Well, this is a shocker for the first time ever, The Hulk is going to be…a teenager! As predicted many times, the hulk in TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #1 will be Amadeus Cho, a Korean American teen who is described as a Boy Genius.” Greg Pak and Frank Cho (no relation) are the creative team.
The mystery behind the new Hulk’s identity has been revealed! But what has happened to the original Hulk, Bruce Banner in the previous eight months? All will be revealed – and the answers will surprise you! But one thing is for certain – Amadeus Cho is a completely different kind of Hulk. Not tormented, not conflicted. Just a giant green wrecking machine who loves being the Hulk! What could possibly go wrong?
“Come December, the one true Hulk will be a 19-year-old Korean-America “Boy Genius” who is going to carry the burden of being the Hulk like it weighs a feather,” says Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. “He’s going to love every minute of it. In this new series, we are going to lean hard into the fantasy aspects of being the Hulk. It can’t be all bad, can it?”
EW has the introductory interview and Pak, who created the Cho character, explains why its totally awesome:
GREG PAK: When [editor] Mark Pannica gave me a call, he said three words: “Amadeus Cho Hulk” and my head popped off. I said “I’m in! Let’s do it!” And Axel and Mark and I sat down and talked it all through, and it was immediately clear that we were all on the exact same page about this. I love Banner, I wrote Hulk stories for five and half years, and I loved writing Banner. Those stories mean a huge amount to me. At the same time, there’s a long tradition in Hulk stories of different people taking on that mantle, and with Amadeus in particular, it just set up a really great dynamic. Like Axel said, he’s going to be a very different kind of Hulk. He’s 19 years old, he’s on top of the world, he thinks he’s right about everything…and he might be. Or he might not be. But this is a kid who’s got a ridiculous amount of confidence. A lot of it has been justly earned, but he may be in over his head, and he’s going to come in here and he’s determined to be the best Hulk there’s ever been. He loves being the Hulk. And that may cause massive trouble for everyone else in the Marvel Universe. It’s just a great recipe.
And now the Marvel Universe has been further diversified!
TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #1
Written by GREG PAK
Art & Cover by FRANK CHO
Variant Cover by FRANK CHO
On Sale in December!
“…for the first time ever, The Hulk is going to be…a teenager!”
Second time: Chester Weems was the first, in Crazy Magazine. Hama and Severin, creators?
How soon before Hulk meets the New Avengers?
Hmm. Curious. Does this affect Greg Pak’s work at DC with the Superman books? After years of exclusive contracts from both companies, the possibility that Greg Pak might be working for two companies is more of a surprise to me.
Looks interesting, unlike most of the other Marvel relaunches. Think I’ll give it a try.
fkumarvel: How’s life in the nineteenth century, pally?
This sounds interesting but I really think such story arcs would be better served as a separate miniseries where they would be immune from the horrible events that pop up every 6 months.
Cool. Amadeus Cho is a-okay in my book. Nice to see Pak back on the character. I look forward to finding out who the series’ regular, non-“superstar,” comes-on-board-to-pencil-half-the-fourth-issue-announced artist will be.
This reads like an April Fool’s Joke, like most of the news out of Marvel these days. It seems like a parody of Marvel’s “diversity” revamps.
If Marvel wants a teenage Korean-American superhero, why not create an all-new superhero? Answer: Fans won’t buy anything that doesn’t have an iconic name going back several decades.
Amadeus Cho is almost as contrived a comicbook name as Raito Yagami.
Cho was created by Pak and has a lot to do with Hulk. Please learn more about the comics you are slamming.
George, I get what you’re saying, but Amadeus Cho isn’t new. He’s been around for at least a decade and was one of the two main characters of the Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente Hercules run, initially created as a Hulk comic character, and in and out of Hulk comics for years. He makes about as much sense as the time they made Betty into Red She Hulk, or possibly more, given that Amadeus has always been a fan, friend and supporter of The Hulk, plus is exactly the mix of impulsive teenager and mad scientist that would totally lead to getting Hulkified.
He’s a cool character even without being green, but in a weird way it actually makes sense
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