Another
Amadeus Cho/Totally Awesome Hulk
story released under the more general Hulk
title. A lot of what goes on here follows from the events of the last two
volumes, so there will be some spoilers from My Best Friends are Monsters and Return to Planet Hulk.
Amadeus
has always maintained that he exercises complete control over his Hulk, but
that’s a lot less true than he’s been willing to admit, and over the last few
volumes, that control has been weakening further. When he returns to Earth
after his time in Sakaar, Amadeus isn’t the one in the driver’s seat. His
sister Maddy and his hero friends are faced with the sobering – not to mention
massively difficult task – of going up against the Hulk.
There’s a
lot of neat stuff going on here. I really like the form that Amadeus’s Hulk
takes, both how he operates when he’s in control of their body (very different
from Bruce Banner and his Hulk) and how he interacts with Amadeus in their
subconscious. I also like Amadeus’s attempts to reassert control and protect
Maddy and his friends from the Hulk.
Speaking
of which, let’s look at the rest of our cast of characters. It’s a good volume
for Maddy, who demonstrates once again that, even if she doesn’t quite have
Amadeus’s impressive world-intelligence ranking, she’s never one to be counted
out. She’s very on the ball here and is basically working full-out to try and
solve the problem at hand without hurting Amadeus.
The rest
of the volume is filled with quite the cache of heroes. We get appearances from
the majority of major characters who’ve shown up in previous volumes, from
heroes who clashed with Amadeus in Civil
War II (like Captain Marvel and Black Panther,) friends he worked with in Big Apple Showdown (like Silk, Ms.
Marvel, and Jimmy Woo,) and Thor, who showed up last volume in Sakaar. We also
get Miles Morales’s Spider-Man (that’s right, two spider-people in a single arc in a Hulk story – it’s a beautiful world.) Yeah, and a bonus inclusion
of the first issue of the original World
War Hulk – with Banner’s Hulk – features Iron Man, Doctor Strange,
She-Hulk, Mr. Fantastic (my brain is too MCU-oriented, as I always forget that
the Fantastic Four and the X-Men can hang out with these characters too,) and
more. Phew!
So, the
way I understand it, these last two volumes have transitioned Amadeus out of The Totally Awesome Hulk (which I think
is no more?), but he’s being folded into a new title based on the
pan-Asian/Asian-American superhero team-up we got in Big Apple Showdown. Written by Greg Pak, who penned The Totally Awesome Hulk, a new series
(limited series? not sure) featuring an even bigger team-up is underway: The New Agents of Atlas. Since I loved Big Apple Showdown, I’m always down for
more Kamala Khan, and I’m interested to see where Amadeus goes from here, I’m
sure that’ll be worth a read.
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