The Immortal Hulk Omnibus

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Maybe it’s because I haven’t read a Hulk book before, and I’m not super informed on his lore (or the Avengers). 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. Al Ewing and Joe Bennet really lean into the horror aspect of the Hulk with this new approach/title.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Nitpick – at one point in the Fox News sequence, the bloviating podcaster refers to the “public sector” when he means the exact opposite, viz. Next to the fact that Banner is (mostly) in control by day and Hulk by night, Banner moves from town to town like a vagabond, fleeing the destruction Hulk leaves behind. I have to give it 4 stars, because it is well written, and the pacing and setup are all done very well.

Unfortunately, those first five issues were deceptively good, because the story never reached those same highs in the following 10 issues. As a run it’s very, very, very heavily indebted to the Moore/Totleben/Bissette Swamp Thing: emphasise the body horror, throw in some pretentious hoity-toity quotations, reveal that the MC’s powers are way stronger and weirder than anyone ever realised, go cosmic, build up to the apocalypse, everything you thought you knew about X is wrong etc. Even when beloved 2000AD alum Al Ewing crafts an ambitious but pretty direct exploration of who (or what) Hulk is, every other page still needs to comment on how characters were dead, then alive, then a sleeper agent, then not a sleeper agent, then exiled in outer space, then arrested for failing to pay tax, then discovering they’re been secretly their own mother this whole time. This comic contains many of the things that made me fall in love with long form super hero stories such as the swamp thing run, rot world. But I overall like the book – there’s the memorable images of body horror, the Xemnu sequence is a hoot, the Devil Hulk is a fun character, the plot stays engaging throughout even with my qualms about dreamland rules and the series’ ending etc etc.

I didn't find the horror elements to be all that scary, though it played out more like a cosmic horror idea than an actual horror story, and in that regard, it was well done. This is by far the most talked about Marvel comic of the last five years, at least in all the circles I'm a part of.

of who’s behind it all kind of makes a hash of their motivations, or lack thereof, earlier in the story. There are plenty of additional plot lines to keep you interested too: good to see Alpha Flight, Avengers etc all used properly. 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. Each issue has a full story, which makes it a simple and very rewarding thing to read issue after issue.

The story in itself is very good, in the middle, The first pages hints about some puppeteers that then are absent from the story, and the ending is just confusing. Bennett’s gnarly monster design is essential to the book’s body horror, with each issue he drew offering up at least one gruesome double-page spectacle – sadly, often spoiled in the omnibus by gutter-loss. Job asks his creator w the f is up with all this suffering, and his creator responds, essentially, which of us made the universe, buddy? S.Avengers; and joined the writing team for the "No Surrender" storyline in Avengers, which brought the Hulk back from the dead.