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World War Hulk (spoilers and pics)

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Jack Denfeld

08:05 / 15.06.07

HAHA, Yeah!

osymandus

08:07 / 15.06.07

Oh i so like the look of this

Iron Man next i think

Spaniel

08:20 / 15.06.07

Okay, now I appreciate there is something quite joycore about WWH - all that "smash puny humans" stuff gets me excited too, and, you know, I'm excited about an event comic where the emphasis is on grand battles rather than angsting - but this thread needs a little bit more than pics and smilies to get off the ground.

What's the appeal of WWH, folks?

Spaniel

08:23 / 15.06.07

And, Osy, I think you might need to read the issue in question...

Jack Denfeld

08:36 / 15.06.07

The Hulk was exiled into space, and he got mad. Then he was made a slave on an alien planet, but he fought the evil rulers and became the King of the planet and was loved by all. He married, and was about to have a child with his Queen. He was happiest Hulk has ever been. And then a boobytrap on the ship that Iron Man, Strange, Black Bolt, and company sent him on blew up the entire planet! Including his queen and unborn child.

And now he is the maddest he's ever been, and Hulk gets stronger anytime he gets mad. And he's supermad-2000 now! And all the stupid heroes were crying about this and that for the last few months, and Iron Man was walking around like President of Earth, all high and mighty, and now it's like "HEY ASSHOLES, SHUT UP, YOURE ALL GOING TO DIE".

It's total HULK SMASH-CORE.

Spaniel

09:02 / 15.06.07

So was the bomb actually planted by the Illuminati with the intention of killing the Hulk (would seem to run counter to the logic of exile) or is it all some big mystery?

osymandus

09:14 / 15.06.07

Exactly what i was going to type .
And not from memory no , the bomb was to ensure there was no way back . The hulk was removed for practical purposes (plot wise would have been damn near impossible to implement any of Civil war with a rampaging hulk).

I missed the last part of Hulk series so only got as far as the "emporer" being defeated and the insecty guy (im being vauge to avoid spoilage) "emerging"

BB : I was refering to likeing the art

Jack Denfeld

09:32 / 15.06.07

I'm sure they didn't actually put the bomb on there, but it doesn't matter. Hulk figures if he was never sent away by them in the first place, there'd still be an entire planet full of life. One of his comrades might have actually booby trapped it, or it may have been a failsafe to blowup before banner could start trying to figure the ship out. And if it was purposefully bombed it was meant to be on an empty planet.

But I do wanna see Hulk smash.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

11:34 / 15.06.07

Seems likely that Brood and Miek (how's that for a love affair for you) may have booby trapped it. Or it may have just been an accident. On the other hand "it was an accident" isn't a viable excuse foe anyone in the Marvel U right now *cough*new warriors*cough*stamford*cough*

But man is WWH satisfying for some reason. It's just good to see the chickens come home to roost.

Big green chickens.

Essential Dazzler

11:40 / 15.06.07

A panel in WWH shows the pod with a speech bubble saying "Warp Core Compromised", I thought that would imply an accident. Haven't read Planet though, so I may be wrong.

This was great fun, far more than I expected. Top marks for innovation in onomatopeic sound effects as well.

KRAKABA-THROOM!

For anyone missing out on the angsting, Marvel have managed to stretch this "mini" event to 31 tie-in issues, including another Fronline series.

KRAKABA-THROOM!!

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:50 / 15.06.07

Wouldn't "World War Hulk: Frontline" just be lots of people screaming "Please stop hitting me"?

Essential Dazzler

11:56 / 15.06.07

Is should be.

Mario

11:59 / 15.06.07

One question...

Why does Black Bolt look like he's melting?

FinderWolf

12:01 / 15.06.07

My theory is that the 'melting' effect is merely the distortion effect on the hologram/super-hi-tech video via which the Hulk is broadcasting the image of the beaten-up Black Bolt to the world.

WWH #1 was fun, smashery goodness. Curious to see where they go with this....

FinderWolf

12:02 / 15.06.07

"Smashety", I meant

Spaniel

12:08 / 15.06.07

You see, we couldn't have used the adjective smashety to describe Civil War and therein lies the problem with that series.

Black Bolt's melting 'cause he's been so totally smashed!

gridley

12:42 / 15.06.07

Indeed... I just wish that a little of the smashing of Black Bolt had actually taken place in the comic (rather than off-page).

Grady Hendrix

12:46 / 15.06.07

He's not melting...that's his blood flying around because he's on the moon where there's no gravity! But why is he hanging from Hulk's fist if there's no gravity? Why isn't he flying around too? Because it's a comic book.

In an era of lame crossovers and multi-part events I want Hulk to go through the Marvel U and just punch everyone in the face. Skrulls? Hulk smash! Civil rights? Hulk smash! Civil War? Hulk smash! House of M? Hulk Smash!

Spaniel

12:46 / 15.06.07

Yeah, but we got to spend much more time on a much more important bout of smashing, so on balance I'm happy.

How are they gonna get round the whole the-hulk-wants-to-kill-all-the-illuminati thing? Kill, not just smash.

slagar

13:31 / 15.06.07

i really think Miek is behind the shuttle explosion. he was the one who discovered that Hulk had some connection to humans, when he found the Illuminati video, and his race has had some run in with the X-Men, i believe. he saw it as a way of getting Hulk to head toward Earth in a rampage to get revenge.

the last Heroes for Hire had a tie-in in which Humbug was captuerd by bugs in the Savage Land and told a story of an offshoot of Mieks race landing on Earth. they told Humbug that their race was returning to Earth, and not in a good way.

also, was the whole Worldbreaker prophecy ever solved in the Planet Hulk series? i thought that the Elders had pretty much ruled the Hullk out as either and there was still some question. Miek might actually fit the prophecy.

it's always the bug...

Our Lady Has Left the Building

13:35 / 15.06.07

This would be the drawback for me. Unless this story ends with the very real and definite deading of the Hulk (and seeing that any number of Marvel big events recently have finished rather open ended rather than definite stops this seems unlikely), even if it's temporary, anything else would seem an anticlimax. I suppose Reed and Tony could whip up a Betty-clone to try and calm him down.

And what's the current status of the Hulk atm? I notice he was using the proper english in that clip, is it the strong, smart, green hulk at the mo?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:41 / 15.06.07

I find it unlikely that BB would take that kind of beating and not make one sound.

Not even an "eep" or anything?

Mario

13:47 / 15.06.07

He's basically a really pissed-off "Professor Hulk", at the moment.

Haus of Mystery

13:48 / 15.06.07

Great stuff - simple high concept, graspable for any non- Civil War folowers (like me), simply and effectively told with lashings of SMUSHING. Not going to bother with all the other spin-offs, and i don't see that as inhibiting my enjoyment of the Main Event.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:51 / 15.06.07

Elijah, Black Bolt did speak, and Hulk fucked him up anyway.

I can think of a dozen ways this could end well without the Hulk being dead; not sure why that's necessary.

Can a puny moderator please resize that image?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:07 / 15.06.07

Wow, that is pretty sick then, I might need to pick this up this week...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:33 / 15.06.07

I've smashed the image down to size, Fly, waiting for someone else to okay the smash.

Spaniel

14:47 / 15.06.07

I was inclined to leave it, actually. Probably the first time I've ever felt like that, but I reckon it benefitted from largeness.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

14:48 / 15.06.07

I approved the resize, but now I feel... small. Diminished. Less smashy.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:53 / 15.06.07

Hey, even when he's been shrunk down to ant-size, the HULK CAN SMASH. Even the tiniest smash embiggens us all.

Alex's Grandma

16:22 / 15.06.07

I can think of a dozen ways this could end well without the Hulk being dead

Surely only a skrull would say so.

Essential Dazzler

16:23 / 15.06.07

Cut that out right now.

Spaniel

16:53 / 15.06.07

Ah, I'm very happy to see that Barbelith is gearing up cheefully for the smashfest. Excellently good.

Uatu.is.watching

17:03 / 15.06.07

slagar

17:58 / 15.06.07

The thing about the ship exploding is a bit ambivilent. Miek and the brood were acting shady, but while I'm wildley speculating, I'll lay odds that a skrull member of the Illuminati or Nick "the skrull" Fury planted the bomb.

i'll give that it's possible the guidance system could have been rigged, they used a Fury robot to lure the Hulk in so it's possible Fury what knew the Illuminati were planing (if he can monitor is robots) but for what purposed would anyone set a bomb?

there was a warning that the warp core had been breached before the shuttle exploded. would someone who set a bomb then give warning it was about to explode?

i like to think that the self contained story which Planet Hulk was will hold and the shuttle explosion was generated from inside that story.

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