“Another pretty good volume. What’s fun about it, again, is the switch. We get events from the Hulk’s perspective, which is a great swap because…
Okay, for those of you who know nothing about the Hulk, I’ll break it down.
Bruce Banner is a dude. When Bruce Banner gets upset or injured, he turns into the Hulk. The Hulk is essentially a separate entity, so when we look at things from the Hulk’s perspective, he “wakes up” in the midst of a terrible situation that he probably had nothing to do with.
Imagine waking up every morning to some new disaster. You don’t know where you are, you don’t know why Captain America is punching you in the head. You don’t even know if you’re going to be wearing any sort of pants.
All of a sudden we start to see thing not from Banner’s perspective, a guy trying to rein in a monster, but from the Hulk’s perspective, who is born always of chaos and therefore has kind of a terrible life, especially when one considers that he turns back into Banner as soon as he’s not angry anymore.
Kind of a terrible life. Wake up pantsless and getting punched, then live out the worst 20 or so minutes of the day, then sort of fall back asleep, only to be awakened the next time someone tried to stab your alter ego with a piece of rebar. “