Marvel, $1.95
Short Review: Sub-par Story, Atrocious art.
What the hell has happened to Peter David? When last I faded out from reading Hulk (about the same time I stopped reading entire issues standing up in stores), he was keeping Bruce's character development going, doing smart plots, and great dialogue (The first appearance of Mr. Frost was as far as I'm concerned, the best Marvel superhero comic of the nineties so far, edging out several other David-scripted wonders). Now, he's doing a fight-scene oriented title, with the same old nonsense justifying it while adding tragedy. A corrupt police force, one good guy working with them, one working against them. You know the drill. There's two jokes, one of them an allusion to another company's character, the other is funnier if you know it's a running joke (I'm assuming). There's also an overused symbolism, blatant plot holes, and the least convincing English character since Dick Van Dyke.
Now, the bad stuff. Liam Sharpe wasn't on the title when I left. I understand that the then artist has moved on, like the previous one, to be a fan favourite, having figured out that this is the purpose of a stint on Hulk. I feel confident in the prediction that this will not happen to Liam . It would be difficult for me to find worse art than that on display here, and my eyes hurt too much for me to risk it. Apart from truly terrible Babes and Hunks art (and we're talking tits the size of the head, or biceps twice the size), there's the matters of the variable mouth on the Abomination, the inflating cop, the disappearing gloves, and the fact that three pages between two mentions of the same character sufficiently confuses Liam to cause him to create an entirely different character. Terrible beyond belief. I guess it's no more Marvel books for a while for me.
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