06-24-2003, 03:07 AM
Just a quickie comment with regards the continuity with the comic.
WarLocke said:
The setting worked for me (not being a comic buff, anyway), except for the change to the Hulk's origin. I can see why it was changed (similar reasons for having Spider-Man bitten by a genetically altered spider instead of a radioactive one; using current fears), but the explanation they chose was hackneyed. All of a sudden the Hulk is a mutant? (ok, not really a mutant, but inheriting his father's altered DNA is about this |--| far from it)
It was established in the comic in the '70s that Bruce Banner's DNA was messed up, in that it allowed him to survive the radiation that turned him into the Hulk. His sidekick, Rick Jones, exposed himself to gamma rays to become the Teen Hulk (ooo!) to save the day, and got terminal cancer from it.
The Rick Jones / cancer storyline carried over to Captain Marvel, where Rick was cured but Marv bought the farm.
I have no idea how closely the movies keep to the current continuity in the comics, I cut myself off in '88, figuring that 30 years was long enough. :)
-rcv-
WarLocke said:
The setting worked for me (not being a comic buff, anyway), except for the change to the Hulk's origin. I can see why it was changed (similar reasons for having Spider-Man bitten by a genetically altered spider instead of a radioactive one; using current fears), but the explanation they chose was hackneyed. All of a sudden the Hulk is a mutant? (ok, not really a mutant, but inheriting his father's altered DNA is about this |--| far from it)
It was established in the comic in the '70s that Bruce Banner's DNA was messed up, in that it allowed him to survive the radiation that turned him into the Hulk. His sidekick, Rick Jones, exposed himself to gamma rays to become the Teen Hulk (ooo!) to save the day, and got terminal cancer from it.
The Rick Jones / cancer storyline carried over to Captain Marvel, where Rick was cured but Marv bought the farm.
I have no idea how closely the movies keep to the current continuity in the comics, I cut myself off in '88, figuring that 30 years was long enough. :)
-rcv-