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Indestructible Hulk Volume 2: Gods And Monsters (2014)

by Mark Waid(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785166483 (ISBN13: 9780785166481)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Marvel

series

Indestructible Hulk (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: Continuing with the Marvel NOW! premise for The Hulk:* Hulk Smashes, Banner builds: being one of the smartest characters in the Marvel universe, Bruce Banner is set to create world changing/Nobel price worthy technological advances as a way to compensate all the destruction the Hulk causes.* Banner has accepted that the Hulk is an chronic condition that must be managed, just as diabetes, cancer, or multiple sclerosis (his words).* Hulk should no longer be seen as a bomb set to explode at any time, but as a cannon that can be directed.I enjoyed Volume 2 more than the first volume, as it features more Bruce Banner alongside The Hulk, and both the Thor and Daredevil storylines are well written and true to character. Indestructible Hulk is a book to fo... morellow.
review 2: OMG, when I saw that they resurrected Walt Simonson for a guest spot on this book, I was a little worried - that we'd have to endure some seriously retro art that sucked the (copious) fun out of this book. Not so. Dunno whether it's because Waid brought young Thor into the mix alongside Hulk, giving Walt a jolt of his best works to draw out his talents, or that Ol' Walt is still just as vital and creative as anyone in comics, but the Simonson issues were pretty damned gorgeous. Actually makes me really bummed how confusing and murky Lenil Yu's issues were just previous.I'm also still very happy with Waid's sense of humour - hard to see it sometimes, what with the tendency to beat Matt Murdock down (that's Matt's problem not Waid's), or write about a superhero that turns genocidal - but I will stand my ground on this. (He's prolly got the Spidey-wit down pat too, but it's been months since I blazed through the last 150 or so of ASM).What surprised me (despite no evidence to the contrary) was the burst of sheer humanity Banner brings to his missions. There was no reason the ending to issue 8 had to exist, and it didn't change the overall plot, but boy did it give us a richer, more informative angle on the characters. Makes me proud to call myself a Waid fan.Then we get to the Hulk /DD issues, included here and in the DD vol 6 trade, which could be called "double-dipping" of the all-too-often DC variety. The relationship Waid shows us between Hulk and DD is...nuanced, and shows a level of trust and dependence I wouldn't have expected. There's very nearly a tenderness from Hulk towards Murdock, which makes me wish there were tons of such relationships in comics. Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, Supergirl and Huntress from New 52 (Earth 2 varieties), Wolverine and Jubilee...and now I'm positively straining to remember more.Why is that? In a world full of antagonism and brute force, why don't more of the heroes latch on to one another for moral support and maybe a trusted compadre to put your back up against? It would sure make a lot more readers feel a strong bond to their fave characters - sure makes me want to pledge allegiance to these particular personalities, warped as they are.This particular story doesn't just trot out guns and villainous terrorists - it stands solid on relationships (both firm and arch) and a subtle moral foundation. Waid is a softie under his encyclopedic knowledge of many universes if comics, and a guy whose worldview (even filtered through superhero punching matches) I absolutely respect.Matteo Scalera does a good job on the art, and I respect the hell out of him following on after Simonson the demi-god. Better than the later contributions of Yu to the last volume of Hulk even - cleaner, less confusing, very kinetic. less

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