Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5041674-20150904184555

So Entertainment Weekly just announced that the new hulk is none other than... (No drumroll please, because this was blatantly obvious...)

Amadeus Cho. Yay, I guess. No, actually, not yeah. I saw this coming light-years... No that's not the right word... MEGAPARSECS away.

I mean, I'm all for diversity, but I'm kind of tired seeing Marvel characters being replaced by other, more Politically Correct characters. Has this happened in the past? Yes, it's happened tons of times. (Like James Rhodes becoming Iron Man for a while.)

My problem with this is that it's being so overdone and becoming so absurd that it's becoming a tired formula. Maybe instead of turning iconic characters into new guys, make new guys become a new variant of this character. (Like there being two hulks. Banner and Cho. It could work. It's happened with She-Hulk before.)

'''Or you make new characters altogether. '''It isn't hard. Marvel made tons of new characters in the past, and they're doing it now. I'm just not sure they're doing it in the right way. Only hardcore fans read comics nowadays, so we've gotten to the point where some people don't know the existance of a new character unless it's reported on the news.

Even then, why buy comics when they cost 3-4 bucks a pop when all you gets is some thin book that seems to have more ads than the comic itself, and you need to extensivly get more and more issues to understand the story, and also get more and more crossovers and bigger story-arcs because your favorite characters are in those, too. It's getting too hard for us.

Then they'res fans like me, who like the large Marvel universe and didn't want a reboot. Well, perhaps we should change our minds. You know why? Because the Marvel Universe has gotten WAY too big for modern audiences. All modern audiences care about is the MCU and Marvel Cartoons on TV. Albiet, those are getting pretty large too, it's definitly not as large as the amount of material in Earth-616.

Overall, it's hard to side on which is the best. Reboot the universe with new versions of the characters? They're not doing it right. Stay with the old? It's getting too big, and barely anyone besides devoted comic-readers read comics. Marvel gets most of it's cash from their films and cartoons, not comics anymore.

Regardless, maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge. Maybe this new Hulk can be good. Just look at this Incredible-Hulk #1-inspired cover.

 