2012年1月12日星期四

The Incredible Hulk Seasons

The Hulk is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk dvd  (May 1962). In 2008 the hobbyist magazine Wizard named the Hulk the seventh-greatest Marvel Comics character. Empire Magazine named him the fourteenth greatest comic book character overall and the fifth highest ranked in the Marvel stable.
There are numerous reasons why fill-in or additional artists are often necessary -- a late script, late artwork, an illness, a production crisis, a fired/quit/reassigned creator, and many, many more reasons than most readers can imagine. Marvel didn't comment on The Incredible Hulk season dvd boxset  situation when asked about it by Comic Book Resources, but while it would probably sate some curiosity to know what happened, the cause is not nearly as interesting to me as the genuinely bold solution.
Momentum is critical in maintaining the high level of reader and retailer engagement with this title, whose first issue sold more than 100,000 copies, making it Marvel's highest selling title in October. It seems obvious that momentum was threatened in some way and Marvel took startlingly aggressive action. Presumably the book will go on sale next week as scheduled and avoid the "late book" stigma that plagues too many high profile titles in superhero comics (particularly those, it has to be said, that involve the beloved Image founders) and keep everybody happy until the next issue. Not an ideal situation, obviously, but that's one mission accomplished.
Another mission is satisfying the reader. A Marvel icon of the 1990s, the co-founder of Image Comics and the CEO of Top Cow Productions, Silvestri is definitely a fan-favorite. Populating a Silvestri book with five additional pencillers, you'd reasonably expect an anarchic, bloody patchwork of a comic. But in reality, Incredible Hulk #2 is anything but. (As pointed out by Bleeding Cool, an apparent comiXology glitch made the issue available for sale for a short time this week, before it was meant to go on sale, and we grabbed a copy.) Series editor Mark Paniccia was wise to staff this singular issue with the likes of Billy Tan, Michael Broussard and Eric Basaldua, as they're all alumni of Silvestri's Top Cow studio and proficient in and influenced by his signature style. Fellow Image co-founder Whilce Portacio also shares some stylistic traits with the top-billed artist, and together with Scott Hanna and a small army of inkers, these gentlemen created what in my view is an almost seamless collaboration. The Incredible Hulk #2 looks and reads like a Marc Silvestri comic.

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