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Byrne’s Hulk isn’t really about the Hulk, unless it’s in the Moby-Dick sense. Half of each issue is devoted to Doc Samson or the Hulkbusters fighting. It’s either each other or the Hulk. What’s worst about the fight scenes, though Bryne illustrates them with competence, is how repetitive they get. A fight scene in the […]

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John Byrne has his two and a half faces and he uses them here, throwing on different haircuts and glasses to differentiate (his Hulk, at least in the first issue, seems more homage to the original than not). Still, even though everyone looks the same, Byrne can do some fantastic action scenes. The fight between […]

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Marvel priced the collection of these issues at twelve dollars list, which is kind of nuts because they take about twenty-two minutes to read all together. I’m not complaining because it’s got a high re-read value, but still. I’ll bet if they priced them cheaper or put two trades together, they’d sell (especially with the […]

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It’s been a while since I read the previous Bruce Jones Hulk collection, so I really didn’t know what was going on with Jones’s lengthy (I’m assuming it goes on the entire run) conspiracy stuff. Nicely, it doesn’t really matter. This collection, Abominable is freaking awesome. I suppose I have to make the frequent comment, […]

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