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    Immortal Hulk #36 Review
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    Immortal Hulk #36 Review

    Matthew PetersonBy Matthew PetersonAugust 17, 20203 Mins Read

    The Leader declares: No happy endings.  Your Major Spoilers review of Immortal Hulk #36 from Marvel Comics awaits!

    IMMORTAL HULK #36

    Writer: Al Ewing
    Penciler: Joe Bennet
    Inker: Ruy José
    Colorist: Matt Milla
    Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit
    Editor: Wil Moss
    Publisher: Marvel Comics
    Cover Price: $3.99
    Release Date: August 12, 2020

    Previously in Immortal Hulk:  Armed with the knowledge of resurrection through the Green Door, as well as Bruce Banner’s various personalities, The Leader has targeted The Hulk for revenge.  With Devil Hulk on the wane, the savage, child-like Hulk has returned, and manipulating the form of Rick Jones, The Leader caused The Hulk to release a massive gamma-radiation pulse…

    LEAD WITH THE BODY HORROR…

    In the wake of the gamma explosion “Rick Jones” is left a twisted, inhuman mess.  Seriously, it’s gross.  And worse, the press was present to record everything that happened, leaving the Hulk in tears, roaring how he didn’t mean to do it, how he’s so sorry about what happened, but before anyone can even process the deaths, Gamma Flight arrives and attacks.  Puck’s forces manage to pin the Hulk down, but seeing his friend Jackie McGee in danger causes him to rage once more, TEARING OFF the arm of the Absorbing Man and causing an all-out brawl.  An enraged Titania plows into the Hulk, with Doc Samson wonders why everyone’s anger is out of control, leaving a wounded Absorbing Man to turn himself into a cloud of deadly gamma radiation.

    Oh, and another Gamma mutate has escaped containment at Hulk Operations lab.

    THE MINDS AND THE MATTER

    A truly good writer can make doom seem inevitable, even for heroes you know cannot die, and Ewing pulls that off in this issue.  What’s more, this issue’s opening visual of a twisted, radioactive Rick Jones body standing amid ashes and skeletal remains is so incredibly disturbing that it almost makes up for the frenetic pace of the rest of the issue.  That said, I was a little bit confused about the discussions between Doc Samson and Dr. McGowan, as well as a side-trip about a thumb drive, didn’t quite follow in my first reading of the issue.  The visuals help to overcome those problems, but there are a couple of transitions in this issue that required a second read to follow, and the identity of the man in the tube at the end required me to go back several issues to verify.  Even with those problems, though, it’s a really good-looking issue that shows utterly horrific things in very impressive ways.

    BOTTOM LINE: I FEEL FOR POOR HULK

    In short, Immortal Hulk #36 may not be my favorite issue of this book, but it’s still a good comic book, with evocative art and coloring and a story that works more often than not, and a main character for whom you really feel empathy, especially as his world crumbles around him, earning a better-than-average 3.5 out of 5 stars overall.  The decision to treat Hulk’s world as a straight-up horror comic was a truly creative one and one that Ewing, Bennet and company have pulled off with aplomb.


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    IMMORTAL HULK #36

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    The only thing more chilling than the destruction from the Gamma explosion is the horror that the child-like Hulk feels about it... A really effective and creepy issue.

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