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En tout cas, il est sorti aujourd'hui et première critique:
World War Hulk #1
From: Marvel
Writer: Greg Pak
Art and Color: John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, and Christina Strain
Letters: Chris Eliopoulos
Review by Troy Brownfield
I could open this like an absolute fanboy: “World War Hulk #1 kicked twelve kinds of ass, and while it doesn’t completely redeem Iron Man, it takes one point off of his ranking on The Douchebag Scale for the week.” I guess that wouldn’t be very subtle.
Then again, subtle can be overrated. After all, we’re talking about World War Hulk here. This book should be larger than life, over-the-top, action-packed, and entertaining. And crazily enough, it is. Greg Pak and company started on this path well over a year ago, and they’ve carefully built things with the rest of Marvel creative to a point where we readers want to see the Hulk arrive and take names. Much of this is built upon the machinations of the involved Illuminati (Black Bolt, Dr. Strange, Mr. Fantastic, Charles Xavier, and Iron Man), and the rest of our stealth resentment blossomed (toward Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man, at least) during Civil War. Quite a few characters, it seems, are deserving of a beating, and look! The Hulk brought his own woodshed.
On the face of it, we need to see Green Scar put a hurting on a goodly number of “heroes.” So how is it that Pak and pals manage to use this massive issue as the first step in the reclamation of Iron Man? With solid, well-planned writing, and overall top flight craftsmanship. World War Hulk might not be the most highbrow project to come out in 2007, but it has my inner fourteen-year-old throwing horns like Slash just kicked into “Rocket Queen”.
Things roar to a start with a quick recap of the events of “Planet Hulk” (Illuminati bad, Hulk land on planet and win war, ship go boom, Hulk angry, Hulk come home to smash. We all good? Excellent.) First on the hit parade is Black Bolt. You saw the preview of this scene previously on Newsarama, as Hulk gets in a little GNR reference of his own while taking it to the Inhuman leader on the face of the Moon. John Romita Jr. was born to draw this stuff. His style lends itself particularly well to larger-than-life, epic conflict. The Hulk in mid-leap, screaming in rage, is an image of pure, visceral power. Great stuff.
Events quickly fall in a way that we might initially expect, with the Hulk making a grand statement to the world, and an alliance of heroes forms to take him on. Present conflicts are laid aside to prepare, and this is all handled with great fluidity by Pak. He has a couple of dozen characters rotating through, and he’s writing them all in-voice and in-character. (And they look darn good too).
The real centerpiece here, though, isn’t the battle between Iron Man and the Hulk, though it’s dazzlingly done. The real weight of the issue is an ongoing monologue by Iron Man as he attempts to explain himself. Maybe he’s even trying to convince himself that he’s been doing the right thing. Either way, it’s one of the best heroic speeches in comics in some time, and the whole package makes us feel better about a character that’s certainly had his share of diabolical turns in the last two years.
As the opening salvo of an event, it reads more like the penultimate chapter. All of the creators have all guns blazing, and it’s a totally engrossing read. Anyone paying close attention to Marvel events of the past couple of years knows that there’s a grand scheme in place; we’re seeing part of that pay off here as the stories of the New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Hulk, Iron Man, the Illuminati, and lingering details of Civil War intersect. If you’re only casually picking this up because it sounded like fun, you’re still getting a very entertaining book built on solid writing and tremendous art. And it’s only the first issue. Well-played, gentlemen.
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