I've not seen the Hulk yet. To be fair it comes out tomorrow. Tonight for those of us that are excited. Last night for people that know people. I'm not people that knows people. I know some things. Not people.

This isn't a desperate plea for your friendship, I just wanted to make sure you guys know that spoilers in this write-up for The Incredible Hulk will go no further than the pre-movie cameo buzz that's been circling the Internet (and TV commercials) for the past few weeks. So even though I wouldn't mind being your friend, this is really all about playing fair.

Marvel Comics has gotten sick of playing fair and have decided to take over Hollywood. They established themselves quite ably in modern day movies, arguably winning the comic-book-to-screen-wars, with the blockbuster X-men and Spider-man franchises, but after putting half their stable of characters on screen, they got sick of not being able to mix and match. Keeping up the guise that these characters all fight and play in the same universe became increasingly difficult. Different studios owned different characters and these properties were destine never to meet.

Marvel's solution was to form its own production company so that they could keep all their toys in the same sandbox. Spidey, Wolverine and a handful of characters most folks are less enthusiastic about are still on lockdown to their respective companies, but with the recent success of The Avengers comic books (I'm a Skrull BLUGGHH!) , Marvel was looking at a new list of potential blockbusters.

Iron Man was the perfect launching point. Sleek, explosive, action-packed and funny as hell. Marvel quickly made their presence felt with fans critics and the bank. On the heels of the movie's success plans for Thor, Captain America, an Iron Man sequel and an Avengers movie were quickly announced. To titillate fans further, Marvel threw a certain war heroes shield and a closing credits cameo where Iron Man meets the mysterious (yet obviously important because he's being played by Sam Jackson) Nick Fury. In Marvels "Ultimate Universe" Fury is the man responsible for bring the Avengers together so he's likely to play a big part in most of Marvels upcoming projects. Marvel was poised to take over.

Meanwhile, quietly in the background of "a few months away", The Incredible Hulk was piecing together the makings of another sleeper hit. At the time it was barely on anyone's radar, but a solid marketing campaign and positive reviews have snowballed into some serious buzz.

As Tim Roth-kicking and police car-mitted clips made their way around the web there was suddenly a story leaked that Robert Downey Jr. had been brought on to shoot a scene for The Hulk. This of course was recently confirmed in the below commercial.

This all sounded good to me. I was thrilled they'd taken control of their universe and were on course to really connect the movies. Then they got greedy. A couple weeks ago director Louis Leterrier let it slip that Captain America was going to turn up as well, but that it would be a cameo as hard to spot as the shield in Iron Man. What bothered me is that he insisted it would be the character. Not a costume, not a shield, but Captain America live and in person. To me it sounds greedy because there's no way this part has been cast yet and it's Captain America - it has to be someone big. There's no way that Brad Pitt is just going to scroll through The Hulk wearing a blue T-shirt with a star on it. So what could the cameo be?

On last Monday's Triple Feature we joked about it being Cap frozen in a block of ice and Gordon offered a much more pleasing scenario where it was WWII footage of Cap in action. Well that would certainly have been pleasing if it weren't for something Leterrier said earlier this week.

Bad. Weird… but it's been cut so that's good.

From the outside it just feels like one of those things that sounded great at the time. "Oh man, the fans are gonna love this!" Some of us might have, but there's got to be better ways to do it. We're smarter than that. You're smarter than that. You don't need to go cameo crazy for us to have a good time. Unless the movie sucks. Then you're totally screwed.

The good news there is that the reviews have been amazing so far. It'll draw natural comparisons to Ang Lee's Hulk and even Iron Man but I think The Incredible Hulk will hold up just fine. With or without a frozen war hero.

Is this strip too dialogue heavy? I worry sometimes about what kind of reaction a wall of text will get. On one hand there's something so right about a quick snappy exchange - the fewer words, the better the joke - but on the other hand I find that I really respond to this kind of comedy. Long winded CRAZY exchanges that ramble on into the absurd. There's not always a place for it, but if it works why not go with it?

Whether it works or doesn't, is a text heavy strip intimidating to the reader? Do you guys see a strip like this and just click the "Next" button? Is there room in webcomics for a bloated exchange?

Well I hope you guys dug this little non-review update. I certainly thank you for giving it a read. I'm really looking forward to the two movies being released this weekend. I think Hulk is an easy pleaser, it's destine to be good, but I also think that The Happening could really surprise us. The marketing has been hit or miss because of "the big secret they have to keep", but I'm starting to warm to the idea of paranoia on the run. We'll see how that goes.

Now, be a lamb and go vote for my friend's band Transmission Fields to participate in Lalopolooza. Vote everyday. It's that sort of deal. See you soon.