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World War Hulk: It's On!
If you haven't been reading comic books in awhile, you might not know about the latest comic crossover spectacular event from Marvel comics: World War Hulk. Well, let me catch you up to speed. The Hulk was shot into space by some super "heroes." Namely Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Reed Richards, and Black Bolt. Despite their best efforts to essentially kill him, Hulk has come back and he's pissed; More pissed than his usual pissed off self. In fact, he's so pissed off that he's almost kitten-eating-pissed off. Comic book mega-crossover events like World War Hulk are the summer blockbuster movies of the comic book world. Much like movies where I enjoy explosions and robots and exploding robots, World War Hulk is the only crossover I've found interesting in the last few years. My taste in comics is more in the smashing side and nobody smashes better than the prime smasher of all, the Hulk. Unlike a summer blockbuster where you spend about an hour and a half of your life watching a film, letting your baby cry, and texting your friends and your done, a big event in comics isn't just regulated to one particular title; the story is spread out across seventy-five different titles. You've got to go out of your way to get the whole story There are tie-ins with Heroes for Hire, Ghost Rider, Ant-Man, and even Archie. Okay, maybe not Archie, but you get my point. Sure you could stick to just the World War Hulk issues, but I guarantee that enough stuff is going to happen in all the filler issues that you'll practically be lost on the first page of issue two of the main title. Now that a single comic costs almost the same amount as a diamond earring, it's kind of hard to follow these massive events the way the publishers want you to do. After reading the first issue of World War Hulk, I'm definitely on board for reading more. World War Hulk #1 does not disappoint in the smashing category and unlike a summer movie, it doesn't even put up the pretense of a plot. Hulk arrives, hands a couple of heroes their asses, and it's time for issue two and all the millions of side comics. While it is pretty awesome, it's not perfect by any means. The version of the Hulk that's in this event is a little too smart for my tastes, but there is no way he could accomplish the type of revenge he's set on if he was the regular dumb brute most people picture when they think of the Hulk. Still, this Hulk satisfies my lust for over the top comic book violence and you get to see the douchebags like Iron Man get their comeuppance from Civil War. While I'm not sure about buying every single damn issue that's tied in with this thing, I'm buying the main series so as to not miss all the smashing completely. - Paul - 06/14/07 Tags: Hulk Comic Book superhero Marvel
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