The Incredible Hulk: Tempest Fugit





Peter David wrote Incredible Hulk for something like 10 years back in the 80’s and 90’s. Recently he returned to the character with Tempest Fugit, a six issue storyline.

The story opens with the Hulk coming ashore on a mysterious island. The island is infested with stranded castaways, various monsters, previous incarnations of the Hulk, aliens, over-exposed X-Men, and time-traveling dictators. The story also features flashbacks to Bruce Banner’s time in high school, suggesting that his damaged psychology and split personality goes back to long before he was irradiated by the Gamma bomb.

This story is really Peter David’s commentary on the ABC show Lost. A bunch of weird stuff happens on an island, and the castaways take time out to theorize that they may already be dead or part of an alien experiment. Later the Hulk goes through a period where just about every possible explanation appears to be true, at least for a page or two. Needless to say, the real answer is the only one that can explain everything, and it's right there in the title of the book.

The structure of the story lends itself to a series of setpieces starring a bunch of the more visually interesting denizens of the Marvel Universe. Luckily, the artist is Lee Weeks, an excellent, detailed artist with a great eye for making fantastic things look realistic. He’s perfect for this story.

Posted: Fri - September 9, 2005 at      

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