Hey, what's the deal?: Guess who's playin' patsy again? It's our old friend the Incredible Hulk. This time, his body is replaced by The Space Phantom, who can assume the shape (and powers!) of anyone or anything1, sending the original article to a limbo world2 where they remain until Spacey here takes over someone else's form. 1This apparently extends to cereal mascots, as Space Phantom seems to have stolen the body of Count Chocula.
2And much like last issue's wildly misleading Isle of Silence, there doesn't appear to be anyone playing limbo in Limbo. How low can you go indeed.
So ol' Space Phantom decides to stir up some shit disguised as the Hulk, revealing in the process some deep-seated prejudices his fellow Avengers have against him.
Eventually the combined might of Earth's Mightiest Heroes... (And, uh, The Wasp) trick Space Phantom into sending himself to limbo world. Well, more like they luck into it, since none of 'em, including SP himself, knew his power wouldn't work on Thor. Live and learn, Space Phantom. You live and you learn.
He may have ultimately lost but SP did do some damage. Besides destroying Stark Industries' new "Missile Gun" -- great name, boys! -- the aforementioned prejudices against Hulk are too much for him to take and he abruptly leaves the team. I don't blame Hulk for leaving, really. Two issues of this comic and he's been so easily framed as a bad guy in both. I'd tell them to fuck off too.3
3But not before I "accidentally" swatted The Wasp with a rolled up newspaper. Annoying bitch.
ETC: The, ugh, Teen-Brigade is back4, as Rick Jones uses his proportionate strength of a guy who likes ham radios to call up Henry Pym when he realizes that The Hulk runnin' around town is not The Hulk he's grown to love. But instead of asking for lil Ant Man, he asks for Giant Man.
4As if the Teen-Brigade couldn't get less cool, one of Rick's fellow team members calls his parents down to watch him make the call. If they're back next issue, I'm gonna kill myself.
Yep. Giant-Man. After one issue as Ant-Man, Henry Pym has apparently decided to be Giant-Man. It's not addressed specifically (he dismisses it with, like, "Well, they asked for Giant-Man and not Ant-Man, soooo...") but I gotta think its related to Wasp having such a crush on Thor. Big, Nordic-looking hunk vs guy with a tiny ant dick. C'mon. No-brainer.
MVP: The Hulk, despite acting and talking more like The Thing in this issue than I'm used to. "Just in time to save you from bein' pulverized, Long Hair" doesn't seem like something a fucking scientist should be saying, regardless of the fact he still very much resembles an emerald lesbian in purple granny panties5.
5Thor even calls him out on his attire on the first page. "Is it necessary for you to attend our meetings clothed in that repulsive manner, Hulk?" Someone should tell the Thunder God that this isn't Asgard, and in the U.S. of A. if a radiated green beast wants to wear some comfortable, tasteful briefs to team meetings, he's well within his rights to do so.
It's pretty sad that his so-called friends are pretty quick to jump on the "I knew we couldn't trust him!" bandwagon. You'd think, especially after what happened in the first issue, that they'd be a little more skeptical. Hulk won't be gone long, though: According to the last frame in the book, in Issue #3, Hulk teams with one of "your favorite super characters to battle The Avengers." I really hope it's Jarvis.
MIA: Space Phantom's partners in crime.
WTF: Jesus, Rick, don't you pay attention to anything besides your pathetic little radio hobby? Don Blake is Thor!
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