{"id":161817,"date":"2025-12-01T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161817\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:07:10","slug":"the-debut-of-the-infernal-hulk-hits-like-a-twisted-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161817\/","title":{"rendered":"The Debut of the Infernal Hulk Hits Like a Twisted Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of most shows about solving murders, there’s a little bit where we see the victim of that week. This is a key bit of time, as we have to get to know them a little bit so that their death means something, and we really want their murder to be solved. The recent series, Pokerface<\/a>, did a really good job with this, to the point where you’re often REALLY upset that the victim of the week was killed. <\/p>\n

In any event, in comic books, you obviously can do that, as well, if you have a comic book about solving murders, but obviously, there aren’t a lot of those. Instead, with comics, you often see a thing where writers will do a nice piece of character development to a new character so that we care if they live or die, and, sometimes, so that their death has more meaning. <\/p>\n

During the “Death of Superman” storyline, that character was Mitch Anderson<\/a>, a teenager who is angry that his parents have split up, and he looks at Superman as “uncool,” and obviously he has to change his tune when Superman saves him and his family on the way to losing his own life. Of course, this being comics, Mitch Anderson later became a superhero. <\/p>\n

I, for one, like it best when writers develop interesting new supporting characters and DON’T kill them off because they can. So that’s why I was pleased with the introduction of a new character in the first issue of Infernal Hulk, who ties in with the new storyline involving this demonic Hulk. <\/p>\n

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The Infernal Hulk #1 is from writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson, artist Nic Klein, colorist Matthew Wilson, and letterer Cory Petit, and it continues the storyline from their previous volume of Incredible Hulk, where Bruce Banner has lost control of the Hulk, and the body is in now controlled by an awful demon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Who is the newly introduced character?<\/p>\n

The setup for the issue is that we’re in a small city in Kentucky when the National Guard gets called up because the Hulk is coming. We meet a man named David Bridger, who is just working in construction, but when the National Guard is called up, he is soon back in his element. He is a “war hero,” but as he notes, having killed a lot of people in the past does not make him feel as though he was a “hero,” ya know? However, he is stuck with a bunch of young guys who have never been in combat, and as the Hulk approaches, he feels as though he needs to assure them that they’ll all get through this…<\/p>\n

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That whatever the situation is, you at least try to have your buddies’ back. And he will do his best to do just that. This is an excellent sequence by Johnson and Klein showing the Hulk slowly but surely approaching, as the soldiers all, well, you know, quake in terror. <\/p>\n

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There’s a general sense of “Don’t worry, SOMEone will be there to save us.” It’s so darn effective to build up that hope while we know, of course, that the possessed Hulk will NOT be stopped. It’s really a great job. Nic Klein has always been a great artist, but I love how much his storytelling has grown. Not that he was ever BAD, but he has just gotten better and better over the course of the previous series. <\/p>\n

What is the new status quo for the Hulk?<\/p>\n

In case you’re unfamiliar with the previous volume of Incredible Hulk, the concept is that “The Mother of All Horrors” was locked away, and her Eldest has been trying to get the Hulk to help it access its Mother’s prison. It sent many monsters after the Hulk over the course of the previous series. Eventually, though, the Hulk was separated from Bruce Banner, and the Eldest took control of the Hulk’s body, and was able to access the prison, but the Mother was essentially dead. The Eldest then consummed her, and proceeded to start a new world of monsters, using the Hulk’s body to do so…<\/p>\n

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As you can see, Klein has designed one shocking Hulk here…<\/p>\n

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The violence in this comic book is INTENSE. This is a “Parental Advisory” comic book, but what’s interesting to me is that I think that this issue is legitimately more gory than the Punisher Red Band series, which is polybagged and everything. I mean, the Hulk uses his sonic clap to essentially liquify a dude’s skull. It’s crazy.<\/p>\n

As noted, we established the character of David Bridger, as he is a guy who is essentially a “monster” in the middle of a bunch of just regular guys. He has killed SO many people, but he is still trying to do some good for his community in his current setup. So the Hulk then transforrms him.<\/p>\n

You see, as noted, this is not just about being a monster. This is about building a new AGE of monsters, so that the monsters have to be built up from the ground floor, and Bridger is his first choice. In a great scene, he also picks one of the soldiers that Bridger was trying to save, but Bridger kills him before the transformation happened. <\/p>\n

The issue appears to end with Bruce Banner revealed as being out there, maybe willing to get back to the Hulk, as we see the other members of the superhero community reacting to the Hulk’s new monstrous attitude (I have no idea why Captain America and Spider-Man are watching TV together), and that obviously sets us up well for future storylines. <\/p>\n

It’s always good when a first issue is powerful on its own, but then also does well to set up future stories, and that’s what Infernal Hulk #1 does. I enjoyed the previous volume of this run, but this takes thing to a whole other level. <\/p>\n

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