Wow, jeez, a #1 issue of the Hulk! What'll this be worth in thirty years? Sadly, probably less than the $3.99 cover price. Unless buyers in the future are dumb enough to think that this is the "real" first ever issue of the Hulk. But I bought it, so I guess there's your reason to re-brand a long running book as a #1 issue. Will the year 2011 forever be known as that dumb year in comics with a thousand #1 issues? Or will people think comics started in 2011? It's an easy argument: if comics didn't start in 2011 then why did Superman #1, Batman #1, Detective Comics #1, Daredevil #1, The Punisher #1, Action Comics #1, The Uncanny X-Men #1, Thor #1, Captain America #1, and The Incredible Hulk #1 all come out that year? Either way, this new Hulk book has a stellar team. Jason Aaron is writing it and Marc Silvestri is co-penciling it. Yes, it's sad that Silvestri left Image and is only co-drawing this book. The art is good but he draws a bad Hulk. He draws a better Bruce Banner, who is, more or less, Dr. Moreau on his island of talking animals. That's the plot: The Island of Dr. Moreau. And while it's cool it's also a complete rip-off. Jason Aaron is also writing Wolverine and the X-Men #1. The art, sadly, is too dark and blocky. The usual awesome Chris Bachalo art is somehow missing here. The plot is more or less Wolverine giving a tour to state inspectors of his new mutant school in New York. A bad guy kid shows up and the earth rumbles and spits out monsters. Yep, totally boring. THE INCREDIBLE HULK #1 ** (out of ****) WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #1 *
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