So, how many more times will Bud have to endure this mystical spell? Or is he 50 years old taking Quaaludes to “chill out”? Time will tell.
I wanted to update my rendition of the “Hulk-out” scene and had a great time doing that. I SOOO wanted to colorize him green, but alas I hate lawsuits… I also wanted to do the famous cartoon trick of zipping out of a scene and leaving the character’s silhouette in dust behind them. I’m a huge fan of Chuck Jones and he did these perfectly, especially in Road Runner cartoons.
Led Zeppelin’s first album, released in 1969, was my introduction to the heavier side of rock and roll. I had grown up on 60s pop music (Beatles, Beach Boys, etc.), but Led Zeppelin was a whole different beast. I was a much bigger fan of Led Zeppelin II, but today have a much greater appreciation for the music on the first album. My short attention span generally does not allow me to actually listen to songs over 8 minutes (like today’s comic title), but the blues riff at the beginning and end keeps me hangin’ on through all the middle stuff. Plus, it starts off with that great bass line… John Paul Jones was one of my bass heroes along with John Entwistle, Roger Glover and Paul McCartney.
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It’s worth remembering that the big M took a long time making their corporate minds up about the Hulk’s greenness! He started out sort of grey, and has been nuclear-waste green, grey-green, even almost flesh-coloured (ish) over the years. So I wouldn’t worry *too* much 😀
Surely by the time Bud turns 50, he’d have moved on to Xanax 😛 😛 😛
Or any number of those damn drugs they advertise on TV! The damn warnings they come with make me wanna rush out an buy them!
Eh, Bud would look terrible green anyway…
~blinks~ Every time someone in USA mentions pharma advertising on telly, I get the horrors. Mind you, they could be doing it here as well, and I’d never know because I don’t have a telly (though AFAIK they *don’t* do it here, and everyone else down here shares my horror of it). Sheesh, you poor feckers, getting bombarded with that sort of agenda-driven, dishonest advertising all the time…ouch!
I see your ‘zing!’ is a win with the peanut gallery. Presumably they’re all cartoon-watchers 😀
Yeah for the peanut gallery! Yeah, we’re cartoon watchers best I can tell…
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I HATE having drug commercials on TV… it’s saying “When someone you love can’t sleep/is depressed/to heavy/etc… then DRUG them!” Yeah, drugs are the answer to life’s problems…
Well, they are, but not the ones on TV. This is why they won’t legalize pot… if we’re all happy on dope, then why would we need Xanax and all it’s side effects??? Tis true…
I really can’t imagine what those drug adverts are like (and have NO desire to look for any on YouTube). It’s just so…so…so Brave New World. Scary. So you lot are living in a country infested by rabid mouth-foaming biblethumpers and presided over by Big Brother who says ‘here, take more soma, everything will be fine…’ Ouch, must be awful for the occasional sentient life forms 🙁
You could have painted him gray…wasn’t that the original hulk color, since no one would be the wiser.
Actually, I could have colored him green as we’re covered by the parody laws anyway…
I’ve seen older comics of the Hulk all gray and he looked dead, so I’m glad they went “green” with the big guy long before Al Gore told us all to do so!
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Im not sure anyone could copyright a color anyway, unless Hulk has a pantone reference tatooed on his ass
Love the “ZING” ROFL
Seems my “lawsuits” comment is the hit of the day… I’ll have to be more selective with my words…
As long as you’re doing parody, you can pretty much do what you want. Some things could get you in trouble, but very little. So, having Bud turn green would be okay.
LOL! Yes, I love the ZING part myself. Bud’s getting pretty fast these days…
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Is it a coincidence that he runs like a girl?!? *grin*
LOL! I don’t think I did that on purpose, but I do try to give him more effeminate mannerisms while he’s transformed.
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You may not see that every day… unless you’re married to Frankenstein, the Hulk, or the 50-foot Woman. 😉
Oh, the original 50 foot woman movie was so bad it is way cool! Now that I think of it, some 80s cartoon version of Archie on TV had Veronica grow really tall and somehow her swimsuit stretched with her. Spandex my ass…
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Whole lotta love for this.
Whole lotta more comin’ too! 🙂
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So… far as I can figure, Bud *starts* by Hulking out to the state where he shreds his clothing – then shrinks back into (naked) female form?
Well, it goes back to April of 2008 when Bud first licked the Mystic Frog and was transformed into a woman. In switching him back to male form, I wanted some sort of trigger… since the TV version of the Incredible Hulk came out in 1978, I decided on the “don’t make him angry” method. So, in his transformation process, Bud will “Hulk-out” thus exploding his clothes, and then settle down into the opposite form (male to female, female to male).
Kinda silly, but is my way bringing in some more surreal moments in the comic. By the way, the Mystic Frog idea is drawn from the movie “Gremlins” where a Dad buys his son this exotic pet from some weird pet store. At some point, I’m going to do a Flashback to when Jeff actually first go the Mystic Frog.
I hope this clears it up for you!
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Very nice drawings especially panels 2 & 3.
I think she-bud has beautiful eyes and a cute nose. If I weren’t already married to a homicidally suspicious woman, Shebud could leave her boots under my bed any time – just so long as she stayed mad. In what register is Shebud’s voice? Contralto?
What?!!
Steve.
Yeah, I’ve gotten better at drawing the female form and Bud certainly is a looker this time…
I think I like the term “Budette” for when he’s in female form. Nice ring to it…
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Hulk started out grey because Marvel didn’t want to have to pay for another color, but the team never liked it. Eventually they picked green skin with purple pants because the base colors (yellow, blue, and red) already appeared on most every page anyway.
Apparently Bud shaves.
Yes, I’ve been told I draw my women “clean”… Actually I did start to draw in the “landing strip” on Lorraine once and it just looked odd on a cartoon character. So apparently in the 1977 Universe, no women have to do bikini wax jobs.
Hmm… what about the guys?
Again talking about their wardrobe, don’t you mean “That was my ONLY shirt!”?
Buddet better find some clothes or she’ll get charged with indecent exposure a bikini would handy. They have a digital comic exposure two sexy cops in high cut body suits and high heels do battle with vampires.