I'm hoping this run continues to be impressive.īoth this volume and the first are wholly mixed bags of peter david greatness, and other elements holding it back I think Peter David has a lot of fun with this volume and the art stays strong throughout, even when it changes hands here or there. I also love that we have other supporting cast that get to shine here too. Betty gets a nice upgrade here with plenty of great characters moment. Bruce's evolution to professor hulk was great, and the stuff with him as Professor Hulk is pretty stellar. I think I enjoyed it even more than the first. He soon joins a group of 'do gooders' to help behind the scenes but it might not actually be such a good group.

Basically the strength of the green monster version but the smarts of Banner, leaving with a very interesting new version of the Hulk. This is Hulk with Banner in full control. It's a great arc, really amplifies the mentality Banner has, and why these Hulk's were even created. But to do that he also has to visit his past, what happened with his father, and mother. I loved this arc where Banner is trying to connect Joe Fix and the green Monster while also having SOME type of control too. The start of this volume feels a little iffy but soon into it we get into the real meat of the story. Peter David continues his run with Hulk in this second volume, getting deeper into Banner's troubled past while letting the Green hulk show himself once more.

There's so much going on in this second Leader storyline that it's impossible to comment on it all, except that it's David at his best. We get a great two-issue return to Vegas, and a great four-issue return of the Leader, allowing one of the Hulk's greatest foes to also bring this second volume to an end, as if he were ticking off each of the arcs in David's time. In the last half year (issues #395-400), the Hulk even returns to greatness. It's a good new direction for the Hulk, and as unique of a direction as when he was a legbreaker in Vegas.

The whole idea of Banner being psychologically damaged was entirely new in the early '90s, and issue #377 was the strong culmination of that plotline, something that might not be as obvious from a generation later.Īs for the new status quo: it's great, not just because we get a smart Hulk, but also because we get the introduction of the Pantheon, a fun group of mythically themed characters operating in semi-secret doing semi-black-ops stuff. Peter David's second Omnibus starts off as a bit of a meander, but with issue #377, we get to the second big arc of David's time on the Hulk, as Bruce gets psychoanalyzed into reintegrating his personalities, resulting in the smart green Hulk.

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