Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1 Review

Writer: Al Ewing, Alex Paknadel, and David Vaughan / Artist: Juan Ferreya and Kevin Nowlan / Marvel Comics There are plenty of things in comics that are most definitely my shit. Legacy characters, anything Spider-Man related and one-shots. So here we are with a brand new one-shot for Immortal Hulk from Al Ewing, Alex Paknadel, and David Vaughan. If you’ve read my reviews, you know I’m a sucka for all things Immortal Hulk. In Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1, Ewing and Paknadel team up to further build the Hulk mythos introduced in the Immortal Hulk series. This time around there are some interesting revelations about all things gamma. Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1 is split into two stories. The first takes us back to the primal age, thousands of years before Banner’s Hulk ever destroyed his first tank. It’s a gruesome story filled with desperation, horrifying images, and the influence of The One Below All. The second is more of a classic Hulk story that feels like something straight from the beginning of Immortal Hulk where Hulk acted as a force punishing bad guys for their sins.

Gamma History The main attraction is definitely the first story. This prehistoric tale feels like it would have fit right into Jason Aaron’s Avengers of 1,000,000 B.C.. Like many of these retcons go, we see that Bruce Banner is not the first Hulk. Nope. More than 12,000 years ago, a gamma-irradiated rock and a misplaced human sacrifice created the Hulk of 9,500 BCE. A gr…