Indestructible Hulk #4-5

[arbre_rieur]

Bruce Banner boards the Chinese super-submarine Dreadnought. (It's like the Helicarrier, but underwater and Communist.)







Bruce hooks up with a group of Lemurian rebels trying to overthrow Attuma.

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

as much as i like that he's.... working with the hulk.... it still feels like the development he made in his last two mega archs are once again dumped...

[rainspirit]

Yeah, it's well-written but it's hard to take seeing this primitive Hulk after devouring something like Planet Hulk.

[majingojira]

Yeah, once Greg Pack's run ended, nothing has yet lived up to that standard.

It's a really high bar, so it's not surprising, but a little followup from that development would be nice.

[mastermahan]

Agreed. This is good - it's hard to go wrong with Mark Waid - but compared to the Hulk we've had recently, this one just feels like a nonentity. I get that Hulk's a force of nature - but can't he be a character too?

[althechi]

Hey, the Chinese characters actually make sense!

...but they seem to have been written by a primary-schooler. Huh.

[funbox]

There's no way that isn't Japanese... Sorry, but chinese characters are noticably more complex and or superfluous (I took chinese in high school).

[althechi]

YOU DARE DOUBT THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOMEONE WHO TOOK CHINESE AT THE GCSE "A" LEVELS (and got a 'd', but that's not important)??

The four characters in the first panel are "欢迎乘坐". The superfluous and overly complicated characters you might be thinking of are Traditional Chinese, and not the Simplified Chinese used here. As evidenced above, Chinese characters are readily available in Windows default fonts, making those chicken-scratchings which are worse than even my usual handwriting inexcusable (to me, at least).

...Unless you're talking about the characters in red, which are totally Japanese and in which case I'll shut up just about now. :P

[arbre_rieur]

"...Unless you're talking about the characters in red, which are totally Japanese and in which case I'll shut up just about now. :P"

Nope.

[funbox]

Haha I was in fact talking about the big red letters, though I did recognize the other ones as chinese. Which begs the question of why there are both chinese and japanese words in the scene

[geoffsebesta]

I like this quite a bit. I have some issues with the rendering but none whatsoever with the storytelling.