Immortal Hulk, Volume 4: Abomination

Posted on 19 August 2018 by Al Ewing

Once upon a time, Rick Jones was the Hulk s best friend Rick was there at ground zero on the fateful day the Hulk was born, and during the early days when the Hulk was a mindless brute roaming the New Mexico desert, Rick was right by his side The only one who believed in him Now Rick Jones is dead and gone And the immortal Hulk wants to know why But to obtain the answers he seeks, Bruce Banner will have to face roaming gamma experiments, a ruthless assassin out for his bloodand the one thing that can cage the Immortal Hulk How far will he go to honor his friend COLLECTING IMMORTAL HULK 16 20 Read Immortal Hulk, Volume 4: Abomination – kino-fada.fr Rick Jones body has been exhumed and the Hulk is looking for it Too bad he s walking right into a trapImmortal Hulk Abomination collects Hulk 16 20 and it s pretty damn spectacular.Someone steals Rick Jones body for nefarious purposes It turns out they re planning on using it as a weapon against the Hulk Fortunately, the H...I ve been pretty amazed with the previous volumes of this Hulk run and this one doesn t let me down either.Just think, from a pure horror bash, we ve got the Immortal Hulk, complete with getting his heart torn out and eaten by Harpy, his poor wife Betty, while in the middle of a fight with a totally dead Jones who has been turned into the lovecraftian nightmare Abomination Creature Feature But this is not just an amazingly f ked up emotional roller coaster fight scene or three This is I ve been pretty amazed with the previous volumes of this Hulk run and this one doesn t let me down either.Just think, from a pure horror bash, we ve got the Imm...With Hulk, Harpy, Abomination, and a mess of soldiers all trying to kill each other, this felt like a classic creature feature Think one of the 1960s Godzilla movies where they throw Godzilla in with a heap of other monsters and have them all duke it out The new Ab...God, Immortal Hulk is good These five issues bring the Hulk back into battle with Shadow Base and General Fortean, with their newest weapon, a rejuvenated Abomination, leading the charge Meanwhile, Betty Ross reappears, and Rick Jones finds himself at the heart of yet another Hulk crisis despite being totally and 100% dead.Al Ewing can do no wrong with this book, I don t think Each issue is introspective and offers interesting ...The name of the volume refers to the fact that Hulk pal Rick Jones is back as the Abomination And, points to Ewing, this is the only really abominable Abomination ever, a truly terrifying monster Overall, this volume focuses on lots of different Hulk monsters, and although there s nice continuity, particularly based on some of the characters like Rick , the parade of Gamma monsters could get old.The other big question in this volume is whether Bruce Banner is mortal There s some great, tense The name of the volume refers to the fact that Hulk pal Rick Jones is back as the Abomination And, points to Ewing, this is the only really abominable Abomination ever, a truly terrifying monster Overall, this volume focuses on lots of different Hulk monsters, and although there s nice continuity, particularly based on ...Finally, series writer Al Ewing gets out of the art team s way and gives them the space they clearly wanted and needed since this book began.This arc lives up to the promise of the book s original premise The Hulk meets classic EC horror without falling prey to the over written, pretentious, and self serious mysticism of Ewing s worst tendencies.This is pure, pulpy fun I d also strongly recommend that folks just jump straight to this volume and skip what came before it So good Read in Finally, series writer Al Ewing gets out of the art team s way and gives them the space they clearly wanted and needed since this book began.This arc lives up to the promise of the book s original premise The Hulk meets classic EC horror without falling prey to the over written, pre...Continually surprised Marvel s letting Ewing get away with something so vividly and existentially horrific, such a bitter and nihilistic tearing at the guts of the status quo It s magnificent in the same way, say, a Nin...This volume is insane.I don t have much to say about this volume, but that s not supposed to be a bad thing This continues Al Ewing and Joe Bennett s action packed, unsettling, and thought provoking run on the Hulk This is the best this book has ever been.Plenty of punches when it comes to action But I ve come to expectpunch from the story and the myth of Hulk after the first three volumes of this series Many readers have high praise for this title, I ll read the next volume to see if maybe this volume sets up what s next.

19 August 2018

Al Ewing