My Top Five List of Alternative Comics To Read Post#4 ” Planet Hulk & World War Hulk “ February 18, 2008
Posted by 54071 in : Comic Reviews, Comics , trackbackOkay, it’s Sunday night, I’m cooking my dinner…I’m hungry and I smell the good stuff in the oven, so lets dispense with rewriting the above title here and just get right into it shall we….
Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were both series that ran thru Marvel’s summer schedule and were also their Summer’s Mega Event, although if my 50 year old memory serves me, Planet Hulk actually finished before the beginning of the Summer but I feel that since they both ran one after the next they deserve to be treated as one entity.
So the question is ” what do you do when you have the most powerful human the world has ever known, and you don’t know what to do with him anymore?”
First, if your his friends, you hold a secret meeting that very few are privy to, and than, as his friends, you set him up…using his ” puny, human, side ” send him on what he thinks is a life saving mission ( to save the earth of course ) to fix a ” Shield ” space unit ( again this is a small detail in this, bigger picture ) this unit being the trap…
An actual, functioning ship that takes you to another planet, in another solar system, where you can’t hurt yourself or anyone else anymore…this planet should be devoid of life, and you can finally have what you always wanted…
” To be left alone “….only one problem with this…you crash land on a planet that is Savage, and is inhabited by savage life forms, and you find yourself a slave on this planet…this would be a devastating turn of events if you were an ordinary, troublesome human….if you were human…but your not are you…you just happen to be..Robert…Bruce..Banner..in other words, you happen to be..
The Incredible Hulk!
Needless to say, the Hulk does not stay a slave for any real length of time…in short order the Hulk becomes a conqueror, a hero, eventually a King….
He takes a bride, who is his equal, she becomes pregnant and will bear his child…until something goes terribly wrong…and what happens from this event leads into the ” World War Hulk ” storyline, where the Hulk returns to the planet and the people who tricked him in the first place…and he doesn’t come alone…he brings his band of warriors along with him, his War-Bound, and the man monster called the Hulk gets his revenge upon those who tricked him, forcing them to live thru the horrors that he had endured, and in the end, having a final confrontation with the only living being ( remember that at this point, the Mighty Thor has not returned from the nether plains of death yet ) the Sentry, who gives back to the Hulk as good as he receives.
In the end, it seems that at the end of this tale, the Hulk is finally destroyed…at the end of his own title…and yet something emerges from the cavernous pit that was left where the Hulk and the Sentry had clashed…and then Marvel decides to rename The Incredible Hulk title The Incredible Hercules…and than there is another new title simple put…
The Hulk…
This was a great read for me, if only just top see the Hulk, finally get the much deserved justice that has always seemed to elude him, unfortuneately, as is always the case there is no retribution with out a sacrifice involved
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