Peter David (w) Angel Medina (a)
One of the joys of having a large comic collection is randomly dipping into back issues. At the moment I'm choosing the more accessible ones as I'll need help to get to the boxes. But I digress. Having missed the nineties I did pick up some of the comics I missed especially since hey are mostly inexpensive.
The Hulk has always been a favourite of mine but I have collected most of his early adventures via The Mighty World of Marvel or other Marvel UK titles. Bruce Banner has gone through a number of changes over the years though I've always been a fan of his cousin who adorns this particular issues cover and the comic is re-titled The Incredible She-Hulk.
It appears the Hulk is dead (again), Betty Banner is in mourning and trying to write a book about her husband and their life which is causing "writers block" and her mind often wanders into absurd fictional portrayals after a suggestion by a certain green skinned lawyer.
Hence the homage to Pulp Fiction on the cover.
There's a couple of sub-plots one of which is a mystery to me and involves the trial of some Leader look alike character called "Omnibus". The other is around Major Matt Talbot who had Presidential authority to "deal with the Hulk in any way appropriate" however that did not include the Major being seen in a photo shooting an unarmed woman even if was just stun pellets.
Never like these "Hulk hunter types, so tough methinks!
The story soon gets some action as Jen receives a call from Doc Samson who is in trouble and off she goes to intervene. Problem is it's the Molecule Man who is love-struck, discarded by his beau and extremely dangerous.
Meanwhile "Omnibus" is dumped near naked in the Arctic to die by whoever this crowd are
The Hulk never appears in either of these issues which are a mixture of melancholy, mystery and humour in well produced scripts from Peter David. Angel Medina provides slightly cartoon-y art but it's appropriate for whatever is happening here.
And this was the nineties after all!
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