My Immortal (Hulk) Episode 7 - Will The Drawing Shane Says Looks Like Charlie Kirk Please Stand Up?

 

In the latest episode of My Immortal (Hulk):

31 - Rand Spall - Dr. (I've forgotten her name) McGowan has a flashback of the first time she encountered a superhero, when Daredevil busted through on the illegal drug manufacturing center that she was working in for the Kingpin. Back at Shadow Base, she is watching with concern as Xemnu, the big white yeti guy who briefly showed up at the last set of books, is speaking to the public through the cameras and convincing them to remember all of the good times they had when they were young and didn't have to worry about anything. The only one who can conceivably see through Xemnu's charade is the Savage Hulk, who tries to smash him up: he rips off his arm, he hits him with it, et cetera. This goes a little bit too far and Dr. Mcgowan pulls Hulk and everybody else back to base, where they regroup. The issue ends with a replay of that memory from the beginning, except instead of Daredevil breaking through the skylight, it is, quote unquote, the Incredible Hulk, who is Xemnu, who has replaced himself into that memory.

32 - Jean - Xemnu, The Living Hulk continues his hypnotic campaign against the world, as we see various civilians talking about their knowledge of Xemnu, The Living Hulk. Behind the scenes, Dario Agger speaks with Xemnu about their ongoing plans to steal the Hulk's social reputation, and then Xemnu reveals that he in fact eats people. (My Amazon Kindle app is lagging to hell) As the running bit with the mountain of televisions moves from Xemnu's reputation to that of Bruce Banner, it is revealed that Bruce Banner no longer thinks of himself as Bruce Banner, but Robert Bruce Banner. Dr. Charlene McGowan further looks into these strange events, examining her memories to get to the bottom of why Hulk keeps saying Hulk. Within the Hulk's mind, our big guy Hulk smashes against the mirror until he is calmed down by my man, The Green Scar. (You can see his loincloth and his big arm pauldron and everything.)

33 - Rand Spall - A large percentage of this issue takes place within the mind of the Banner system, a big fantasy landscape filled with Hulks who are enormous and built like Roblox characters, as they survey the damage that Xemnu has been doing, which includes locking up Devil Hulk and freezing Joe Fixit in amber. They eventually find a young Bruce Banner that is living the childhood he wishes he had, surrounded by toys and happy meals and watching TV instead of abusive parents and whatnot, and in order to escape, Savage Hulk smashes the TV and climbs out of the tunnel, which results in him climbing out of Bruce Banner's throat, ripping him in half and leaving his head lying on the floor. Outside of the Hulk's brain, Savage Hulk leads the crew on a simple, straightforward mission to go smash up Roxxon and the Hulk Xemnu. He does so and gets to the penthouse to find that Xemnu has eaten Agger and turned him into some sort of monstrosity with a hole on his chest that appears to have anal beads coming out of it. There's a brief cut so we don't see exactly how he destroys Xemnu, but Rick Jones convinces Hulk to go back down, and it's all solved, you should go mop up, at which point we find out that Rick Jones is being controlled by The Leader, who I suppose is The Thoughtful Man.

34 - Shane - https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Samuel_Sterns_(Earth-616)

35 - Jean - After the Xemnu incident, the Hulk's relationship with the public has started to repair itself, as we see multiple civilians on television speaking about their newly positive opinion of the Incredible Hulk, including a testimonial from Captain America. Meanwhile, in the Hulk's mind, there's still a Hulk in a big iron maiden that neither Banner nor the Hulk can free. In Shadow Base, Betty (Banner? Ross?) Ross demands to speak with Bruce, and their attempts at a conversation flame out as Bruce refuses to accept the Harpy as Betty. She leaves. At a reputation building event in Georgeville, Iowa, the Hulk's attempts to build bridges are stymied when Rick Jones/Leader touches him and he explodes, giving off a certain amount of light.

Music:
Fall (Theme From My Immortal Hulk) - JDNK
Steve Biko (Stir It Up) - A Tribe Called Quest

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