Peter David's return to one of his most iconic Hulk stories continues! Everyone wants to know who the mysterious Joe Fixit really is, and Spider-Man is on the case (complete with location-appropriate disguises)! Kingpin wants Las Vegas's toughest enforcer working for him instead of the competition, and he's prepared to make Joe Fixit an offer he can't refuse. But Spider-Man is certain that's still Bruce Banner under that grizzled gray exterior, and he's not ready to let Bruce go down a path he won't be able to come back from.
Rated T+
Joe Fixit #2 continues the conflict between the titular character and the Kingpin, while providing us a ride along experience through the eyes of our favorite wall crawler. This issue holds a ton of nostalgic fun that is bound to make readers wish that Peter David was writing a new ongoing Hulk or Spider-Man book. Read Full Review
It's a big popcorn book through and through as the pacing on this issue is set at a breakneck pace. Read Full Review
"Joe Fixit continues to be a fun story from the past. Read Full Review
The issue spins its wheels for the first-half, including a superfluous interaction between Peter Parker and the Kingpin (and later a more impressive Spidey punch on the big man), before setting up Fixit's brainwashing (which it doesn't attempt to explain) and finally giving us Spider-Man versus the Hulk which goes through final panel of this issue still yet unsettled. Fans might get a kick out of certain panels, but this feels mostly like fluff pushing out the story into more issues than needed. Read Full Review
Another fun issue
Still good, but the first issue was better. I love that Peter/Fisk convo and I was really into the story, because when I saw "to be continued" my first thought was "what? already?". So yeah, there isn't much story and events, but it's still interesting.
The storytelling's all generally decent, with a couple of nice conversations and some good fight art. But the plot isn't all that interesting and it feels like every scene's been stretched to cover the maximum number of pages with the minimum amount of development.
Also: "Antihero Hulk likes bedding floozies in teams? Who would bring that chestnut back in 2023?" *looks at author credit* "Oh, right."
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