Book Review: Planet Hulk
Jul 25th, 2008 by jeremy
This is book thirty in 52 books in 52 weeks.
Grg Pak writes this collection of Hulk stories from last year. A group of Earths superheroes decides the Hulk is too powerful, and to dangerous, to stay on Earth any longer. They convince him to help destroy a rogue satellite and then shoot him into space. He takes care of the satellite, then when he is preparing to return home, they instead send his shuttle into another universe.
He crashes on a planet ruled by an emperor that forces his enemies to compete as gladiators. After quickly getting on the emperor’s bad side, he is sent to fight alongside other gladiators. He leads them on a revolt, and eventualy becomes the new emporer
It’s an interesting change of pace, especially if you’ve only sen the movie that involve hims smashing a few cars. There’s nothing new about it though, many parts are directly taken from movies like Ben-Hur and Spartacus. Still, it’s nice to se the mindless Hulk Smash stuff lead to something positive for the Hulk. There isn;t anything deep here, just lots of fighting and uh, smashing lava pits. Not bad for a comic.
C+
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Logan though it was epic
Mike thought it was powerful, but a bit contrived toward the end