Hulk: Grand Design (The Marvel Collectors)

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New York, NY— February 4, 2022 — The acclaimed Grand Design series continues next month! Writer and artist Jim Rugg will follow in the tradition of Ed Piskor and Tom Scioli by unfurling the full saga of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, from the very beginning to the present in HULK: GRAND DESIGN! Just in time for the iconic character’s 60 th anniversary, witness the biggest moments in the Hulk’s history through the eyes of a single visionary storyteller! My God, What Have I Done?: Earth-112 Bruce also says this word-for-word when he witnesses the power the Hulk possesses.

It’s rare for a character to sell enough to last hundreds of issues and decades of time and still connect with audiences,” Rugg continued. “It takes a character who can be interpreted by different readers, creators, and generations. Hulk: Grand Design is biography, history, pop culture, and art book.” Like a Son to Me: Earth-112 Bruce says this word-for-word about Earth-112 Peter Parker, his star pupil. Who of course was also bitten by a gamma-irradiated spider. The problem is that Marvel kind of hates this. Marvel really wants the Hulk to be a turnkey operation. For decades, they wanted nothing so much as for the Hulk to be the least challenging book in the line - a trend that didn’t start with the success of the TV show in the late 1970s, although that development sure did exacerbate the problem. For long stretches in the early Bronze Age, the Hulk was a terrible comic. That was when he was pretty much exclusively the dumb green “Hulk smash!” guy, who hung around with the Defenders and pushed over cars on TV. The Hulk’s reputation as a terrible book springs from that era, and it wasn’t unearned. (Looked great when Sal Buscema drew it, but those weren’t otherwise great comics.) Self-Imposed Exile: After El Paso is leveled by Titan and Banner realizes that only the Hulk is truly immortal, Banner chooses to throw himself into interdimensional space, hoping to protect everyone he knows from the worst yet to come.Shattered World: Bruce warns Monolith that this is what will happen to her planet if his Titan side comes out. She REALLY should have listened. Collects Hulk: Grand Design - Monster and Hulk: Grand Design - Madness. The acclaimed Grand Design franchise continues with the Monster…and the Madness! Writer/artist Jim Rugg follows in the tradition of Ed Piskor and Tom Scioli by unfurling the full saga of the Incredible Hulk, from the very beginning to the present day! From Bruce Banner's volatile upbringing to the fateful gamma bomb detonation that changed everything - to years of anger, smashing and just wanting to be left alone! He's been a hero…a hate figure…even a world-breaker. Now witness the biggest moments in the Hulk's history - through the eyes of a single visionary storyteller! You'll never look at Bruce Banner the same way again! Comes to a full circle in the final issue, where Bruce and Hulk become one again and retake their body from Titan. Somehow Rugg survived to tell the tale. He washed ashore in 2007 with the first volume of The PLAIN Janes, from DC’s ill-fated Minx initiative. Minx could best be described as a company going out of its way to do the worst possible version of something it didn’t want to do. Everyone was tearing their hair out that Marvel and DC were completely sleeping on one of the most seismic audience changes in comics history by not putting out American material in genres manga was proving could sell, in formats and price points American readers had gladly embraced. So finally DC decides to do something about it. Calls it “Minx”. Gets some pretty decent talent to do books they have no intention of ever moving so much as one single muscle on one single finger to ever try to sell. Rugg art from The PLAIN Janes (2020 Little, Brown reissue, note the color tint); lettered by Jared Fletcher, written by Cecil Castellucci.

The second half of Hulk history just isn't as interesting to me as his early days. Though, the Immortal Hulk has recaptured my interest. Some people might like a psychologically damaged Hulk. I prefer a Bruce Banner who is haunted by the antics of his dark side much like Jekyll & Hyde. It just seems criminal to put poor Bruce Banner through the wringer like that year after year. Tomato in the Mirror: Ultimately this is Titan's real nature; Bruce thought it was a more destructive "natural" Hulk personality, but in reality it was created through the manipulations of the demon D'Spayre. With the Hulk coming in varying colors of green and gray; not to mention dozens of multiple personalities such as Joe Fixit and the Maestro, this is a character the fans most deserved a chronicle of their extremely confusing history. Don't expect all of your favorite Hulk moments to be here. That time the Hulk joined the Ringmaster's circus is not covered. Neither is the time Hulk and 3 others became the New Fantastic Four. Also don't expect to have a lot of time devoted to your favorite Hulk moments if they do happen to make the cut. Hulk's first meeting with a certain Canadian super-hero is the subject of only one fair-sized panel. Powers as Programs: When the Hulk unleashes a blast equivalent to 3000 Gamma Bombs, Thor is caught in the epicentre and turned into a Gamma Mutate similar to the Hulk. The Hulk then takes up Mjolnir, giving him Thor's powers and cladding him in Asgardian armor. Cover image for 75960609966500211 HULK GRAND DESIGN: MADNESS #1 JIM RUGG COVER, by Jim Rugg & Jim Rugg, in stores Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from marvelThe acclaimed Grand Design franchise continues! Writer/artist Jim Rugg follows in the tradition of Ed Piskor and Tom Scioli by unfurling the full saga of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, from the very beginning to the present! Witness the biggest moments in the Hulk's history through the eyes of a single visionary storyteller! Death of Personality: Banner fears this. He realizes that while the Incredible Hulk is indeed immortal, Dr. Bruce Banner is not, and every time he dies a bit more of him slips away. This obviously wasn't a serious problem until he started abusing Hulk's immortality in the previous run, killing himself over and over again, and now he doesn't know how much time he has left until the Hulk takes over for good.

On November 19th, 2022, it was announced that Donny Cates had left the series, with Ryan Ottley taking over writing duties. It was subsequently announced that the series would end with issue #14 (April 2023), when Ottley also leaves the title. The series was succeeded by a new run in June 2023, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Hulk is an ongoing series by Marvel Comics launched in 2021. It is written by Donny Cates with artwork by Ryan Ottley. Cover image for 75960609966500231 HULK: GRAND DESIGN – MADNESS 1 MCGUINNESS VARIANT, by Jim Rugg, in stores Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from marvel Cover image for 75960609966500131 HULK: GRAND DESIGN – MONSTER 1 MOMOKO VARIANT, by Jim Rugg, in stores Wednesday, March 30, 2022 from marvelExperience the first chapter of HULK: GRAND DESIGN when HULK: GRAND DESIGN – MONSTER #1 arrives on March 30. For more information, visit Marvel.com. Jenkins' run is little-discussed today, even though he did good work with Garney and with John Romita Jr. It was a clear influence on Al Ewing's recent The Immortal Hulk, however, with much of the tone and many specific elements of that series playing prominent roles during Jenkins' tenure. Another strong antecedent to Immortal Hulk was the Bruce Jones run, which featured the aforementioned Romita, Deodato, and Lee Weeks. The Jones run was a signature success of NuMarvel, notable for being an instance of the company rolling the dice not on a Marvel newcomer, but on a veteran who just hadn’t done a lot of work in the previous decade. Jones came through the door with an unorthodox pitch at just the right moment. He was the first writer to treat the title explicitly as a horror comic. Alas, it sort of falls apart in the home stretch, but it wouldn’t be the Hulk if the third act wasn’t just a little bit weaker than the rest of the show. I’m covering 40 years of this character’s history – in the comics and in our world,” Rugg told ComicBook.com. “I looked at this project as part comics and part history. So part of the theme or arc of this story is let’s look at one of the most popular characters to come out of 20th-century storytelling. Here are some of the notable moments in his story, here are some of the great artists and visuals, and here are some of his achievements as one of the best-known characters in the world!” If you were in or around comics in 2004 and are still in the business, in any capacity, well. Chances are very good you had to work for it. You had to really want it. Because at that time it was getting so much easier to do anything but. And the price of admission was never not eating a lot of shit.

Hulk (Dr. Robert Bruce Banner) (Main story and recap) (Several deaths and resurrections, Joins and leaves the Avengers, joins the Defenders) Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Titan takes elements of both Knull (his appearance and open, direct hostility) and the One Below All (a force trying to commandeer the Hulk).

The idea of Marvel's Grand Design books is rather brilliant. You take about 50 years of comic book history and you formulate it into a cohesive biography of some of your favorite Marvel heroes. This time around it's the big, bad Incredible Hulk and it's rather appreciated by me that he was given the Grand Design treatment. Jarella, princess of a sub-atomic world and one of the Hulk's key romantic interests, is mentioned by Rugg a few times, very briefly. Now, for her outsize significance to the character, she wasn’t in very many comics - but she was significant to the Hulk in the same way Gwen Stacy was for Peter Parker. Her brief return during the Chaos War crossover was my favorite Hulk moment of the new century - even above anything in Immortal. Rugg mentions her the one time and moves past - Hulk’s true love swept aside in the course of events. A steady drumbeat of insular history unmoored from context, an odd effect native to this Grand Design. Lampshaded two-fold by Sif. Not only Hulked-out Thor is able to resist the pull of the Bifrost, he also manages to shatter the whole dang bridge.