I saw that my library finally had the entire Immortal Hulk run through the conclusion, so I'm going to binge the back half of the series this week. Though, after reading this volume, I'm questioning the wisdom of doing so. Hmm. Well, I've gotta feed the compulsion monster, so here we go.

After a few vaguely interesting chapters about Xenmu and the Mandela effect, the series comes around to the ol' Dumb Hulk vs. Leader scenario that I have read too many times before. The Leader sucks as a villain and nothing in the retelling of his origin and life as a villain that is included herein changes my mind about that.

At least there are a few body horror sequences every issue or two to perk me up before I drifted off to sleep. And the cliffhanger has a literal climax, that's good for a chuckle: "N-no! Something . . . is in Hulk! Building! Building inside Hulk! Help Hulk! Help! Before -- " Cue money shot!

Onward! ( )