Bruce Banner - The Hulk Appreciation 2021

[Immortal Hulk]

Don't remember if this has been posted

Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters by Juan Ferreyra

[Intothevoid]

Oh yea that looks awesome.

[Vordan]

Juan Ferreya is one of my favorite artists, his action sequences on Green Arrow Rebirth were phenomenal. He can draw really warm, uplifting stuff, or super dark horror, really excited to see him doing some Hulk.

[kalai]

The big fight between Hulk and the Avengers could be the one foreshadowed in Issue#33
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[WAKANDA FOREVER!]

James Harren of UltraMega does great body horror and monsters

[Intothevoid]

A Hulk from the upcoming IH one-shot

[kalai]

James Harren of UltraMega does great body horror and monsters

Oh boy, UltraMega was super weird.

[Jekyll]

A Hulk from the upcoming IH one-shot

Looks like Stripe from Gremlins.

[Jekyll]

I hope the next creative team sticks to the horror vibe because it fits Hulk perfectly.

[McFarlane's Green Hulk]

Incredible Hulk #313
“Hook, Line and Sinker!”

Cover Date: November 1985
Sale Date: August 6th, 1985
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Artist: Mike Mignola
Inker: Gerry Talaoc
Letterer: Jim Novak
Colorist: Bob Sharen
Editor: Carl Potts
Guest Stars/Supporting Cast: Walter Langkowski, remaining members of Alpha Flight
Synopsis: A despondent Bruce Banner decides to end his life. Banished to another dimension and once again cursed with sharing his life with the savage Hulk, he jumps from pathway of the Crossroads dimension, but transforms and the brute finds his way back to the origin point. Now no longer a mindless monster with the reemergence of Banner, we see the return of the savage, child-like Hulk. During his soliloquy, the Hulk is hit with a laser line that molecularly bonds to his back and he cannot remove it. He travels thru numerous portals hoping it will disappear, but no such luck. Unexpectedly, something travels from the laser line and Banner’s spirit is forced from the Hulk’s body. We find out that it’s his old college roommate Walter Langkowski, aka the late Sasquatch of Alpha Flight. We get the backstory on how he was killed and his soul forced into the robot body of Alpha member Box. His lover Aurora has given him an ultimatum on staying inside a metal shell or finding another human body she can be attracted to. Banner agrees that this situation would work perfectly for both; he could finally die, and Langkowski could resume his life and control the Hulk and Banner’s body without issue. However, Walter is humbled by Banner’s sacrifice and exits the Hulk, which then sucks Banner’s spirit back into his own body. Moments later, the Hulk is forcibly pulled out of the Crossroads dimension and back to Earth, where he wreaks havoc at Alpha Flight HQ.
Commentary: Fat-Head alerts for page 2 and 6! Awesome recap and transformation splash. And after 5 years on the book, Mantlo bids adieu to the Hulk and he and John Byrne, who was out of ideas for Alpha Flight, swapped books. This story will finish up in Alpha Flight #29. Overall, I rank Mantlo's run as pretty enjoyable. He first couple of years could be considered rehashes of the same old formula for Hulk stories, but with a "modern twist" (modern for early 1980's). Bored with that, he came up with the long-term BIC storyline and that lasted another couple of years, which transitioned into the Mindless Hulk Crossroads finale. And next to Len Wein, he's one of the very, very few writers who "gets" the Hulk's broken 3rd person speak right.

[Frontier]

I hope the next creative team sticks to the horror vibe because it fits Hulk perfectly.

I'm fine with a new direction if the writer commits well to it, but Ewing has definitely done a great job of selling it as a sci-fi horror Superhero book .

[The Cool Thatguy]

Hmm, certain symmetry there.

Walter displaced Bruce in the past, now he's been displaced in his own body by another Gamma user

[Venom Melendez]

He said, since the beginning, that He always had exactly how the book would end in his mind; it would end with everything He wanted to say about the character.

Also He mentioned quite a few times that He wouldn't want to overstay his welcome.

He has never actually said that Immortal Hulk is ending with issue 50 though.

[Vordan]

He has never actually said that Immortal Hulk is ending with issue 50 though.

Because he doesn’t want to “spoil” stuff. But he also hasn’t denied it.

[ChrisIII]

Hmm, certain symmetry there.

Walter displaced Bruce in the past, now he's been displaced in his own body by another Gamma user

He also had Snowbird's body for a while I think, so body-swapping isn't all that new for him