The Immortal Hulk Omnibus

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The Hulk is a big scary brute that seeks vengeance in a very aggressive manner, and there is something supernatural about his superpower set—it goes into metaphysical territory, and that keeps each new issue a chance to develop and add to his mythology—not that previous stories remain unmentioned—they are worked into the main narrative in a seamless manner that works as character dialogue/narration. As I said with my review of Fractions Hawkeye Omnibus 1, superhero comics are an unfriendly place for a newcomer such as myself; even with a storyline designed to welcome me in, the weight of history is suffocating, and I struggle to determine what information I'm supposed to understand, and what is something new. Plus, like a lot of omnibuses of Marvel comics, there is a severe case of in media res with characters and what happened to them before the series began. Each issue is also prologued with a brief quote from some literary source, and while I had no experience with reading those sources, they provided adequate ominous feeling.

Which I don’t have a problem with, but it leaches any real stakes from those scenes because there’s no rules to those mental/dream universes, so any terrible life-threatening fate in one can just be wished away in the next, and indeed they often are.But to obtain the answers he seeks, Bruce Banner will have to face roaming gamma experiments, a ruthless assassin out for his blood. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I have to give it 4 stars, because it is well written, and the pacing and setup are all done very well. Why was the One-Below-All trying to escape hell through manipulating and/or possessing Banner’s dad and the Leader.

They also exhume the old school comics visual gag of naming bars and businesses in the near background after “beloved” OG comics professionals – Mantlo, Starlin, Milgrom, Severin, Wein, and so on. Sure, the fact that God doesn’t explain himself to Hulk echoes the final confrontation between Job and Jehovah, where Jehovah declares that he doesn’t have to explain jackshit to Job about why his life has turned to shit. Even so, even though there’s a lot of this book that he didn’t draw, this is still Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett. Being raised mostly by my mom, this is the closest I came to bro-ing down with a parent over a hot babe, which is something I assume dads and sons do, sort of, at some point, but maybe not. Bennett has contributed to Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man and Thor, and worked extensively at DC Comics, including on 52.

don't worry, big guy, there's antibiotics for that now) you can’t help thinking hmm maybe this comic isn’t deep and meaningful, maybe it’s actually just kitsch? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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So it turns out the One-Below-All is just God Himself in a snake costume, fine, that’s not unheard-of as a piece of theology. Al Ewing's Immortal Hulk takes those horror underpinnings that have been there from the start and cranks them up to 11. Omnibus usually includes bonus materials such as the creation of the work, alternative covers, sketches, comic scripts, and more. I'd describe it as being like the X-Files' "Monster of the Week" era where we've got a general premise, but each episode stands alone. Ewing knew how to pace this comic, with every final page of an issue finishing on either a cliffhanger or dramatic moment, so it was fun to read serially; this is the first time I’ve read it through, start to finish, but that brought to the fore some of the series’ strengths and weaknesses both.Especially as we are introduced to characters with long-standing backstories deeply entwined with Banner’s past (looking at you, General Fortean) a new reader has a lot to catch-up with.