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The Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus
The Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus, Vol. 3
Peter David's fan-favorite run continues as the Hulk gets an unexpected promotion to leader of the Pantheon! But will their immortal infighting weigh him down? As Rick Jones struggles to save Marlo's life, the Hulk faces threats from Juggernaut to Venom, takes on S.H.I.E.L.D. in a very personal mission and fights the interstellar Trojan War! But his greatest enemy just might be his own future. In a nightmarish dystopia decades away, the despotic Maestro rules with a familiar, gamma-powered fist! And when rage overpowers the Hulk, can he cope with a new wrinkle in the Banner/Hulk relationship? All this and the wedding of the century! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #401-435 and ANNUAL #19-20, INCREDIBLE HULK VS. VENOM #1, HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT #1-2, TALES TO ASTONISH (1994) #1, INCREDIBLE HULK ASHCAN EDITION and material from MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL (1991) #3.
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1200 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1995
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About the author
Peter David
3,569 books1,364 followersaka David Peters
Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
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June 4, 2023
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We're now deep into Peter David's Legendary run on the Green Monster and damn, is it fucking good.
This volume starts off with a Bang as we deal with the aftermath of the last Omnibus storyline. For slight spoilers ahead, Marlo faith was left up in the air after Hulk dealt with The Leader. It was a choice he had to make and one he doubted himself. Now we deal with Rick Jones going slightly insane due to the loss of his girlfriend to Hulk and Betty trying to work out their shit, to eventually Hulk taking over the Pantheon.
This section of the Hulk being the leader to the Pantheon is pretty crazy. Watching the Hulk lead ANYONE is insane. But somehow Professor Hulk trying to balance this crazy team out with their own set of issues is wonderful to watch. Rick Jones melodrama storyline, which is pointed out to be melodrama, is also really sweet and a wedding that is too cute for words. Overall we needed this to help balance out the more over the top and epic fights.
On top of that Hulk is trying to deal with, you know it, his anger issues. This leads to eventually boiling over into the Future Imperfect storyline which is easily the stepping block for Hulk to face his true inner issues. This leads to the eventual Fall of Pantheon which is not a spoiler as it's the name of the storyline and trade paperback. It's intense and leaves hulk with a whole new status quo by the end.
The very last part of the book is more Betty and Banner (as professor hulk still) trying to hide from people and live their life independent of all the superhero mumble jumbo. It's a nice change of pace for Peter David to go in and leaves for some great one shots or two parters. Overall this is a lot of fun for being different than the rest.
There's a bunch of great issues here but this is also over a 1000 pages so got some duds. The worst offender for me was probably the mystical god storyline with Loki. Just boring and felt overly long and out of place with the rest of the volume. There's one or two single issues too that failed to stick the landing but they were here or there.
The strongest volume yet for me in this 5 book collection for Peter David. While volume 1 was a 3.5, and volume 2 was a 4, this is a 4.5 out of 5 for me. Some of the best Hulk stories I've ever read are placed in this book. So if you're a hulk fan, do yourself a favor and start reading this!
We're now deep into Peter David's Legendary run on the Green Monster and damn, is it fucking good.
This volume starts off with a Bang as we deal with the aftermath of the last Omnibus storyline. For slight spoilers ahead, Marlo faith was left up in the air after Hulk dealt with The Leader. It was a choice he had to make and one he doubted himself. Now we deal with Rick Jones going slightly insane due to the loss of his girlfriend to Hulk and Betty trying to work out their shit, to eventually Hulk taking over the Pantheon.
This section of the Hulk being the leader to the Pantheon is pretty crazy. Watching the Hulk lead ANYONE is insane. But somehow Professor Hulk trying to balance this crazy team out with their own set of issues is wonderful to watch. Rick Jones melodrama storyline, which is pointed out to be melodrama, is also really sweet and a wedding that is too cute for words. Overall we needed this to help balance out the more over the top and epic fights.
On top of that Hulk is trying to deal with, you know it, his anger issues. This leads to eventually boiling over into the Future Imperfect storyline which is easily the stepping block for Hulk to face his true inner issues. This leads to the eventual Fall of Pantheon which is not a spoiler as it's the name of the storyline and trade paperback. It's intense and leaves hulk with a whole new status quo by the end.
The very last part of the book is more Betty and Banner (as professor hulk still) trying to hide from people and live their life independent of all the superhero mumble jumbo. It's a nice change of pace for Peter David to go in and leaves for some great one shots or two parters. Overall this is a lot of fun for being different than the rest.
There's a bunch of great issues here but this is also over a 1000 pages so got some duds. The worst offender for me was probably the mystical god storyline with Loki. Just boring and felt overly long and out of place with the rest of the volume. There's one or two single issues too that failed to stick the landing but they were here or there.
The strongest volume yet for me in this 5 book collection for Peter David. While volume 1 was a 3.5, and volume 2 was a 4, this is a 4.5 out of 5 for me. Some of the best Hulk stories I've ever read are placed in this book. So if you're a hulk fan, do yourself a favor and start reading this!
July 3, 2021
The bulk of this collection was, pun intended, INCREDIBLE. The quality takes a drastic turn for the worse after "The Fall of The Pantheon" storyline, and the start of Hulk's tenure as a Marvel Edge title.
The final Pantheon story seems incredibly rushed, and after that, you can feel Peter David's interest in the book diminishing. Personally, I could have read another 100 issues of The Hulk as a part of The Pantheon. And the art....Jesus, Liam Sharp was a fucking eyesore! The worst of Marvel's '90's artistic excess is on display in his issues!
Still worth reading, even as David passes his Hulk expiration date.
The final Pantheon story seems incredibly rushed, and after that, you can feel Peter David's interest in the book diminishing. Personally, I could have read another 100 issues of The Hulk as a part of The Pantheon. And the art....Jesus, Liam Sharp was a fucking eyesore! The worst of Marvel's '90's artistic excess is on display in his issues!
Still worth reading, even as David passes his Hulk expiration date.
December 30, 2025
(Zero spoiler review) 3.5/5
First off, Marvel, as always, suck at choosing omnibus covers. If that wasn't enough initial disappointment, when I realised that Dale Keown wasn't on art, it broke me a little. Spoiler alert, but that won't be the only time this book breaks me. But as soon as we got going, all those wistful longings for Dale Keown became naught but a distant memory, for Gary Frank, along with Cam Smith on inks, made for a more than worthy replacement. Quite how you can replace Dale Keown with someone(s) at least just as good shows how strong comics were back in the day, but this book was back to looking a million bucks, and Peter David's writing, if anything, was even stronger here. Sure, the annuals and such were various shades of who gives a shit, but they were never the point. But alas, the higher the climb, the harder the fall, and once Marlo and Rick disappear from the story and Gary and Cam leave the book, within a handful of issues we go from on of the most exquisitely drawn, inked and coloured books ever made, to introducing the sterile, digitised slop that is blended colours. The transition couldn't have been more jarring, awful or unwelcome. I would be like dropping your supermodel girlfriend off at restaurant with her friends, and when you pick her up an few hours later, she's turned into a hideous blimp. I cannot, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, cannot describe the sheer maudlin sense of grief and loss I felt at having something so magnificent descend into something so heartbreakingly disappointing within a handful of issues. Liam Sharp is a really good artist, but the colours tarnish this in a way that even smearing the pages with faeces couldn't contend with. If you want to know when comics truly started dying, its when the colours began to change, and it was a very sad death indeed.
I couldn't finish the book, and it has reduced my will to crack open volume 4 to sub zero levels of interest. If I didn't already own it, you can bet your ass I wouldn't be buying it. 3.5/5
OmniBen.
First off, Marvel, as always, suck at choosing omnibus covers. If that wasn't enough initial disappointment, when I realised that Dale Keown wasn't on art, it broke me a little. Spoiler alert, but that won't be the only time this book breaks me. But as soon as we got going, all those wistful longings for Dale Keown became naught but a distant memory, for Gary Frank, along with Cam Smith on inks, made for a more than worthy replacement. Quite how you can replace Dale Keown with someone(s) at least just as good shows how strong comics were back in the day, but this book was back to looking a million bucks, and Peter David's writing, if anything, was even stronger here. Sure, the annuals and such were various shades of who gives a shit, but they were never the point. But alas, the higher the climb, the harder the fall, and once Marlo and Rick disappear from the story and Gary and Cam leave the book, within a handful of issues we go from on of the most exquisitely drawn, inked and coloured books ever made, to introducing the sterile, digitised slop that is blended colours. The transition couldn't have been more jarring, awful or unwelcome. I would be like dropping your supermodel girlfriend off at restaurant with her friends, and when you pick her up an few hours later, she's turned into a hideous blimp. I cannot, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, cannot describe the sheer maudlin sense of grief and loss I felt at having something so magnificent descend into something so heartbreakingly disappointing within a handful of issues. Liam Sharp is a really good artist, but the colours tarnish this in a way that even smearing the pages with faeces couldn't contend with. If you want to know when comics truly started dying, its when the colours began to change, and it was a very sad death indeed.
I couldn't finish the book, and it has reduced my will to crack open volume 4 to sub zero levels of interest. If I didn't already own it, you can bet your ass I wouldn't be buying it. 3.5/5
OmniBen.
March 19, 2022
The majority of David's third volume of The Incredible Hulk is taken up with the Pantheon. I felt like I finally got a bit more of a handle on who they were in this volume (though honestly, I never entirely understood their story), and the fact that we got a few stories focused on them and their backstory made them all the more interesting.
We also get Future Imperfect, the famous story of the Hulk's Dark Future. It remains pretty good after all these years, though it would have been better suited to slightly tighter issues.
After The Fall of the Pantheon, The Hulk has a bit of a fall too. There's a nice focus on horror in stories about Man-Thing and the Abomination, but the setup of Betty and the Hulk in disguise just isn't good. Then when Marvel Edge steps in, things hit rock bottom as we get a pointless crossover followed by Hulk playing baseball. Ugh.
Will the fourth volume pick up from a nadir? Or will it be down hill all the way? Not the best place to end a volume ...
We also get Future Imperfect, the famous story of the Hulk's Dark Future. It remains pretty good after all these years, though it would have been better suited to slightly tighter issues.
After The Fall of the Pantheon, The Hulk has a bit of a fall too. There's a nice focus on horror in stories about Man-Thing and the Abomination, but the setup of Betty and the Hulk in disguise just isn't good. Then when Marvel Edge steps in, things hit rock bottom as we get a pointless crossover followed by Hulk playing baseball. Ugh.
Will the fourth volume pick up from a nadir? Or will it be down hill all the way? Not the best place to end a volume ...
October 31, 2024
Frankly this gets an extra star just for finishing the Pantheon storyline.
But in all seriousness, this book continues the fun that is Peter David's take on the Hulk. The end of the book tends to be a little bit much in terms of heavy subject matter. I do like stories like that, but usually with some breathing room between, not jammed one after the other. But they're all good, and they all made me feel things.
Somewhat rare in an omnibus as part of a longer run, the way this book ends may actually be the strongest part of the book. And of course, it has arguably the most well-known Hulk 1- or 2-shot story of all time.
But in all seriousness, this book continues the fun that is Peter David's take on the Hulk. The end of the book tends to be a little bit much in terms of heavy subject matter. I do like stories like that, but usually with some breathing room between, not jammed one after the other. But they're all good, and they all made me feel things.
Somewhat rare in an omnibus as part of a longer run, the way this book ends may actually be the strongest part of the book. And of course, it has arguably the most well-known Hulk 1- or 2-shot story of all time.
April 22, 2023
Excellent again from start to finish. If you’re at all hesitant to get into reading Hulk as a character this run is THE place to start. Hulk gets more development and becomes leader of the pantheon which comes to a spectacular conclusion is this volume, and has to deal with a new internal struggle, and the side characters continue to be a high point in this series. We get a great resolution for Marlo after vol 2 and get to see her and Rick tie the knot.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 5, 2023
This omnibus is very consistent until after the Fall of the Pantheon story. While the issues afterward aren't terrible, the quality of the art and the storytelling does take a dip. Gary Frank and George Perez have much more appealing art than Liam Sharp.
This is still highly recommended, especially after the previous two excellent omnibuses, but just know that this takes a slight dip later in the book. It should be interesting to see how the 4th omnibus will conclude this monumental run.
This is still highly recommended, especially after the previous two excellent omnibuses, but just know that this takes a slight dip later in the book. It should be interesting to see how the 4th omnibus will conclude this monumental run.
July 5, 2023
future imperfect alone gives this book 5 stars, the other issues are just a bonus
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