I picked this up on a whim because I'm into the trend of comics-adjacent prose novels, I lovedThor: Ragnarok (which I knew was partly based on the Planet Hulk comics), I love Greg Pak's writing usually...seemed like a win.

This story is like pretty dumb though and also unpleasant?? I never read the Planet Hulk ~comic event~ so IDK how this compares and also I don't care. I'm not sure who this is for. I guess like a less-squeamish Hulk fan who wanted more detail than the comics went into? Or like...didn't like the art of the comics...IDK.

My issue also is that in general I actually care like 90% about Bruce Banner and 10% about the Hulk so like....meh.

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Also I slogged through the end because I thought this would end with Hulk changing back to Bruce and returning to earth, which was the part I cared about, but......it doesn't, he's just like "nope I'm space king now the end" so...okay I guess but obviously there's gotta be a return to status quo eventually...