Incredible Hulk - Hide in plain site

Ok this is part of Bruce Jones's work on the Hulk and i'm really not feeling this arc at all .
It's basically Absorbing Man caught in some sort of secret underground lab/prison and somehow is able to absorb minds without even touching them??

Absorbing Mans powers only work when he touches something and not only that since he can enter minds he has become intelligent and crafty so we spend 98% of this arc completely out of character on purpose which makes me wonder why he didn't just make up a new villian capable of entering peoples minds?

I never really understood why Absorbing Man is one of the Hulks arch enemies in the first place since his mythos has nothing to do with the Hulk but i can assume that some writers decided to use him as a foil to take a break from the ever present gamma conspiracies .

anyways A/m blackmails Bruce Banner to get him to realease A/m from his prison and when he does he somehow takes on the properties of the whole entire lab.

In the end they trick him into popping into one of the professors minds and since that professor is dead he can't escape yet at the end he somehow appears in a baby in china?

The art by Leonardo Fernandez is nice in a slightly angular way that seems very popular nowadays.

I guess i would give this about a C

Stella Soleil -Dirrty Little Secrets

Britney Spears created sort of a weird trend where failed female rock singers turned to remaking there image and incorporating teen oriented dance pop.
Vitamin C and Stella Soleil are the ones that come to mind since they both had failed careers singing "alternative rock" before the teen pop explosion during the millennium.

Stella used to be an a slight industrial rock band called Sister Soleil which noone seems to remember.
And the cover art here is quite nice recalling 40-s and 50-s pin up queens.
And strangely enough the music isn't half bad at all.
The semi hit song from here was a remake of a middle eastern hit pop song called " kiss kiss" which is probably the sexiest and best song on here.
Tthe rest mix dance pop with bits of pop/rock guitar with various producers (including Phil Thornally of the Cure !) and most of the songs deal with sex and love and tho her voice isn't perfect she seems to know how to work within the boundaries of her limitations and delivers some slightly quirky vocal performances.

It's a shame that her career bottomed out after this and went into dog grooming since she shows some capabilities.

I would give this about a B :)