Immortal Hulk, Volume 5: Breaker of Worlds by Al EwingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Immortal Hulk: Breaker of Worlds collects Immortal Hulk #21-25.
Here we are, volume five of the best Marvel comic going today. The Immortal Hulk, Red She Hulk, Doc Samson, the Absorbing Man, Titania, and what's left of Gamma Flight go up against General Fortean for the last time for the foreseeable future. It's just as big of a smackdown as you would imagine.
I cannot stress how good this comic is. It combines great super hero action with some philosophical concepts, reminding me of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, as I've probably said in the reviews of volumes 1-4. Ewing is this generation's Alan Moore, only without the eternal grumpiness. Joe Bennett is more than up to the task of depicting Immortal Hulk's adventures, channeling Bernie Wrightson, Gene Colan, and some of the other greats of the past.
The final volume of the collection was a departure from the rest but a masterful story, a story set billions of years in the future when the Breaker of Worlds is sweeping up the last of the mess. Bennett shows he can do a mean Jack Kirby in this tale, which I won't spoil further.
As I've said before, Al Ewing's horror take on the Hulk feels like a natural progression for the character and I can't believe no one has done in it in the past 50+ years. Immortal Hulk is so good it's almost tiresome coming up with ways to describe how good it is. 4.5 out of 5 Gamma irradiated monsters.
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