Turns out they Didn't Cancel "The Incredible Hulk"

I remember reading a while back that when Jeph Loeb took over writing for the Hulk they canceled the Series called "the Incredible Hulk" and just renamed it "Hulk." Well I just had an eye opener. Not only is that series still alive it's got my favorite Hulk Writer Greg Pak. I am totally kicking myself for not noticing sooner, I really need to spend more time hanging out at the local Comic Book shop called Legacy Comics. This gives me hope for the future of the character, I still dislike Jeph Loeb's work with the Red Hulk, I like what could have been, but so far I'm less than impressed, no that's not true i'm disappointed. I think that he is so focused on the future story arcs "War of the Hulks" or the "Hulk Wars" or whatever he's going to call it he's clearly not paying attention to what he's writing in the here and now, because it's crap. All the BS about dragging out the secrecy about who the Red Hulk is has killed my interest in the story arc, it's just been dragged on and on for too damned long.

As for where the story line stands now, Jeph Loeb killed the Hulk, the Red Hulk as it turns out is not actually a "brick" He's a drainer but being a big red hulk looking brick is a nice side effect of his primary ability. He drained the Gamma lout of Banner effectively killing the Hulk. So that's where that's at. Man it's frustrating, Red Hulk is such an awesome villain but I just find his current story arcs more irritating than enjoyable.

So now Greg Pak has picked up a few of the pieces of Jeph Loeb's Mess and ran with it. And it's freaking awesome! He's basically turned it into a story of Banner and his son Skaar the son of the Hulk from Planet Hulk. So in this one Banner is now kind of the sidekick/trainer instead of the usual trying to cure himself stuff. I like where this series is going, but I don't think it'll last I think that boob Loeb has more pull with the management at Marvel than Pak.

That said I think Loeb has got some awesome creative ideas, like the Red Hulk, he's a fantastic idea for a villain but Loeb shouldn't have the reigns of implementing/writing the series. That series has absolutely killed the fun of it for me but it had awesome potential.