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admonition : Spoilers for The Incredible Hulk ( 2023 ) # 14 ahead!Bruce Banner has long scramble to control the monstrousHulkthat resides within him , struggle daytime and night to not give up to the animal ’s violence and upheaval . Now , however , a rarified coup d’oeil into the Hulk ’s head break just how terrible the monster ’s head actually is , with the Hulk ’s mindscape drawing direct parallels to Hell .
Phillip Kennedy Johnson , Nic Klein , and Matthew Wilson’sThe Incredible Hulk ( 2023)#14 barely waste a beat before Bruce Banner is struck by an oncoming motortruck , triggering his translation into the Hulk and subsume his mind beneath that of his flagitious alter - ego ’s . Banner ’s consciousness instead awakens in " the Hulkscape , " a violent land of pandemonium encrust by explosions and titanic beasts .
There ’s more to the Hulkscape than ab initio meets the optic , however -one panel in particular lifts its imagery from one of the most famous depiction of Hell in classical art .
When Bruce Banner call upon his gamma - power other , the Hulk pluck properly through Banner on the direction out . His novel transformation is pure horror .
The Hulk’s Chaos Has Roots In Classical Art
The 1400s mountain lion Hieronymous Bosch is celebrated for his surrealistic and abstract picture . Bosch ’s most famous work is arguably the triptychThe Garden of Earthly Delights , which depicts Heaven , Earth , and Hell respectively on three separate panels . The panel of Hell in special is noted for its unusual and distorted figures , two of which - the gravid , sick , bent - over figure and the snort - headed fiend swallow a person whole - are forthwith referenced inThe Incredible Hulk#14 ’s Hulkscape , draw a lineal comparison between the Hulk ’s mind and Hell .
The tragedy of all of this is that the Hulkscape is n’t actually all different to Banner ’s old discourse of the Hulk in the " Starship Hulk " storyline . In an attempt to take command of the Hulk , Banner fitted himself with technologythat let him zone and control the Hulk ’s head , torturing him andprovoking its cult to act as a power source . Now , in the Hulkscape , Banner reaps what he has sown , facing the fury and vilification the Hulk had to deal with at Banner ’s every whim - but with none of the Hulk ’s strength or resiliency .
Check out the rootage of the " Starship Hulk"arc inHulk ( 2021)#1 , by Donny Cates , Ryan Ottley , and Frank Martin , Jr. !
The Hulkscape: A Hell of Banner’s Own Making
This use of art highlights the current , enthralling take on the Hulk ’s grapheme : that he is Banner ’s ultimate penalization . portrayal of the Hulk have swung back and away between mindless violence and receive his own , freestanding identity , but the imagination presented within the Hulkscape suggests thatthe Hulk ’s psyche is something entirely alien and torturous to the human judgment . Furthermore , with the Hulk using the Hulkscape to advisedly excruciate Banner ’s consciousness , it becomes clear that being theHulkis now Banner ’s actual , personal Hell .
The Incredible Hulk ( 2023)#14is available now from Marvel Comics .
The Incredible Hulk#14 ( 2023 )
The Hulk , a Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , is physicist Bruce Banner transform by gamma radiation . He morph into a giant , greenish - skinned fauna of immense strength and impregnability when angered . Struggling with his transformations , Hulk allies with other Hero of Alexandria , battle villains while balancing his intellect with uncontrollable rage , making him a key figure in Marvel ’s population .
