Immortal Hulk #25

It takes the reader on a mind-bending journey, masterfully toying with their mental state at every turn and forging a bright path for the series going forward. Read Full Review

This is the terrible magic of The Immortal Hulk, providing a poignant story that touches on modern fears while constructing a terror that only the comics medium could deliver. Bravo. Read Full Review

Above everything else, Immortal Hulk #25 is a cautionary tale. Ewing and Garcia dare to ask the ultimate question - what will happen once Hulk obtains the Cosmic Purple Pants? Read Full Review

The narrative is sharp on colors by Chris OHalloran and Paul Mounts relating physical laws of the universe. The artwork by German Garcia, Joe Bennett, and Ruy Jose fills each page with elaborate details, forcing the reader to hang on every aspect of this crafted alien story. Read Full Review

Gorgeous. Strange. Fresh. In an already defining series, the creative team has crafted a gem for the ages. Read Full Review

Immortal Hulk #25 is, simultaneously, a critical step in the Hulk's ongoing story and a unique digression into an incredibly alien world. The creators' efforts toward both goals are wildly successful. The alien viewpoint is challenging, but it offers rewards of its own as well as dramatic revelations regarding the Hulk. Read Full Review

With a horrifying audacity in its script and doubly horrifying surrealist quality in its artwork, Immortal Hulk #25 delivers yet another monster issue for the lauded series, one that takes an unexpected yet tonally sound track heading into the title's final act. Read Full Review

#25 requires some patience. It unravels at its own pace. But overall, take the four Hulk tenets above and expand them exponentially. Immortally. Across the universe, over billions of years. When your mind catches up with Ewing's scripting, you're looking at a new designator for Hulk: Creation Breaker. Read Full Review

All of the art is fantastic. The story has to be visually stunning to compensate for the slowness of the plot. Read Full Review

Overall, this issue breaks up the steady pace and momentum that Ewing has had going, but it does so with purpose. Some wont appreciate the break, but this chapter seems to be setting up the next leg of Ewings epic, so it should be worth it in the long run. Read Full Review

At the end of all things, the Breaker of Worlds breaks. Read Full Review

I don't want to knock this issue too much because a lot of this story feels purposeful on Ewing's part. However, by the end of this issue, it doesn't quite feel like the pieces make sense once it's over. It might down the line in further issues and the ending seems to indicate as such but it's a frustrating experience that just leaves the reader feeling lost and unfulfilled with so many unanswered questions. Read Full Review

If you love mind-blowingly freaky, possibly hallucinogenic, out of this world storytelling with back words dialogue, made-up names, incomprehensibly futuristic beings, and a cliffhanger that really made no sense to what you just read, this issue is entirely for you. The issue is way too deep and too heavy for this reviewer to understand its purpose, intent, and its significance to the overall narrative. Read Full Review

Adding to this books sedentary story-telling and palpable sense of lethargy are German Garcias debatably lack-lustre layouts. Whether you agree or not with Ewing that the freelancers work is absolutely gorgeous and produces an intensely, magnetically beautiful look to this comic which makes Par%ls world really feel alien, the Spanish artists significantly padded-out, double splash-page illustrations predominantly seem to have been pencilled just to help fill out this gargantuan doubled-sized issue, rather than simply help illustrate a comic the likes of which has never been read before. Read Full Review

Psycamorean

Oct 23, 2019

There is a lot going on here. How it pertains to the current story, if you're wondering (as some seem to be) is that in this ninth iteration of the cosmos, the One Below All has finally made a husk of the Hulk. That time fly has all the knowledge there is about the ninth cosmos and the World Breaker. It goes back in time to the current cosmos and is discovered by The Leader. We see the One Below All's plan and the only one who can stop it is the Leader. But yeah, this is great. Very Morrison in style, almost. I think it's just a very weird and cool story, but it has a purpose. I think it's so weird and different from everything else that that is causing some division among readers. It shouldn't. If you've been following the book, a lot o f this is set up in previous arcs. The culmination is a weird beast, is all. I'm excited to see where this is headed. more

GammaBurst

Oct 23, 2019

This book is on another level.

Grifter

Oct 24, 2019

Well, that was something

Silver Rocket

Oct 24, 2019

It's not meant for casual readers.

PlatinumThorns

Oct 24, 2019

Fantastic storytelling elements and art. Easily amongst the best issue of the series.

Hobgoblin

Oct 24, 2019

To be honest I'm sick of all of the cookie-cutter comics out there. This is some next-level writing by Al Ewing. I also really love the last panel of the book, which was fantastic. I can't wait to keep reading!

Linkush

Nov 26, 2019

I'm speechless.

Ryan

Dec 16, 2021

Hulk finally gets what he’s always wanted: to be left alone

Teen Brigade

Oct 26, 2019

The Immortal Hulk #25 captured an echo in time and space that faded obsolete - cold and infinite blackness from particles so atomic that humanity itself is nothing but a tear yet to weep from an demodex folliculorum’s strand of matter. The character has come a long way from the cold night of the midwestern desert from which he was born, and the final touch that harked back to his humble beginnings as he moved with unbelievable stealth for one so ponderous, storming closer to his destination...until at last, a dim memory from the brain of Bruce banner tells him ..”..Joe...is that you? Are you there? I need help....” Al Ewing is bringing an eeriness to one of the greatest comic book characters of our time and exceeds on a level so existential that culminates with an ending that begins. more

CrazyforRAMU

Jun 01, 2020

Where it falls short of perfection is that -- as you can see from the ratings spread here -- it's still possible (and legitimate) to dismiss the storytelling style as post-modern "weird for the sake of weird." You miss some awesomely imaginative stuff if you do so, though.

axdn

Oct 23, 2019

Damn! SOmething Huge is coming!

Afre

Oct 25, 2019

It is just so odd and so good at the same time. Ewing is killing it in his run.

EDiakota

Oct 26, 2019

" I'M THE ONE ABOVE ALL WITH THESE HANDS I BREAK WITH THIS MOUTH I HOWL I DEVOURED THE SELVES THAT WERE HERE IN A TIME LONG PAST NOW THERE HE IS I AND ONLY I I AM ALL POWERFULL AND MY WEAPON IS HATE I HAVE MADE OF THIS A THING OF HATE A HOLLOW SHELL A HULK THE MYSTERY FRIGHTENS AND DISGUTS ME I WILL KILL IT MAKE ALL HOLLOW AS I DEAD AND DARK AS I AND I WILL BE ALONE " - ONE ABOVE ALL

Spacey Medicine

Nov 02, 2019

I get it but I don’t love it, you know?

Death's Head

Dec 30, 2019

Man, what I wouldn't do to flesh out this setting more! As it stands, while melancholic and heavy as fuck, it could have been better. Hulk's design is too "Basic" but those Splash pages (YOU KNOW THE ONES) more than make up for it. Overall, just amazing!

Kalaoui

Oct 24, 2019

I dig the writing and the art as Ewing and Garcia delivered a great story that set up a whole world worth exploring but is it truly an Immortal Hulk story connected to what I read for 24 issues? I guess yes obviously but I'll hold judgement until further issues explain more. P.S. I did enjoy that Galactus skirt/shorts ? on Hulk.

ohhaimark

Oct 25, 2019

THE GOOD: -This was crazy, bold, different and interesting. Really well done, especially for an extra sized issue from a mainstream publisher. -Ewing's writing was really good. I did think it got kind of pretentious at times with the narration but, overall a strong job. -Par%l was surprisingly compelling despite everything about hir appearance and lack of real character. God, I feel like I had so many typos there, but I didn't. -There's just great imagery here. Love it. -The One Below All is a great villain. I also love, love, love the look of the Hulk husk. This thing would've made Fortean shit his abomination pants. -That coda was really neat and I cannot wait for more issues to come. THE BAD: -Can't really m ake up my mind on the art. I closed my eyes and pictured Christian Ward illustrating this issue when I was halfway through. I don't know if German Garcia was a great fit for this really cosmic, almost ethereal stuff. more

Freden

Oct 24, 2019

This is a very difficult comic to review. The writing was amazing and so was the art, but I don't know if I enjoyed reading the comic.

Hislight

Apr 24, 2020

Visually beautiful..I like this issue but damn was it wordy. For sure my least favorite episode of this incredible journey.favorite part? Literally every page was gorgeous even if it wasn't interesting

DarePool53

Dec 25, 2020

Skirts the line between imaginative and pretentiously perverse (à la Grant Morrison). The diverse mix of scores indicates that how much you enjoy this issue will depend on your personal preferences and proclivities. Aw

Ultimate Goblin

Jan 07, 2023

At first I thought I would hate it and fall asleep. But surprisingly it wasn't that bad. I mean, it really wasn't bad at all. I understand all the red reviews, it makes sense, this issue is a huge setback for the series, plus it's literally HUGE and there's another guest artist once again... But visually it's near to a masterpiece for me, very good-looking and colorful (yeah) pictures. The story is pretty pointless. It's just the outcome of the post-credits scene from the previous issue and Immortal Hulk #20. I really personally think it wasn't that necessary. Yeah, The Leader of Earth-616 somehow gets that insect from that abominable egg and gets some cosmic artifact of another universe from that. Ewing really could show it in a small s tory on two-three pages and that would be enough. But this story still wasn't bad written or that boring to hate it. It's depressing, there's love, there's hope, there's desperation and inevitable death. It's pretty poetic and metaphorical, but not really on a super pretentious and pseudo-intellectual level. Just a normal Immortal Hulk level of weird "deep" things happening. One-Below-All as Hulk with the Galactus function. I mean, why not? So, honestly, I think you really could skip it if you think it's not for you, this really doesn't feel THAT important. But you can give this story a chance and MAYBE (just maybe) you will find something in it just like I did. First of all, in terms of art it really deserves at least flipping through that. For me some normal issues of the series were worse and less interesting. more

Anotherfan

Oct 23, 2019

Damn, that was... odd. I understand what happened but something felt off. Don't know what.

Simon DelMonte

Oct 24, 2019

That was so weird. I honestly don't know how it ties to the rest of the series, and the last couple of pages felt even more out of left field. But the art was great and I give Ewing credit for trying to stretch his talents into pure SF.

DDJamesB

Oct 29, 2019

Would have been much more effective for me if it would have been written in a "normal" manner. And while I appreciate the effort this just came across as too smart for its own good. At least for me. The art was great.

egonnn244

Nov 03, 2019

"All is broken" This was... odd.

Soul Assassin

Oct 28, 2019

The art ruined what would have been great if Bennett was penciling.

W_himself

Nov 08, 2019

I wish it was as good as it pretends to be. But I am pretty sure I will enjoy it more in a second reading.

Rhinoeat

Feb 03, 2021

Maybe I’m took dumb

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Nov 06, 2019

It feels like someone's college art project before World Breaker Hulk appears.

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Psycamorean - Nov 11, 2019

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 11, 2019

Oh, hi Al Ewing.

Psycamorean - Nov 11, 2019

“Wise man talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” - Plato

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 12, 2019

Pretentious fools use wiser people's words.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 12, 2019

Especially in reply to a comic book review*

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 12, 2019

I have legit lowered this to a 1 just to spite you.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 12, 2019

Okay, I am not that bad. Seriously though. Learn to accept other people's criticism. It gets annoying seeing you reply every single review I leave that is negative and about Marvel. Even Al Ewing himself would probably handle the criticism better.

Psycamorean - Nov 12, 2019

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Nov 14, 2019

Ok boomer. @Aristotle

MoonKnight313

Oct 26, 2022

This issue is way to pretentious and trying to be something it's not. Very very strange issue.

Ventilator-x

Sep 22, 2022

RUS: Видимо я слишком тупой.....

Talon1load

Oct 23, 2019

This issue was boring as hell. I stopped reading about 8 pages in. I skimmed the rest but there was nothing interesting in this comic. I was looking forward to a good Hulk comic and instead got this trash fire.

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Freden - Oct 24, 2019

You can't review a comic without reading the whole thing.

Talon1load - Oct 24, 2019

And yet I did. Strange.

Psycamorean - Oct 24, 2019

You probably shouldn't have. Given what came next (ie a good Hulk comic).

Talon1load - Oct 24, 2019

Yeah, I went back. It was still terrible

Psycamorean - Oct 24, 2019

Have you been keeping up with this series?

Talon1load - Oct 24, 2019

I’ve enjoyed the series up until this issue. Just hated it.

Psycamorean - Oct 24, 2019

Well, I don't think there will be a lot more Ninth cosmos stuff. Unless the Leader doesn't save everyone.

Talon1load - Oct 25, 2019

I hope not.

pizzamain

Mar 15, 2020

You guys like insects too much

Mighty Morphin Comic Rater

Jan 14, 2022

WTF was this? It was like terribly written fan fiction and had nothing to do with the main storyline. 2.5 for the story, minus a point for the pretentious way it was told.

Superheroes for Hire

Nov 01, 2019

Al Ewing said I had to pick this book up. So I did. I'm now 6 dollars poorer and likely to never buy another issue of Immortal Hulk. I've kept up with the basic story so far by listening to reviews, but this issue had nothing to do with any of that. It's an end time story, but not really. It's a Hulk story, but not really. 3 points for good art, -2 points for the overpriced and oversized issue, 0 points for a story that doesn't make sense or seem relevant to me.