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Hulk/Incredible Hulk (1999) (Single Issues) #92-105
The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk
¡Todo un nuevo mundo de dolor!
Traicionado por los héroes de la Tierra y exiliado al espacio, el hombre-monstruo Hulk aterriza en el distante planeta Sakaar, gobernado por el tiránico Rey Rojo. Tras ser vendido como esclavo, Hulk se convierte en la Cicatriz Verde, el gladiador más poderoso del planeta -pero sus nuevos amos obtienen más de lo que esperaban cuando forja un vínculo de hermandad con sus compañeros luchadores: el astuto insectoide Miek, la horrible Brood, el sabio hombre-roca Korg, el guerrero sombra Hiroim, la rebelde sangre noble Elloe, y su leal guardia Skee. Juntos, estos gladiadores comienzan una revolución que podría cambiar todo su mundo... o destruirlo. Es una brutal fantasía de ciencia ficción escrita por el galardonado escritor Greg Pak, ¡con Silver Surfer como invitado especial!
Recopila The Incredible Hulk #92-105 y Planet Hulk: Gladiator's Guidebook.
Traicionado por los héroes de la Tierra y exiliado al espacio, el hombre-monstruo Hulk aterriza en el distante planeta Sakaar, gobernado por el tiránico Rey Rojo. Tras ser vendido como esclavo, Hulk se convierte en la Cicatriz Verde, el gladiador más poderoso del planeta -pero sus nuevos amos obtienen más de lo que esperaban cuando forja un vínculo de hermandad con sus compañeros luchadores: el astuto insectoide Miek, la horrible Brood, el sabio hombre-roca Korg, el guerrero sombra Hiroim, la rebelde sangre noble Elloe, y su leal guardia Skee. Juntos, estos gladiadores comienzan una revolución que podría cambiar todo su mundo... o destruirlo. Es una brutal fantasía de ciencia ficción escrita por el galardonado escritor Greg Pak, ¡con Silver Surfer como invitado especial!
Recopila The Incredible Hulk #92-105 y Planet Hulk: Gladiator's Guidebook.
384 pages, Paperback
Published November 2, 2017
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Greg Pak
1,649 books581 followersGreg Pak is an award-winning Korean American comic book writer and filmmaker currently writing "Lawful" for BOOM and "Sam Wilson: Captain America" (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel. Pak wrote the "Princess Who Saved Herself" children's book and the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton and co-wrote (with Fred Van Lente) the acclaimed “Make Comics Like the Pros” how-to book. Pak's other work includes "Planet Hulk," "Darth Vader," "Mech Cadet Yu," "Ronin Island," "Action Comics," and "Magneto Testament."
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May 12, 2019
Finally finished this epic Hulk tale, I blame book hopping for taking so long. Thankfully Avengers Endgame came out and refocused me to complete this.
This collection tells the tale of the Hulk being exiled from earth by the superhero Illuminati (Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Blackbolt and Doctor Strange). What should have been a peaceful planet to himself ends up being a war torn planet with different forces vying for control.
It is interesting to see the character of Hulk get some development along with the smashing. The supporting characters are fun, especially Korg and Miek.
If you enjoyed the Hulks stotyline in the Thor Ragnarok film, you'll love this fully fleshed out story on Sakaar. The ending sets up a very interesting next chapter.
This collection tells the tale of the Hulk being exiled from earth by the superhero Illuminati (Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Blackbolt and Doctor Strange). What should have been a peaceful planet to himself ends up being a war torn planet with different forces vying for control.
It is interesting to see the character of Hulk get some development along with the smashing. The supporting characters are fun, especially Korg and Miek.
If you enjoyed the Hulks stotyline in the Thor Ragnarok film, you'll love this fully fleshed out story on Sakaar. The ending sets up a very interesting next chapter.
August 6, 2022
The Hulk comics are some of my favorite comics. He's usually so tormented and strong and I love all his stories
May 20, 2022
This was all action really. The story was there but took too long to get into for me personally.
April 29, 2011
I have this horrible feeling that comics as we currently know them are a moribund art form, but I'll say this for the publishers: they're not going down without a fight. One of the ways in which they're trying to boost sales is by ensuring every book is composed of a series of (largely) self-contained story arcs, suitable for repackaging as trade paperbacks and selling in reputable bookshops.
Now this is, I think, a questionable tactic - buying the TPB of a series is cheaper than buying the individual issues, so most people are going to do that, and speaking personally I'd find it much easier to bow out of collecting a TPB series than to cancel a comic order. And, on a creative level, it means that the stories themselves lose something of their saga-ish (or, if you prefer, soap-opera-esque) quality. Back when I was buying comic books on a regular basis I liked the way you'd go from a two or three-part story to a standalone issue, with no requirement for everything to be done and dusted ready for new readers to jump on, every six months without fail. If you look at the classic X-Men stories from the late 70s, they have plotlines and character threads running for years at a time - Marvel repackaged these in their Essential line of TPBs, collecting 20 or more issues at a time, and still weren't able to make them completely self-contained.
I suppose the shift is that in ye olden days the companies' strategy was to require you to stay if you wanted to see how things turned out, while now they invite you in with the promise that there are no strings attached, no need for an ongoing investment of time or money. I don't know, I kind of liked the strings, to be perfectly honest.
Having said that, I'm open to the possibilities of telling stories in this kind of self-contained format, which brings me to Planet Hulk. This is a big old beast of a TPB, much bigger than the usual six or so issues, as befits one concerned with one of Marvel's big guns.
It benefits, on the whole, from largely being divorced from the concerns of mainstream Marvel continuity (one of things that puts me off even dipping into, say, the Siege line of books is the sense that you have to buy the lot in order to get the whole story). Previous to the start of the story, a secret quorum of top-level superheroes (Mr Fantastic, Dr Strange, Iron Man, those sort of people) decide that the Hulk has become too great a menace to be allowed to continue to roam around unchecked. After some discussion (and the fistfight which is obligatory whenever superheroes disagree) they hit upon the plan of luring the Hulk into a spaceship and then shooting him off to an uninhabited planet where he can smash things up to his heart's content. Needless to say neither the Hulk nor his Banner persona are consulted.
As ever, where the top brains of the Marvel universe are concerned, things go askew and the spaceship gets sucked through a wormhole to land not on the peaceful world intended but the savage and brutal planet Sakaar, in the grip of the oppressive Red King and his brutal enforcers.
One of the premises of this story is that passing through the wormhole dramatically weakens travellers, which effectively drops the Hulk's power level to the point where he has to worry about being hurt and even killed. He is captured by the ruling elite and forced to become a gladiator in the arenas of the Red King. Needless to say this does not sit well with the Hulk, who makes plans to effect some changes in his situation as soon as practical...
I imagine that one of the challenges of being the lead writer on the Hulk's book is that you're stuck with a main character who spends most of his time going 'Raah! Hulk smash!' and who doesn't have much of an agenda beyond wanting to be left alone. Peter David's famous and lengthy run on the title got around this by exploring different aspects of the character's psychology and ultimately coming up with a brainy Hulk who more often than not was a rational guy.
Planet Hulk is, at its heart, a character story and its success is down to the way it convincingly puts the Hulk into a situation where he can't just roar and punch things. He's forced to be cunning and even responsible as the story goes on and his rebellion against the Red King continues, and you get a real sense of him growing as a character throughout.
Of course, duality is at the heart of the Hulk's character. His Banner-persona scarcely gets a look in in this volume, which I suspect was the creators' intention, but one of the themes running throughout concerns the true nature of the Hulk - the oppressed people of Sakaar have prophecies of the Sakaarson, a hero who will deliver them, but also the Worldbreaker, a monster who will destroy anything he touches. The arrival of the Hulk is taken as fulfilment of prophecy - but which one? Is he the hero or the monster? Does he even know himself?
The story plays engagingly with these ideas while telling a rousing and satisfying tale. It's a planetary romance as much as anything, but one told with great energy and imagination. The idea of guys with swords and axes successfully mounting a rebellion against a regime propped up by death-ray toting robots is admittedly a bit dubious, not to mention hokey, but it is at heart still a superhero story where this sort of thing is fairly routine.
Other elements of Marvel books are deftly woven into the tale - two of the Hulk's gladiator buddies are former bad guys from ancient issues of Thor and X-Men, and the Silver Surfer turns up to play a key role early on - but for the most part this collection stands alone, until...
Well, here's the thing, I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not, but - at the end of the story the Hulk seems to have finally found peace and contentment and a role for himself. But as he's such a big name character, Marvel couldn't leave him like that, and so... basically, something incredibly bad and seemingly very arbitrary happens to destroy the Hulk's idyll.
I knew it was coming but even so I felt vaguely cheated and actually slightly outraged on the Hulk's behalf - not necessarily by what happened, but by the fact it happens out-of-the-blue just to set up the next big Hulk story. But this is always going to happen when you're writing about an ongoing character - nothing is ever permanent, and keeping the character viable is the bottom line.
So if I had to identify a major flaw in Planet Hulk, it's the ending, which is somewhat at odds with what has preceded it. Then again, that's to look at this as a fully standalone story, which of course it isn't. To be fair, the story started here really concludes in World War Hulk, even though I think that's a slightly inferior piece of work. Together, Planet Hulk and World War Hulk make up a pretty good story made up of two very different halves. Planet Hulk is by far the more impressive and interesting of the two, but isn't completely satisfying as a piece of work in its own right. Even here, it seems, the strings are still attached, though in this case to the detriment of the story.
Now this is, I think, a questionable tactic - buying the TPB of a series is cheaper than buying the individual issues, so most people are going to do that, and speaking personally I'd find it much easier to bow out of collecting a TPB series than to cancel a comic order. And, on a creative level, it means that the stories themselves lose something of their saga-ish (or, if you prefer, soap-opera-esque) quality. Back when I was buying comic books on a regular basis I liked the way you'd go from a two or three-part story to a standalone issue, with no requirement for everything to be done and dusted ready for new readers to jump on, every six months without fail. If you look at the classic X-Men stories from the late 70s, they have plotlines and character threads running for years at a time - Marvel repackaged these in their Essential line of TPBs, collecting 20 or more issues at a time, and still weren't able to make them completely self-contained.
I suppose the shift is that in ye olden days the companies' strategy was to require you to stay if you wanted to see how things turned out, while now they invite you in with the promise that there are no strings attached, no need for an ongoing investment of time or money. I don't know, I kind of liked the strings, to be perfectly honest.
Having said that, I'm open to the possibilities of telling stories in this kind of self-contained format, which brings me to Planet Hulk. This is a big old beast of a TPB, much bigger than the usual six or so issues, as befits one concerned with one of Marvel's big guns.
It benefits, on the whole, from largely being divorced from the concerns of mainstream Marvel continuity (one of things that puts me off even dipping into, say, the Siege line of books is the sense that you have to buy the lot in order to get the whole story). Previous to the start of the story, a secret quorum of top-level superheroes (Mr Fantastic, Dr Strange, Iron Man, those sort of people) decide that the Hulk has become too great a menace to be allowed to continue to roam around unchecked. After some discussion (and the fistfight which is obligatory whenever superheroes disagree) they hit upon the plan of luring the Hulk into a spaceship and then shooting him off to an uninhabited planet where he can smash things up to his heart's content. Needless to say neither the Hulk nor his Banner persona are consulted.
As ever, where the top brains of the Marvel universe are concerned, things go askew and the spaceship gets sucked through a wormhole to land not on the peaceful world intended but the savage and brutal planet Sakaar, in the grip of the oppressive Red King and his brutal enforcers.
One of the premises of this story is that passing through the wormhole dramatically weakens travellers, which effectively drops the Hulk's power level to the point where he has to worry about being hurt and even killed. He is captured by the ruling elite and forced to become a gladiator in the arenas of the Red King. Needless to say this does not sit well with the Hulk, who makes plans to effect some changes in his situation as soon as practical...
I imagine that one of the challenges of being the lead writer on the Hulk's book is that you're stuck with a main character who spends most of his time going 'Raah! Hulk smash!' and who doesn't have much of an agenda beyond wanting to be left alone. Peter David's famous and lengthy run on the title got around this by exploring different aspects of the character's psychology and ultimately coming up with a brainy Hulk who more often than not was a rational guy.
Planet Hulk is, at its heart, a character story and its success is down to the way it convincingly puts the Hulk into a situation where he can't just roar and punch things. He's forced to be cunning and even responsible as the story goes on and his rebellion against the Red King continues, and you get a real sense of him growing as a character throughout.
Of course, duality is at the heart of the Hulk's character. His Banner-persona scarcely gets a look in in this volume, which I suspect was the creators' intention, but one of the themes running throughout concerns the true nature of the Hulk - the oppressed people of Sakaar have prophecies of the Sakaarson, a hero who will deliver them, but also the Worldbreaker, a monster who will destroy anything he touches. The arrival of the Hulk is taken as fulfilment of prophecy - but which one? Is he the hero or the monster? Does he even know himself?
The story plays engagingly with these ideas while telling a rousing and satisfying tale. It's a planetary romance as much as anything, but one told with great energy and imagination. The idea of guys with swords and axes successfully mounting a rebellion against a regime propped up by death-ray toting robots is admittedly a bit dubious, not to mention hokey, but it is at heart still a superhero story where this sort of thing is fairly routine.
Other elements of Marvel books are deftly woven into the tale - two of the Hulk's gladiator buddies are former bad guys from ancient issues of Thor and X-Men, and the Silver Surfer turns up to play a key role early on - but for the most part this collection stands alone, until...
Well, here's the thing, I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not, but - at the end of the story the Hulk seems to have finally found peace and contentment and a role for himself. But as he's such a big name character, Marvel couldn't leave him like that, and so... basically, something incredibly bad and seemingly very arbitrary happens to destroy the Hulk's idyll.
I knew it was coming but even so I felt vaguely cheated and actually slightly outraged on the Hulk's behalf - not necessarily by what happened, but by the fact it happens out-of-the-blue just to set up the next big Hulk story. But this is always going to happen when you're writing about an ongoing character - nothing is ever permanent, and keeping the character viable is the bottom line.
So if I had to identify a major flaw in Planet Hulk, it's the ending, which is somewhat at odds with what has preceded it. Then again, that's to look at this as a fully standalone story, which of course it isn't. To be fair, the story started here really concludes in World War Hulk, even though I think that's a slightly inferior piece of work. Together, Planet Hulk and World War Hulk make up a pretty good story made up of two very different halves. Planet Hulk is by far the more impressive and interesting of the two, but isn't completely satisfying as a piece of work in its own right. Even here, it seems, the strings are still attached, though in this case to the detriment of the story.
April 9, 2018
Ok alors je ne savais pas du tout si j'allais aimer ou pas ce comics, je ne suis pas franchement fan de Hulk (genre du tout), mais comme c'est comics connu et surtout reconnu, et que le dernier Thor s'en inspirait et que j'avais adoré ce film, je me suis dit pourquoi pas, je tente. Et c'était franchement très sympa. Très différent de ce que j'ai pu lire chez Marvel pour l'instant (en même temps logique vu où ça se passe et avec qui), en fait ça m'a plutôt rappelé X-O Manowar qu'autre chose (je ne saurais pas trop expliquer pourquoi. le côté brute qui casse tout ?).
Par contre. La fin ?? Je ne comprends pas. Pourquoi, comment ? Evidemment, il faut que ... quoi que. Quoi que ! Pourquoi pas, en fait ? ça aurait pu être TRES intéressant. Hulk était devenu un putain de héro. Ses réactions face aux différents adversaires étaient géniales, je ne m'y attendais pas, et même après la surprise de la première fois j'ai continué à me faire avoir. Je veux dire, les "spikes", les... pointes ? C'est ce que j'ai préféré dans ce comics je crois. Hulk a toujours été vu sur Terre comme un monstre. Il a beau aider la population, il se retrouve aussi fréquemment dans la situation du méchant monstre qui détruit tout. Et du coup il a en arrivant sur cette planète une sensibilité particulière qui le fait agir de façon, à mon humble avis, grandiose. C'est pour ça que je suis super déçue par la toute fin qui me fait plus l'effet d'une obligation scénaristique. POURQUOI VOUS NE POUVEZ PAS LAISSER HULK TRANQUILLE, BON SANG DE BOIS ??
Par contre. La fin ?? Je ne comprends pas. Pourquoi, comment ? Evidemment, il faut que ... quoi que. Quoi que ! Pourquoi pas, en fait ? ça aurait pu être TRES intéressant. Hulk était devenu un putain de héro. Ses réactions face aux différents adversaires étaient géniales, je ne m'y attendais pas, et même après la surprise de la première fois j'ai continué à me faire avoir. Je veux dire, les "spikes", les... pointes ? C'est ce que j'ai préféré dans ce comics je crois. Hulk a toujours été vu sur Terre comme un monstre. Il a beau aider la population, il se retrouve aussi fréquemment dans la situation du méchant monstre qui détruit tout. Et du coup il a en arrivant sur cette planète une sensibilité particulière qui le fait agir de façon, à mon humble avis, grandiose. C'est pour ça que je suis super déçue par la toute fin qui me fait plus l'effet d'une obligation scénaristique. POURQUOI VOUS NE POUVEZ PAS LAISSER HULK TRANQUILLE, BON SANG DE BOIS ??
April 5, 2021
Planet Hulk is an interesting tale, though slightly cliché. In addition, the art is hit-or-miss in how the action is portrayed, sometimes making it difficult to understand what is going on, or follow the direction of the action.
Hulk rages, smashes, destroys, heals, binds and unlocks the entire planet of Sakaar, starting as an exile, becoming a gladiator, freeing himself and the other slaves and eventually becoming the King of Sakaar, only to have everything accidentally destroyed by a mechanism in the ship that brought Hulk to the war planet. The start of this Omnibus is strong as Hulk’s anger is palpable, but the middle drags on for a tad too long until it becomes interesting again around issue 102.
I would recommend reading Planet Hulk as at times it is beautifully written and drawn, which makes up for the more schlocky material in the middle of this massive tome.
Hulk rages, smashes, destroys, heals, binds and unlocks the entire planet of Sakaar, starting as an exile, becoming a gladiator, freeing himself and the other slaves and eventually becoming the King of Sakaar, only to have everything accidentally destroyed by a mechanism in the ship that brought Hulk to the war planet. The start of this Omnibus is strong as Hulk’s anger is palpable, but the middle drags on for a tad too long until it becomes interesting again around issue 102.
I would recommend reading Planet Hulk as at times it is beautifully written and drawn, which makes up for the more schlocky material in the middle of this massive tome.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 17, 2021
What a brilliant comic series. The art was brilliant. The characters and the world were fully realised and exceptionally detailed. I love a good "bunch of misfits join up to overthrow an empire" story and this one is no exception. Sure there wasn't too much tension because, well, the good guys have The Hulk on their team.
But the politics of the various aliens came into play and it was there where the real meat of the drama was located. The Hulk couldn't entirely rely on his strength and it was up to the nobility that the aliens possessed to solve any issues.
Was it as good as The Immortal Hulk? Maybe. The art was just as good and the examination of Hulk, although that is the focus in Immortal Hulk, was still interesting if not as detailed.
Great characters. Great setting. And the ending absolutely slayed me. I look forward to reading World War Hulk one day.
But the politics of the various aliens came into play and it was there where the real meat of the drama was located. The Hulk couldn't entirely rely on his strength and it was up to the nobility that the aliens possessed to solve any issues.
Was it as good as The Immortal Hulk? Maybe. The art was just as good and the examination of Hulk, although that is the focus in Immortal Hulk, was still interesting if not as detailed.
Great characters. Great setting. And the ending absolutely slayed me. I look forward to reading World War Hulk one day.
December 3, 2019
Nice story.
Hulk is tricked into a spaceship by his friends, and sent into space. But the spaceship is sucked into a portal and crashes into a planet.
In this planet there is a tyrant that enslaves all species, but "Hulku" will fight it.
This story arc shows a Hulk that has a "family" - a band of slaves that fight to survive as gladiators.
In the end everybody knows what's coming next - Hulk is back for revenge!!!
Hulk is tricked into a spaceship by his friends, and sent into space. But the spaceship is sucked into a portal and crashes into a planet.
In this planet there is a tyrant that enslaves all species, but "Hulku" will fight it.
This story arc shows a Hulk that has a "family" - a band of slaves that fight to survive as gladiators.
In the end everybody knows what's coming next - Hulk is back for revenge!!!
September 2, 2017
Hefty, but no more than a day's read. Plenty going on and although it's got the usual Marvel shortcoming, namely overexcited writers, there's plenty of good fun in here. Hulk's definitive smash maybe?
April 2, 2022
Comics don't translate well into books, as this book shows. The Hulk is exiled from Earth to another planet, but instead of an empty planet, it is full of alien life and ruled by a tyrant. With some other aliens, the Hulk starts a rebellion and finally defeats the evil king.
May 30, 2022
A pretty fun take on Hulk. The story starts interestingly but it evolves to be a typical Hulk-story, as Hulk gathers his strength. On the other hand this story shows some new sides of the Hulk, which I actually quite enjoyed.
The graphics were really nice and I'm happy I read this one.
The graphics were really nice and I'm happy I read this one.
October 11, 2024
A hugely enjoyable, epic TPB, collecting the full Planet Hulk saga. Mostly excellent art, with well handled exposition and excellent dialogue throughout. Loses 1 mark because the kicker at the end felt a little bit like an afterthought. 4 / 5
April 17, 2018
Holy cow.
July 26, 2020
Pretty fun, a good look into what motivates the Hulk. The ending twist was devastating.
August 24, 2022
Sad, epic and rich.
December 21, 2025
Loved the story line, I watched the movie too but the comic is 100% better.
February 5, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyed this. It was a real change of pace from the novels I’ve read up to this point. Some of it felt a bit predictable and maybe not quite fully realised, but it didn’t get in the way. Also, the art is brilliant, though it didn’t always appeal to me (it felt a bit too slick at times). Overall, loads of fun. Plenty of stuff (people and creatures) smashed and plenty to entertain.
The theme that runs throughout this is, essentially,the old ‘what is a monster?’ thing. The Hulk is angry, naturally, that his friends exiled him, but that anger doesn’t make him a monster. Neither does him being green.
What I’ve always like about Banner / Hulk is his quest for isolation. Recognition that he needs space away from people. His negative self talk here is the product of the doubt and the lack of trust that his ‘friends’ have in him. There’s a few reminders for him that he is not the problem and he has found a kinship with others that are viewed in a similar way. Outcasts. Monsters. Rebels. The misunderstood. Those who kick against the pricks.
His quest to be alone turns into a quest for better. For the planet and his people. The Hulk embracing his humanity. The best of humanity.
As is usually the case with monster stories, there’s no happy ending. I was pretty devastated with the ending, actually… but I’m fairly excited about where this yarn goes.
I should add, that as someone who is more familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe than the comic book one, it was nice to identify and follow the threads that led to Thor: Ragnarok.
The theme that runs throughout this is, essentially,the old ‘what is a monster?’ thing. The Hulk is angry, naturally, that his friends exiled him, but that anger doesn’t make him a monster. Neither does him being green.
What I’ve always like about Banner / Hulk is his quest for isolation. Recognition that he needs space away from people. His negative self talk here is the product of the doubt and the lack of trust that his ‘friends’ have in him. There’s a few reminders for him that he is not the problem and he has found a kinship with others that are viewed in a similar way. Outcasts. Monsters. Rebels. The misunderstood. Those who kick against the pricks.
His quest to be alone turns into a quest for better. For the planet and his people. The Hulk embracing his humanity. The best of humanity.
As is usually the case with monster stories, there’s no happy ending. I was pretty devastated with the ending, actually… but I’m fairly excited about where this yarn goes.
I should add, that as someone who is more familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe than the comic book one, it was nice to identify and follow the threads that led to Thor: Ragnarok.
January 18, 2013
This was the first set of Hulk comics I have ever read. Previously my knowledge if the Hulk came from the films and the animated series, however I loved this book. I found it to be a powerful and moving storyline as the Hulk, exiled from earth because of his uncontrollable and deadly rage, becomes the hero of the world Sakaar.
What I found unusual in this book was how eloquently, if angrily, Hulk speaks. Aside from the odd broken sentence like 'puny humans hurt hulk rrrrraaaarrr' I'd never seem the hulk speak let alone bring together a broken world of different races.
Although sad I love the ending, where the newly crowned green king loses his beloved queen and most of his subjects, sending him blasting back towards the earth that threw him out into the abyss of space, seeking revenge, as it was the shuttle they built that exploded and destroyed him new world. I look forward to reading the successive World War Hulk series is I can find it somewhere to see how earth handles an Hulk who's rage is now meaningful and directed.
What I found unusual in this book was how eloquently, if angrily, Hulk speaks. Aside from the odd broken sentence like 'puny humans hurt hulk rrrrraaaarrr' I'd never seem the hulk speak let alone bring together a broken world of different races.
Although sad I love the ending, where the newly crowned green king loses his beloved queen and most of his subjects, sending him blasting back towards the earth that threw him out into the abyss of space, seeking revenge, as it was the shuttle they built that exploded and destroyed him new world. I look forward to reading the successive World War Hulk series is I can find it somewhere to see how earth handles an Hulk who's rage is now meaningful and directed.
September 7, 2013
A rip-roaring tale of a Hulk unbound from Earth and ostensibly sent by Reed Richards to a peaceful planet devoid of antagonists.
That peace is, of course, not forthcoming.
This collection sees our man Banner's alter ego fighting for survival on a planet overseen by a tyrannical overlord who pits the Hulk and assorted dissidents against escalating challenges in a kind of sci-fi spin on Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" or "Spartacus".
I'm not the biggest reader of comics - I tend to read trades rather than weekly issues - but I really rather enjoyed this take on the character, the political manoeverings on the alien planet and the evocatively drawn locations.
This storyline would make a wonderful, probably prohibitively expensive sci-fi movie - it's perhaps best to enjoy it in this format, where the imagination of the artists and writers trumps the limitations of money and the reader benefits as a result.
That peace is, of course, not forthcoming.
This collection sees our man Banner's alter ego fighting for survival on a planet overseen by a tyrannical overlord who pits the Hulk and assorted dissidents against escalating challenges in a kind of sci-fi spin on Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" or "Spartacus".
I'm not the biggest reader of comics - I tend to read trades rather than weekly issues - but I really rather enjoyed this take on the character, the political manoeverings on the alien planet and the evocatively drawn locations.
This storyline would make a wonderful, probably prohibitively expensive sci-fi movie - it's perhaps best to enjoy it in this format, where the imagination of the artists and writers trumps the limitations of money and the reader benefits as a result.
May 15, 2013
If you take the films The Gladiator, Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia; put them in a blender with Hulk in it and add a dash of Dune; your end result would be this awesome graphic novel.
The graphics are of high quality. The storyline is very good. The strong personality of Hulk (no pun intended)and his relationships with other characters is a treat to read.
The graphics are of high quality. The storyline is very good. The strong personality of Hulk (no pun intended)and his relationships with other characters is a treat to read.
November 5, 2013
I really enjoyed this story arc. The world and characters were very rich and diverse. The fights were spectacular as usual. Great preface for World War Hulk which I'll definitely be reading. Found myself really rooting for the team. Enjoyed Hulk's internal dilemmas. Definitely worth a read.
February 21, 2017
Finally a story that fleshes out what has been a very one dimensional character. Can't recommend this enough.
December 24, 2014
All sorts of awesome. We follow Hulk's story of exile from Earth.
Can't wait to read World War Hulk!
Can't wait to read World War Hulk!
April 26, 2021
A slow start but picked up pace about half way through. I've never found Hulk a compelling character before but he is here. The ending shocked me, I really didn't see it coming.
May 24, 2016
An entertaining and thrilling story hampered only by a distinct pacing problem.
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