“Incredible Hercules” #137, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Rodney Buchemi, hits comic book stores today.
Click here for an advance review from Comic Book Resources, which calls the book “a consistently enjoyable title.”
Chris’s Invincible Super Blog loves “Incredible Hulk” #603
An excerpt:
… even though it’s fun in a completely different way from Herc, the same vein of comedy shines through, with Pak’s scripts pulling off the neat trick of acknowledging how silly this all is and just going with it anyway because it’s too fun not to, and the same goes for the Dark Reign one-shot that also hit this week. It’s good stuff.
CBR’s The Buy Pile loves “Incredible Hulk” #603
Hannibal Tabu has posted a rave review of “Incredible Hulk” #603 in his Buy Pile column at Comic Book Resources. Here’s an excerpt:
Whatever you think is going to happen this issue, it just doesn’t, and it sucks you in then sucker punches your expectations with something even more amazing. Note perfect characterization, skillful and intimate artwork from Ariel Olivetti, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith and Elizabeth Breitweiser.
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“Incredible Hulk” #603 was written by Greg Pak and hit comic book stores on Wednesday.
Comic Book Club loves “Incredible Hulk” #603
Alex Zalben has reviewed “Incredible Hulk” #603 for PopCultureShock.com — and he loves it! Here’s an excerpt:
I’m loving this book now. Great, great character work with Skaar and Banner vs. Daken and Wolverine, a nice twist on the old Hulk/Wolverine rivalry that perfectly fits with the characters.
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“Incredible Hulk” #603 was written by Greg Pak and hits comic book stores today.
Newsarama posts art preview for “Incredible Hulk” #604
Newsarama has posted several colored preview pages from “Incredible Hulk” #604, written by Greg Pak with art by Ariel Olivetti.
Click here to check it out.
CBR reviews “Incredible Hercules” #136
Yet another rave for “Incredible Hercules” #136 (written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Reilly Brown), this time from Greg McElhatton at Comic Book Resources. Here’s an excerpt:
Here’s just one of the things I love about “Incredible Hercules.” One minute it’s taking itself seriously, using Joseph Campbell’s heroic journey to map out the path of its characters. Or, it might be taking classic mistaken identity riffs from Shakespeare plays. And then, when you least expect it… one god gives another a wedgie.
2009.10.21 – “Dark Reign: The List – Hulk”
“Dark Reign: The List – Hulk” hits stores Wednesday. Find out what it’s all about from writer Greg Pak in this week’s “Marvel Hotline.”
Ridiculous rave reviews for “Incredible Hercules” #136
“Incredible Hercules” #136, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Reilly Brown, has garnered a slew of rave reviews. Just a few excerpts:
Paradox Comics Group:
Here [Pak and Van Lente] display that knowledge perfectly with an outstanding and gut-bustingly funny fight which employs a manner of playground tactics to get the guffaws a-bellowing from your lungs while dissecting just what makes Herc the legend that he is. Reilly Brown’s talent as an artist really ups the comedic edge and the range of facial expressions that he can produce is particularly noteworthy. Great work from everyone involved.
Chris’s Invincible Super Blog:
I’m just going to put this out there: Incredible Herc is the single best comic on the stands today.
The battle royal between Herc and Thor is as much a raucous comedy as it is an epic, glorious brawl, and you’ll find it hard not to chuckle as each champion resorts to a string of dirty tricks to best the other. The best part is that you can still pick up this issue without having read the previous ones and still follow along just fine, and in my opinion that is one of the hallmarks of some great storytelling. I would of course be remiss if I didn’t compliment Brown and the art team for brilliant rendering this tale of balderdash and bravura, as their efforts made every page a pleasure to take in and enjoy.
Best sound effects in human history. I will not do them the disservice of reprinting them in text. Rest assured that this is wholly and completely true.
What a wonderful comic. Come on – a purple nurple!!!!! Who doesn’t love that?
Why did this work better than your average fight comic? Well, first of all is the very, very slick characterization and plot work done around the newly prepubescent Zeus, who gets quite a nice turn at the end. Second is the sly humor of it all, from some “down and dirty” fight moves to the beer-swilling mutterings of Hogun and Volstagg to some of the funniest onomatopoeia ever used in sound effects (“WHATAMANNNN,” “SUKKKAPUNCH,” “NURP” and “GODDATHUNDAAA”). Great stuff from Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente on story and the art team of Reilly Brown, Nelson DeCastro, Guillem Mari, Ulises Areola and Sotocolor’s A. Street.
ComicCritique.com loves “Incredible Hulk” #601
Adam McGovern has posted a rave review of writer Greg Pak’s return to the “Incredible Hulk” title. An excerpt:
As for the personality of Banner, it befits his Hulk incarnation’s role as the ultimate military adversary (all those decades of flattened tanks) that in his new mortal persona he’s like a super-Daniel Ellsberg, thwarting the government with superior technical brainpower and the too-much he knows. He manipulates the system to advance a tense truce with Skaar, another once-removed consequence of what Banner unleashed with his weapons-design years ago, in an alliance between raging youth and regretful maturity that has a purpose of strangely tender self-destruction whose secret I’ll leave to readers of the book, which should be everyone.
Previews of “Incredible Hulk” #603 and “Dark Reign: The List: Hulk”!
Comic Book Resources has posted colored, lettered previews of two Greg Pak comic books that hit stores on October 21 — “Incredible Hulk” #603 and “Dark Reign: The List – Hulk. Check ’em out!