Hulk: WWH - World War Hulk TPB

by Greg Pak, John Romita Jr.

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160 ratings, 3.53 average rating, 26 reviews (more data...)

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June 4th 2008 by Marvel Comics

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Paperback, 224 pages

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0785125965 (isbn13: 9780785125969)

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An epic story of anger unbound! Exiled by a group of Marvel "heroes" to the savage alien planet of Sakaar, the Hulk raged, bled, and conquer...more

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10/07/08

Michael rated it:

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Read in October, 2008

So, a quartet of heroes banished the Hulk to a planet where he started out as a slave and worked his way up to ruler. Eventually, he found love and got married only to have the space ship blow up, wiping out his new-found people and his wife. Needless to say, the Hulk's pretty annoyed about all of this and returns to Earth to kick some super-hero posterior and take some names.

And that's where World War Hulk begins. And then you spend the next hundred or so pages with the Hulk ba...more

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05/06/09

Mark Plaid rated it:

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It seems Dr. Strange, Black Bolt, Iron Man, and Mr. Fantastic decided to shoot their good buddy Hulk into space onto a planet called Sakaar for his, and the planet Earth's, own good. Monsters just about as bad as the Hulk inhabit Sakaar. While there, they force the Hulk into slavery and make him a gladiator. However, one thing leads to another and he becomes the leader of the planet. But, some kind of explosion that kills millions of people on Sakaar including the Hulk's new wife and their u...more It seems Dr. Strange, Black Bolt, Iron Man, and Mr. Fantastic decided to shoot their good buddy Hulk into space onto a planet called Sakaar for his, and the planet Earth's, own good. Monsters just about as bad as the Hulk inhabit Sakaar. While there, they force the Hulk into slavery and make him a gladiator. However, one thing leads to another and he becomes the leader of the planet. But, some kind of explosion that kills millions of people on Sakaar including the Hulk's new wife and their unborn child which the Hulk blames the aforementioned foursome. As a result, the Hulk heads for Earth more pissed off than ever.

World War Hulk starts when the Hulk shows up on the moon and kicks Black Bolt's ass. He even survives one of Black Bolt's sound waves, which he shouldn't have but as it gets pointed out repeatedly the Hulk is more pissed than ever. The more pissed the Hulk, the stronger. After this battle, he goes to Manhattan and demands an evacuation in order to make it a battlefield so he can kick Dr. Strange's, Iron Man's, and Mr. Fantastic's asses, of course a bunch of other superheroes come to back them up. However, the Hulk brought his own posse called the Warbound. These guys kick serious ass so the battle gets really rough.

I really don't read superhero comics as much as I used to and the problem I have with this is that you pretty much have to be a twelve year old to really appreciate it. What I mean is that the whole book plays up like some kind of epic end-all-be-all battle where the Hulk is pissed off beyond any time before this. However, he still holds back and pulls punches. Yeah, I understand he's supposed to be a hero and heroes don't kill but don't try to sell me the other way if you can't follow through on your shots.

Some of the Hulk's greatest friends thought he was so dangerous that they shot him into space to a planet where he became enslaved. That's really fucking harsh. On top of that he thinks they killed his wife and unborn child, which seems like a pretty goddamn good reason for being uber pissed. The Hulk should have come back with every reason to just shred those guys to molecules, but no! He dicks around and is torn about shit and contemplates his decisions except when they want to explain how they didn't kill Hulk's wife.

Now I understand that Marvel doesn't want to kill off it's key characters, even at the hands of the Hulk, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been a threat. The writer would have just had to work a little harder at getting around killing them. It was played up as so epic it wouldn't have been too out of place to actually bump one of the characters off. I think Black Bolt wouldn't be too missed his power is pretty fucking dumb like the rest of the Inhumans.

Actually, my favorite part of the book is when General Ross takes on the Hulk. He's truly pissed like the Hulk should have been. His daughter is dead as the result of the Hulk. He's sick of the yo-yo game of good Hulk/bad Hulk. He points out that for every time Hulk does something heroic, he turns around and fucks up even worse than the last time. Now here's a dude who's not only a regular-ass human, but is an old-ass man but is so sick of decades of the green bastard that he jumps on the Hulk from an aloft helicopter and on the way down to for all he knows is his certain death and shoots the Hulk in the eye. Now that is one badass mofo. I must be getting old because I used to thing General Ross was a dick but now he makes more sense than anyone else in the Marvel Universe. (less)

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03/16/08

John-Michael rated it:

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Okay, yeah, I get it. After the heady Civil War, Marvel set itself up for a 'Summer Spectacular' type of box-office buster story-line. I would probably have been okay with it, if the idea isn't fraught with constant problems. I really can't blame this book for the bad writing in Ghost Rider, but I also can't praise it for the great writing in Front Line (Damn, that book better become a regular title. Through both story lines, it completely stole the show). What I can blame it for is a compl...more

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01/24/08

John rated it:

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Read in December, 2007

recommends it for: Comics readers

A significant step down from Greg Pak's stunning science fiction odyssey in Planet Hulk, World War Hulk takes elements of the former story and sets them in conflict with the famous Marvel universe. I should have been an easy story with a dozen earth-shattering battles, yet almost every conflict seems to end too quickly and with neither drama nor accuracy to the abilities of the earthly characters. Even the alien characters seem far more powerful (and often, far more shallow) than they did in Pla...more

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06/19/08

Justin Hoenke rated it:

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Read in June, 2008

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An epic story of anger unbound! Exiled by a group of Marvel "heroes" to the savage alien planet of Sakaar, the Hulk raged, bled, and conquered through the pages of last year's "Planet Hulk" epic, rising from slave to gladiator to king. Now the Hulk returns to Earth to wreak his terrible vengeance on Iron Man, Reed Richards, Dr. Strange, Black Bolt - and anyone else who gets in the way! Stronger than ever, accompanied by his monstrous Warbound...more

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05/22/08

Annago rated it:

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Read in May, 2008

recommended to Annago by: Matt Streets
recommends it for: Marvel fans, esp. fans of Dr. Strange

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11/26/07

Jason rated it:

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Read in November, 2007

recommends it for: People who like to see the Hulk smash shit.

Hulk mad, Hulk smash entire Marvel universe! And I'll be honest, this series was, to me, cool as hell. If it had been in the hands of damn near anyone else, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well, but John Romita Jr. was born to draw the Hulk beat the tar out of people for 5 issues straight. Some of the turns were a little wonky (particularly the big fight with Dr. Strange in #4), but the fight with the Sentry in #5 was mindblowingly amazing. The denouement after that was a little ridiculous, ad...more

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11/10/08

Elijah rated it:

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Big, bombastic, and crazy like it should be, but honestly it doesn't live up to Planet Hulk. Then again, living up to Planet Hulk would be damn near impossible working within normal Marvel continuity: the beauty of Planet Hulk was that it was so far away it could do whatever it wanted, but when Hulk comes back to Earth, the story becomes a bit restrained by what's allowed. Nonetheless, good stuff. Read it along with the Incredible Hercules book that ties in, though, because more of the emotional...more

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07/06/08

Mark rated it:

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Read in August, 2008

When did modern superhero comics stop being fun? And why do modern heroes have to be so unlikeable? I haven't read the Civil War books that preceded World War Hulk yet, so the heroes' moivations and behavior felt underdeveloped inexplicable and to me. The characters brought over from Planet Hulk were similarly flat. I found the story to be lacking and the ending anti-climatic. Overall this book suffers from the same problem a lot of moderm comics do; the storytellers think making comics more "...more

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04/01/09

Kemper rated it:

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This a pretty good Hulk story, but the ending is a mess. Plus, for a book called World War Hulk, all of the fighting is in New York

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12/02/07

k.wing rated it:

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Read in December, 2007

recommends it for: Hulk fans

Alright. I love my Hulk; love his story. However, I haven't actually read a lot of other Hulk series, so I felt a little bit in the dark as to what happened before this series. There were many references to things that happened before and I was unaware of them.

But enough bitchin'. It wasn't like I was clueless as to what was going on. It was really cool to see the Hulk portrayed as a more intelligent character (which I always seem to favor over the big, angry giant of ooga-boog...more

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02/16/09

Tobi Obaro rated it:

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Read in September, 2008

"I don't to hear you whisper. I WANT TO HEAR YOU SCREAM"

Best. Line. Ever. XD.

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04/10/09

Tripmastermonkey rated it:

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Read in April, 2009

dude. c'mon. after planet hulk? this?

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09/08/08

Bill rated it:

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You kinda have to admire the lack of pretension here, forgoing any attempt at plot in favor of giving you exactly what the title leads you to expect (everyone versus the Hulk, with the Hulk beating the holy hell out of all of 'em). To force an analogy, if Planet Hulk, this storyline's precursor, is sort of like Rocky, in that it's the bit with the actual story, then World War Hulk is like Rocky III, the one with all the entertaining hitting.

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05/30/08

Fizzgig76 rated it:

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Read in May, 2008

As follow up to the events of Planet Hulk, the Hulk and the Warbound arrive on Earth, and Hulk begins enacting his revenge against the Illuminati for sending him to space. The art is good. The story is alright, but as the story progresses it becomes Hulk fight She-Hulk, Huk fights Thing, Hulk fights Sentry, etc. and the last issue could have been spread out into two issues. It would have been nice to have more substance like Planet Hulk.

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06/21/08

Jered rated it:

Read this this week. It starts off very strong, the first three issues of the graphic novel are insane and brutal, leading you to believe that the Hulk is destroying the members of the illuminati one by one, but you find out later he is just smashing them enough to make them his gladiatorial slaves. The last two issues are abrupt and weak compared to the first three, but for not being an avid Hulk reader, I was pretty into this.

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09/02/08

Rusty rated it:

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After the events of Planet Hulk, the Hulk returns to earth to avenge himself and claim the planet, after Saakar has become uninhabitable. He fights friends, enemies, etc. to work toward his goals, and with the help of his friends, it looks like he might accomplish them. This novel is not quite as good as Planet Hulk, but still very good.

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06/24/08

Congoking rated it:

A great follow-up to Planet Hulk. An understanding in vengeance, wrath and choices. A fun read although some feel it was an anticlimatic ending. I loved it. It was good to see some butt-whooping on those that deserved it.

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06/29/08

fbuser83501209 rated it:

It was fun watching the Hulk beat the hell out of everything - that is worth the rating alone, but otherwise you don't really get much from this on it's own. Pair it with Planet Hulk and it's suddenly a lot more robust.

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08/16/08

Marco G rated it:

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good, fun story of the hulk kicking ass after the events from Planet Hulk, which was a much more entertaining story. Hulk here basically opens up a can of whup ass on earth's heroes. Read Planet Hulk first.

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