Welcome to Dispatch’s Rapid Fire Recap for Al Ewing’s IMMORTAL HULK. With no new comics on the horizon, why not dive into a new series TO YOU? Now is certainly as good a time as any to get caught up on one of the best ongoing series at Marvel Comics happening now! Today, we’ll be recapping IMMORTAL HULK Vol. 1, which is issues 1-5. If you’d like to get your hands on any of these issues or trade, feel free to click on the Amazon links below. Let’s smash in!
Immortal Hulk #1
Writer: Al Ewing
Artist: Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, Cory Petit, and Alex Ross
Price: $4.99
Released: June 6th, 2018
Rapid Fire Recap:
Banner is shot and killed in a mini-mart robbery as well as a 12-year-old girl. He wakes up in a morgue as Hulk tracks down the guy who killed him and the girl. As the Hulk, he scares the crap out of the robber and puts him in the hospital.
Click HERE to get your hands on IMMORTAL HULK #1 or grab IMMORTAL HULK Vol 1. HERE which collects issues 1-5
Immortal Hulk #2
Writer: Al Ewing
Artist: Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, Cory Petit, and Alex Ross
Price: $3.99
Released: July 4th, 2018
Rapid Fire Recap:
Banner continues to hide from the world but sees the Hulk in every mirror or image he looks at. He wonders into a town that appears to have missing deaths in which he finds out that they are connected to gamma radiation. Like a magnet, Banner is drawn to the radiation and finds a man glowing with gamma like a walking ghost. The feds dig up a body that’s glowing with gamma that may be alive and the first discussions of gamma connected to a “green door” surface in the series as well as the theme that Banner is drawn to this gamma energy.
Click HERE to get your hands on IMMORTAL HULK #2 or grab IMMORTAL HULK Vol 1. HERE which collects issues 1-5
Immortal Hulk #3
Writer: Al Ewing
Artist: Joe Bennet, Leonardo Romero, Paul Hornschemeier, Marguerite Sauvage and Garry Brown
Price: $3.99
Released: July 18th, 2018
Rapid Fire Recap:
This story is about a report named Jackie McGee, who becomes a main character in this series. She’s reporting another disturbance involving the Hulk and this other young man who killed his girlfriend. Somehow, this guy was also infused with gamma radiation. This new gamma guy was screaming about a “green door” and about how he was somehow “possessed”. The Hulk takes this new gamma guy down and readers discover that Hulk appears to be tracking down all gamma radiation like a hound dog. The issue ends with Jackie needing clarity and calling Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch) as a reference for her article on the Hulk.
Click HERE to get your hands on IMMORTAL HULK #3 or grab IMMORTAL HULK Vol 1. HERE which collects issues 1-5
Immortal Hulk #4
Writer: Al Ewing
Artist: Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, Cory Petit, and Alex Ross
Price: $3.99
Released: August 1st, 2018
Rapid Fire Recap:
This issue is more of a trip down memory lane showing the history of Walter and Bruce together and how their lives intertwined. We also get to see that Jackie’s life was also impacted by the Hulk. Moreover, Walter talks about a “green door” that opened and let a being known as Tanaraq into him as he initially had his transformations back in the day. So, Walter and Jackie go into a dive bar looking for answers after a Hulk siting/destruction, and Walter gets stabbed in the back sending him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Banner sneaks in and has a talk with Jackie. Banner wants to know about Walter’s prognosis and appears worried since night time is coming and that’s when these gamma monsters (including himself) change. The issue ends with Walter turning into Sasquatch on the operating table and destruction on the horizon.
Click HERE to get your hands on IMMORTAL HULK #4 or grab IMMORTAL HULK Vol 1. HERE which collects issues 1-5
Immortal Hulk #5
Writer: Al Ewing
Artist: Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, Cory Petit, and Alex Ross
Price: $3.99
Released: September 5th, 2018
Rapid Fire Recap:
It appears as though readers find out that anyone afflicted with this measure of gamma radiation open this “green door” and can’t die. So, presumably, Walter died on the table and woke up like Sasquatch. Next, Sasquatch kills Banner in a confrontation and later wakes up as the Hulk. The two behemoths tangle until Banner realizes that through that “green door” when Walter came back to life… came Bruce’s Dad instead of Walter. So, we learn that other entities can come through the green door when someone dies and it now seems like Banner’s Dad is somehow present on the other side of that green door. Now, his Dad is somehow possessing Sasquatch!!! As the issue ends, Hulk literally absorbs all the gamma with this huge gamma hug taking the “Sasquatch” out of him. However, it appears as though when Hulk absorbed the gamma from Walter, he took his ability from him of becoming Sasquatch AND along with that came Banner’s Dad who’s now inside the Hulk!!!
Click HERE to get your hands on IMMORTAL HULK #5 or grab IMMORTAL HULK Vol 1. HERE which collects issues 1-5
I hope you enjoyed this edition of Dispatch’s Rapid Fire Recap of IMMORTAL HULK Vol. 1 issues 1-5. Soon, IMMORTAL HULK Vol. 2 will be out to continue to get everyone caught up on Al Ewing’s smashingly good series before Marvel comes back with New Releases! If you want to get a head start on IMMORTAL HULK Vol. 2, feel free to click HERE to get your hands on issues 6-10!! And, if comics are your jam like they are mine, feel free to take a look at my Online Amazon Comic Shop HERE. Thank you in advance! Until next time, stay safe and stay healthy!
