Warning! Spoilers for The Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters by Marvel Comics below.
Marvel Comics just revealed the terrifying story behind the first created the first-ever gamma monster, as the Green Door is opened for the first time.
In Marvel's The Immortal Hulk series, it's revealed the Hulk is unable to die thanks to the Green Door, which connects the real world to the deepest depths of Hell known as the Below Place. The ruler of the Below Place is the One Below All. The Green Door is instrumental for the transformation of normal people, like Bruce Banner, into monsters, as it's the source of power for gamma mutates. In a new one-shot, the Green Door opens for the first time - and what emerges from it is one of the scariest versions of the Hulk ever.
In Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1 by Al Ewing, Alex Pakndael, David Vaughan, Juan Ferreyra, and Kevin Nowlan, readers are taken back to 9,5000 BCE in Jordan, where a young man and an elder are talking over a giant crater in the ground. Said to the eye of the deity "Mother Goddess," the elder explains to the boy, Tammuz, that the eye has caused everything around it to become rotten and die. The elder kicks Tammuz down the crater and says he has to sacrifice him for food. Tammuz's skin peels off his body as he begins to mutate and the Green Door opens. Tammuz survives the incident and becomes a massive, green monster with antlers and claws.
Unfortunately, as Tammuz tries to return to his village and use his newfound strength and abilities to help gather food and help his people, he is captured by hunters and is killed. Meanwhile, Tammuz meets the One Below All and when he's reborn through the Green Door, he decides to take a more violent approach. As his village feasts on his body, the eaten body parts are ripped out of their mouths and stomachs and returned to Tommaz. He reforms as a giant beast and as his former village is left in flames. He leaves with nobody left alive.
It's quite the harrowing tales from Paknadel and Ewing - made even more terrifying by the excellent work of Ferreyra, who really brings Tammuz gamma mutate to life. The new (but very old) Hulk wanted to help his village despite being unwillingly sacrificed, however, his people's hunger caused them to kill him again - not knowing he would return even deadlier. Among grotesque and disturbing Hulk tales, Time of the Monsters ranks near the top. It's a perfect one-shot that further explains Hulk's mythology and the Green Door before The Immortal Hulk wraps up its excellent run. The Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters is available in comic book stores now.
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