COMICS: The Incredible Hulk: Destruction

I think there's something wrong with issue #2 of The Incredible Hulk: Destruction. Aside from it just being a shitty comic, I mean. This is the worst comics revisionism since... well, since Jeph Loeb took a shot at writing the Hulk. The Abomination married two women named Nadia? Emil Blonsky wasn't an enemy spy -- he was one of General Ross' Hulkbusters?? "Hell," says the Abomination in this issue, delivering the ultimate low blow to previous continuity, the now-revealed-as-fake spy story was "even fictionalized in a comic book." Shyeah, whatever. Ass.

But above and beyond that. Look at the 28th page of the comic. (The 17th story page, counting the "Previously..." page.) It's a flashback to a battle between the Hulk and the Abomination, played out in silence. Only, it's not supposed to be silent, is it? It's missing all its captions. You can tell by the way the Abomination speaks the non sequitur, "And yet you don't," on the next page. Yet you don't what? That doesn't follow at all from the previous dialogue, which was General Ross listing the reasons he thinks Emil Blonsky wanted to turn himself into the Abomination.

Not that it matters, I guess. This was an awful comic to read. One less page of dialogue was a mercy. Peter David is one of my absolute favorite comics writers, and I've never been more disappointed with a Peter David book. The David-authored Hulk is almost my favorite comic character ever (second only to John Ostrander's Grimjack), and I actually think I won't be buying the next issue. That's a bad comic, dude.

Also, if that janitor shown on the 2nd (again, counting the "Previously..." page) and last pages of the story isn't Banner in disguise, I'll eat your hat.

(EDIT: Peter David has posted the missing dialogue on his blog. It doesn't change this being a bad comic one bit.)