In the previous book Banner is walking toward home. Alpha Flight is out to try to find him with the help of Lankowski. But they're not the only ones looking for him. They're just the first to find him. The Avengers go out to meet him and find him changed from the old Hulk. Tony feels the need to use the Helios Laser on him which would annihilate the area around him. All that's left is a skeleton that the government takes. Alpha Flight goes in search of him as a group of scientists experiment on him. He breaks free and the government sends Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man after the Hulk to absorb his gamma radiation. But things go wrong. Someone opens the green door that the Hulk has been trying to keep closed. So the Hulk and Jackie MacGee go through the door to hopefully seal it shut again.
In this book, when the Absorbing Man, Carl Creel, absorbed the Hulk what he absorbed was not his gamma radiation but David Banner so the Hulk is the Hulk, or the Devil Hulk all the time now. He is in a Hellish nightmare dreamscape that is what is behind the green door. The author uses this time to offer questions about the nature of God and Hell and Satan's role in things. He also examines the Qabalah and Zurastism and the Bible for clues to the existential questions he asks about God and higher powers that be that the Hulk represents. Does God have a Hulk?
Meanwhile, beyond the green door, Jackie meets up with her dead father and Hulk finds the bodies of Rick Jones and Betty's dad Thunderbolt Ross as well as his own father. This book explores David Banner's early years and the abusive father that he had. It also has Creel and another man looking for the Hulk in order to make things right. Creel gives the Hulk back Banner and the door is closed. Banner goes in search of Betty who tells him to come home. When he does all hell breaks loose because there are those interested in killing him for good.
This book was incredible. The art was glorious and gorgeous in the pictures it portrayed beyond the green door. It was magic come to life on the page. I still love the quotations that the author uses to introduce each issue. This was a magnificent book and I really loved it. I give it five out of five stars.
Quotes
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.-William Shakespeare (The Tempest)Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is Hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)Love never dies a natural death.-Anais Nin (The Four Chambered Heart)You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.-Albert Camus (Intuitions)
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