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Indestructible Hulk Volume 3: S.M.A.S.H. Time by Matteo Scalera, Mark Waid

colindalaska's review against another edition

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5.0

Hulk punches a dinosaur!

Five stars!

helpfulsnowman's review against another edition

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3.0

Ahh! I got tricked into reading ANOTHER time travel story! How did I not see that asshole from the Revolutionary War on the cover? I mean, he's behind Hulk and a bunch of...orange energy stuff. But still.

The things I liked about this time travel narrative are these:

1. A guy is basically like, "You assholes keep fucking around with time like it's no big deal, but it totally is, and now time is broken." I just like that SOMEONE is like, "Maybe there's a consequence to all this time traveling, you jerks!"

2. Hulk, from my understanding, punches so hard that he punches someone IN A DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD. This is like those playground threats about how you're gonna hit someone so hard his grandkids are gonna feel it, except it really happened.

And that's pretty much it.

Look, no more time travel. Comics are in a perpetual state of jumping the shark and then retconning the shark out and so on, but can we just take a break with the time travel? Can we at least stop jumping the shark in a DeLorean?

I can't stress enough how little I want to see another time travel story. It's just so fuckin' stupid. Because if you can go back in time, then you can always just go even more backer in time and fix stuff even more!

Like the time Superman flew around the Earth and rotated it backwards, which somehow made time turn backwards. Not only is it a stupid thing because, duh, doing something backwards doesn't undo it (try putting a poo BACK IN the way it came if you doubt me on this), but also it's a stupid result, leaving us with the question of why Superman doesn't just fix everything ever. Because now he can! He could just Groundhog Day this shit until he gets it perfect.

Anyway, let's not do the time travel, fellas. If we could put that off for a while, that'd be super.

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

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3.0

I liked the story until it went off the rails and fell over due to its own wait. And the Banner art is fine but the Hulk art is consistently horrible. I guess all of Marvel is doing a certain amount of time travel issues to show that they broke the time line(s) but I can't say it's my favorite thing for them to be playing with. And yet Banner in the old west with was pretty good.

gohawks's review against another edition

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3.0

S.M.A.S.H. time starts out wonderfully. Hulk travelling through time fighting with cowboys against T.Rexs and tangling with members of the Round Table? Yes, please. But then it loses its identity and control with too much agonizing over the space-time continuum. Hulk uses a robot programmed with Banner's consciousness as his guide through time which becomes a wonderful device for having both characters interacting together. Great potential here, but sadly, the waters are too muddied by other trivialities.
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