Posted: 11 March 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | 6
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I think it's more interesting to consider the switch if the characters are replacing ones at the other company completely. I believe the Hulk might work better at DC, becoming their Blockbuster/Doomsday type. The contrast between the Hulk and DC's heroes is so much more interesting to me, and tragic in terms of Banner's curse. What I like about the Hulk in the DCU is how he relates to the superheroes there: Batman can perceive Bruce Banner's tragic loneliness. Superman sees a mirror image of himself, if he were not so responsible. Wonder Woman might find the Hulk the ultimate male challenge. What's even better is that Superman, in any fight, is always going to have a tremendous problem with the Hulk. Superman isn't used to such powerful savagery, for one thing. For another, Superman is trying not to kill the Hulk and thus Banner. What never works at Marvel about Thor vs the savage Hulk is that, at some point, Thor's bloodlust should kick in and result in a slain Hulk. Whenever Thor "holds back", it's like the character is poorly written, to me. And when you consider the current atmosphere in comics of this type, it doesn't make sense for Thor not to follow his godly instincts and kill the Hulk. Superman, however, doesn't have those issues. So any battle royale with the Hulk is even more perilous for Superman. The only way to stop the Hulk is to kill him, and Superman won't ever kill. Catch-22. Also, definitely Captain America as leader of the Justice Society of America of the 1940s. In the 1970s, Jack Kirby brings him back via cloning and Project Cadmus. Machine Man is definitely DC Comics-oriented. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't the rennovated Robotman of Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol, Cliff Steele's brain with Stack's Hand Weapons System in the new DP. I get chills. Where Cap used to be at Marvel, put Wonder Woman in his place. She fought in WW 2, departed for Paradise Island to put her aging on ice, and returned to the world of Man to lead the Avengers. She'd lost her WW 2 lover, her non-Amazon family, her place in the US Government. Her private war with the Red Skull could be subtextually aggravated by not only the Skull's racial superiority beliefs, but gender superiority ones as well.
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