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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 8, 2020 12:40:35 GMT -5
If by smart Hulk you mean gray Hulk aka Mr Fixit (for a portion) then yes. The whole gray Hulk saga has really been the only Hulk I've ever read and was entertained for that long. Most of the time my other Hulk comics are just random and I bought them for other reasons like guest star, villain or writer/artist ect.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 8, 2020 15:09:28 GMT -5
If by smart Hulk you mean gray Hulk aka Mr Fixit (for a portion) then yes. The whole gray Hulk saga has really been the only Hulk I've ever read and was entertained for that long. Most of the time my other Hulk comics are just random and I bought them for other reasons like guest star, villain or writer/artist ect. I think of gray Hulk as inbetween: devious, gangster, thug, street wise Hulk. Smart Hulk is when both the Banner and Hulk id's combined. When he had a ponytail and was leading the Pantheon. But it does open up a which one within a which one: what color is your Hulk? Gray, green, red, blue, purple, teal, turquoise, lavender, pink, yellow? He has the colors of the rainbow bless my blarney stone!?! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 15:17:33 GMT -5
Not much of a Hulk fan either, but the Hulks I do like are the initial 6 issue run and the early Avengers/TTA Hulk appearances where hulk is more monstrous/brutish, dangerous and cunning, not child-like and not smart Hulk. The neutered child-like Hulk was not appealing to me, and the Hulk with Banner's intellect/personality didn't work for me until Mark Ruffalo pulled it off in the movies, so I have to take the neither in this one.
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Post by impulse on Sept 8, 2020 15:27:19 GMT -5
I haven't read enough Hulk to meaningfully contribute, but I will say the scene at the end of the first Avengers movie where Hulk ragdolls Loki remains my favorite Hulk moment to date in any medium.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 14, 2020 10:20:41 GMT -5
Which One shall it be? JLA OR JSA? Young Turks versus the Elder Statesmen? Is your's the Geritol vote or the Steroidal vote for team supreme? Mystery Men starting up the heroic ideal or Super Powers flying high carrying on the tradition?
I gotta go with JSA! The Justice Society of America holds more interest for me as there was so little known or seen of them during my time in the 70's. It was those yearly meeting of both teams in Justice League of America comics and the occasional Brave and Bold teaming with Batman that captured my young attention. In NOT seeing the JSA as often, it made them something unique and special when they did appear.
It might be my fascination with the 40's and 50's in movies and books along with early Hollywood stardom and World War 2 as an unknown world before my time. It might be the idea of those "first" heroes which began to sprout up. It might be those wild and often garish outfits alongside the well dressed suits and capes folks. It might be a desire to have been a child at the time seeing those comics on the stand appearing for me to buy and read with their striking covers and bright colors.
All I know is that even today if you were to place JLA and JSA side by side on the shelf to buy, I am going for the JSA. If that makes me an old fogey, then so be it! I heartily embrace my geriatric geekdom🤗
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 10:37:20 GMT -5
You may as well ask me who I preferred out of Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, circa 1990s.
This is a tough one. With no easy answer.
I grew up reading very little JSA other than what was available in reprints. I read a lot of JLA (Giffen/DeMatteis). And some 60s JLA reprints. Plus, I think “League” sounds better than “Society”. To me, a society would be a society of stamp collectors or coin collectors. I do not mean that pejoratively. But “society” is very ordinary.
However, having become acquainted with the JSA, and having become even more interested after reading up on them, I have to say that if I emigrated to an island, and could only take a stack of either JLA or JSA books, I’d go with JSA. So they get my “vote”.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 14, 2020 10:41:55 GMT -5
JSA by a mile... if for no reason other than the fact that Johnny Thunder was way more likeable than Snapper Carr...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 14, 2020 11:30:44 GMT -5
JSA...without any doubt. While I liked the JLA and read it frequently, the JSA was my second true comic book love (after Batman) and the first one that actually cane from comics (Batman started as the Adam West TV show). I haven't followed the new iterations of the JSA, but I did buy the recent Hawkman comic because I love the team, especially in the 1940s setting where they belong.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 14, 2020 11:41:51 GMT -5
The JSA for me.
I loved the Silver Age JLA, but from the get-go, it was the team-ups with the JSA that were the highlights of those early days.
There was just something about the costumes, the names, and the legendary nature of the heroes that gave the team a mythic quality.
Reading many of their original adventures in reprint, which leavened the serious adventuring with a tone that implied that nobody's taking all of this completely seriously only reinforced the notion that these were the archetypes, the old gods, so to speak. There was a reason they were the heroes of the Golden Age, after all.
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Post by berkley on Sept 14, 2020 14:00:34 GMT -5
I would say the JSA, though almost by default, as I've come to dislike the JLA so much over the years: just the absence of Superman, Batman, and Aquaman is a big plus. But if it's one of those versions of the JSA that has Superman and/or Batman, then there isn't really much to choose between them for me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 20:26:18 GMT -5
JSA without question. JLA is fine, but there are definitely line-ups I don't like and most of the time I just wish J'onn got more focus. With JSA, I can't think of a member I don't love, much less a line-up.
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 14, 2020 20:34:14 GMT -5
JSA is the original Coke and JLA is the new Coke (and Infinity Inc. is like that aspartame sweetened generic brand cola?) 
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 14, 2020 21:11:02 GMT -5
JSA is the original Coke and JLA is the new Coke (and Infinity Inc. is like that aspartame sweetened generic brand cola?) To take it one step further, JSA is the classic 10 oz. green Coke bottle, while the All Star Squadron is the smaller classic 6.5 oz. version. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 15, 2020 12:20:27 GMT -5
I was looking at the modern 'JSA' comic with a three to four part story the return of Hawkman (#22-25). I don't have any of that series but do have some 'JLA' and some of the 80 Page Giants focusing on both teams. Is there a review of the story here already and can anyone recommend it particularly? I take it the insides aren't painted like the covers?  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 12:26:56 GMT -5
Interior art is not painted. It's been awhile, so I don't remember details, but I really enjoyed all of Johns' JSA.
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