Review: This is how you do a guest appearance. I always like it when guest stars actually have relevance in the characters show, and visa versa. The Hulk has proven to be a character incredibly difficult to pull off, but always seem to work well in guest starring roles. This version of Hulk wasn�t as enjoyable as the one who appeared in his own a short while after this show ended, and nowhere near as good as the 80�s cartoon version.

This episode had some great fight scenes; the opening with Hulk attacking The Thing and especially the finale, which was basically an all out brawl featuring the FF, Hulk and Dr. Doom. The episode has a somewhat clich�d premises, Doom tricks Hulk into thinking the FF has stolen Rick Jones friendship and decides to kill them all because of it.

The Hulk was a little weird here. Ron Perlman is usually a fantastic voice actor, his roles as Clayface, Slade and Orion asset to that, but both his Hulk and Bruce Banner felt a little off. The dialogue can be blamed for some of it, but it was still a little distracting. I prefer it when 2 different guys voice the characters. As always, the 80�s version is the best animated version for the voices. I missed Michael Bell and Bob Holt; they are still the best actors to portray the characters some 20 years later.

The final fight, as said above, was awesome. The one benefit of having a syndicated show like this is that there aren�t any network standards to uphold to, which means The Thing can clobber The Hulk in the mouth and the camera will actually see it. I was surprised at the Thing�s �death� scene, specifically at how long it lasted. It wasn�t a simple, down, everyone is sad, characters moves moment that�s annoying in nearly every show that�s tried to pull it off. He was �dead� for a good few minutes, and Reed failed in his attempts to revive him.
 

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