The Incredible Hulk returns as Bruce Banner gets swept up in a war of the monsters
The Incredible Hulk returns with a new #1 this June as the title reboots with the creative team of writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Nic Klein, who will pit Bruce Banner against all the monsters of the Marvel Universe - including the one that rages inside of him, the Hulk.
The new Incredible Hulk relaunch comes hot on the heels of the conclusion to writer Donny Cates and artist Ryan Ottley's sci-fi fueled Hulk run in which Bruce Banner turned the Hulk's body into a kind of living starship for Banner's own consciousness.
Now, it seems as though some of Banner's manipulations of the Hulk will come home to roost as the Hulk tries to eclipse Bruce Banner forever amidst a war of the monsters.
"As an enraged Hulk tries to take control of Bruce Banner’s body permanently, a mysterious immortal turns every monster in the Marvel Universe against Banner in an attempt to free their creator, the primordial Mother of Horrors," reads Marvel's official description of the new Incredible Hulk #1. "With the help of an unlikely new friend, Banner and Hulk must try to stop the world from getting plunged into darkness!"
The title The Incredible Hulk dates back to the '60s as the name of Hulk's first ongoing series, but it hasn't been used since 2017 when Amadeus Cho briefly became the title's lead character.
After that, the Hulk was relaunched in writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennet's horror-fueled title The Immortal Hulk - a take on the character that incoming writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson says has a big influence on the upcoming Incredible Hulk relaunch.
"The work that Al, Joe and the rest did with Immortal Hulk was so impactful and spoke so clearly to me personally, it was impossible to come up with an idea that wasn’t inspired
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