I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Friday, April 5, 2019

The Immortal Hulk Vol 2: The Green Door by Al Ewing (Writer), Joe Bennett (Penciler), Lee Garbett (Artist), Ruy Jose (Inker), Le Beau Underwood (Inker), Rafael Fonteriz (Inker), Martin Simmons (Artist), Paul Mounts (Colorist), and VC's Cory Petit (Letterer)


Bruce Banner supposedly died killing the Hulk with him.  But there have been sightings of the Hulk around as Banner, who did not die after being shot in the skull and the heart with a special arrow by Hawkeye in an attempt to kill himself or see if he could be killed failed.  There has been some damage done to his brain due to the arrow. He has a harder time putting the pieces together and must depend on the hunches given to him by the green guy to figure out what is going on in a given situation where he is trying to seek justice for a person or a town.  These are short tales pieced together by the common thread of a reporter Jackie Mcgee. Jackie feels she is on to something when Banner's old college roommate Walter Langkowski, who once worked for Alpha Flight as Sasquatch, a being similar to the Hulk in that he was created with gamma rays but he changes into an orange fur ball, reaches out to her. Hulk absorbs all of his gamma radiation since he was up to something.  Hulk is trying to keep the Green Door closed because what's on the other side of the door is pretty awful, though there are others who keep trying to open it.

In this 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.  Can Alpha Flight get there in time to help?  This is an amazing comic and the ending is so great.  What is drawing the Hulk to this home?  And can he prevent the green door from being opened?  This is a fabulous book with incredible art and the colors just pop off of the page.  I give it five out of five stars. 

Quotes

For I do not exist: There exist  but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
-Vlandimir Nabokov (The Eye)

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our Hell.
-Oscar Wilde (“The Duchess of Padua”)
Link to Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Hulk-Vol-Green-2018-ebook/dp/B07M94XDPG/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=2D28XBDIJVI23&keywords=the+immortal+hulk+vol+2&qid=1554466184&s=gateway&sprefix=the+immortal+hulk+vol+%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

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