Super Tough!: Colussus n' Bender

Comic Book Character of the Week: The Incredible Hulk

In the left corner, standing at ten feet tall, wearing the purple trunks and this week's Comic Book Character of the Week, The Incredible Hulk has sometimes been a simplistic character, simply punching things again and again (the recent story arc, World War Hulk, was particularly guilty of this). But when writers like Peter David, the definitive Hulk scribe, get hold of him, he becomes more than a combination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. The Hulk and Bruce Banner become a psychologically complex, nuanced being with an incredibly complicated history involving Banner’s battle for control, which has led to Hulks green and gray.


Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Hulk is the strongest and most powerful being ever to grace the pages of a Marvel comic book. His ability to increase his size and strength as his rage increases, makes him an unstoppable force in the Marvel universe. (Yes, even more so than the Juggernaut and Colossus). It’s been fun watching The Hulk become a major, major player in the Marvel Universe of late, with Planet Hulk, the aforementioned World War Hulk and the current Red Hulk storyline. So far he's already had two television series, six television movies and two feature films. Long may Hulk continue to smash.

Comic Book Character of the Week: Colossus

Yo, cuz. This week's Comic Book Character of the Week is no other than Colossus. Created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975.

A Russian mutant, Peter Rasputin, is a member of the X-Men and is by far physically the strongest X-Man. Even without his mutant ability to transform his entire body into a form of organic steel, he still stands at a towering 7'5. While in his armored form, he requires no food, no water, or even oxygen to sustain himself and is extremely resistant to injury.

Throughout the series he is portrayed as quiet, shy and innocent as he only reluctantly agrees to use his powers in combat. He feels its his responsibility to use his abilities for the betterment of human and mutant-kind.