The Immortal Hulk #40 - "So Here's the Thing"

[laughing_tree]

If you pick up Incredible Hulk #1, from 1962 – which is easier than you’d think, since it’s been reprinted a bunch of times and is available digitally – you’ll be reading a classic monster comic of the era with some fairly disturbing flourishes. Bruce Banner literally screams for hours when he’s hit by the gamma bomb, and the Hulk only emerges when night falls – there’s a sequence of Bruce Banner sitting terrified in his chair as the shadows lengthen, waiting for the night to fall and his dark side to emerge. So a horror take was baked into the character to an extent. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[chalicother]

Oh I love this.

Love Ewing's capture of everything and they gave Ben a awesome intro here.

Just wish we could see Joe Dixit in control, but I guess he's no longer green at this

[agharta75]

Ahh, Ben gets a Hanukkah present.

[donnblake]

Ooh, it's going to be tough to top Ben's tussle with Zombie Plant She-Hulk on the Moon, but this is still exciting!

[deathcrist2000]

Al Ewing has always been a magnificent punner. It's just that he tends to be overshadowed by Kieron Gillen.

[deh_tommy]

Al Ewing, Kieron Gillen and Brian Azarello walk into a bar. They subsequently wince in pain.

[blueprintstyles]

why am I so attracted to The Thing in this issue?

[agharta75]

The blue eyes?

[chalicother]

Cause he's about to Rock out?

[donnblake]

Would that be an iconometric frammistat Reed was thinking of using?

[lordultimus]

Not shown, but I did love Absorbing Man lampshading the hell out of the fact that they have windows on a space station that can be shattered with their own guns.

[super_fly]

Seems like a problem that could be solved with bulletproof material or display panels with live feeds to cameras on the outside

[rainspirit]

What a great opener for Ben.

It's clobberin' time.

[blues32]

Good god, Grimm. Look at him! Clearly something is amiss!