Who is the Red Hulk? In this 600th issue celebration, guest-star Spider-Man will attempt to find out!
Elsewhere, there's a sense that the bumper-sized issue has been a little padded out. A reprint of the full first issue of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Hulk: Gray is followed by an extensive Hulk cover gallery, and a ton of advertisements that seem to have been included because there wasn't anything else to fill up the required page count. Compared to this week's exemplary Amazing Spider-Man #600, it's a slight disappointment -- but in its own right, this isn't a bad anniversary issue, even if there's probably not a lot here that will appeal to readers who aren't already enjoying Loeb's Hulk run. Read Full Review
Where Incredible Hulk #600 should have been a towering testament to Bruce Banner's longevity and appeal, it's mostly just fluff stories pencilled reasonably well. If you're an old-school Hulk fan hoping that issue #600 might signal a juncture where you can begin following the character Rulk-free, sorry. No dice. Read Full Review
Sensing a trend here? Practically everything happens out of the blue for no apparent reason, other than Loeb wanting it to at that particular moment. He constantly fails to set up these moments in ways that justify their existence, and as a result they come off feeling shallow and self-serving. Remember how I said Urich's goal was to find out who the Red Hulk was? Yeah, well, he suddenly decided not to. “If all you do is focus on the Red Hulk you're going to miss the big picture”, Urich observes. Really? Looking at the solicitation, I thought the Red Hulk was the whole point! This discrepancy suggests that either Loeb deliberately misled his readers into shelling out five bucks for a cocktease, or he is losing the ability to tell cohesive stories that don't rely on shameful misdirections and obnoxious slights of hand. Either way, your buying dollars would be better spent elsewhere. Read Full Review
After the 12th issue of the Hulk (2008) the original title was revived. And... I don't think this issue was good. It's very big, it has 3 new stories, one reprint (Hulk: Grey #1, which is awesome, by the way), two new mini-marvels stories and some bonus materials. The first story was like another one Hulk (2008) issue made by Loeb and McGuinness. It was not something really decent and the appearance of Spider-Man was a pure fan-service, but that was still a fine comic. 7.5/10.
Then there was a story by the Man Stan Lee himself. And that was a total crap. Like unbelievably bad comic... The art was ok, but the story... Surprisingly, Stan didn't use his branded walls of text, however the idea of the story itself was like his worst more
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