Immortal Hulk #49

Nearing its landmark fiftieth issue, Immortal Hulk #49 arrives with an Alex Ross cover that pulls the eye straight into its vertiginous drama: viewed from a low angle looking up, the Hulk plummets — or surges — through a blinding column of white light, fists clenched, blood-red particles scattering around him as massive industrial machinery looms on all sides. The perspective makes the Green Goliath feel simultaneously enormous and vulnerable, a fitting mood for a series that has consistently paired raw power with existential dread. With Al Ewing writing and Joe Bennett on interior art, this penultimate chapter — titled "All Ye Who Enter Here" — promises the kind of boundary-pushing, dread-soaked storytelling that has defined this run throughout 2021.