Shouldn't that "walked" really be "flounced?"

I enjoyed the Mr Fixit storyline more--but this arc was very well done overall. (Although Rock & Redeemer were actually more annoying than anything else.)

I'm hit & miss on Peter David, but the man knows how to shake up a status quo.

I might be the only one, but I thought most of the David/ Adam Kubert issues were very good. While I haven't liked Kubert on every title, he was perfect for the Hulk.

And the ending to #345 was so convincing, I thought the series had been cancelled.

But looking at David's run overall, right up to the debut of the fusion Hulk it would have been an interesting way to just end the whole series. Have the big call back to how he was in the early issues via the grey Hulk and then cap it off with the 3 becoming one. Because really once Banner can control the Hulk there's no story and he just kind of becomes a big green Reed Richards. But having it end with his 3 personalities melding into a whole and thus giving him access to both the brains and the brawn would have been a cool finish. He can't change what the accident did to him but now he's healed as a person.

The biggest disappointment for me is that you had all that great Dale Keown Hulk art but he only got to do the iconic Hulk in the few issues he appeared in before the fusion and it was perfect!

BTW, I didn't dislike Milgrom's run that much; I think its biggest flaw is that it was caught in a gear shift between Byrne's hasty departure and PAD's later assumption. Still, Milgrom did give us a fun fight between Hulk and ALL of the Avengers (#321-322), the return of the grey Hulk (Byrne set it up, but Milgrom actually did it), and the kinda-fun twist of Rick Jones having assumed the Hulk's curse after years of guilt for inadvertently causing Banner the same. It'll never happen, but I'd love if Marvel collected the Milgrom run to fill the gap between the Byrne and PAD visionaries.

The Incredible Hulk must be a bugger to write. To steal a phrase from John Seavey, the engine driving the series is Banner searching for a cure for the monster inside, but if he ever succeeds then the series ends, so the reader knows that Banner will never succeed. What David did so well was constantly set up new situations and phases in the Hulk's life, which gave a sense of progression. And he was smart enough to jump to a new phase in the Hulk's life before he had exhausted all the possibilities in the previous phase.

It should also be mentioned that when David picked up the reins of the Hulk, it was in a terrible mess. John Byrne had walked off the series in mid-story, leaving Banner and the Hulk as separate entities, Al Migrom was rushed on to the project and responded by throwing even more plot into the mix, giving us dozens of guest stars and the Rick Jones Hulk. That David turned the series around so quickly is a testament to a truly skillful technician.

This was my first foray into comics--it is still near and dear to me. Did these issues ever stop being ridiculously expensive?

"McFarlane’s characterization and anatomy isn’t great - his faces are too round, his hair styles are ridiculous, some of his poses are silly, and even this early he drew too many lines"

After all the lauding of his Hulk run, I was very surprised to find that when I finally picked up some issues, I really didn't like the art!