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Editorial Review:
Think you know everything about the unique relationship between Marvel's two most powerful sluggers? Guess again. Bruce Jones and superstar artist Jae Lee bring you the ultimate Hulk/Thing battle! Collects a reprint of Marvel's Giant-Size Superstars #1.
Incredible Hulk & The Thing: Hard Knocks (Fantastic Four) Reviews:
Excellent service 
2008-11-02 - Very fast. My son was thrilled that it arrived so quickly. Thank you. I will be buying from this seller in the future.
Bruce Jones Mails It In 
2007-05-11 - The writing is the main disappointment in Hulk v. Thing Hard Knocks. There's not much excitement or tension and hardly any plot. Jae Lee's art differs from his usual atmospheric Milleresque-Sienkiwicz renderings.
The art is the high point and saving grace of this work and justifies its purchase. Pretty pictures, petty plot.
Is that all there is?
2004-12-11 - With longtime Hulk scribe Bruce Jones' conspiracy arc pretty much over, the title was put on hiatus for four months to make way for this four issue mini-series. Marvel's two biggest and baddest bruisers face off for the first time in a long time in Hard Knocks, as the Hulk and the Thing of the Fantastic Four have a knock down drag out brawl in the desert. During the fights, both recall their first meeting and the sordid history between the two. Jones is an excellent writer who nearly took the Incredible Hulk to the Peter David-level greatness that it had lacked for years, but his story and script are average at best here. Nothing really compelling, just two monstrous beheamoths beating the tar out of each other. And while that's all well and good, the Jones twist that long time readers expect just never comes, and Hard Knocks ends up being pretty run of the mill. What saves the book however is the art by Jae Lee (Inhumans, The Sentry), who gives both the Hulk and the Thing incredibly grotesque looks, yet leaves them all the more iconic. As a bonus, a copy of Marvel's Giant-Size Superstars #1 is included as well, as new readers can see a classic showdown between the two. All in all, fans of Jones' run on the Hulk will want to check this out, but you're better off waiting for the title to come back from hiatus.
