Amadeus Cho Is The Totally Awesome Hulk
When it was announced that there would be a new Hulk series after Marvel’s Secret Wars event, many expected a change for the character. Then it was revealed that the series would be called “The Totally Awesome Hulk” and would not star Bruce Banner as the green giant. So who would take his place? Well, many guessed his former sidekick/fanboy Amadeus Cho, and Marvel has revealed that is indeed who will be the Hulk.
The writer for The Totally Awesome Hulk, Greg Pak, talked with Entertainment Weekly about Cho and how he was honored to bring the character he created to the forefront of the series.
“I actually co-created Amadeus back in the day, 10 years ago — it’s coming out around the 10th anniversary of the character’s first appearance,” Pak tells Entertainment Weekly. “And Takeshi Miyazawa was the artist and I was the writer, and we introduced this Korean-American kid into the Marvel Universe. It’s been a blast to write ever since. We did a lot of stuff with him over the years in the Hulk universe. This is also a character, by the way, who has a long history with Banner and the Hulk. He basically started out as Hulk’s number one fan because he’s a crazy teenager with as little impulse control as the Hulk, so he kind of identified with him. But the character always meant a huge amount to me. When I had the opportunity to create this new character, I realized there aren’t specifically that many Asian-American characters at this time in the Marvel Universe, and it was sort of a niche. I also wanted to write a character who talks a lot. I was writing a lot of Hulk stuff, I was writing very closed-lip surly characters. But it’s been tremendous. I go to cons and people come up to me dressed as Amadeus Cho, and that blows my mind. And then the character’s also been picked up in some of the cartoons that Marvel puts out, and in one of the DVD movies they did. It’s kind of tremendous when anything you work on kind of resonates with people and goes on to be used by other creators as well.”
The Totally Awesome Hulk comes out this December.