Warning: Contains Major Spoilers forNew Avengers #2!Marvel just revealedthe horrifying fate of Bruce Banner, whose imprisonment in theHulk’smind is far gnarlier and more gruesome than the actual physical transformation his body undergoeswhen turning into the giant green raging behemoth. Though undergoing uncontrollable body mutations and battling supervillains is pretty scary, nothing is worse than being trapped in the Hulk’s twisted mind.
A shocking cliffhanger inNew Avengers #2, written by Sam Humphries, with art by Ton Lima, finds Bucky and Clea trying torecruit Bruce Banner to their growing team.
To find the scientist, the heroes travel into something this series calls “Hulkspace,” a psychic prison where Bruce is kept in anguish.
Bruce Banner’s Tortured Existence In “Hulkspace” Is Marvel’s Most Nightmarish Imagery Ever
New Avengers #2,Written By Sam Humphries; Art By Ton Lima; Color By Rain Beredo; Lettering By VC’s Joe Sabino
InNew Avengers#2, Bucky and Clea discover thatHulk keeps Bruce in a seriously disturbing position, impaled on a spiky throne and shackled around the neck. In a realm controlled by the Hulk, the New Avengers will have to somehow free Bruce from this mental torture chamber to add him to the team.
Bruce Banner has been trapped in Hulk’s traumatizing mind-prison for some time now. However, it seems some wires may have been crossed, since it’s actuallyknown as the “Hulkscape” in that series. Whatever Marvel ultimately calls the place where Bruce is being kept, the brief glimpse inNew Avengersmakes it look like an absolute nightmare.
Taking place beforeNew Avengersbegins, author Phillip Kennedy Johnson’sIncredible Hulk #26teasedthe horrifying hellscape created by Bruce’s other half.New Avengers #2shows the Hulkspace in all its disgustingly violent glory, with a skin-crawling image of Bruce Banner trying his best to find comfort while sitting on a throne of pure torture.
The New Avengers Must Pull Marvel’s Biggest Heist Ever To Break Banner Out Of Hulk’s Mind
It Doesn’t Look Like It Will Be Easy
Just the sight of Bruce’s torment wasenough to repulse Hulk’s new sidekickand send her running away from the green beast. It will take Clea Strange’s powers and the rest of the New Avengers to work together to free their new recruit from the grotesque and unsightly prison in the Hulk’s mind, designed to keep Banner in agonizing pain.
What the Hulk is currently doing to Bruce is enough to make stomachs turn, even for longtime fans, and it looks like he must join the New Avengers to end the torture.
Hulk’s realm of horrors could get even worse as the team tries to free Bruce inNew Avengers#3, but it’s hard to imagine it looking any more revolting. Bruce may only be psychically imprisoned, but that only gives Marvel even more freedom to ratchet up the gruesome violence against him while he’s trapped, meaning things could always get scarier.
FromBruce Banner’s Marvel Comics originsto the character’sImmortal Hulkand currentIncredible Hulkruns, Hulk’s superhero adventures have always been tinged with frightening body horror. Still, what theHulkis currently doing to Bruce is enough to make stomachs turn, even for longtime fans, and it looks like he must join the New Avengers to end the torture.
