#The monster within comic series#

The first issue of The Incredible Hulk / Photo Credit – Marvel Comics The Hulk – a physical manifestation of all the hate and rage festering in Bruce Banner from a childhood spent enduring a horribly abusive father – gave Bruce a life on the run, haunted by the very monster he tries to simultaneously hold in check and use to help others. Bruce survived…but something inside him was released. Bruce Banner exposed himself to lethal levels of gamma radiation getting Rick to safety as the bomb exploded.

On the fateful day teenager Rick Jones stumbled onto a gamma bomb test site, Dr. Yes, Hulk saved the day but he was never a traditional superhero. He wasn’t like the Thing in Fantastic Four and certainly not like Thor in Journey Into Mystery. From his inception, this character was different from everything else Marvel was doing at the time. And the Hulk is Marvel’s flagship monster. It should go without saying Halloween is, among other things, a celebration of the monster. The title’s true horror comes with what it forces the reader to consider and the dark, psychological unease rising from such contemplation. It is legitimately scary…but not in a jump-scare way.

#The monster within comic series#

With that in mind, this was the perfect day (and the perfect site) to discuss Al Ewing’s new series The Immortal Hulk, a comic unflinchingly merging the superhero and horror genre to uniquely unnerve its readers. We haven’t even finished The Haunting Of Hill House yet! (Although we’re close.) However, it’s Halloween and this is a horror blog so I thought a new post was needed. So, sadly, she hasn’t had much time for blogging lately. Kalie is living in a state of perpetual business with all her PhD work, teaching, lesson planning, grading, and working her other job. Kalie Zamierowski on Have a Monstrous Christmas: Pa…įilth socks in a Fox on Have a Monstrous Christmas: Pa…īy Michael Miller Photo Credit – Marvel Comics Marco Vázquez Valenc… on The Just Dread-Full Poetry Cor… Saturday “Slash-back”: Resonant Violation and My Young Obession with Scream (1996).AHS In Context: American Horror Story Asylum and the Slasher Phenomenon.Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy – Fiction’s Fearless Females.Fiction’s Fearless Females: Ellie and Sandie from “Last Night in Soho”.Brooding Men and Unholy Births: Parthenogenesis and the inter-generational transmission of abuse in The Brood and Men.