New year, new thread, new terrors courtesy of Al Ewing.
New year, new thread, new terrors courtesy of Al Ewing.
New thread! Can’t wait, feels like this could be a great year for Hulk. Here’s to hoping this decade treats him better than the last one.
Starting off 2020 with a new Mac screen...and one of my favorite Sal Buscema pages, used for a variant on Immortal Hulk #1.
Piggy-backing off the Mac screen problem I had a few weeks ago, my review of Hulk Annual #11 went belly-up too.
It was such a chore getting thru that book that I'm just gonna link it to another review and call it good.
Incredible Hulk Annual #11
“The Day the Earth Turned Green!”
Cover Date: October 1982
Sale Date: June 22nd, 1982
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Artist: Rich Buckler
Inker: Joe Sinnott
Letterer: Jim Novak
Colorist: Bob Sharen
Editor: Al Milgrom
Guest Stars/Supporting Cast: The Avengers, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange, and Dr. Rikky Keegan
Villain: The Leader
Synopsis: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Incre...nnual_Vol_1_11
Commentary: Interesting issue. While not bad, it's just one of those things that grind on me. I have a select few of good Hulk annuals, and this, sadly, isn't one of them. Shame that I can't remember my comments from the original review, but I liked the art team here. Buckler was a good artist, and we don't have look at pages full of Kirby swipes in this book.
Tarot was ok, seems like it could be a fun read from what we've seen so far.
Also it seems we are getting ANOTHER Hulk vs Thor showdown... seriously how many times have those 2 fought each other...
I entered comic sections after a few days of absence and am surprised to see appreciation threads locked. Why are these an annual thing now?
This looks like a fun book I missed.
I miss poor Bill Mantlo, anytime I see his name I remember that he wanted to be a lawyer up until a certain point 30 years ago.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, HOPE
That is, the heritage of the Kryptonian Warrior: Kal-El, son of Jor-El
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Immortal Hulk again among the best of the best!
The Best Comics of 2019
The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, et al (Marvel Entertainment)
As stated above, it’s been a strange year for superhero comics as a whole, but hardly a bad one, especially as Ewing and Bennett’s creepy body horror take on Marvel’s iconic strongman continued — and continued to get darker and more disturbing as it grew larger in scope. Even after the initial storyline concluded, the series reinvented itself as the year closed, promising that 2020 will see a Hulk (and a Bruce Banner, more importantly) at war with the way the world works, with the reader not entirely sure that he’s wrong. It's miles away from the cuddly version of the character as seen in Avengers: Endgame, and all the better for it.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...s-2019-1265254
You may not have enjoyed this one, but I have a sentimental spot for this annual. Why, you ask? I distinctly remember it as one of the first comics I ever had/read, plus it was most definitely my introduction to the concept of the unified Marvel Universe (although I most definitely didn't recognize it as such except in hindsight). It recycles the same tropes--Hulk blamed for somehow being responsible for the Green Flu, gets attacked by the good guys, and finally everybody realizes the Leader's the real bad guy, the end. I'd have liked to see Rikki Keegan more, to get some more background on her and perhaps for her to have survived, but we can't have it all, alas.
A lot of solid art by Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott. And dear God, I wish I could afford to buy the original art for page 11.
Oh, and welcome back, fellas. It's been a while.
~Gary, aka HulkSmash!
Was an Ok issue, wasn't too blown away by it, felt more like filler... is it me or are more and more IH issues feeling like filler nowadays? It's not a bad issue by any means, it's just that we get all these issues that feel like they are dragged out a lot with nothing substantive to them. Like this didn't need to be a whole issue on itself.