Once, in a podcast, Sal Buscema said that he left the comics industry because he couldn't do anything else to attract the attention of a reader by bringing something good. Today, seeing how Cloak and Dagger are more expressionless than they ever were after creator Bill Mantlo, Sal's words couldn't be more true.

I'm not sure it's the readers not being able to recognize quality. Cloak and Dagger would probably have done great at a small, independent publisher, but Marvel expected bigger sales for a book to have a long run back in the day. Today they all have short runs, so maybe that's the reason for them to give C&D another try.

The mistake IMHO is to link C&D with the X-titles. Although they had a great crossover with the New Mutants about a hundred years ago and were regarded as mutants themselves for a short while, Tandy and Ty have always worked best on a street level, fighting drug lords and helping lost souls in need. Although I'm not Christian, I always thought that they vibed perfectly with Christian themes such as sin, redemption, grace and hope.

I've always seen Cloak and Dagger as urban characters, very different from other superheroes. That's why I always wanted to know what was going on in those stories; it was, in a way, dark, outside the comfort zone. If they were at an independent publisher, it would certainly be the best thing. I'll always use Conan as an example of success when he left Marvel and went to Titan. I even like The New Mutants; it was dark back then too, but today I would never know what's going on, because is bad.

Moving Conan to another publisher is different though. Although there have been crossovers with the Marvel universe (I think?), he's really not a part of it, unlike C&D.

In fact, Conan's interactions in Titan with other characters are precisely with Robert E. Howard's characters, in a more adult setting, the opposite of what Marvel did in their last attempt at a revival, placing him alongside the Avengers. Shuma-Gorath appears in the Titan Conan, but in a much more grounded way.

Ah yes, I forgot that lame Ancient Avengers title, or whatever it was called. I didn’t read it, The idea was just too ridiculous, even for superhero comics.

There's a page from Conan, in that event called No Road Home (which attempts to reintroduce Conan to the 616 Universe), where Conan's flirtation with the Scarlet Witch is prevented because of their past loves. Damn, they were isolated, what harm would there be in them sleeping together? And women would hardly resist Conan.

Jim Zub tried to give this event some importance, but it didn't work. I only liked the part where Conan sees the Immortal Hulk as Crom's creature; it would make for good stories, not for Marvel, but for independent comics, like Titan.

She’s been depicted as slightly darker skinned for a while now. To me the change isn’t that dramatic. Some Roma are indeed as dark as African and Indian people, but she doesn’t even come close to them. I think she looks more southern European now.

It's clearly a way of making her more relatable to Afro-descendants, and in woke culture, most of them are portrayed as ragged, unless their hair is a mess with braids and they're dressed like a homeless person. It's the same as making Fury black, since the original was white, or Valkyrie simply becoming an Afro-descendant in the MCU.

It never occurred to me that it would make her more relatable to black people, and frankly, I find the thought strange, since she is still not African-American looking. It IS obviously a diversification move though. So what... I almost have the same skin color after a longer summer holiday, and I'm a blond, middle-European white guy.

What bothers me more are the African MCU Valkyrie and Heimdall. It just doesn't make much sense to add black people to the pantheon of a Northern European ethnicity. Or any recent fantasy realm based on European mythology for that matter. I find it pretty offensive, to people of Germanic heritage, but even more so to black people, who have their own traditional cultures and mythologies, that deserve more stories based on them.

Those were the good old days when Black people and other races were more reserved. They truly had something to contribute to the culture and didn't need to show that they needed to be accepted.

Yeah, I thought we were already pretty good at creating a diverse society where race and sexuality didn’t matter that much. Then came the woke with their inverse racism and sexual stereotypes…

And unbelievably, this was planted little by little, and before we knew it, it had spread to every possible corner.

They don't learn that the intention was for her to get rid of her cousin, therefore, she has to be more of a She-Hulk with her feet on the ground in her profession as a lawyer, and not an exaggerated version of her cousin. This writer wrote good things for indies, but here she is winning to strengthen feminism.

I support feminism, as long as it doesn't mean "hating all men", which is not the impression I'm getting from this book. I guess I'm just not that into the Planet Hulk setting and Stephanie Phillips in general. She-Hulk works best when she doesn't cross over with her cousin's books.

I'm not following that, I refused to, but I know Stephanie emphasizes feminism in her stories, and when she started in indie comics, she created good stories. But honestly, Planet Hulk is a brutal arc that revitalized the Hulk, made him respected on a planet where he freed the oppressed from the tyranny of a dictator, and he was extremely angry and consequently stronger as the story progressed. I don't see Jen at that level; it's not part of her.

It's unacceptable that the sensual and sweet/touching side of a woman, especially a comic book character, is simply taken away to reinforce the tough, absurdly muscular woman with a straight body—in short, the woman who is actually a man—and men now become poorly made caricatures of women, trying to be sensual, doing everything possible to achieve this when in reality they are men. It's the height of bizarreness; comics should never reinforce this.

In the original Planet Hulk, the character who bonds with the Hulk is a strong-willed yet gentle woman who tries to make the Hulk understand that he has finally found his home on the planet. Jen is also docile; she has always felt obligated to help her cousin. It's unacceptable that she's put in a position where she could do the same as the Hulk. This makes it increasingly clear that the best portrayal of Jen came with John Byrne.

Definitely! He really created the personality we know her for today, when he added her to the FF. This series doesn't show much of it.

I remember when I lost interest in reading Hulk in the nineties (well, I still read it, but it wasn't like before), Byrne definitely established his own concept for Jen, and she was very sexy, she drove men crazy.

Hahaha. Well, I’m gay, but I always appreciate a strong, sexy woman.

It's impossible for a woman, man, or any other gender not to feel attracted to Jen from John Byrne, and the good thing is that she could sleep with whomever she wanted without following a schedule.

They prostituted Peter Parker since they messed with his childhood by turning him into a thief who stole pornographic magazines.

I must have missed that. I started reading Spider-Man again because of Pepe Larraz. I never expected to not like a book Larraz has drawn, but that's exactly what's happening with this series.

The bizarre change in origin, if I'm not mistaken, happened in the first issues. Larraz draws well, but here it's clear he's unmotivated. It's like seeing Romita Jr.'s art (which I personally like) not making a difference because the script is so weak.

I think Larraz's art still looks amazing. Romita is his complete opposite - not fluid and dynamic at all. The bodies look clunky, flat and robotic. He's a solid storyteller, but I have never really liked his art.

I liked Romita Jr. in World War Hulk #1; he portrays the Hulk's fight with the Hulkbuster in a very realistic way, referencing the attack on the Twin Towers.

The only time I liked Larraz's art was when The Hand resurrected the Hulk, and Brother Voodoo conjured a spell to try and save Banner from The Hand's corruption.

I love all his stuff, even his early Star Wars issues, that looked quite different. I literally can’t think of any other artist at Marvel who’s on his level right now.

I've never read anything about Star Wars, and my vague memory of the movie starring Harrison Ford isn't good. I remember the Atari game more; I played that one a lot.

A book that shows Marcelo Frusin standing out again in dark horror, he had already achieved prominence in Sacrament, by AWA.

Haven't heard of it.

If you're a fan of The Exorcist, and also Ridley Scott's Alien, you absolutely must read Sacrament, which came at the perfect time for me; I think it's the best material ever published by AWA Studios.

Okay. I do love those movies.

I have never encouraged the purchase of unworthy comics, like those seen on various YouTubers' websites, and even if I were paid to do so, I wouldn't. I always analyze the quality of the material to see if it's worth spending money on, which would obviously help these artists by motivating them, but I've never been one of those who buys just anything to have in their collection. Here, I would actually spend a money on this miniseries.

The guest artists were a deliberate editorial decision, the opposite of Immortal Hulk, where the guest artists didn't cause as much concern with the quality of their art, which we know would never match Joe Bennett's...

But what I REALLY miss about Immortal Hulk, besides its overwhelmingly rich story in content and complex approach, is that great talents like Lee Garbett, Martin Simmonds, etc., were there to reinforce the obscurity of the run...

... Here, these artists are only there to fulfill an agenda and sabotage the quality of what, according to what they say (although I completely disagree), would be the strong point of this Hulk: Nic Klein's art. But what good is Klein if everything there is cartoonish, with horrible lettering by Cory Petit and childish colors by Matthew Wilson? It's already started to sabotage itself; from now on, it might not even reach two printings.

I don't quite see the difference to Immortal Hulk, however, I have only read a few issues here and there - some of them I liked, some I didn't, which is why I never read the whole series. I agree that it often looks like Marvel is sabotaging itself, mostly by doubling down on the woke shit in, say, the X-titles.

When it comes to the lack of content, I guess that's just how comics are done nowadays. In the good old days you got a full story with a beginning, a middle and an ending in one issue. Now sometimes you get one scene in a book!

I agree on the cartoonish characters (although I do like the coloring). Nic Klein was excellent on Drifter a few years ago, while this is much more middle-of-the-road, despite some great panels here and there.

I have to confess, I'm not that familiar with Joe Bennett, but you really seem to like him a lot.

The division of opinions regarding Immortal Hulk continues to this day. Many complained that the retcon of the Hulk's origin was unnecessary, and that there are some forced moments, such as the Gray Hulk sympathizing with trans people, a Black character replacing General Ross in the hunt for the Hulk, and a Black journalist wanting to understand why the white man has so much support and she doesn't. This is what caused some complaints...

......but when I revisited the run, I wasn't bothered, because not only does the script become intense, but the art and creative team behind it do too, and the psychological aspect, which Bill Mantlo established in the eighties and Paul Jenkins in the 2000s, becomes even stronger and more intense...

......and then we move towards violence, scatological gore that can't be replicated, it's no use, Klein isn't qualified for that, and after seeing what he did with Thor, I see that he's actually not capable of presenting a page or double page on the level of Immortal Hulk. And then we have Matthew Wilson, who isn't Ruy José or Belardino Brabo, and not even the designer of this current run helps...

......even when the Hulk wasn't the focus of the issue, Betty, with her new version of the Harpy, delivered a level of violence and horror that Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Klein with Wilson could never have achieved. In the issue where the Hulk and Betty begin to converse inside that soundproof hotel room, you notice their facial expressions, and how the art and creative team shine in a unique way.

Comics are like this nowadays because woke culture is empty, everything in it is empty and uninteresting, and for these people, comics should be like that, a festival of fast food and nothing more.

If Klein were held to a higher standard by the editorial team, perhaps he could shine in Hulk, but they simply leave him there so that the praise he receives monthly is guaranteed, even if he does nothing but more of the same.

Joe Bennett is a kind soul, a rare sight these days. As a human being, he is enlightened, as is his profession as an artist. Seeing the Hulk without him continuing what he built is incredibly sad.

I should probably mention I’m not a huge Hulk fan. I’ve read him a while in the eighties and one or two issues in the 90s, before I checked out Immortal Hulk just a few months ago, mostly because I liked the art (and good art is hard to find at Marvel these days).

For the same reason I started reading the new Captain America series. Since the X-books have become so terrible, I’ve been looking for other Marvel books that might interest me. But I really don’t know much about the history of these characters or the people who worked on them over the years.

I‘m now at a point where I might drop all Marvel titles. There are still a few decent issues here and there, but nothing that really excites me as much as Geiger or G.I. Joe.

Bennett's art, along with the creative team (who shine alongside him), is something Bennett has refined. His work in 2000 was already very good (he portrayed Professor Hulk very well) for a script with a psychological approach (Paul Jenkins, the same one who created Sentry and wrote a very good Inhumans miniseries). Immortal Hulk is directly a sequel to that complex approach from 2000 (life after death, God and Devil, the serpent, etc..).

The original concept of the Devil Hulk wasn't a monstrous serpent like we saw in Immortal Hulk, but rather a serpent trapped in Banner's fractured psyche in an ice cave (a solution taken from the movie Fight Club). The Devil wants to use the body of the Savage Green Hulk, the most powerful Hulk in his primitive form os acting, to kill everyone, including everyone Banner loves.

In Immortal Hulk, the Devil is articulate (the Devil is articulate and extremely manipulative), he agrees with Banner on the end of the world, the extinction of human scum, the end of capitalism for a better world, cleansed of all plague. Devil is Banner's protector against the scientist's abusive father. Although the Devil is the protective persona, he only wants Banner's agreement, and he himself created this persona as a result of depression and a degenerative disease he suffered.

There are good Captain America stories, there are those urban adventures from the eighties from Marvel Team-Up (which Phillip Kennedy Johnson distorts trying to infuse the crap that is progressivism and all its culture) in which he and Spider-Man joined forces, and there's a very good run in the nineties when Steve Rogers lost the uniform and Johnny Walker (who led the West Coast Avengers) takes his place.

Titles I recommend you pick up: Dick Tracy (Mad Cave), Gun Honey (Titan Comics), Heat Seeker (Titan Comics), Scarlett Couture (Titan Comics), Conan the Barbarian and The Savage Sword Of Conan (Titan Comics).

Thanks for the recommendations. I think I flipped through one of the new Dick Tracy issues, but found the art not very good. Conan is very unsteady. I like De la Torre's art, but none of the other artists are on his level. I'll have a look at the other books!

Dick Tracy, Gun Honey, Heat Seeker, Scarlett Couture... nah, don't like the art. Plus, I'm not a fan of the agent/spy genre.

I'm going to recommend some Hulk-related things; the list includes what made me a fan of the character: The Hulk Magazine (black and white, it's somewhat rare, but worth finding and owning physically; these are stories that pay homage to the TV series (which increased the Hulk's popularity) and portray the Hulk respectfully within his mythology...

Hulk run by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema: begins in issue #245 of Incredible Hulk and ends in issue #313, when it reaches a crossroads. It's perfect! There are no forced elements, and the Hulk finds himself in a man/monster characterization in his savage/primitive version that made him a classic in the eighties. It's a continuation of what Len Wen had done previously, and the savage version, with art by Sal Buscema, adds an extra touch to what Herb Trimpe, Marie Severin, and other great artists.

Take the post-Peter David Hulk era, starting with the John Byrne/Ron Garney omnibus run, and finally everything from the Paul Jenkins/Ron Garney run, and then the Bruce Jones run. That's what you need to read to see how monstrously the Hulk evolved during that period in the 2000s. If it weren't for that, Immortal Hulk wouldn't be the success it is today. The suspense/horror approach, started with Bruce Jones, doesn't disappoint.

I don't recommend Peter David's Hulk; he creates an approach that's acceptable, but saturated, and whose quality plummets absurdly as the issues progress. Incredibly, this guy spent a decade writing Hulk until Marvel figured out what could be done with it to truly revive it, and then we had the 1999 approach and the 2000s with more brutal stories, a darker aspect, and psychology for adult readers.

I recently read the first issue of Devil On My Shoulder from Dark Horse; it has the potential for the next ones to be even better, but it's only worthwhile if you're a fan of movies like I Spit On Your Grave (which was remade in 2010).

I'm really enjoying Terminator (Dynamite) with Declan Shalvey, both in the Terminator series and the new Terminator Metal: Metal. It's honoring the concept of the original 1984 film (focused on science fiction/horror). You might dismiss it because of the art style, but the script with its elaborate solutions has really caught my attention. The latest issue of Metal has some things that I found phenomenal.

Shalvey is a guy I'd love to see on Hulk in that horror vein of Immortal Hulk, but I'm probably asking too much. But Shalvey wrote a really good Immortal Hulk one-shot, and he's even good at the art (he wrote and did the art).

There's a really good comic book called Somna, it's from DSTLRY, the illustrations are fantastic. It was the only good thing I saw from that publisher.

I enjoyed Ryan North's Hulk Smash Everything, and I hope issue 2 onwards is even more dynamic. It evoked a sense of nostalgia, blending several promising decades for the character with something current. A Hulk that hasn't been presented in many years before its complex approaches. North is clearly having fun here with Vincenzo Carratù and the creative team. It reminded me of the second volume of Alan Davis' Savage Hulk, which is also very good.

Alan Davis is the best! He's not as good as he used to be, but that's probably age-related. I think I read his Savage Hulk series when it came out. The Hulk run that really burned itself into my mind, was Mantlo/Buscema. Those were the books that came out in Germany when I discovered MarvelComics in the 80s, but somewhere along the road I lost my interest in the Hulk.

I'm gonna check out your recommendations, but I suspect we have very different tastes when it comes to art and genres.

Mantlo and Buscema were what led me to read Hulk. Before that, I had only been introduced to the TV show, which, by the way, was the first time I saw Banner's transformation (they try to bury him alive by throwing cement on top of him) in an episode of the third season. I realized that this character wasn't just a hero like Spidey, Captain America, etc.. My first story from the Mantlo era was with Hulk in Jarella's world (a two-part arc), Incredible Hulk #247 and #248.

Regarding the recommendations, you might actually dislike some of them. But all the reviews I've done here are based on the quality of those books, which I believe range from the best to the worst. Nowadays, I only buy books that are truly worthwhile, and I'm even lucky that, despite some despicable material appearing, there are good things I want to have on my bookshelf.

“My first story from the Mantlo era was with Hulk in Jarella's world (a two-part arc), Incredible Hulk #247 and #248.” I think that story was in the first German Hulk collected edition that I read too!

I review the books I read for some reason. I’d love to say that all the books I read I read because I like them, but unfortunately I’m invested in some books, especially the X-books, that have been really bad for a few years now. I still want to know what happens to some of the characters. I know it’s silly, because each author changes the characters to fit their needs, but they still feel like old friends to me.

I don't see this woke generation as understanding these characters the way we've learned to understand them. I've never seen a generation so poor; nothing they want becomes a phenomenon, and any industry that aims to meet their needs goes down the drain, to the detriment of its own.

Well said. It's weird indeed. Their individuation doesn't seem to come from being part of a music subculture or any art for that matter, but solely from made-up gender identities and weird politics.

What disgusts me even more is how a writer who proudly proclaims on social media that he served his country simply abandons that honor to cater to a victimized population. That's betraying himself, betraying everything he achieved through principles and moral values. It's unacceptable that the army divides races to favor one in particular; that's not how you make a man. I would never indoctrinate my son or make him read anything related to an agenda.

I‘m so glad I’m not on X. I’ve heard about the whining of some writers.

This writer on X is a complete idiot; he spends most of his time trying to get followers to read what he writes, and when he answers questions he gets defensive. And the most impressive thing is that his followers have figured out that what he writes isn't going anywhere. This guy is a real jerk, the kind I only think saw in memes, but he's actually a butt spewing crap everywhere.

LOL Yeah... I'm not getting involved with those woke fuckwits.

How is it bad the premise is basically the Marvel heroes going to the revolutionary war what’s wrong with it and the art was fine not the best but there is definitely worst art so once again what was wrong with this?

Does valuing comics mean justifying any crap you read as useful to you? Where did you all come from?

It's idiotic, it's stupid, it's boring, and the drawings are awful; only those who don't want to see it can't.

That’s not really an argument and it just started so it’s not boring a boring comic at the start would be them not going into 1776 by the end of the first issue which they did. Idiotic and stupid are the same thing so it seems you don’t like the premise which is fine but that’s a you problem not the comics problem

It's clear, you approve of a story that's stupid and idiotic, and yet you want to justify it as something productive. You lack the capacity for common sense (if you even know what that is), you need to look beyond one issue to see the mess this becomes. It's obvious you don't know how to appreciate a comic book. I don't know why weirdos like you exist in the world, but you yourselves are unhappy, you suffer enough in your daily lives.

Marvel is making comics for idiots, for people who think comics have always been like this. If only you valued this crap with arguments, and even bought enough for it to become a phenomenon for a pathetic generation, I'd understand. But you don't even do that.

Readers don’t seem to have any capacity for discernment anymore. It’s sad, but they probably have never read a great comic. Marvel and Dc have lowered their standards so much in recent years, that what looks unacceptably bad to older readers is pretty much standard for the younger ones now. Some say it’s just a preference of different art styles, but it’s not. Some of these artists are objectively on a hobbyist level.

So you don’t even argue what’s wrong with it you just don’t like the premise which is fine but if you’re going to argue why it’s bad you need to cite stuff and you’re whole thing is the premise is bad and the art sucks therefore the comic is bad when it only started which again is not an argument

The summary explains why this crap is bad: the quality is poor, the premise and the art are bad. It's the same garbage as Hulk, Punisher, and other regular crap that are unfortunately published every damn month, year after year, for the sake of woke people, the new generation that consumes the vomit of these pseudo-artists.

It's obvious you suffer from a VERY SERIOUS mental deficiency that prevents you from seeing a bad comic when you do. And your deficiency is the bullshit of social equality; it's for you that this crap is made, which ceases to be comic books and starts catering to a minority that cares more about the opinions of others than buying and supporting this garbage.

All the comics I reviewed negatively didn't make it past the first issue, because it's obvious that the corny premise will remain the same issue after issue, as will the art. Not seeing this is either suffering from serious mental disorders or thinking that Marvel is doing us a favor by publishing garbage like this that devalues ​​a writer's ability.

Chris Y Here we have a competent writer who sabotages himself by accepting to write this type of story at the behest of an editor, and the art is very, very bad. But the question that persists is why Marvel doesn't turn idiotic stories like this into something promising that will actually boost sales and at least have commercial appeal. Those who keep the comic book market going are the old readers; the new ones are simply reading comics about characters that were created decades ago.

I wish I had an answer. I can only assume that the editorial staff at Marvel is unwilling to change course, because they are ideologically captured by all that woke crap. They really believe they have an obligation to change society in their image, so they keep pushing that nonsense until they have driven away the older readers and grown a completely new readership that has been reeducated to think these are actually good comics. It’s not working, but they believe it will eventually,

Cracks were left in the woke culture, and that's because it spread in a way that completely permeated the culture. And then we have indie comics that tell stories that are more appealing than Marvel, and although they address current culture, the narrative is more important along with the essence of the characters.

After I realized that nothing is lost, when we have Hulk Smash Everything or a retcon of the Punisher and Daredevil from the Ennis era, and that woke doesn't have anything from them that's a sales and acceptance phenomenon. It's a matter of time until everything goes back to normal. But will we be alive by then? I hope so.

That's a lot of words for, "I'm a bigot".

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ad hominem is a logical fallacy where someone attacks the person making an argument instead of addressing the argument itself.

That's a lot of words for "I support a bigot."

Ooops! Now I've got her lashing out at me too lol

For them to have opted for a relaunch after thirty unproductive issues, it's because they were desperate to at least stay on the list, and that's why THIS achieved two printings, not because the story was good, but because it sparked the curiosity of the more unsuspecting reader that this could be a way to reintroduce them to the character without having to read what was published before. Marvel digging its own grave.

You and your '1' reviews...

I’m going back and rereading it, I’m not sure it drags you in for a second issue. But why do you rate it as a 4?

click on his name... this guy has rated nearly 200 books with an average score of 2.7 - So keeping that in mind he really liked this one!

"So keeping that in mind he really liked this one!" The type of comment that disgusts me most about woke people (including transgender) is seeing everything through the lens of social equality, regardless of whether the person is offering negative criticism.

On his profile, he gave low ratings to books that are, in fact, shit, and here he doesn't need to explain that this feminist cancer simply burns the Planet Hulk concept. Deliver us of the red plague and comics will return to what they once were, and woke can go back to your closet from which should never have left.

Good question and I had a couple about that Thing series, like, doesn't the writer know that Juggernaut is reformed and Death Adder is mute? Nearly as crazy as having Sue fly a plane!

The Thing book felt slightly out of continuity. In all honesty I don't know much about the Juggernaut these days - the X-Books are a bit too convoluted for me. I just felt the Thing series got the character "right" - where the FF book is a drastically different version of the team that I have been reading since the 70s.

This is the same guy who is going to write a Hulk miniseries, and nothing gets me out of my mind that, what I saw in the first look, looks like a cell phone animation.

And the premise of Hulk seems to be the same as Fantastic Four's: sending characters through different time periods. Writers too sensitive to step outside their comfort zones.

Hey man... are you okay? This comment is weirdly, obsessively angry, and Incredible Hulk has nothing to do with any of the political stuff you mentioned above. It seems like you might need some help. Is there something you'd like to talk about here?

If you can, or at least have the ability to convincingly explain why, in your world, whenever someone comes up with an argument that contradicts what you agree with, they either have a problem or are angry.

If you don't respond, I'll block you, simple as that. This is a space for reviews, and I don't like anything you write, especially from someone who's clearly never read anything about the Hulk.

If it's you, your stance is terrible, bothering with arguments against what you believe is right. If I were you, I wouldn't bother with that; after all, I'd believe I was doing the right thing. Bye, Phillip Kennedy Johnson.

What irritates me most about woke culture and this whole thing is how they brainwash people into thinking we're people with problems. Honestly, I'm going to block this profile. Isn't that what they do to us, preventing us from speaking? Well then. Note that in my review, I only mentioned a few points that the person behind the profile felt offended.

Well... what you wrote isn't a comic review. I was confused what my military service, "progressives," "feminazis," "minorities," "Palestinians," had to do with this comic. And I don't understand at all where "Woke Hulk" came from. It's a comic in which a monster fights other monsters. You seem angry about things that have nothing to do with this book, and that made me wonder if you actually wanted to talk about something different.

PKJ, you have no capacity to respect the character you write. Three years have passed and you haven't made this a phenomenon, even with some people wagging their tails at you...

Anyone with the slightest understanding of the Hulk and who has respect would write something better than you and make up for the three years thrown in the trash since your inception.

In your woke world, anything that goes against your beliefs isn't a review, it's a personal attack. Shame on you, you yourself don't like what you write. After Joe Bennett was unfairly removed, no one has been able to replicate what he did so well on Immortal!

If you want to promote monsters, use another series, not the Hulk. Thirty issues and you'll stay in the bubble. Do you really think you're the ones who'll reign supreme in this progressive game? You won't! Woke left scars, woke screwed the industry, woke doesn't make money and only serves the 3% who don't even buy what you do. Half the people who praise you download it from the internet.

We'll never be fooled by you. Ever since Cates, we've known what your intention was: to ridicule the Hulk. Have you given Banner a bath? Cut his hair? Turned him into someone other than a landless refugee? Stop it! If I don't like a character, I clearly won't write them, even if they paid me.

If I debate politics, PKJ, things will get even more awkward for you. You'll have to convince me if the wokeness you preach in this Landless Run actually serves any useful purpose in that comic book industry.

this is pretty cringe bro fr if you hate this guy so much why are you so obsessed with him? some kind of weird sex fetish? follow people you actually like lol

That's it, create more profiles, I'll block them all.

You need to show the world that you are normal people. The writer himself is not normal. I've never seen so much self-pity as I saw in this Phillip Kennedy Johnson.

How do you block users on this site? That would be useful.

I don't know if the blocking worked, but I did my part. And if they block me, it's a favor they're doing. If I have two followers who genuinely want to read comics, and a thousand blocked, that's already a victory for me. By the way, the one above is Phillip Kennedy Johnson. He's humiliating himself to attract people to participate in his live streams. Poor communist.

Sorry, I still don't see the woke part, and I'm usually pretty good at spotting this crap. I think we should rate a comic for what it is, not for what the author has written in the past or will (possibly) write in the future. Making the protagonist suffer isn't necessarily an act of deconstruction, but simply a trope you see regularly in action comics or movies. It usually makes overcoming the obstacles and the triumph at the end worthwhile. Anyway, you could be right in the end, of course.

I do my part, and since I read several indie comics, I know this doesn't even come close to the violence of a Mad Cave Pop Kill or a one-shot written by the director of the movie Red Heat (the one with Arnold and James Belushi). Castle acting in Fisk's service, nor a Fisk outside of his true nature, is unacceptable. It was already expected that the Punisher would kill selected criminals (in the Daredevil series, Marvel already hinted at this).

The skull no longer means anything; nowadays, criminals must be punished; a reformed criminal is needed to use a vigilante for that. It makes no sense, and it's all driven by an agenda. We know that these writers, if required, will bring us the characters in their essence. The end result is Castle regaining his memory, and Fisk probably coming clean, or having a duel with the Punisher, where he gives Castle a hard time, since we're now seeing a Fisk with absurd strength.

I really hope you're not disappointed by this any more than I.

Well, thanks. To be honest, at this point I'm used to being disappointed by Marvel eventually. So I'm enjoying it while I can.