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An improvement on the last volume, but a huge teaser on the front cover. Don’t expect to see him. This volume is all about planning - for banner and hulk to start making changes.
Hulk takes control of shadowbase and we have his next enemy coming in the form of Roxxon and Dario Agger aka The Minotaur and since Bruce is targeting corporations and so Roxxon is on his list and he hurts the servers of Roxxon which leads to tumbling losses and in response to that we have them unleashing what could be described as Lovecraftian-monsters which is designed to spoil the Hulk's image in a way, only for a new foe to come in and its intriguing who it is. Loved this whole sequence and
So Bruce Banner says, "The human world is a world that destroys itself--and all who try to live in it--to make money for a tiny percentage of those in charge...I am not a hero, I can't save the world. I'm not that person anymore. I can't build what needs to be built. But I can smash what needs to be smashed."To which Amadeus Cho replies, "What's the plan here, Bruce? Is it just to break everything and hope things get better? Because I feel like we've seen that one lately."And Cho's right because...
Lots of topical references in this volume, as Hulk and company decide to become terrorists targeting crooked corporations, internment camps, environmental despoilers, etc. Lots of buildup issues with another decent Godzilla-like ending featuring a whole host of giant monsters to deal with.
Hulk declares war on entities harming the Earth. First up, Roxxon and Dario Agger from Jason Aaron's Thor run. Their brand of disaster capitalism has Hulk smashing. Banner and the Hulk are mostly secondary characters in this. The story is mainly told through the eyes of Dario Agger and those working with the Hulk. Oh, and if you're expecting Xemnu the Titan from the cover, that's largely a tease. He doesn't show up until the last page.
I love the layers we keep uncovering with this version of Hulk.
Is there anything this book can't do? Apparently finished with the Green Door for now, Bruce Banner turns his attention on fixing the world, and that means taking down Dario Agger and Roxxon. Good on you, Bruce. Tear down the system, and all that. Of course, this involves Hulk-Smashing his way through some Roxxon facilities, and Agger responds with giant monsters of his own. It's all very political, and a different bent to the book after all the existential introspection from the last few arcs.
Al Ewing and the current Hulk team create a nightmarish, near-apocalyptic world that is all too close to our own. This is a horror comic populated by homunculi whose physical forms ring with the cruelty and cynicism of their thoughts and behavior.The art is spectacular and epic, as it must be for this story. This comic will make you think, laugh, and feel horrified, sometimes all at once.This is the best, most focused volume yet in this excellent run and I can't wait for book 7.
This run of the Hulk is still going super-strong. I did prefer the earlier volumes' focus on the psychology of Banner and the disassociative personalities, it's true, but this one makes up for that by going political on us. Can you say Disaster Capitalism? Well, Devil Hulk can say Disaster Capitalism. He also happens to have Banner's sense of tactics.Me likey. Me likey -- a lot. It's best to have good intelligence and use it intelligently, after all, and if you have an excellent target, then, by...
In Immortal Hulk, Volume 6, “We Believe in Bruce Banner”: Bruce and his team have taken over Shadow Base!; Roxxon’s CEO turns out to be the Minotaur!; Hulk wants to smash megacorporations!; Monsters unleashed in downtown Phoenix, AZ!; some giant Yeti-type monster shows up at the end to save the day… I think!Al Ewing’s dark, weird, and super gory series is a unique and fun “interpretation” of the Hulk, although I feel like someone who is coming to the party extremely late, long after Rob from Acc...
This superlative book continues to go from strength-to-strength. I've been reading the Hulk since 1982 and I can honestly say I think this is the best it has ever been (sorry, Mr. David; your seminal run is a VERY close second). If you have ANY interest in the Hulk and have been waiting for a good time to put your toe in the gamma-waters... well, screw dipping your toe; JUMP RIGHT IN! The gamma-water is frickin' awesome!
Ewing just can't seem to make a bad Hulk Arc. Just when you think Al Ewing is hitting every horror genre, body horror, gore horror, or just general monster horror. He decides to go into the biggest horror of them all..political horror. When hulk's followers begin to rally in his name, the head of Roxxon, Dario Agger from War of Realms wants to take hulk down. But in a fight? He can't win. Hulk is just too powerful. What if he can get the media on his side? What if he can create his own Hulk like...
Immortal Hulk Volume 6: We Believe in Bruce Banner collects IMMORTAL HULK 26-30.In this volume, Bruce Banner releases a manifesto, saying humanity can't survive under its current systems and singles out disaster capitalism in the form of Roxxon Oil! Social media mobilizes a new Teen Brigade of Hulk supporters. Roxxon recruits some monsters of its own...Is political horror a genre yet? If not, it should be after this. The Minotaur embodies everything wrong with today's flavor of capitalism and is...
4.5*Great arc!
Not too sure about this one. Maybe I'm forgetting the last volume, so I apologize. This felt a bit more confusing and a bit less horror-filled than previous outings. Also maybe the volume with the least amount of substantial Hulk time. Oh well, they've still not lost me yet.
This volume is so incredibly clever. Six volumes in and this might be the best one. Eagerly anticipating reading more.
Over the last few years, Al Ewing's Immortal Hulk has already been very successful but incorporating the classic Marvel character's mythos into an almost horror-style genre. One might even worry that the gamma-powered "demonic" element could get old, as fun as these storylines may be, but by volume 6 of this series there is no sign Ewing will ever run out of engaging and unique ideas. In this book, the villain happens to be the Roxxon corporation. Headed by an evil minotaur. This is apparently a...
It's a bit weird to see all the stuff about anarchist protestors and their conservative haters here on the other side of June 2020.But other than that unsettling coincidence, there are just too many boring talking heads, overuse of the always awful Dario Agger Minotaur character, and a dumb it's-obviously-a-trap-but-we-must-walk-into-it situation.This is normally the point in a series where I'd stop seeking out subsequent volumes, but I've heard it might be ending at #50, so I might come back fo...
I thought Immortal Hulk was a bit less horror and a bit more political with this one.It's not bad at all, but I could feel myself slowly losing interest at first because it was the creepy element that originally hooked me. It seemed like this was going to veer from freaky to soapbox-y, but it got back to Hulk Smash and I ended up liking this volume quite a bit by the time it was over. The gist is that Banner is starting a violent revolution against corporations because nothing else is working to...
This volume leads off with the eponymous issue, which is rather brilliant: Banner decides that humans are the problem, and that he's going to put an end to it. Which sounds rather ominous.The main plot sort of spins off of that: a war against Roxxon. And it's quite good. Ewing builds off of Aaron's brilliant work in Thor, which made Roxxon an entirely different sort of baddie. Even better, we get Banner really being proactive in his work against Roxxon, much to their surprise and our delight.The...