Bruce Banner’s curse is his legacy. His father’s exposure to radioactive material fundamentally changed Bruce from birth, imbuing him with a second self gifted with acute intuition, driven by rage, and prone to destruction. This other half eventually gained a physical form when Bruce ended up in the blast radius of a…
It could’ve worked. Maybe it should’ve worked. You can understand what everyone involved was thinking. Superhero movies were making money. Marvel movies were making money. Just a year earlier, Spider-Man had been a global phenomenon. Superheroes weren’t necessarily nerd shit anymore. Computer-generated effects had…
The Hulk is terrifying. He’s Mr. Hyde by way of the atomic bomb: When Bruce Banner transforms into his raging green alter ego, he unleashes a monster that can level a town in minutes. Writer Al Ewing embraces the horror aspects of this character in the pages of The Immortal Hulk, kicking off the new series with three…
In Avengers: Infinity War, the longest, priciest, and most-crowded crowd-pleaser ever to roll off the Marvel Studios assembly line, Earth’s mightiest heroes face their most daunting challenge yet: an intergalactic nihilist whose dearest dream is to cleave the entire population of the universe in half. The good news is…
With the Avengers at the core of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the franchise has gotten a big push in comics over the past decade, spawning multiple titles that expanded the team’s presence in the Marvel Comics line-up. This gradually diluted the brand with too many books taking on the Avengers name and pulling the…
Marvel Legacy is about bringing the best elements of Marvel’s back past into its present, and while the jury’s out on how well it’s succeeding overall, The Sensational She-Hulk is a book that really benefits from the spirit of the character’s past stories. Hulk’s final issue before being retitled had writer Mariko…
Thor, played with a familiar twinkle of jovial regality by Chris Hemsworth, spends the first few minutes of Thor: Ragnarok in chains, hanging sideways in a straitjacket of iron links. Things do not get easier for him. Like Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, the god of thunder will lose his weapon of choice: that mighty hammer…
The trailers for the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok promise an epic gladiator match between Thor and Hulk on the big screen, so naturally Marvel is getting the two heroes together for some fisticuffs on the comics page. Thor Vs. Hulk: Champions Of The Universe is the second Marvel series exclusive to ComiXology after The…
Marvel’s new Hulk series is a severe departure from what fans have come to expect from Jen “She-Hulk” Walters, taking her away from her previous fun-loving personality as she deals with the trauma of Civil War II. After nearly dying and waking up from a coma to discover her cousin, Bruce “Hulk” Banner, has been…
It’s hard to say who’s more adorable: the newest iteration of monophrasal tree-being Groot in the latest Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2 teaser, or Mark Ruffalo in literally anything. Tough call. They’re both so goddamned huggable. Interestingly, they’re also the sweet faces that belie two of the most powerful…
Jennifer Walters has had a rough summer. She suffered near-fatal injuries and the death of her cousin, Bruce “The Hulk” Banner, in the pages of Marvel’s Civil War II crossover event, and that trauma is the foundation of Walters’ new ongoing series debuting in December from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Nico Leon. …
Deadline is reporting that Mark Ruffalo is in talks to bring Dr. Bruce Banner and his green-eyed, green-skinned monster to the set of the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok. Normally confined to the Avengers films, The Hulk doesn’t usually get to come out and play in the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe—barring Ruffalo’s snoring…
It’s been unclear if Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner would hulk out for next year’s Captain America: Civil War. Ruffalo himself weighed in earlier in the summer, indicating that he would return. Now Coming Soon reports that Ruffalo is revising Hulk’s status, while making it clear that while it’s for the best that Hulk is…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With the summer movie season upon us, it’s time to sing the praises of some unsung and underrated summer blockbusters.
