Savage Hulk: The Man Within Review

Finished reading Savage Hulk: The Man Within, this tells the story of the Hulk teaming up with the X-Men after a previous encounter from a classic story. The book opens up with the Leader watching a battle between Hulk and the X-Men as the X-Men hope to find a device inside one of Bruce Banner's secret laboratories to help save Professor Charles Xavier from a comatose state. After looking over the device Professor X hopes to help Bruce Banner to cure him the Hulk as the X-Men head back to the secret laboratory in search for the Hulk where the team is confronted by Abomination who is being followed by the American Army. After a fight against Abomination the Hulk transforms back into Bruce Banner as Beast activates the device with Professor X using his psychic powers to help Bruce to stay focus as the device rids Bruce of his gamma radiation. However the device backfires when Professor X's psyche gets trapped within Bruce's mind when the Leader begins to interfere. Overall this was a good book as it expands upon a classic X-Men story very organically. The action set pieces are great thanks to some great visuals that show how devastating the Hulks fighting can be. While the addition of the original story that preceded the main story is a nice touch as it gives some setup to the book. 7/10.