News Design: Hulk

Here's the cover to Eye on Entertainment, a tabloid supplement published by The Bakersfield Californian. While the idea of knocking together a cover using "spinner rack" design styles isn't exactly fresh, the overall presentation here is top-notch.

While we're talking about the Hulk, I ought to mention that I'm a real fan of this film. I thought it was ballsy that Ang Lee conned Universal and Marvel into spending $180 million on a movie about the long-term consequences of domestic violence. The overall style — classical tragedy meets cartoonish ultra-violence — was also really interesting and reminded me of that old Bugs Bunny cartoon What's Opera, Doc? It was as serious as it was goofy.

That being said, I completely understand how the folks who just wanted to see the Hulk tear shit up might have been disappointed in the film.

Hulk Just Want Love. That So Wrong?

They have yet to make a Hulk movie as great as this poster.
This is French promotional art for a "movie" of The Incredible Hulk released in the late 1970s. There was a mercifully short trend in those years of American studios repackaging TV shows as feature films. As children my brother and I saw (i.e. "paid to see something that was otherwise free") the Buck Rogers pilot in the theater, as well as "Battlestar Galactica 2," which was a two-part episode with Lloyd Bridges.

Hulk 2, above, was one of those repackaged TV films.