HULK OUT

The other day me and a couple of friends were helping a shop downtown by lifting and moving a few heavy flower boxes. One of my friends, who isn't the strongest of the group, got a peculiar surge of strength and lifted the box straight up and placed it on the shelf.

We are all shocked that she lifted the box. When she lifted, she let out a funny sound. It kind of sounded like a lion's deep roar. When she lifted it, we all laughed, and I said, "Whoa way to hulk out!."

It makes me laugh even more now that I read Rolling Stone's feature story on the history of Marvel's The Hulk. When I first clicked on this, it was unusual for me. I'm not a huge  Marvel fan. I'm more into the Lord of the Rings fandom, but I clicked it on anyway.

I was immediently drawn into the story. I'm a fan of Mark Ruffalo, and he is the most recent guy to play the gentle green giant. The first paragraph talks about Ruffalo inconspicuously sitting on the subway in NYC. I thought it had just enough detail about what he was wearing and where he was. The writer Brian Hiatt compares Ruffalo to his character when he describes his face, clothes and demeanor.

It was a decently long piece that covered a lot of material. Sometimes when I'm reading long feature stories, I get lost. They cover so much background infomation and little details that it can be easy to forget what the point was. I didn't have that problem with this story.

I really liked how Hiatt takes a deeper look at Ruffalo. He even reveals that Ruffalo had a brain tumor that left him completely deaf in one year was he was younger. I love the part toward to the end when Hiatt talks about how after Ruffalo plays a character, he becomes extremely passionate about the character's interests. He tried to become a Marine after playing one, a senior-league wrestler after playing in Foxcatcher and anti-fracking activist after playing a superhero.

Overall, it was a great piece. The writing is what made me interested in something I'm typically not interested in.