Originally Posted by
thwhtGuardian
I didn't care for the ending at all; that the great grandparents of the Leader and the Hulk not only knew eachother (and were married)but were unknowingly exposed to gamma radiation together making the Leader and the Hulk fated to come to be just made the world feel so contrived and small...and the whole confrontation with "god" and the references to the Kabbalah just felt like filler rather than something profound. I get it, endings are always the hardest part and a good old fashioned beat down between the Hulks and the Leader would have been unfulfilling as well...but I think it would have felt more honest at least. "Hey, I don't really know how to put this all back in the box but here's the Hulk punching the Leader! Have fun with the next story guys!" is real, unsatisfying, sure, but it isn't pretending to be more than it is...and that's what we actually got here, a bunch of words with no real depth trying to pretend to be something greater and sound more profound then they actually were. It was the kind of scene like those conversations you had in your dorm room during your sophomore year of college at two in morning after one too many beers and bong rips...it felt real deep at the time but faded away to nothing with the rising of the sun...but I'm not in college anymore so I can see it clearly from the first without needing dawn's illumination.
This was just a bunch of sound and fury, which while fitting for the Hulk in a way...as the Bard said, it ultimately signified nothing.
Still and all, this was a really solid run and like the runs of Peter David, Bruce Jones, Bill Mantlo and Greg Pak I'll no doubt revisit it again down through the years...but the ending is something I'll probably skip.
6/10 for the issue ...maybe a 7+ or 8-/10 for the run.