![]() Appropriately, Dale Keown creates a wonderful homage to Jack Kirby’s cover image for the original INCREDIBLE HULK #1 (also used as the cover to this trade paperback). ![]() ![]() Once again, a milestone for the Hulk is reached: issue #393 marks the series’ 30th Anniversary and returns him to his origins and to a man largely responsible for his creation: the former spy known as Igor, whom the Hulk torments in true Frankensteinian fashion. This is a story that encourages contemplation of the blurry lines between right and wrong, as well as those between justice and revenge, the conclusions to which the readers must draw for themselves. David brings up several valid points of debate, but inevitably shows that there are no easy answers, if any answers are to be found at all. The Pantheon and X-Factor, and more specifically the Hulk and Havok, represent the extremes of two opposing sides, both believing they are acting in the best interests of the nation of Trans-Sabal, yet each having completely different ideas as to how those best interests are to be attained. Volume 8 kicks off with WAR AND PIECES, one of the most controversial of Peter David’s Hulk stories owing to its use of parallels to the real-life war against Iraq, and the questions that are raised from them. ![]()
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