Ummm....how did the Hulk service others, exactly?
Hulk has gone through a number of various phases throughout his history. The Hulk you're probably thinking of is the mindless, violent brute. Hulk has fought numerous villains, and at some points has been able to retain much or all of the intelligence and control of Bruce Banner while Hulked out.
Akroyd is still, "Hey, I was famous 35 years ago!"
You must be a troll, Mr. A.C. I have it on good authority that Dan Akroyd's most recent efforts involved solving mysteries of the ancient world.
Writer Alan Moore believes, "It's a marketing term
Author Daniel Raeburn wrote "I snicker at the neologism first for its insecure pretension -- the literary equivalent of calling a garbage man a 'sanitation engineer' -- and second because a 'graphic novel' is in fact the very thing it is ashamed to admit: a comic book, rather than a comic pamphlet or comic magazine."
Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening." Comedian and comic book fan Robin Williams joked, "'Is that a comic book? No! It's a graphic novel! Is that porn? No! It's adult entertainment!'"
(Comic book nerds: calling low-brow comic books by a fancy name does not make them high-brow. It makes you look like an idiot who seems to know that reading comic books is juvenile but wants to pretend otherwise.)
Very few nerds call them graphic novels. Nerds have never been afraid of the term "comic book." It is the newer, more mainstream audience that has to hide behind the pretentious "graphic novel" smokescreen.
Also, you should actually read some of the classics like Watchmen before you presuppose that reading comics is only juvenile or low-brow entertainment.
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. -- W.C. Fields