Hellverine, Vol. 2: Hell Hulk Unleashed

Hellverine by Benjamin Percy

by Benjamin Percy, Raffaele Ienco (Illustrator)

When you combine the vengeance and fire of Ghost Rider with the steel and savagery of Wolverine, you get...HELLVERINE, now in his very own ongoing series!

A new demon sets foot on Earth! Is even Hellverine powerful enough to stop its infernal rampage? Be there for the Hell Hulk’s first full appearance — and watch it smash its way into the Marvel Universe!

COLLECTING: Hellverine (2024B) 6-10

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

112 pages, Paperback

Published January 13, 2026

About the author

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

Reviews

[Oscar · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.6 🌟

[Khurram · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to rate this book 2.5 stars there is no way it is bad enough to be a 2 star book, so it gets a round up. The book starts out well and with a lot of potential but seems to be a rush to finish everything at the end. Maybe the series was cancelled and they Percy wanted to get his message across.

Draken is reunited with project Hellfire where he discovers the living corpse of the Hell Hulk. Though it is missing a few pieces it is still very much alive. He also discovers a link between Bagra-Ghul and the Hell Hulk. However is it too late for him to do anything about it?

A lot of potential I feel wasted especially as there is no actual confrontation between Hellverine and the Hell Hulk. If this book was not the end of the series I would have thought it was a filler book. The book finishes with a varient cover gallery.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, yes, "Hell Hulk" is terrifically dumb. Looks great, though. And a core piece of the story is Hellverine and the Hell Patrol (or whatever Project Hellfire's goons call themselves) findingt various pieces of the Hell Hulk around the world so they can assemble him back at home base, Frankenstein style.

Unfortunately, Hell Hulk Unleashed also heralds the arrival of a super obvious villain whose long-term goal is to use the Hell Hulk to overtake Mephisto in Hell. Predictably, this leads to a big battle. It's fine - I liked the questing elements of the previous volume, the lone wolf reckoning with his demonic cohabitant. Hell Hulk Unleashed is more about punching stuff, which I suppose makes sense, given the title character.

Still a better series than I ever expected!

[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

When coming up with this arc, I imagine it went something like this...

Marvel: We need a villain for Hellverine.
Author: Can we dive into the obvious pantheon of Ghost Rider villains since he doesn't currently have a book?
Marvel: No, we'll just take something popular and make a version that comes from Hell...
Author: I've worked on Ghost Rider, X-Force, and Wolverine....
(MCU trailers running in the background)
Marvel: HULK! Hell Hulk! Yes, do that!
Author: Are you sure?
Marvel: Yes, and add Mephisto too. We are dealing with Hell after all...

That's the basic plot, though still entertaining a read.
Marvel, please please please please, team him up with Ghost Rider and allow the book to be SUPER DARK!
Recommend.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the first volume, but this direction is a good fit for Daken.

The story both somehow dragged on and the felt rushed somehow.

I'd guess the series was cancelled sooner than planned and Percy had to race to the finale.

[Drew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun visuals, story is so-so.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hellverine comes face to face with Project Hellfire once more, who are acquiring pieces of a big red monster that looks remarkably like a Hulk and putting them back together again. I'm sure THAT won't end badly and blow up in everyone's faces, right?

Hellverine as a concept has intrigued me from the get-go. The first arc dug neatly into Akihiro's past, but this second and final arc seems more concerned with building up a villain that doesn't go anywhere than focusing on Akihiro himself. There are a few glimmers here and there, like Akihiro's past with Aurora and how he feels about having a place to belong, but we get too much time devoted to the origin of villain Severith and the personality-less Hell Hulk when we could have had it spent on Akihiro himself, or even the Project Hellfire guys.

Raffaelle Ienco's artwork doesn't improve for this second volume either. It's still kind of lifeless, too flat for my liking, taking all of the impact out of Hellverine's claws and Hell Hulk's punches. I don't know what it is, because he really worked well on Darth Vader; maybe traditional superheroics aren't his thing.

Not overly offensive or anything, but I feel like the concept of Hellverine could have spawned some better stories than what we got here. Thankfully this isn't the last we're seeing of him though - he's over in the latest X-Force reboot, so long live the flaming claws.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one introduces a new character called the Hell Hulk whose influence sends people into a frenzy and they grow super violent and its happening because his parts have been spread and now we have Daken working with Project Hellfire and the cast of characters who are there and its fun seeing the bonds and all and slowly we learn the proper origin of the character and this new person they are working with aka SEVERITH, and his connections to Hell Hulk and Mephisto and how he his involved in the story and like the origins of Hell Hulk and all and how ultimately Daken and his team will defeat this new foe!

The premise is exciting and I hoped the origin of this new character of sorts will be good but it was not as exciting as it could have been but lets see seems like Mephisto has a new pet or something and he may show up in a future story or in a different series but there are good moments for Daken as a character and in many ways this volume is more self-introspective for Daken and how he has changed and all that and its really well done!

Its a good ending showing the character development he has had and this series endd up giving him a new status quo in the marvel universe which is same and different at the same time so thats cool! This series as a whole is a great one time read!

[Travis Duke · Rating 2 out of 5]

Downhill from vol.1. This really feels like a series on the backburner.... just burning away like a bad pot of refried beans. Hellverine is not really fighting much, he does not really fight this hell hulk, he is just collecting hulk parts. Surprise that is a bad idea! WTF is a hell hulk... they explain it but its pretty silly. Hellverine misses his demented science family and its just a pretty flat book. It feels like filler to something bigger but this might be my last one. It sucks because Percy has a good track record on some wolverine stuff and x-23. Maybe he needs a change.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

Take all the best parts from the current Ghost Rider mythos (all that grime, grit, and pain) and shove it down into the son of Wolverine...who died a messy death.

Give your most angsty character an UBER angsty power-up and then.....cancel the series.
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Bonus: Hell stuff happens, government sanctioned(?), and there's a Hell Hulk involved(?!)

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.3 stars

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slash and Burn!

[Nate Deprey · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up. The art isn't as nasty as volume one but Percy still knows his horror well enough to get where he needs to land the series.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

When Ben Percy gets to cut loose with his collaborators and do full blown horror in the Marvel Universe the result is always a little creepy, cool, and fun. Plus he and his artists get to play with some truly wild and over-the-top concepts like "Hell Hulk" which is disturbing, metal AF, and fun. The only downside is this feels a little truncated; like it got cancelled. Which is a shame, because I would have happily traveled down more creepy, twisted highways and byways with the Hellverine.