Tuesday, June 10, 2008

move any mountain

if that stupid Celine Dion song was right, and love can move mountains ... well, goddammit, the Hulk is LOVE.


70's babies like me will remember this memorable scene in Marvel's Secret Wars, where a mountain was dropped on our heroes, and the only one keeping them from being flattened like roadkill is one not-so-jolly green giant (the talkative, angry but relatively smart version).

how heavy is a mountain anyway? if we believe the tagline, its 150 billion tons. that's like 30 billion elephants, or 1.5 million aircraft carriers. still too vast to wrap your head around, right? is that just one mountain or a whole mountain range?


Reed Richards, bless his academic heart, buys more time to whip up a thingamajig with Iron Man, by annoying the Hulk (angrier = stronger = hold up the damn mountain longer).



as he does, 23 years later, in World War Hulk.

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Secret Wars #4
Jim Shooter/Bob Layton/John Beatty/Joe Rosen/Christie Scheele

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