What happened here?

This is not the hulk I was loving the last two Omnibus. This starts off right where the last one left off. But as soon as we get into some fun storylines of Hulk getting kidnapped, soon into it we have Hulk having to stop Onslaught. That's right. For years Hulk was able to avoid those terrible crossovers. He was doing his own thing. But he too gets sucked into the marvel line event that changed everything. And so when Onslaught kills a bunch of major heroes, Bruce banner and Hulk get separated and Bruce disappears with the avengers, fantastic four, and more. Leaving hulk as basically a shell of his former self.

And a good chunk of this book is this hollow version of hulk. Boring, question his existence, fighting for no reason, taking over islands, protecting those people for no reason, and then being moody and grumpy the entire time. None of is registers as the fun storylines we were given the last few years by Peter David. But then after reading through this we get to Heroes Return which is a garbage event for the most part. Hulk's part is important, or semi-important, but not all that interesting. But Bruce and Hulk fuse back together again.

You'd think this would give us fun storylines again. Nope. General Ross returns because comics love to bring back the dead. And in doing so we have some dull storylines where Ross tries to be a decent human being. But a few issues in, well the end of Peter David's run, something horrible happens and the run ends returning Ross back to what he was.

This whole volume felt extremely disjointed. One or two one shots were decent, and I really liked the art at some points towards the end, but this was easily one of the weakest Omnibus I've read in some time. It lacks the good storyline from last few volumes, and the art in the middle is horrendous, big, bulky, and ugly. This is a really disappointing Omnibus for me.

A 1.5 out of 5. I'll bump it to a 2 for some of the ending art.