Why was the One-Below-All trying to escape hell through manipulating and/or possessing Banner’s dad and the Leader. This might have been intended as an inner-space antidote to the usual Cosmic Marvel, except Al Ewing tries to have his cake and eat it. Just take a look at the first issue with Hulk exploring the landscape of hell and you’ll see his writing at its best.

Which kinda sucks but the narrative is so strong that you don't necessarily have to know everyone and everything. Job never finds out that’s why, but the reader knows, which is why the Book of Job works as a story. I watched the Hulk TV series as a child, cringed at that awful Ang Lee film, quite liked the Ed Norton one, was impressed by the Peter David collection 'the End' and enjoy the MCU version but this collection is, for me, the perfect Hulk. The Immortal Hulk's attachment to the grander picture of comicdom makes for a treacle-thick opening half, as Avengers and generals and long-dead comrades clog up the picture and get in the way of feeling what makes this storyline unique - what makes it worth reading to someone like me, who is interested in a cosmic horror spin, and in the dark on everything else. The first 5 is an incredible view into the Hulk as a true horror character who can't be killed, loses control, commits atrocities, and is struggling to find his way in life.

As usual with hulk the art is patchy in some places but also breath taking in others, the writing is strong throughout.

They also exhume the old school comics visual gag of naming bars and businesses in the near background after “beloved” OG comics professionals – Mantlo, Starlin, Milgrom, Severin, Wein, and so on. Sure, the fact that God doesn’t explain himself to Hulk echoes the final confrontation between Job and Jehovah, where Jehovah declares that he doesn’t have to explain jackshit to Job about why his life has turned to shit. It’s obnoxious but, to be honest, not altogether unwarranted; given the demands of regular(ish) publishing schedules, many runs with a single author, telling a unified story, are nonetheless drawn by a rotating roster of artists. of who’s behind it all kind of makes a hash of their motivations, or lack thereof, earlier in the story.

Each issue has a full story, which makes it a simple and very rewarding thing to read issue after issue. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. This book runs the gamut from body horror to psychological horror to intimate existential horror to sheer Lovecraftian madness, all while plumbing the conceptual depths of what exactly the Hulk actually IS. However, as the arc progresses, particularly into the second half, I felt that I was at a disadvantage having never read a Hulk comic before. Plus, like a lot of omnibuses of Marvel comics, there is a severe case of in media res with characters and what happened to them before the series began.