Hulk: Omega Hulk Book One Review

Finished reading Hulk: Omega Hulk Book One, this brings writer Gerry Duggan to the series as the Hulk has developed a super genius intellect and has decided to go on a crusade to rid the world of gamma power weapons. The book opens up with the Hulk leaping off Mount Everest into the United Republic of Valnon destroying all of the country's gamma weapons. Soon after the Hulk, now calling himself Doc Green begins to create cures for every gamma powered hero and villain after going into Kang's trophy room in the distant future to get some Adamantium from a deactivated Ultron in Kang's collection to create small nanites to disperse the cure through a person's blood stream. Doc Green's first subject is Rick Jones who is currently A-Bomb after being spotted by Doc Green's gamma-detecting satellite. The book also features a smaller story that focuses on Patty Wolman one of Doc Green's assistants who has become a living plant that can control all plant life and is able to turn people into horrifying creatures. Which leads to Doc Green intervening when another one of his assistants is caught in the middle of the outbreak. Overall this was a good book as thanks to the Hulk now being intelligent writer Gerry Duggan is able to write great interactions between Doc Green and other members of the Marvel universe such as Shadowcat and Magik from the X-Men when Doc Green needs help to rid the Extremis from his head to a meeting he has with Matt Murdock on Bruce Banner's files that Murdock has. While there are some great moments that take an almost horror turn from the extremes that Doc Green goes to keep in control from a horrifying midway transformation battle between Doc Green and Bruce Banner to an A.I that Doc Green creates that builds a large amount of tension within the story especially with the dream sequence that follows. The story focusing on Patty Wolman is great as writer Monty Nero dives into the life of Patty and the amount of humanity and more of the mindset that Doc Green has which is incredibly intriguing. Mark Bagley's art is great as he is able to display each character's emotions and reactions about Doc Green incredibly well while the action set pieces are down out extremely well by focusing heavily on the damage each fight does to the characters involved and the surrounding area which is all elevated by the inking and colour of the book. 7.5/10.