The Infernal Hulk (2025-2026) #7

The Infernal Hulk (2025)

by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Adam Gorham (Artist), Nic Klein (Cover Art)

INFERNAL HULK vs. the X-MEN! When Infernal Hulk exerts mysterious control over all mutantkind, drawing them to his growing army in the horrific LIVING CITY, can the X-Men resist the call? Can they save mutantkind from their monstrous new leader? And when Hulk attacks them head-on, which of them will he try to kill…and which will he recruit?

Genres: Marvel, Superheroes

Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2026

About the author

Phillip Kennedy Johnson earned a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas, where he served as Teaching Fellow for the Department of Jazz Studies, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Kentucky University. SFC Johnson has performed with the Lexington Philharmonic, Dallas Opera, Washington Symphonic Brass, and the Moscow Ballet, and was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 2004 to 2005. SFC Johnson remains active as a composer, arranger, teacher, and clinician, and also enjoys a second career as a writer of comics and graphic novels. His work has been published by DC Comics, Marvel Comics, BOOM! Studios, and more.

Reviews

[Neil Pearson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, so I've been driven away from the sole remaining Marvel book on my reading list. Why? Because we've now had 3 issues of Infernal Hulk beating people up and I'm just not enjoying the character at all. It seems to exist solely to smash anyone it encounters and talk in faux biblical prophecy. The animated X-Men cartoon did a better job of this with Apocalypse.

Speaking of X-Men, this issue decides to have Infernal Hulk guest star in what felt like a tie-in issue of X-Men. It's nice to read an X-Men book for a change (and how they've changed/reverted from the Krakoan age) but I was reading this comic mainly from my enjoyment of #3 focus on Banner. They tease his appearance at the end of the issue but my patience is out - I'll maybe grab a cheap digital trade to see how this series ends before the intermission.

I feel as though I should have a better grasp on the title character by now but I haven't. If this book was following a character trying to stop infernal Hulk that would be fine as well, but each issue is a different character being whupped by iHulk and it feels rudderless and acting like a crossover event as opposed to a solo title.
It feels like a similar thing to what's happening with Zdarsky's Cap America.

Maybe this is something that appeals to shared universe fans where all the books bleed in together? For me this feels like "iHulk Vs" and it has worn thin.

The art is a little sketchy in places and I'm not sure if it's a pencil/art/colouring or combined issue. However, at times it reminds me of Alan Davis which fits well for an X-Men story and the scene where a morlock is killed is suitably horrific (I can remember when that character was a main X-Men character).

PKJ is at least demonstrating he can handle various corners of the marvel universe and I genuinely wouldn't mind see him take on the X-Men or Avengers. I just wish he'd show me that he can write a Hulk book again.

Overall impression = 2/5
Writing = 2/5
Art = 3/5

Will I read the next issue? probably not until trade collection

Wait for the trade collection? Even as a trade the space between seeing Banner or regular Hulk will be irregular.

Did I need to read previous issues/series? not really.

Will I read previous issues I've gone from wanting to know about how infernal hulk came to be, to not caring anymore.

[Machiavelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series keeps getting stronger and darker with every issue. PKJ pulls the X-Men into the horror here — Eldest exerting some kind of mysterious control over all of mutantkind, drawing them toward the Living City and a terrifying new role in her army. The body horror atmosphere is relentless and Gorham and Wilson are doing incredible work — Eldest looks massive and genuinely menacing on every page, that sickly green scar running through them like a wound that never heals. The Hulk himself takes a bit of a backseat this issue but the mutant-focused storytelling is compelling enough that it doesn’t matter. What this book does better than almost anything else right now is make you feel genuinely hopeless — and then sneak in just enough hope at the end to keep you reading. This is Immortal Hulk energy for a new era.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

En un momento en el que los mutantes vuelven a ser temidos y odiados, el que el Infernal Hulk asuma que son parte del catálogo de monstruosidades que está destinado a liderar en este alzamiento apocalíptico, desde luego suma otra pesada piedra a su precaria situación. Como si fuese una variante de Apocalipsis, Infernal Hulk busca tentar a ciertos mutantes más repudiados por su apariencia para convertirse en "su mejor versión" y destrozar a aquellos menos dignos o que se opongan.

Nic Klein sigue ausente, pero Adam Gorham al menos cuenta con un trazo algo tosco y sucio que ayuda a mantener esta atmósfera cruel y agresiva que sigue caldeando el panorama Marvelita a la espera de saber cómo PKJ proporcionará a Bruce Banner la solución para rematar con esta nueva debacle de su contraparte Gamma.

[Craig Schorling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hulk continues to just obliterate anything in his way. The tension has left the series as a result. The artwork is visceral and brutal. There is one kill in particular that was shocking. This is fun but it could be better if the stakes felt higher.