Hulk: What if?

[Silver Knight]

Has anybody picked this bad boy up yet?

 

[TBadora]

Nope. Not yet. Possibly this weekend, if I get around to it.

 

[Silver Knight]

I need to pick this up.

Prob tomorow though..

 

[Harlekin]

Wasn't anything special.

 

[sean61675]

Wasn't anything special.

What's it about?

 

[Red Mask]

Two very extreme possibilities. The first one was harsh, but the battles didn't make much sense. Still no explanation on how anybody could have beaten Black Bolt. Then Caiera goes at the rest like she's Super Saiya-jin.


The second one was like a light reading of Gon. But the writer could have mentioned what happened on Earth as well. Also, how long can the Hulk live?

 

[PemLam]

Has anybody picked this bad boy up yet?

It's a waste of $3. Yet another attempt by Marvel to cash in on the hype of WWH.

 

[BrianWilly]

I like how Caiera killed Reed by stabbing him. With a sword. In the stomach.

Honestly though, the stories are actually pretty well-written after you get past the fact that they make no sense.

 

[Harlekin]

What was so well-written?

 

[BrianWilly]

I dunno, I liked Caiera being all emo.

And I don't think there was anything wrong with the second story. The Hulk was happy with the cute whales! Bruce built an intergalactic communicator out of...wood! It was cute.

 

[Harlekin]

It wasn't badly written, but average all-around, IMO.

 

[Silver Knight]

Hopefully we will see more of "The Son"

 

[Red Mask]

I dunno, I liked Caiera being all emo.

And I don't think there was anything wrong with the second story. The Hulk was happy with the cute whales! Bruce built an intergalactic communicator out of...wood! It was cute.

The first story was dramatic, but still too brief for plausibility. Once again, how did Black Bolt get defeated? I don't mind Sentry getting wacked off, but Strange must have had some quick trick to escape. Then how did Caeira appear at the Baxter Building as it exploded? It's like that FF movie scene where Grimm appears at Doom's penthouse mere minutes after transforming. Stabbing Reed is still unlikely. Iron Man should have seen that attack coming and dodge. Then what happens next?

During the following twenty-one years how long did America keep fighting them until they abandoned New York and the enslaved citizens? What of the other nations? When did they decide not to hep fight back? Atlantis obviously did nothing. Did Caeira have to keep replenishing the slaves to finish the monument? Which other heroes tried to beat them? Is that why it took so long to build that monument; what with the technology and superhumans available it would have taken less time. Looks like the X-Men weren't spared. How many more died? And Thor? What about him?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I liked the Caiera story well enough outside of the fights. Presumably, absorbing the very life force or whatever of Sakaar would've powered the already-almost-Hulk-level Caiera up considerably, so she's basically in the same boat as WWH Hulk, so I could buy her beating Black Bolt. But one quiet word from Black Bolt kills the Sentry and Dr. Strange? Come on. And the worst part about that scene was that all Pak had to do to make it feasible was have it happen a little farther out from Manhattan and make Black Bolt scream instead of just speak. I'd have bought that.

Anyway, battles aside, the Caiera story was pretty much what I expected but still nice. I liked Caiera a lot reading Planet Hulk, and I actually miss her a lot now. I wish she'd survived so that the Hulk could stop being such a dick. Losing all that sexual repression's gotta cheer even the Hulk up. Oh well, Hiroim and Korg survived and they're getting a mini, so I'm cool. Still nice to see Caiera again, though.

The second story was better, I thought. The idea isn't new, obviously, since it's what was intended when the Illuminati launched the Hulk off into space in the first place. It was really fun to see Bruce and the Hulk keep trying to one-up each other while they each had control of their shared body. I liked Bruce's compromise, too, but I figured the Hulk would cheat eventually. Still, not a bad story. Happy endings are so rare in comics that they're actually novel when they happen.

The little one-pager at the end was worth a chuckle or two as well.

Overall, nothing spectacular. But I enjoyed the three tales well enough that I thought I got my money's worth. The art in all three was great, too.

 

[Silver Knight]

Thanks for the great review Corpulent1.

What were your views on "The Son"?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He's the son of the Hulk and Caiera, and he's green. Not much to go on beyond that, really.

I was kind of disappointed that he was green, to be honest. I was kind of hoping that he'd be something like an albino, stone Hulk. But I guess the stone thing is really part of Caiera's station as the Oldstrong, not something intrinsic to her genetics.

 

[Silver Knight]

Do you think we will see the character agian in the future?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Probably not, what with Caiera being dead.

 

[PhotoJones]

Maybe the Hulk-fetus was made stronger by the explosion and it ripped it's way out of Caiera's womb and survived.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's just freaky. But I guess stranger things have happened in comics. How he'd ever get to Earth for us to see him is beyond me, though. Maybe someone'll go back to Sakaar's charred husk.

 

[PhotoJones]

Maybe that's what the third act in Pak's story is. Or maybe, the Hulk-fetus is hiding out in the Hulk's ship.

 

[bored]

The first story was dramatic, but still too brief for plausibility. Once again, how did Black Bolt get defeated? I don't mind Sentry getting wacked off, but Strange must have had some quick trick to escape. Then how did Caeira appear at the Baxter Building as it exploded? It's like that FF movie scene where Grimm appears at Doom's penthouse mere minutes after transforming. Stabbing Reed is still unlikely. Iron Man should have seen that attack coming and dodge. Then what happens next?

During the following twenty-one years how long did America keep fighting them until they abandoned New York and the enslaved citizens? What of the other nations? When did they decide not to hep fight back? Atlantis obviously did nothing. Did Caeira have to keep replenishing the slaves to finish the monument? Which other heroes tried to beat them? Is that why it took so long to build that monument; what with the technology and superhumans available it would have taken less time. Looks like the X-Men weren't spared. How many more died? And Thor? What about him?

Nor did he .

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe that's what the third act in Pak's story is. Or maybe, the Hulk-fetus is hiding out in the Hulk's ship.

Freaky, dude. Maybe Incredible XXXX is actually Incredible Hulk-Fetus.

 

[PhotoJones]

I'd buy it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think I'd have to just to say I bought a comic with "Hulk-fetus" in the title.