MC2 Cameo in Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #5

 

This will be a super quick post to finish off the lean month, since it’s just been brought to my attention that the MC2 makes a cameo appearance in the latest issue of the Spider-Gwen mini-series  Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #5. Here’s the relevant page which seems to depict at least a version of Cassie Lang aka Stinger and May ‘Mayday’ Parker aka Spider-Girl:

 

 

I should point out the Spider-Girl costume is inaccurate, as is often the case with these sort of cameo glimpses over the past decade. But more importantly, I do not understand why the relatively new Captain America from 2099-related comics is featured in the same slice of the page. Either the artist (Jodi Nishijima) meant this to be Shannon Carter aka American Dream and got the wrong costume reference or this slice is representative of more than one universe.

 

Until I find a new job with better hours and better pay, I remain

 

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Son of the Hulk

 

Today’s post will again be something a little different, a look at something we did not see in the MC2. For this entry in what I am still calling the Untold Tales of the MC2 which looks at costumes, concepts, story ideas and characters that never made it to the printed page, we first need to talk about someone who did make it into the MC2: the Son of the Hulk.

 

Making his first and only appearance in the pages of A-Next #3 is the young son of the Bruce Banner aka The Incredible Hulk, David Banner. In this issue we learn that Bruce Banner has retired to Denver, Colorado and he indicates he is finally rid of his alter ego for good and has not seen Doctor Strange in years. When Strange appears unexpectedly to reform the Defenders, he takes complete mental control of Banner and forces Bruce to once more transform into the Hulk. Concerned for his son as he begins to change into the Hulk, Bruce shouts for his son to run but Doctor Strange assures him that David is in no danger. David Banner is left stunned and confused, and this is all we see from the boy in the published works of the MC2.

 

Now, let us take a look at the unpublished side of things for David, thanks once more to MC2 co-creator, artist and ideas man, Ron Frenz. On his official Facebook page, Ron shared the following image with this description:

 

Davey and (the Green) Goliath!

An un-used MC2 idea for Bruce Banner and his young son David involving an accidental gamma mind link and ensuing hi-jinks!

 

While it is just a concept that never saw publication, Mr Frenz evidently put some thought into this, going so far as to clarify why ‘Davey’ has green hair in his sketch when asked:

 

The “gamma mind link” turned his hair green.

 

It sounds like this unpublished story idea would have been a lot of fun. As I mentioned in my She-Hulk post, we don’t know who would have looked after David Banner after his father was sent to Limbo by Loki and it’s never mentioned who his mother is or even if she’s still alive. Perhaps that is a topic for another time?

 

Until I stop exploring every corner of the MC2 and finding more reasons to love it, I remain

 

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