Who peed in the punch?
By Bob Calhoun Feb. 20, 2010 | When I first opened the screener of “Planet Hulk,” I hoped the 81-minute animated feature would deliver an actual planet full of raging green muscleheads yelling, “Hulk smash!” while perpetually pounding on each other. Barring that, I’d’ve settled for an adaptation of the Harlan Ellison-scripted “Incredible Hulk” No. 140 (1971) where our favorite gamma-powered brute finds true love on a subatomic world populated by green people, only to have it all ripped away by a bug-eyed alien named Psyklop. That’s how far back me and ol’ Jade Jaws roll, folks. Instead, “Planet Hulk” is the straight-to-DVD version of a more recent popular run of comics where Hulk fights for his life in some interstellar gladiatorial games, kind of like the Starz Network’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” but without all the softcore porn. Looking to shave some money off the Pentagon budget and finally redeploy Gen. “Thunderbolt” Ross off to Afghanistan, Iron Man and his superpowered collea
