Ding Ding – and in this corner, The Strongest One There Is

Ding Ding – and in this corner, The Strongest One There Is

Jun 13

As I’ve said before, the past year of turning the bulk of the Marvel Universe into pricks I could care less about, has created a strong desire in me to see them all beaten to snot. And with issue one of World War Hulk coming out today, it’s time to smash.

The heroes we loved as kids, because they stood for all the right things and had the strength to back those principles, are now the focus of new story themes – the fear of a world where we can’t protect our children, the fear that the people of power who used to protect us are now following agendas we have no say in, and in the name of protecting us, are make dark, dark choices. They don’t stand for what we’d like to do ourselves, they now stand for what we don’t want to see happen, are afraid is happening, and we don’t think we can affect the change needed to keep it happening.

The list of heroes that are still fighting this shift in heroic principle is short. And the one that got the shaft hardest is now back. And the retribution starts here.

There is little lead-in, except a basic synopsis for those who might have missed the set-up. Afraid the powerful Hulk would wreck their storyline eventually cause lethal amounts of damage to the world and its population, the Marvel Cabal of Convenience (minus the bald guy and Namor) – Reed Richards, Black Bolt, Dr. Strange, and Iron Man – send Hulk to a pretty planet where he can sniff flowers and pet bunnies all day. Good intentions, but bad idea, both ethically and in execution…

…Error sends Hulk to a war world, gives him a year of playing Conan, then King Conan, then realizing where they put him, the Cabal, sorry, Illuminati send a bomb to put him down. Only, it kills a million of his subjects, his queen, and their child (see what I meant by those new themes that reflect the aging comic demographic?) But the Hulk has a movie coming – no bomb can kill him.

So, he packs up his posse, and rolls on Earth. Along the way he learns to focus him raging mind.

So…

Hulk, who gets strong when angry
+
The angriest he’s ever been
+
A year of gladiator training
+
The ability to think during a fight
+
Earth
=
Fucked

I will leave it to you to read the first issue, I will only say that I’m not looking forward to how Marvel applies their Deus Ex Machina, Superspaz (nee Sentry), but I can only hope it involves Bob telling them to clean up their own shit, he’s just going to watch and make sure civilians don’t get hurt.

So far, only Dr. Strange seems to have put two and two together – the errors were made, then compounded, now they need to deal with the Hulk directly, instead of tossing him into the Negative Zone or whatever.

I’m with Rick Jones – this is only getting started.