Because this time he’s fighting for love!

Because this time he’s fighting for love!

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And then there was the time I created a tumblr just to post pictures of the Hulk.

As you dear reader already know from my hard hitting critical essay from last week, I have been watching a lot of The Incredible Hulk in the evenings while working on comics. The Incredible Hulk was a documentary television show in the late 1970's and early 1980's.  It was about a reporter named Jack McGee and his tireless, selfless crusade to apprehend the legendary Hulk creature and to bring him to justice for the death of Doctor David Banner.  (And Banner's lovely co-worker who's name escapes me at the moment.  I think she rose from the dead to appear on Falcon Crest but I could be wrong.)  

Being a genius comes with a lot of challenges and responsibility.  It's not easy but I feel it's my responsibility to give back to society by posting random pictures from The Incredible Hulk on teh intronets.  It may not be easy and it may not even be interesting but I feel I owe it to Jack McGee for the sacrifices he made.

Therefore, I have created a tumblr blog to post random pictures of The Hulk doing random things (and this Bill Bixby fellow that keeps showing up in the documentary for some reason or another) on teh intronets.  I'm sure at some point I'll get bored and post pictures of other things as well.  (Probably pictures of Bruce Lee looking awesome.)

I do this for you.  You can thank me by clicking the link and "following", "tweeting", "liking", "sharing" and all the other customs of the indigenous people of teh intronets.

Your best pal ever,

Shannon Smith

The Hulk prefers Grape.

Hoo boy I'm busy.  Are you busy?  Dang we are so busy. I've got about 20 to 30 pages of comics that I need to draw/ink/letter/scan/print/etc. over the next couple of weeks so I've been drawing at night a lot.  I spend most of my daylight hours dealing with work and that lady and her two kids that live in my house and call me Daddy.  

Like a lot of artists, I needs me some background noise when I draw just to keep the brain working and to stay awake.  Music works.  TV shows also work.  The nice thing about drawing with TV shows on is that they work like an alarm clock.  If a sitcom ends then you know you just knocked out 22 minutes.  If a drama ends then you know you just knocked out 44 minutes.  The trick is to pick a TV show that you won't mind ignoring.  Preferably something you've already seen a few times.  As the millions of people around the globe that live their life from one Shannon_Smith tweet to then next can attest, lately I've been drawing to The Incredible Hulk on Netflix.

I love The Incredible Hulk.  Certainly one of the best American TV shows of all time.  It has Bill Bixby in it.  That pretty much makes it better than any show without Bill Bixby right out of the gate.  And it's a great to draw to because it has such a strict formulaic pace to it.  It's like music.  The Bixby rolls into town and gets a job as a janitor.  The Bixby befriends a co-worker.  The Bixby smells trouble.  The Bixby immediately butts his nose into said trouble.  The Bixby fails horribly at fixing said trouble.  This results in a wall of boxes or crates falling on The Bixby.  This results in Hulking out.  The Hulk smashes his way through walls until finally the bad guys are revealed to the cops.  The Hulk runs and or jumps away.  The Bixby kisses the prettiest girl in the room goodbye.  The Bixby walks away to sad music.  Rinse, repeat, genius!

I love it.  So, for no good reason at all, here are some pictures of The Hulk drinking soda.

That guy on the right is Ricky.  He's the co-star in an episode named "Ricky" where The Bixby be-friends a retard.  Whoa Nellie, you can't go around calling people retard!  Shut yo mouth!  But wait, this episode was in 1978, when even the most sensitive politically correct professional scientist/doctor in the world (a.k.a. The Bixby) still thought it was perfectly okay to use that word.  Weird right?  The Incredible Hulk was actually a very progressive show as far as dealing with social issues goes.  Well, for 1978 anyway.  In the episode after "Ricky", The Bixby hangs out with some Indian guy, oh I mean Native American.  Then the episode after that The Bixby butts his nose into a child abuse story.  Laugh riot that one.  Then he hangs out with a blind Chinese kung fu master in Chinatown.  No stereotypes there.  Don't you even think it!  And then The Bixby gets a job at a disco where he butts his nose into some teen alcoholism.  That episode goes exactly where you think it will and yes, you get to hear the-Hulk-sad-man-walking-away-music re-recorded as a disco number.  Beat that The Wire!

Let's just take a moment to recognize how wonderful Lou Ferrigno was/is.  He never phones it in.  Always delivers.  You got a wall you need smashed he's gonna smash that wall better than anyone has ever smashed walls before. 

You got a grape soda you need drank?  He's gonna drink that grape soda like it's never been drank before.

The Bixby got an Emmy or two for The Incredible Hulk.  Where is Ferrigno's Emmy?  Tell me that.  Where is Ferrigno's Emmy?

Your best pal ever,

Shannon Smith

p.s.  The original air date of the "Ricky" episode was my birthday.  Nice.