Hulk #2 Review

Writer: Mariko Tamaki / Artist: Nico Leon / Marvel Comics Progress is a hard thing to navigate at times. You can feel as if you are making huge strides and moving forward but there are times when the outside world will test your improvement. We see that occurring with Jen Walters as she is just trying to live her life day-to-day. Jen is back in the swing of things and sticking up for her inhuman client, who is being forced out of her apartment despite making payments on time and keeping to herself. Walters navigates through these spaces testing her patience with sexual harassment and arrogance. Jen does better than she anticipated.

After dealing with adult bullshit and what we’d expect to perhaps trigger Jen, it isn’t until we see her at a park watching children playing that her trauma surfaces. The kids are pretending the Snowman they built is the Hulk and start attacking it. When one child plays Hawkeye and delivers the killing shot, we see Jen break. Hints are given that Jen hasn’t truly dealt with how Bruce was merked off and we don’t know if thats due to repression or just not being in the space to. Seeing Jen lock herself away and watch her cooking shows, we know how far she still has to go for recovery. Mariko Tamaki makes it evident that this trauma is interfering more and more with Jen’s work as she misses a call from her client which leads to her situation escalating. Nico Leon art does a great job of holding up a mirror to the Jen we use to know and the one in fro…