I`ve been having a Hulk fix recently and was thinking about the size of the Hulk over the years. While I enjoyed Mike Deodato`s recent work on the Incredible Hulk even if the story moved at a snail`s pace, I felt the way size that Mike drew the green goliath got out of hand. I like the idea of the Hulk being of course taller than us flatscans but still reasonable. Something like this:

Compared to Deodato`s rendition:

I feel a smaller Hulk lets you identify with him some more and also, if he`s drawn like Deodato`s rendition, Banner`s pants must have one huge elastic on them.

I`m sure some writer could make up some reason why the Hulk is bigger at times. One reason could be from Banner`s budding personalities or that he`s evolving like how they explain why the Thing looks different sometimes instead of just saying the Artist doesn`t want to comfort the fans with a constant look of a hero. One of the many things in comics that just don`t need explaining. Speaking of the thing, here is a recent Marvel Knights Four cover by Deodato.

I liked Keown's Hulk. Big, but not too big.

( And JB's, but that goes without saying.)

To me, it makes some sense that the angrier the Hulk gets, his strength and his size both increase. Okay, he shouldn't be in Giant-Man territory by any means, but being eight or nine feet tall? Not out of the question. The "default" Hulk being seven feet tall (and Ben Grimm being six feet) seems about right to me.

(Post 1766- the year Rutgers was founded in New Brunswick, NJ, as Queens College. Go, alma mater! Scarlet Knights rule!)

I asked this in another thread, but never got an answer: Where do you suppose the extra 800 pounds of Hulk goes when he changes back to Banner? I can see cells dividing and producing a bigger being, but when he changes back, where does it go? We never see Banner standing in a puddle or excess living tissue converted to energy. What's the prevailing thought on this issue?