The Immortal Hulk Omnibus

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Coming away from this book, I find the most brilliant part of Ewing's concept to be how it re-frames the Hulk overall-- resolving that tension I always felt when trying to classify the character. Why was the One-Below-All trying to escape hell through manipulating and/or possessing Banner’s dad and the Leader.

There are strong vibes of Alan Moore's initial run on "swamp thing" where he cleans the slate before doing what he wants. The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter – in this case Jack(ie) McGee. This is damning with faint praise, but the Immortal Hulk series doesn’t fall into the “decompressed writing” trap, doesn’t insult your intelligence too often, is occasionally readable and fun, and even the poor ending didn’t make me want to throw my (borrowed) copy at the wall. And while the books and later the movies would try to place Hulk on the side of the angels, making him more controlled and heroic and even occasionally an Avenger. 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.My reaction to the denouement this second time around was no doubt coloured by a piece I’d just read by Freddie deBoer, titled “Please Stop Having Your Characters Just State the Themes of Your Show or Movie to the Audience, Thanks”, which argues exactly what it sounds like it’d argue. I love my green boy the hulk, nerd by day, rage monster by night, Jacklyn and Hyde all rolled into one. Find out as Al Ewing and Joe Bennett take Bruce Banner to hell and back in the complete, infernal saga of the Immortal Hulk! The artwork and colouring is well done, not one for children though as it deals with adult themes and is quite horror based with monsters etc. It’s a bit shit that you can charge umpty-ump dollars for a comic and still ruin some of the images).

Started ok-ish with some kind of mysterious horror vibe but quickly descended into the usual Marvel blend of shitty, pre-existing characters cropping up that may or may not have some kind of bearing on things. But to obtain the answers he seeks, Bruce Banner will have to face roaming gamma experiments, a ruthless assassin out for his blood… and the one thing that can cage the Immortal Hulk.There were plenty of Banner back story refs, which I imagine are great if you dig the history, then a load of demon/hell/narration-heavy garbage which made no sense and seemed completely irrelevant. In reality, I read these issues as the first 3 collections of the comic, but as I read them all together I want to keep them together in 1 entry.

Omnibus usually includes bonus materials such as the creation of the work, alternative covers, sketches, comic scripts, and more. But Ewing bumps that up to text, with not only literal chapter and verse but characters themselves talking about it. Nitpick – at one point in the Fox News sequence, the bloviating podcaster refers to the “public sector” when he means the exact opposite, viz. Taking all the psychological horror/trauma of Bruce Banner and his multiple personalities and mixing it with visceral body horror makes this one of the best Marvel series I've ever read. I remember reading that they dressed Scully in big suit jackets and shit to sort of downplay her looks, also to age her a little.

But actually there is a *motivation* for God earlier in the book of Job, when Satan makes a bet with Him that he can turn Job into an atheist by fucking with him. The art is perfect and does an awe-inspiring job of depicting the massive muscles of the Hulk, and I was particularly engrossed when the Hulk was embroiled in combat or transformation. I gather that Bennett has since been dropped down the cancel hole, blacklisted and reduced to working on the Rippaverse, which in its own way is like an EC plot twist-cum-punchline; I can just picture the Crypt-Keeper cackling “Hee-hee, poor old Joe loved making horror comics, until he found himself living inside one”. I watched the Hulk TV series as a child, cringed at that awful Ang Lee film, quite liked the Ed Norton one, was impressed by the Peter David collection 'the End' and enjoy the MCU version but this collection is, for me, the perfect Hulk.