communities of the Midwest and the US government and agriculture industry. This problematic and hope- lessly codependent relationship is best exemplified by Rosenberg’s discussion of agrarian futurism. He defines this concept as “an ideology linking the gover- nance of human social and biological reproduction to the practice, theory, and language of agriculture. It is agrarian in the sense that it privileges tropes, technolo- gies, and knowledge derived from plant and animal agriculture. It is futurist in the sense that it links the intensive governance of the present in an aspirational vision of the future” (12). As this book begins to unra- vel the connections between social and biological reproduction within Midwest agriculture communi- ties, strict gender roles and manipulative gendered (and racial) practices are revealed not only as pervasive but also as imperative to the continued cycle of parasitic dependency between the government and seemingly idyllic farming communities. As Rosenberg argues that “as the American state produces heterosexuality in rural America, heterosexuality also produces the American state” (14), he deconstructs and problema- tizes the heteronormative idealism of rural life during the twentieth century. By destabilizing the overwhelmingly patriarchal nature of rural Midwestern life, this book undermines the depiction of farm life that was constructed and per- petuated throughout the twentieth century. From this foundation of dismantled Midwestern idealism, Rosen- berg offers his audience critical conversations about agrarian futurism and the ways in which we will con- tinue to produce and consume food. Full of dates and information about specific agricultural legislation and movements, this book provides no shortage of infor- mation on this history of 4-H. However, it is through the destabilization of the narrative, expectations, and legacy of not only 4-H but also the rural United States that Rosenberg opens up new discussions about place, identity, race, gender, and biopower that are necessary, if not overdue, as our farming and food industries become increasingly globalized. –-Megan E. Cannella University of Nevada, Reno The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on the Green Goliath in Changing Times Joseph J. Darowski, Editor. McFarland, 2016. The Ages of the Incredible Hulk follows several other similar anthologies Joseph J. Darowski has edi- ted for McFarland already, including volumes devoted to Superman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers, in addition to his own single- authored works on superhero comics. As with much of the multidisciplinary field of sequential art scholarship, contributors to this volume come from a variety of fields, including philosophy, English, Slavic studies, American studies, and film and media studies, among others, thus bringing a wealth of varying approaches to the study of the Hulk. Because Hulk was born out of gamma radiation, at the peak of the Cold War, it should not be surprising that the first four essays position the Hulk within the Cold War concerns of the 1960s. After the first two essays address the original six-issue limited series of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s creation, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and C esar Alfonso Marino tackle the early years (1967–71) of the Hulk’s permanent series in which the “green weapon of mass destruction” trav- eled the globe, toppling communist tyrants who had brainwashed their populations. While the Hulk cares little for the distinctions between capitalism and com- munism, he still acts as a game changer in the arms race, the “wild card” atomic weapon who “will tip the balance in favor of those who possess it” (38). Lori Maguire’s chapter examines the Vietnam War as a backdrop for Hulk’s first decade, from his first appear- ance in 1962 to the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Mar- vel seemed to adopt an ambivalent position on the Hulk’s status as a symbol of the antidraft movement— a situation he found himself in by continually being the target of the US military—and an embodied cri- tique of the military-industrial complex. According to Maguire, “Dread of radiation from weapons testing, anxieties over a seemingly endless war and fears for the survival of American democracy all found their expres- sion there—even if the authors were not always con- scious of this” (60). Fitting for such a Jekyll/Hyde character as the Hulk, a few authors offer psychoanalytic readings of the Green Goliath and his alter ego Bruce Banner. Jos e Alaniz psychoanalyzes Hulk through research related to trauma, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder. In a similar vein, Michael Smith notes the effect of popular psychology on the character in the 1980s, especially the notion of blocked childhood trauma and “the culture of victimhood” in the relationship between Banner and his father. Jason Sacks notes how 198 Book Reviews