Image: Al Ewing, Germán García, Chris O’Halloran, Cory Petit/Marvel Comicsįrom a craft perspective, Immortal Hulk maintained its astounding consistency through its conclusion. Coloring seared with radioactive intensity and lettering transformed mere text into booming voices fit for larger-than-life entities. Meticulous inks that captured every grotesque detail of the monstrous cast. Dramatic layouts that felt like they were knocked around by the action within each panel. Bennett, along with inkers Ruy José and Bellardino Brabo, colorist Paul Mounts, and letterer Cory Petit, matched the scope of Ewing’s narrative in every aspect of the visuals. Writer Al Ewing brought together the threads of his three-year run, and the work of nearly every major Hulk writer before him, into a monumental story about goodness and mercy in a world of endless suffering and chaos.

The dust seemed to settle and Immortal Hulk continued toward its planned finale at issue #50.

I failed to understand this troubling and offensive stereotype, and after listening to you all, I now understand my mistake.” “The misspellings on the window were an honest but terrible mistake - since I was writing backwards, I accidentally spelled both of those words wrong… I have no excuse for how I depicted the Star of David. Penciller Joe Bennett posted an apology (which is no longer public) on Facebook, stating: The finale of Immortal Hulk should have been a triumphant mic drop, but the circumstances surrounding its release imbued the issue with an extratextual layer of sadness.įebruary’s Immortal Hulk #43 gained mainstream attention for all the wrong reasons when readers noticed anti-semitic imagery in the artwork: a jewelry shop window displaying the misspelled last name of Jewish filmmaker David Cronenberg (“Cronemberg”), “jewelry” misspelled as “jewery”, and a Star of David. The first line of Immortal Hulk’s 2021 was an omen: “Consequences are unpitying.” Part of a longer quotation from George Eliot’s Adam Bede, these three words appeared at the start of January’s Immortal Hulk #42, kicking off a year that would see one of the best superhero runs of all time tarnished by the choices made by one of its creators.

Immortal Hulk, Vol. 2 by Al Ewing