Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones earned his reputation in 1970s and '80s horror comics — Warren's Creepy and Eerie, and Pacific's Twisted Tales and Alien Worlds with artist Richard Corben — before reinventing one of Marvel's biggest characters. His 2001–2005 Incredible Hulk run turned the book into a paranoid psychological thriller: Bruce Banner on the run, hunted across America, with the smashing kept deliberately rare.

Incredible Hulk by Bruce Jones Omnibus collects that entire suspense-driven era, drawn by John Romita Jr., Lee Weeks and others. It is one of the boldest reinventions the character ever received — closer to a fugitive thriller than a superhero book — and it reads as a single sustained arc rather than a string of monster fights.