false 3 0 false false Wed May 06 11:19:47 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 12:34:00 -0700 2009
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. ]]>