For years the Hulk has been chased all over the world. Hunted and hounded, they refused to let him live in peace. They have tried to destroy him at every turn. The puny humans. Now those he once called friends have betrayed him, sending him out to the farthest reaches of space in an attempt to exile him. But Hulk is stronger than them. Hulk is stronger than everyone. And he’s going to get his revenge. He’s never going to stop making them pay. There will be a war. World War Hulk.
For the uninitiated, this all began last year in the now-classic Planet Hulk storyline, when the Hulk was exiled from Earth by Marvel icons, Iron Man, Black Bolt, Reed Richards and Doctor Strange, aka, the Illuminati. Marooned on the planet, Saakar, Hulk found himself sold as a slave, and forced to compete in a gladiatorial arena. He makes a deadly enemy when he clashes with the Red King, Sakaar’s tyrannical emperor, and scars his face in battle. Hulk overcomes incredible odds and finds allies among his fellow slaves to become a gladiator, a rebel leader and eventually, Sakaar’s new king.
But it all comes to a disastrous end when something terrible happens to the Hulk, his planet and his people when the warp core of the shuttle that sent him to Sakaar in the first place unexpectedly explodes, killing hundreds of thousands of the planet’s inhabitants, including his new wife and their unborn child. Now all the Hulk and his allies, the Warbound are returning to Earth for one thing and one thing only: revenge.
The Hulk is coming. And war is coming with him.
June 6, 2007 @ 8:25 am
This is going to be good. Obviously not as good as the Civil War, but good none the less. Marvel has been stepping it up lately. For a while there, all their stories were meh. I’m glad they’re getting on the ball again.