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The Incredible Hulk 55 (August 2003)


Review of a The Incredible Hulk comic book, a series published by Marvel Comics, written by Bruce Jones.

128327Leandro Fernandez to the rescue! Not just regular Leandro Fernandez either, but doing a walking and talking scene through Central Park at twilight. It’s a gorgeous issue.

And Fernandez alone isn’t responsible for rescuing Jones and Hulk (it’s just one issue after all). Jones opens from scratch. Banner on the run. He’s in New York, he meets a girl. Turns out she works at the special prison holding the Absorbing Man. There are cuts to the story going on in that prison with her coworkers (and Creel). Jones has lots to do, lots of characters and subplots to establish and he gets them done.

But his Banner story is just this walk with the good doctor and a girl. There’s a plotting reason she’s the girl he’s chatting with, but it’s still a nice sequence with fabulous art. Jones is indulging himself a little and it’s nice to see again.

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CREDITS

Hide in Plain Sight, Part One; writer, Bruce Jones; artist, Leandro Fernandez; colorist, Studio F; letterer, Dave Sharpe; editors, Warren Simons, John Miesegaes and Axel Alonso; publisher, Marvel Comics.


One response to “The Incredible Hulk 55 (August 2003)”

  1. Vernon wiley

    I hate to sound like your typical Marvelhead, but “chatting” in a Hulk comic seems just wrong. Easily Jones has won first place with “talky” Hulk comics, if little else. Hernandez helps a lot here, with blacks and a mood that remind of Edwardo Risso, not a bad thing to remind us this IS a MONSTER comic, after all.

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