The Immortal Hulk #13 - "A Booth in the Midwest"

[laughing_tree]

It's all this big morass of quite deeply personal stuff, poured into this comic about this walking symbol of atom-bomb anxiety. And luckily the Hulk's old enough, loose enough and weird enough to take the weight of it. Much as I like other super heroes, you couldn't really do this with Spidey. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[cygnia]

Please please please let Crusher & Titania become heroes on Gamma Flight.

And Betty's shirt is a nice touch.

[beyondthefringe]

I love how we're in synch.

[cygnia]

Heck, Black Bolt can even give a character reference. :)

[beyondthefringe]

Just ask for it in writing.

[beyondthefringe]

Please please please let Carl and Mary do well as semi-heroes as part of Gamma Flight or something else. Those two have real potential. :)

[thanekos]

I thought the machine that cut the Hulk's heart in half in #8 being named " Jarella IV " would be the most " hidden in plain sight " joke made by the art, but Betty's " Severin " shirt.

[starwolf_oakley]

You could sort-of do something with Spider-Man. Like, does Peter Parker do what he does because he hates himself over Ben Parker's death. Does he put strangers ahead of his family?

JMS tried "the spider that bit Peter was magic," but nobody really liked that.

[wizardru]

I think that Hulk and Bruce conversation works better with the page that proceeds it: Bruce basically says 'yeah, I know we'll die if we stay here. Good. Let it End.', which is what prompts the Hulk to talk to him like this. The whole issue feels like it nails the landing of the first 12 issues.

Also: typical Ewing, using a few quick sentences to transform Puck into one of the most intriguing versions of himself in years. And yes, that t-shirt is delightful.

[laughing_tree]

>I think that Hulk and Bruce conversation works better with the page that proceeds it: Bruce basically says 'yeah, I know we'll die if we stay here. Good. Let it End.', which is what prompts the Hulk to talk to him like this.

That section's there.

[wizardru]

So it is! Not sure how I missed it.

[shadowpsykie]

I like hulk and bruce better when they get along...