I was a little boy when Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno took to the screen as the “Modern Man who Turns Green” combo in 1978. I was certainly a little boy by today’s standards, considering men at the age of 24 are regularly referred to as kids in many mediums of entertainment and sports, even if they are old enough to go get their asses blown off in the deserts of the Middle East.

I was, at that age, able to easily identify with the plight of both the man and the beast in The Incredible Hulk. I somehow, even lacking any real life experience, understood the situation Dr. David Banner was in; having to walk through life possessing a secretive anger and rage and carry that burden until he found an answer for his problems. I was able to understand the sorrow and loneliness of the Hulk, a misunderstood and dangerous character capable of unimaginable destruction, but gentle in a Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein sort of way.
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