Maybe that’s because they’ve always had a B-movie sci-fi vibe, or maybe it’s because Al Ewing hadn’t written them yet. It’s unfortunate villains like Xenmu and the Leader aren’t more familiar to the casual audience. The vivid and atmospheric horrors by Bennett mix well with the stylized and cartoonish look of PItarra’s pencils.Ĭredit: Marvel Comics #3: The very best bad guys Pitarra draws the internal war going on in Hulk’s head and it does a good job establishing the various Hulks inside the character. The book is smart at depicting these gross monster images at varying sizes, and yet always in vivid detail. Bennett continues to draw imaginative ways to make the grotesque give you a bad taste in your mouth - in a good way. The body horror in this book is not something you see in a superhero comic, which seems to be a statement about the creators and likely is giving readers unfamiliar with it something new to enjoy. This creates a good conflict for him to overcome by the end of the story. The only way to stop the unstoppable Hulk, it seems, is through his mind and the mind of the monsters within. Very early on we come to realize the man, and the monsters within, aren’t thinking straight, putting Hulk into a weak state.

It’s a good way to ramp up the implications of where Bruce is mentally and that plays a big part in this story. He’s walking closer to the reader, raising scary vibes only to cut to a double-page splash of a monstrous Hulk killing all sorts of heroes. Midway through this book, Bruce is talking at the reader in an unhinged way. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!

Immortal Hulk, Vol. 7 by Al Ewing