To me this was another meh issue. Honestly, there was a lot of wasted potential. And once again it seems primarily focused on Banner. With Banner comatose & brain-damaged, I was hoping that we'd delve into the shared psyche of Hulk & Banner. I wanted to see Hulk speaking to Banner in full sentences like Greg Pak & Peter David had done before, perhaps even get some cameo appearances from other Hulk personas.
Instead, what we received was mostly more of the same. And I wasn't impressed by the minor feats either. I don't have a problem with Hulk shrugging off adamantium bullets, as he's done so before, so that along with the Negative Zone particles wasn't that much of a big deal for him to overcome. Besides, the only time adamantium has pierced his skin, even in bullet form, was when they're combined with much more force (for example: in WWH with the powerful bombs laced with adamantium shrapnel that did pierce through his flesh, yet the soliders hand-held weapons with adamantium bullets didn't; or Wolverine, who has a level of superhuman strength (he has to in order to move like he does with a skeleton made of adamantium), yet failed to cut Hulk in their first ever altercation).
And didn't anyone else find it a bit convenient that the woman, who was saved by Hulk in the past from Zzzax, just happened to be a nurse? Yeah, it definitely felt thrown in there. Then there's Aaron Carpenter... why do I feel like Waid is purposely taking a shot at Hulk fans? The only thing that I honestly liked was the art by Mark Bagley.
All in all, a very disappointing start to the series. Too much of the same, not enough to keep me or most Hulk fans interested. I hope that the Savage Hulk series is created for the purpose of finding someone who can actually write an awesome Hulk series. Then we can finally kick Mark Waid off the series, bring in the next writer, bring in a fantastic artist, and then start over again. We need someone to completely ignore Jason Aaron & Mark Waid's horrific tenures and get back to the point where Greg Pak left off. That means, Hulk & Banner in their natural, progressed state of being.
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