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: 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

[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!

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.3 stars

[Drew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun visuals, story is so-so.