This SUCKED. I mean, maybe I would have liked it more if it weren’t canon. But it is.
At the end of “Fall Of Hulks” (another underwhelming event in a year of underwhelming Marvel events), MODOK had created his own Hulk army using gamma science and, in the process, “Hulked Out” a bunch of characters who were exposed to the radiation.
In this event, a half-dozen storylines are compressed into a big event with a sprawling cast and no real focus or purpose, other than to show what happens when guys like Deadpool, Spider-Man, Thor and others are exposed to gamma. If this interests you, or if you like big, clunky fight scenes, it’s a solid read. Personally, I really enjoyed the early issues of (Red) Hulk, where I got my fill of big Hulk fists punching things. By this time this comes out, I’m a little tired of it all. Plus there are liberal helpings of alternative universes and time travel, which are rarely a good thing.
Issues:
- Hulk #22-24
- Hulked Out Heroes #1-2
- Incredible Hulk #609-611
- World War Hulks: Captain America vs Wolverine
- World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs Thor
- World War Hulks One-Shot
There are so many plots and subplots that it’s not worth going into any of them. Suffice to say, by the time this books is over, we get firm confirmation that Thunderbolt Ross is Red Hulk and Betty Ross is Red She-Hulk. Which we already knew. Skaar, who has been trying to kill his father for years, finally accepts that Hulk isn’t such a bad dude.
Hulk also finally defeats Red Hulk, throws him in jail, and then he and Steve Rogers recruit him for an unnamed project (which will be named Thunderbolts).
And look, I know there will be those of you who disagree and think this was an event worth reading, and that I should have given it more in-depth coverage. We just disagree. Maybe if I read it on its own I’d agree–but I’m reading all the 2010 books together, and I just plowed through Second Coming and Siege. Enough is enough,