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A review by librarimans
Hulk: World War Hulk Omnibus by Greg Pak, John Romita Jr.
3.0
When World War Hulk first released, I absolutely loathed it. It was coming off of Planet Hulk, one of the best Hulk stories of all time, and my excitement was through the roof. Hulk vs the Marvel Universe! By the same writer! What could go wrong?! Well at the time, a lot apparently, as it was one of the least enjoyable times I've ever had reading a comic.
Enjoying the high of the current Immortal Hulk series, I saw that Marvel Unlimited had put up a reading list of WWH that covered all the tie in books and was in already in the proper reading order, so I figured why not, all it would cost me is my time. I don't know if this was a case of enough time having passed that I could better appreciate what Pak and co were doing, or if Immortal Hulk is so good it's capable of retroactively making past stories better, or what, but I enjoyed it this time. Maybe reading all the tie ins this time helped as well? It's not a great story and doesn't come close to the highs of Planet Hulk, but it's not as bad as my initial impressions of it however many years ago.
What I imagine happened here (and this is true of so many comic events) is that Pak had the idea for Hulk returning to Earth and pitched it to Marvel as just the next chapter in his story in the Incredible Hulk, but then Marvel decided to it needed to be a line wide event with its own miniseries and dozens of tie ins, and the whole thing then got watered down and spread thin. I dunno, but as a concept and a story, it probably deserved better.
Enjoying the high of the current Immortal Hulk series, I saw that Marvel Unlimited had put up a reading list of WWH that covered all the tie in books and was in already in the proper reading order, so I figured why not, all it would cost me is my time. I don't know if this was a case of enough time having passed that I could better appreciate what Pak and co were doing, or if Immortal Hulk is so good it's capable of retroactively making past stories better, or what, but I enjoyed it this time. Maybe reading all the tie ins this time helped as well? It's not a great story and doesn't come close to the highs of Planet Hulk, but it's not as bad as my initial impressions of it however many years ago.
What I imagine happened here (and this is true of so many comic events) is that Pak had the idea for Hulk returning to Earth and pitched it to Marvel as just the next chapter in his story in the Incredible Hulk, but then Marvel decided to it needed to be a line wide event with its own miniseries and dozens of tie ins, and the whole thing then got watered down and spread thin. I dunno, but as a concept and a story, it probably deserved better.