about it. The rest can go to hell, as far as I care. Ooooh, wait. They are.
I’m really looking forward to WWH. After a year of watching our favorite heroes be shits, WWH is promising a bit of a cliche – the power fantasy. After a year of watching Marvel’s big heroes be pricks, I really can’t wait to watch a focused, non-Pantheon Hulk (ie a non-Banner brained Hulk) either beat some sense into or the shit out of every single one of them.
’nuff said.
