Waid Gives Bruce Banner New Purpose in "Indestructible Hulk"

[ian33407]

..this is the book I waited for.
Hulk will be in very good hands, now bring back Leonard Samson Marvel please

[AnonymousMC]

I think, thanks to 30 years of Hulk TV reruns, we tend to think of Hulk as a lumbering brute, but anyone who can jump two miles has serious leg muscles and should be able to move like lightning.

YES! I think a lot of people forget that the Hulk is that fast, to the naked eye he would seem like a big green blur in action. So far from what I have read and seen Leinil Yu is knocking this out of the park. To reiterate what many have already said regarding the Hulk's voice, If he just kind of echos (yet interprets with his own unique spin) Pak's Hulk voice he shall be fine. I have never read a Waid book, but I know he's done some pretty ground breaking work with Irredeemable and Incorruptible, and hope to see more of the same with the Hulk.

[graffiX]

Who knows? Of course the last arc of Aaron's run set up the whole thing of Banner and Hulk working together again. On the other hand, there's no mention of Banner going all Mad Scientist yet.

IIRC, isn't there a panel of Banner with his hair long and having a beard? It's the same panel where he mentions AvX. I thought he mentioned going crazy or something to that effect.

[insidemyhead]

i'm going out on a limb and saying that the Ghost is Banner's mystery blackmailer. he's just the type of anti-government nut that might make use of SHIELD secrets.

Amadeus Cho was the first person to come to mind for me, but I haven't read the first issue.

[TheGavGav]

So has Aaron's run been stricken from continuity?

I'm afraid it seems that it has, I don't think the Hulk and Banner are working together in Indestructible as much as Banner is channelling the Hulk without his direct consent. I was hoping for a mixture of Pak and Aaron's Hulk when Indestructible came around because I really love Hulk-centric arcs. I feel in love with Aaron's take on the Hulk and I feel it's just being ignored. The Hulk had no personality in #1 and Banner mentions in his conversation with Maria Hill in the diner that he's been off the grid because he's been trying to cure himself of the Hulk for weeks.

He even mentions that he's incurable despite the fact that in Aaron's run he and the Hulk were two entirely separate bodies for the first arc. I don't believe he would try to cure the Hulk after how important he realized Hulk is to him in Aaron's run. That said, even though it seems Aaron's run is being ignored I still love Mark Waid's writing (Irredeemable, Incorruptible, Daredevil). This still seems like a well-written, enjoyable hulk ongoing. I just wish he decided to explore Aaron's take on Banner/Hulk's relationship while using the same premise he's going for in Indestructible.