He Big, He Mean, He RED!

SPOILER WARNING! IF YOU HAVE BEEN READING THE HULK BOOKS LATELY AND DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED ON WHO RED HULK IS DO NOT READ FURTHER!

Well today's as good as anyday to get started on this thing. Might as well start off with something recent.

I just got a HUGE pile of books this week, among them was Hulk #23.

This issue has been hyped for a while now as the "Origin of the Red Hulk" who was revealed to be...General "Thunderbolt" Ross!

Many people hated Red Hulk, or Rulk as he's become known as lately, because they felt, when he was first introduced, he was nothing more than a walking Mary Sue...or Canon sue, take your pick. And let's not forget THIS 'classic' image

But you know what? WHO CARE?!? THe early 12 issues of this series, where it was just mindless entertainment, was just that! Entertaining! I mean I LOVED seeing Rulk tear beat up Uatu the Watcher!

THat was the whole point of the first 12 issues, at least from a reading standpoint. Later on we found out that the fighting and stuff actually served a purpose. That purpose being to allow Rulk to absorb as much different energies as he can to be put into...well...This

But, again WHO CARES! It was mindless fun!

That's the basic thing about the Red Hulk, it was all done, as Jeph Loeb himself has put it a bunch of times, to be mindless fun! It's a "Turn your brains off" type entertainment. That's why I like the Red Hulk, that's why it's so fun! It's stupid fun at times, sure, but I was always entertained by it! Isn't that what comics is all about? To go in and get entertained by it? And don't we, at times, usually just go in to see mindless action summer blockbusters? That's what Hulk was for me, mindless Summer blockbuster type stories that I can go in, turn my brain off, and get entertained without having to think too hard about it!

And I'll end this blog with this Badass image that shows how badass Rulk is!