Hulk

By CalvinPitt(noreply@blogger.com) World War Hulk gave us, um, the inanity of Red Hulk? Um, Rick Jones as A-Bomb? Oh, it gave us the new Hard-Travelin' Heroes, Hercules and Amadeus Cho! And Skarr, Son of Hulk, I suppose. Oh, and the Hulk pummeling Iron Man and the Sentry. I kind of enjoyed that.

Recently, while lucky enough to be enjoying Tulsa’s first DefCon comics convention in over a decade, I became luckier still. I stumbled upon Marvel’s Essential Rampaging Hulk Vol. 1. The Rampaging stories feed an ongoing feature in which the Hulk, his “sidekick”, Rick Jones and an alien woman named Bereet contend with extraterrestrials intent on subjugating Earth. While there’s not much deep character development, writer Doug Moench keeps the action and intrigue snappy and satisfying. His stories from The Hulk are a bit different, but interesting as they have the “feel” of the Hulk t.v. show of the same era, which was intentional on Marvel’s part. Essential Rampaging Hulk TPB Vol. 1   [read the full post]

By Brian Cronin In the end, due to all those factors, ‘Rampaging Hulk’ turned into just another stand-alone series, and eventually the adventures of the Hulk, Rick Jones and Bereet were retconned away. Because the creators of the Marvel universe, the larger storytelling engine that all the other books...