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Incredible Hulk (2023 series) #22

on-sale: Feb 19, 2025
Phillip Kennedy Johnson | Nic Klein

Incredible Hulk (2023 series) #22 cover

Story Name:

The Skin of Charlie Tidwell Part One


Synopsis

Incredible Hulk (2023 series) #22 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4 stars

A young couple is speeding down a highway in a convertible when the car is hit by a flying werewolf. It flips over and bursts into flames. The girl sees that the guy is dead then she sees the wolf on the other side….

Charlie Tidwell is woken by Hulk’s snoring in the cabin they have borrowed. She finds a plastic star, like one from the girl’s phone, and steps into the bathroom where she finds the girl’s dismembered body in a room drenched in blood. Terrified, she slams the door and tells Hulk the toilet is busted then hurries him out of there….

As they walk through the woods, Hulk hears Banner calling to him from a tree, telling him that Charlie is being changed. Hulk punches the tree and keeps walking. Charlie figures out it was Banner locked away in Hulk’s brain but Hulk insists there is no Banner. Neither one notices that they are being followed by a goblin-like creature….

They stop for the night by a campfire, Hulk brooding on Varcolac’s words that all who wear the skin of Lycana are damned to his realm for eternity. Charlie offers to get some food but she is rebuffed by Hulk. She wanders into the woods and turns her hand into a wolf-like claw to snatch a snake from the pond. As she is about to bite into it, a voice calls her name. She sees Banner’s image in the pond, telling her that she can see him because she is now a monster too. She confesses that she thinks she killed someone and Banner tells that’s how it starts. They must separate her from Lycana and make her human again. But she resists, enjoying the strength that comes with being a monster. Banner advises her to go to New York City to find Doctor Strange, perhaps he can help her….

The next day, Charlie hesitantly suggests to Hulk that they go to Upstate New York to hide but Hulk refuses. She grows angry and walks away. And the goblin thing follows her. Hiding behind a dumpster, she watches some kids playing basketball in a playground. She steps out of her Charlie skin into a similar human form and approaches the kids, asking if she can play too. The goblin finds the discarded skin….

As Hulk, walks through the woods, the goblin in Charlie’s skin tries to convince Hulk it is really Charlie….


Characters
Good (or All)
BRUCEBANNER
HULK
Plus: Charlie Tidwell (Charlene Tidwell).


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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Nic Klein
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Additional Credits
Letterer: Cory Petit.



Review / Commentaries


Incredible Hulk (2023 series) #22 Review by (February 19, 2025)

Review: And things are getting worse for Charlie. When she first met Hulk at the start of this book, she envied him for his strength when she felt vulnerable. And now, with the acquisition of Lycana’s skin she is a werewolf and she need fear nothing as we saw last issue. But with that strength comes a vicious nature that must hunt and kill to live. And now she’s in trouble and this series’ Hulk doesn’t care. A very grim and intense issue, in the footsteps of all the others, starts with gruesome violence and ends in the horrible sight of the fake Charlie. Nic Klein is still the best at this sort of thing; I’m glad he’s back as artist..

Comments: Charlie has been wearing Lycana’s skin since issue #19. The song heard in the opening scene appears to be an original by the comic writer.






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