"Messed."

Plotwise, I kind of know where this is going to end, but it's still open enough for things to surprise me. I don't know if I had more planned for Hallow's Eve and Chasm right now: they might have been derailed by the last week of work! The TMNT Jack Kirby gets to make an appearance, because I really liked him flanked by Crystal and Sersi in the year-ender post. And Doc Samson came up before in this storyline, when Kurt mentions him to Moonstone, back in October! 

I know in regular Marvel continuity, he's a big green Sasquatch now, and...I don't see it? This might be me overlaying Frasier on top of him, but I see Samson as maybe being a bit fussy and fastidious, approaching snooty. He maybe thought becoming a gamma-powered he-man would change that, and maybe it did for a bit, but old habits...He probably overcorrected when he realized the amount of control he would have to maintain on his strength. That and Samson would never, ever allow himself to agree with someone like Moonstone, even if she was in the right on this one.

I really wanted to use the phrase "pardon my back" in the panel where Doc Samson moves to leave, since I remember it from an old Hulk comic! But it wasn't from Samson: Bruce says it to Samantha Parrington, after the Hulk/Valkyrie fight fizzes out, in Incredible Hulk #142, which was collected in a paperback.