What I Think About Stuff-6
reasons why the Hulk is the most tragic superhero in comic book history (and 1
why he is the greatest) [Collaboration with Dimitris Morakeas]
The world
of comics is an overall colorful, upbeat place that leaps up out of the page
and slams itself against your eyeballs every month. Tragedy is something that
never sticks to a superhero. Spiderman lost Gwen Stacey but got to bang Mary
Jane after all. Batman had his parents violently murdered in front of his eyes
when he was a kid but he got to be Batman, which balances out. But the Hulk has
never caught a break. Not. Even. Once. The Hulk just abides and endures, like a
Gamma-Powered Jesus or a mean, green Big Lebowski.
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I’m, like,
always angry, man
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You wouldn’t
think of that, not if you’ve seen him toss a god-alien around like a ragdoll.
Most of you probably think the Hulk just punches shit and screams in the third
person. What has the Hulk ever been through that’s so terrible, you ask? Why,
nothing less than…
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