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HULK #23

WORLD WAR HULKS RAGES ON!

Not a dream. Not a hoax. THE ORIGIN OF THE RED HULK.

‘Nuff Said.

WRITER: Jeph Loeb
PENCILS: Sal Buscema, Ian Churchill, Mike Deodato, Dale Keown, Ed McGuinness, John Romita JR., Tim Sale, Herb Trimpe & Leinil Francis Yu
INKS: Dario Brizuela & Mark Farmer
COLORED BY: Dario Brizuela & Dave Stewart
LETTERED BY: Comicraft|VC - Joe Sabino
COVER BY: Ed McGuinness

Price: $4.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 17.8%

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  1. I wish this wasn’t $4.99

  2. Is this the final issue? (I haven’t seen the solicitations for future months) but an over-sized issue with all of those guest artists seems like a farewell party.

  3. I believe they have decided that finally revealing how Ross became Red Hulk is an event that people will pay an extra buck for. There is definitely a Hulk #24, which is labeled as the end of World War Hulks. I liked that they saved money on their event logo, re-using the World War Hulk one painted red instead of green.

  4. At first I was going to put ‘bullshit’ in the largest font size on here. Then I remembered Loeb actually did reveal who it was so…..nevermind.

  5. Terrible terrible terrible terrible!  This whole "saga" (who is the Red Hulk) could have, and SHOULD have, been wrapped up within the first 4 or 5 issues of the book, then get on to telling some other stories!

  6. I haven’t been reading this book since the first story arc but I got this anyway even though I hadn’t planned on it. I enjoyed it. Loeb really knows his Hulk history and as ridiculous as the events of Ross’ past are, I totally bought his reasoning. It’s a story that could only work in a Hulk comic. Even though the L.M.D. is the ultimate lazy writer’s plot device, I still enjoyed it. A 3 for story, 5 for art and 1 for lettering (black text on red background gives me eye fatigue.)

  7. In the end I thought Loeb actually put together a good mystery, pulling on a lot of great Hulk mythos. It went on too long, with issue after issue of zero characterization and zany fun stuff that more often than not fell flat and just felt like the blatant pandering move that they were. Deadpool, Punisher, and Electra vs. X-Force indeed… Until now Jeff Parker has taken on the main load of explaining what the hell all this disconnected nonsense was actually about. However, having said all that, if you throw out the the Hulked-Out heroes (and I would love to throw them far away) the World War Hulks/Fall of the Hulks has actually been solid, including this issue where Jeph Loeb finally gets a chance to explain what he has been up to.

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