Marvel Teases the End of The Immortal Hulk
The Immortal Hulk, a series ComicBook.com has described as the ideal Marvel comic, is heading toward its conclusion. On Monday, Marvel Comics released a new teaser for Immortal Hulk #49, the penultimate issue of the critically-acclaimed series. Written by Al Ewing and drawn primarily by Joe Bennett with several stellar guest artists,
The Immortal Hulk will conclude its character and mythology redefining run with
Immortal Hulk #50 later this year. The end will tie together all of the new angles Ewing and company introduced into Bruce Banner s life, including the Green Door and what lies on the other side. Marvel Comics promises
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off all of which happen to share certain themes with
Howard the Duck, which gives us a slick, scrappy, underdog hero who’s also a fish out of water and happens to be from outer space. But none of those films featured petite stunt people in a duck costume playing a character (voiced by Chip Zien) that’s action hero, comic relief, and, uh, romantic leading man all rolled into one. Contemporary audiences were more than a little unsure of what to make of Howard, but it’s that bizarre mishmash of traits that’s given the movie its strange longevity.
Solo Avengers #1-20, Avengers Spotlight #21-40 (December 1987 – January 1991)
Written by Tom DeFalco (#1-12, 14-16), Roger Stern (#2-4), Dennis Mallonee (#5), Dan Mishkin (#6), Bob Layton (#7, 11), Mike W. Barr (#8), JM DeMatteis (#9), DG Chichester (#10), Margaret Clark (#10), Howard Mackie (#12, 18-25, 27-29), Gregory Wright (#13), Dwayne McDuffie (#13, 26-29), Chris Claremont (#14), Fabian Nicieza (#15, 24, 31-34), Peter B. Gillis (#16, 18, 20-21), Danny Fingeroth (#17, 35), Sandy Plunkett (#19), Lour Mougin (#22), John Byrne (#23), Glenn Herdling (#25), Dwight Jon Zimmerman (#25), Steve Gerber (#30-34, 36), Roy Thomas (#37-39), Dann Thomas (#37-39), Len Kaminski (#40), Carrie Barre (#40)
Plot by Jackson Guice (#7), Tom DeFalco (#12-13, 17), Kieron Dwyer (#23), James Brock (#29)
Script by Ralph Macchio (#12-13, 17)
Penciled by Mark Bright (#1-3, 5-11), Jim Lee (#1), Kieron Dwyer (#2, 23), Bob Hall (#3, 37), Ron Lim (#4, 12-13), Paul Ryan (#4), John Ridgway (#5), Tom Grindber
Space Battleship Yamato, and
Mobile Suit Gundam all premiered in the last three years of the decade. For comparison, 1979 was the year Scrappy-Doo made his debut. America was hosed.
Or at least it should have been. Animation was very expensive and before President Reagan allowed toy companies to effectively advertise directly to children in the form of cartoons, shows were lucky to get 20 episodes. Hanna-Barbera had revolutionized the TV cartoon in the ’60s using its patented limited movement style; generally the characters would only perform one motion at a time in a stationary background. It looks very stagnant by today’s standards, but it allowed for dozens of cartoon shows to reach the TV. Many of those shows, like