The Immortal Hulk is not your friendly MCU Hulk. The Immortal Hulk is phenomenon in comic books at the moment. It on going series which gains readers as it goes on. Usually on going series loses readers as it goes on. Last summer it sold more than Batman which was kind of a big deal. I don’t know current numbers but that is not the point. The Immortal Hulk is best thing at the moment no matter how much it sells.
Bruce Banner was killed during big event earlier. There was another person being Hulk. But Bruce Banner didn’t stay dead. Real life reason was new Hulk probably didn’t sell well and Bruce Banner’s Hulk was popular in MCU movies. I don’t know what happened to other guy. But that is not important.
Return of Bruce Banner’s Hulk could have been terrible idea. I wonder if they had planned where this series would go when they started the series. What the series is now is not something you sell easily to guys who want to bring back good old Bruce Banner’s Hulk. If I try to tell what is going on it would sound too weird to be one of the best selling comics.
What makes The Immortal Hulk so good is you can’t expect what happens next. It started simple. Bruce Banner had risen from dead. He turned to Hulk every night. He became Bruce Banner next morning. He was hiding from the world. Previously Bruce Banner couldn’t die. He turned into Hulk when he was about to die. This time he can and will die but he will return as Hulk next night. Because death doesn’t matter to Hulk the series goes to full body horror.
Hulk isn’t only one not staying dead. Other gamma monsters and heroes come back from dead. Could be terrible idea if done poorly. This isn’t done poorly. Hulk and other gamma monsters gets different perspective when they know they will live forever. Maybe they don’t want humans to destroy the climate and pollute the Earth. It isn’t that simple either. Team Hulk has human reported who wonders how Hulk can get away with everything he has done in the past and become beloved hero when he is needed. Hulk destroyed her home when she was kid. She is there bringing human perspective among gamma monsters causing destruction when secret military sections try to take them down.
It wouldn’t make much sense if I tell everything what happened during first 25 issues. It makes sense if you read those issues. When you start issue you have no idea what to expect. It could feel like it has nothing to do with on going story. It could be one small event told from perspectives of persons involved with their own biases. But at the end of issue it makes sense. I have hard time seeing how all this could be merged to what happens elsewhere in Marvel Universe. I hope that doesn’t happen.
I recommend starting from first issue. Series isn’t that long yet and it is worth reading as whole. One arc ends in 24th issue. So after that could be good jumping on point but 25th issue is really weird and I haven’t read 26th issue yet. If you do this you don’t know why characters are where they are and some places may feel too weird.