You could well be right... I suppose the advantage of muties is that they're a dime a dozen. No origin story required just "Oh, I woke up shooting lasers out my eyes, guess I'll go join the X-men." Which lead to sufficient proliferation that Joe Q went ahead with Decimation to clean shop with the bastards.

It certainly seems Marvel has been building the gamma spawn of late... Just off the top of my head, we've had Skaar, Lyra, Rulk, She-Rulk, Scorpion (probably), Rick as A-Bomb and then we had the chaps from Gamma Corps.

I still hope we have some kind of situation where Betty comes back and finds Bruce has managed to have THREE kids while she was dead.

Ah, this old chestnut... From a purely transformation/process viewpoint - you see the BE in the trailer, there's pretty much no need to see the film.

As a film itself... it definitely leaves a bad taste in the mouth as regards the squandered potential. The fact it moves quickly from soft porn to cheap horror... eh. I suppose that as the classic story is something that resonates with me, I'm merely holding a film with limited budget and imagination to too high a standard and that I know intellectually that for a smexy female orientated Jekyll/Hyde type story you'd probably need a fairly hefty special effects budget and that would pretty much never happen on a film that would play out in a manner which I cared for.

Ah, so Marvel is pushing ahead with that oh so wholesome inability to not just spew out tie-ins?

The Hulk team-up was pretty hilarious... seriously, someone thought Angel and Iceman standing near the Hulk was worth printing? Or Dazzler singing at the Hulk? Are Marvel just trying to push the Hulk brand or something? I mean... we had the big ol' storyline with him getting shot into space, hanging out in space, coming back - gave him two (and possibly 3) kids, one of who has got his own title, another of whom got a mini-series and is now appearing regularly in one of the TWO monthly Hulk titles and now we seem to be randomly getting one shots and the build up to ANOTHER meta-event and of course, we've got the whole Rulk and the appearance of the She-Rulk to look forward to.

I suppose for obvious reasons, I keep my eye on Hulk titles more than others but the proliferation of a supporting cast of gamma spawn seems to be more than what you'd normally get. I suppose with Cap dead they may just be filling the gap but then, I suppose I don't really pay as much attention to the goings on in Marvel that would be required for me to pass any meaningful comment.

As I've heard, the rationale for Disney buying Marvel is to hit the young male demographics which they're striking out with on their saccharine pop kids etc. Generally, the conventional wisdom says - boys relate more to male characters and so, I doubt She-Hulk will be at the front of the line... but honestly, I don't think that this is really going to make a big difference one way or another.

Because Marvel likes to milk crossover events - there are going to be TWO Word War Hulk events, Alpha and Gamma (like radiation! GET IT?!) Alpha is basically the left hand side called the "Intelligentsia" or something similarly prosaic and basically The Leader gets them together to mess with the gamma gang or some such.

So... like every non-profit company then?

Of course, the issue for Disney - which has prompted a drop in its own share price - is that they're taking over a company that has been whoring out its licenses for some time. So, many of the biggest names are all tied up in rights deals - so, this will not be a quick pay off for them. So... While they wait for that to come through, you never know - stranger things have happened.

The Daily Mail should stick to vitriolic hatred of the poor, ethnic minorities, immigration and political correctness... the fair weather approach to female appearance "x is too fat, oh, no - now they're too thin" is a bit tame by comparison to the batshit crazy that makes it probably one of the funniest and least credible papers on the planet.

Yeah, all that happens now is that "someone" will post a "leak" and then, like sheep - it just goes around the Internet in a few hours and becomes a "fact"... and yes, The Sun is reliably unreliable.

And Megan Fox would have been a fucking horrible Catwoman (or She-Hulk, for that matter), given that she's made a career based on being the generic hottie that fills time between Baysplosions, rather than an actual talent.