THE INCREDIBLE HULK (NUFF SAID)

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Hiro-Kala (THE SON OF HULK)

Gender Male

Height 5' 10"

Weight 140 lbs (64 kg)

Eyes Black, (sometimes green)

Hair Black, (shaved bald)

Unusual Features Facial tattoos

During the explosion that devastated Sakaar, Caiera used her Old Power to protect her womb, saving Skaar and Hiro-Kala from the blast, but landing them in fire. Skaar survives the lava effortlessly, having been born with Hulk's physiology, Hiro-Kala, however, only managed to survive by inadvertently using his Old Power to protect himself.

Soon after his birth, he was enslaved. He was pushed, mocked, and laughed at, until an old man told him about the story of the Hulk, and revealed his goal, to get the Old Power. He sneaked out of the Fillian borders, and was stranded in a desert, where two captured him, he remained silent until a monster helped him and killed the men. He was calmed by a woman who was kind enough to give him food, but Hiro refused it and continued his journey.

He came aross Hiro-Amin chained and hopeless across an arc, Hiro-Kala freed him from the rock and Hiro-Amin admitted knew what the boy was looking for, and asked him to reach into his pocket. Hiro-Kala found a petrified eye of a man who sought the Old Power, and went crazy. Hiro-Amin explains that to get the Old Power, a person must kill someone with the Old Power. Axeman Bone then gave Kala his axe and Hiro-Kala killed Hiro-Amin, a blue beam circled over the sky; it was the Old Power but it flew away instead of what Amin said. Axeman then granted Hiro-Kala freedom and became his honor guard.[7] A few days later, Hiro-Kala and the Axeman's army went to Okini to hunt Skaar.[/b]

After some time, the Silver Surfer showed up to warn the people of Galactus's coming. Yenrag and Old Sam joined forces to free the slaves. Hiro-Kala led Old Sam and Yenrag and the rest of the slaves to the battle grounds of the Fillian borders. Hiro-Kala helped Surfer rescue the shadow slaves, while Yenrag was fighting the guards of Axeman. After the fight, Hiro-Kala noticed Caiera's return. Hiro-Kala and the rest were watching Surfer and Skaar fight until they saw nothing. The surfer had sent Skaar to see the might of Galactus up close.

Skaar's pride caused him to waste time and to ignore the urging of his mother to evacuate the people of Sakaar.

He chose instead to face Galactus, thinking he could fend him off - against the better judgment of both Caiera and the Silver Surfer. Galactus destroyed Sakaar, absorbing its Old Power, and sating his hunger for an estimated 10,000 years. Seeing the futility of reasoning with her son, Caiera cast her son through the wormhole and toward Earth. In a final spiteful attack, Skaar blasted Galactus with a surge of Old Power, waking him and causing Galactus's hunger for Old Power to surge beyond his control. Now Hiro-Kala led the remaining Sakaar people to find a new planet.

Hiro-Kala and the remainder of the Sakaarian people escaped in the last stone ship, though no one knew how it was to be piloted with no Old Power left. Galactus had destroyed and devoured the Old Power of Sakaar. Hiro commandeered a stone drone and left the ship, to the amazement of those aboard the ship. Piloting the drone directly in front of Galactus, Hiro swore vengeance for the destruction of Sakaar. He also claimed to be the son of Hulk the Green Scar, and Caiera the Shadow Queen. While returning to the stone ship, Caiera revealed herself in a trail of Old Power, seemingly sorry for neglecting to care for Hiro in his time of need, instead reserving her counsel for Skaar. After returning to the stone ship, Hiro-Kala killed one of Axeman Bone's soldiers for questioning his newest claim—he is the Sakaarson, the life bringer, and the World Breaker.

Hiro, commanding the stone ship, followed Galactus's energies and landed on the planet Giausar... the first and proudest of the ancient Shadow's worlds. Though he was warned of the potential for death at the hands of the secretive and exclusive Giausarian people, he was unafraid—telling them he would come to be known as their new god. Hiro soon subjugated the land of Fractas on Giausar and convinced most of the people there he was a deity. His use of the Old Power on the planet had caused massive destruction and made the planet itself unstable. While the world crumbled upon itself, the other lands of Giausar attacked Hiro-Kala, and soon faced his wrath, costing them their lives. With his unprecedented control of the Old Power Hiro turns their own cannons against them.

Galactus' arrival showed Hiro-Kala's true intentions. While Galactus devoured the planet's supply of the Old Power, Hiro unleashed a combination of the Old Power and the Power Cosmic, causing Galactus to be poisoned. This combination caused Galactus to feel the pain and anguish of every soul he has just consumed. His addiction to the Old Power will now only lead him to pain and death. Once again he flew to Galactus and cautioned him to be wary that Hiro-Kala may have visited the next planet Galactus planned to consume, poisoning that world as well. Galactus vomited out a blast of souls that struck Hiro, then retreated into the distance. Caiera appeared once more, and told Hiro that she loved him, and that though no one would ever know what he did here, she would. Hiro told Caiera to leave, as she was now only a construct of an artificial, dangerous power—the Old Power. She disappeared as Hiro cried out in pain and anguish. He sacrificed the world of Giausar to save the universe that Skaar had sent Galactus to devour. Hiro returned to his ship with the right side of his face badly scarred, telling his crew to locate Skaar.

During their search, their ship fell into the Microverse and landed on the planet K'ai. Learning of his father's exploits there, Hiro-Kala attempted to conquer the planet, but ended up saving the dying world and pulled it out of the Microverse. Hiro-Kala then attempted to take control of K'ai's Worldmind. The Worldmind, reaching into Hiro-Kala's mind, attempted to dissuade him from his path by showing him it's memories of the Hulk. The attempt failed, and Hiro-Kala took control of the Worldmind's power, using it to turn the inhabitants of K'ai into mindless slaves. Hiro-Kala then set his sights on Earth, planning to destroy it.[

 

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As K'ai entered Earth's solar system, Hiro-Kala mentally connected with his brother Skaar, alerting him of his coming. With that knowledge, their father gathered his allies to stop Hiro-Kala. After the Hulk's forces made it through the starships around K'ai, Hiro-Kala was confronted by his father, the two finally meeting face-to-face. Hiro-Kala taunted his father by killing the remainder of the brainwashed children he sent to attack him, and revealed that he would make K'ai collide with Earth, destroying it and it's old power. Outraged by his son's callousness, the Hulk attacked Hiro-Kala. During their battle, Skaar seemingly sacrificed himself to save a barge full of brainwashed slaves from a volcanic eruption. Hiro-Kala mocked his brother's sacrifice, calling him "weak".

The Hulk, angrier then ever, beat Hiro-Kala into submission, but could not bring himself to kill him, instead reverting back to Bruce Banner and stunning him with an old power taser. This released Hiro-Kala's old power throughout the planet. Skaar, in his old strong form, burst out of the ground, intending to kill his brother himself. Hiro-Kala and Skaar do battle, with Skaar trying to calm his brother down. When K'ai's Worldmind revealed to Hiro-Kala that the image of Caiera he saw was merely a figment of his imagination, he lost his mind, lashing out with the old power. Skaar used his own Old Power to seal Hiro-Kala in a sphere of stone, with only his face visible. At the same time, the rest of "Team Hulk" set off an explosion that knocked K'ai off course, saving Earth. K'ai's Worldmind then took Hiro-Kala into the planet's core, so that his old power could heal what he almost destroyed.


Powers and abilities

Being born in a war torn planet, he was experienced at hand to hand combat and was also a solid swordsman. Hiro-Kala quickly matured to his teen years and mastered the Old Power. He had increased endurance, agility, reflexes and strength. His Old Power made him stronger than normal and he could harden his body, making a layer of force fields that made him more durable. He could use the Old Power in tremendous blasts and could make it into a water-like substance, making it flexible enough to go inside a needle's eye. Even after the destruction of Sakaar he was shown to possess an amazing control over the Old Power, seemingly from his heritage (Caiera/Hulk). However he lacked his father and twin brother's powers including a healing factor which explains why he is unable to heal his scarred face.

Hiro-Kala had forsaken the Old Power, as a new energy grew within him. His current powers had been given to him from the planet K'ai.[6] He understood his father's transformations are a power within his mind, and seemed to be harnessing the hate and rage within his own mind.

 

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HEROES RETURN HULK

Height: 7' 6"

Weight: 1,140 lbs.

Eyes: Green

Hair: Green

Intelligence: Average

Strength: Superhuman Class 100 (with potential for increased strength through anger)

Speed: Enhanced human

Stamina: Metahuman

Durability: Demi-godlike

Agility:Norman

Reflexes: Athlete

Fighting: Good hand to hand combatant

When the Marvel universe heroes were returning from the Heroes Reborn universe there was one hero who had a bit of a problem- The Hulk. The Hulk was already in the Marvel universe even as Bruce Banner's form was in the Heroes Reborn universe. When the two re-united there was really a collision. Up until Marvel Onslaught really all the new incarnations were variations to certain degrees on the Merged Hulk- not so with Bannerless Hulk and Heroes Return Hulk. With all the pain that Bannerless Hulk had to endure, from having part of one's essence being ripped out to being forced to relive long repressed memories of actually murdering his own father, this Hulk was different. The attitude of the gray Hulk was more prevelant in Bannerless Hulk, and now with Banner re-united the odd phenomina of random transformations. This Hulk was really buried under his own problems.

Things only got worse for this Hulk. The one person the Hulk and Banner could almost always count on was his wife Betty Banner. She was taken from him when the Abomination gave her a bad transfusion of his poisoned blood. This sent Hulk into a spiral of incarnations with no seeming logic behind it at all.

Appearances:Incredible Hulk #461-471

Hulk & Sub-Mariner 1998

Avengers vol 3 (1998) #1

X-Men & Incredible Hulk '98

 

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WAR HULK

 

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JUST OF FINISHING READING INCREDIBLE HULK#12

a DAMN good read love the Art by Carlos Peacheo (Loved his art since he was Drawing for the Bishop Series) and writing from Jason Aaron.

I have to say DAMN!!!!!!! INSANE BANNER is a muthafucka, the more i start reading my back issues and Banner history his ass is crazy as fuck.....his father fucked him over real bad.

Wolverine and The Thing tracking down Banner after he broke into a top secret prison that house aliens.

As you you know Hulk now have to stay angry to keep Insane Banner from killing him,lol. When the Hulk broke free from Banner and Betty telling Bruce that she now think that Bruce is the Monster and the Hulk was the one she loved (that's some fucked up shit, Puny Banner.) Banner lost it and Hulk broke free from Banner.

Now Banner feels that The Hulk is Banners and The Hulk in which he came from Banner Anger and Soul needs to come back because Insane Banner feels Puny without the Hulk and they need each other.

So Banner started a fight with the Hulk and made a Gamma Bomb and the bomb exploded in the Hulks and Banner face then Banner became merge with the Hulk this time.

Meaning when Hulk comes not angry Insane Banner is unleashed who goes around fucking with the Hulk head and setting him up to capture him so he will kill him.

The Arc is fucking crazy,lol....... But the dialogue between Momma's Baby Blue Eyed Boy aka THE EVER LOVING THING and Wolverine is fucking HILARIOUS,LOL.

The Thing talking shit to Wolverine how everytime The Hulk and Wolverine meets up that Hulks whoops wolverine ass and Wolverine be like naw you must got me confuse with yourself.

So when Wolvie and Thing Jump the Hulk who try not to get angry and they start whooping on the Hulk they started to talks shit to the Hulk. And when Hulk gets mad and start whopping they asses and Hulk asking them did Banner sent them. Thing was like this muthafucka is crazy ass shit, wolvie said when Hulk have not been crazy..

But at the end Banner got Hulk tied up with some evil ass Mystic Scientific cocktail that he made up that will kill the Hulk.

cant wait for the next issue



OH YEAH THE HULK took a piece of THE THING face showed it to THE THING and THE THING was like "YOU WOULDN'T" and HULK crushed the piece of his face to dust and blew it at THING, funny shit

 

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The Incredible Hulk #12 Review

Hulk squares off with two familiar rivals.

Every issue of Stay Angry has followed a clear pattern. Hulk wakes up in strange place, smashes some truly bizarre foes, and then is whisked away to repeat the process elsewhere. As much fun as the arc was initially, that formula has seriously worn thin in the last couple chapters. Luckily, issue #12 injects just enough new variety into the mix to spice things up again. And the fact that Aaron finally reveals what Banner has been up to all along doesn't hurt either.

This month, Hulk awakes to find himself trapped in a forgotten prison buried deep in the Antarctic. But rather than focus on the other residents of the prison (who barely receive more than a glimpse or two), Aaron pits Hulk against Wolverine and The Thing. It's an extra dose of star power, to be sure, but the real appeal with this match-up is in the hilarious banter. He mines the tumultuous history between the trio for all its worth, and delivers some brutal action scenes in addition. Remember that time Red Hulk punched Wolverine so hard his face ripped off? Something similar but more gross unfolds here. Aaron's talent for wacky, gory combat continues unabated.

Carlos Pacheco's pencils help lend an extra touch of flavor to this finale chapter. Pacheco's work since returning to Marvel has been disappointingly inconsistent, often because he isn't paired with an effective colorist. But in this case, Frank Martin's colors do complement Pacheco's work well, and the result is an impressively detailed and dynamic series of pages that capture all the power and fury of three monsters at war. Even Hulk, who has often been drawn on the shrimpy side in this arc, exudes power and menace.

This arc was beginning to drag, but luckily Aaron sticks the landing as he paves the way for his final showdown between Hulk and Banner. With only a handful of issues remaining in this run, it's doubtful slow pacing will be a recurring complaint now.

 

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INCREDIBLE HULK #12

"Incredible Hulk" #12 is my first sample of Jason Aaron's run and I'll admit I certainly didn't pick it up just for Jason Aaron's writing. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a lot of what I've read by Aaron, but he hasn't quite become a must-read writer for me yet. The real reason I picked this issue up is this: Carlos Pacheco drawing a guest appearance by Thing. One of my favorite artists drawing one of my favorite characters.

Pacheco not only gets to draw Hulk and Thing, but Wolverine as well. Both guest-star characters have been called in to handle a break-in at the God Complex -- a prison designed for housing alien invaders, giant monsters and "radioactive superfreaks." That break-in was perpetrated by none other than Bruce Banner in an attempt to further his own insane mission against his gamma-powered alter ego. Over half of the issue is filled with the brawl between Wolverine, Thing and Hulk. The conflict smashes through walls of the prison and puts some new twists into battles we've seen countless times before. If you've ever wondered what really happens when the rocky exterior of the Thing meets the massive might of the Hulk, given the Hulk's propensity to smash things like rocks, this issue has some exciting and enlightening moments drawn by Pacheco and wonderfully colored by Frank Martin.

Thing and Wolverine spend some time trading quips with one another before and after the fight, but there is an understated mutual respect present in the two warriors as they attempt to subdue the rampaging Hulk. Through those quips, Aaron inserts some humor into this story, a notion he revisits through the denizens of the God Complex following the fight. Aaron has crafted an adventure that tests all three fan favorite characters and provides plenty of fodder for geek debates down the road. I like the voices Aaron uses for Wolverine and Thing and Pacheco's artwork plays right into the script's nuances nicely.

From what I can gather, this "Stay Angry" storyline has provided a plethora of strange matchups for the Hulk and ample writing opportunities for Aaron, but this issue is a magnificent encapsulation of the essence of a good Hulk story: smashing, monsters, heroes and more smashing. Needless to say, it matched, and actually exceeded, the expectations I had set before cracking this book open. I'll be back to check on the results of "Incredible Hulk" #12's cliffhanger last page and I sure hope Jason Aaron brings Carlos Pacheco back with him.

 

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HERE'S A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE INSANE BANNER era we are in.

 

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SKAAR "THE SON OF HULK"

Real Name

Skaar

Aliases

Son of Hulk, Sakaarson, Worldbreaker

Identity

No dual identity

Citizenship

Sakaar

Place of Birth

Crown City, Sakaar

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Skaar is the progeny of the Hulk and of Caiera the Oldstrong, who conceived Skaar during the Hulk's time on Caiera's home planet, Sakaar. After Caiera's death, and the Hulk's departure from Sakaar, Skaar emerged from a cocoon, appearing to be the age equivalent of a human preteen. A year later he resembles a human teenager, and subsequently, an intelligent adult, in both appearance and intelligence.

He also demonstrates himself to be a fierce and capable warrior, and becomes the enemy of Axeman Bone. He later gains the power of the stone-based "Oldstrong", which allows him to draw energy from the planet himself, and comes to be seen by some on Sakaar as a savior. Though Skaar is able to communicate with the spirit of his dead mother, Caiera, she is troubled by his becoming a killer instead of a bringer of peace to their people. To address this problem, she summons the Silver Surfer to the planet, who removes Skaar's Oldstrong power before Skaar can kill Axeman Bone, and informs him that the planet-eater, Galactus, who travels the universe consuming planets for sustenance, is approaching Sakaar. The Surfer offers Skaar the chance to use the Oldstrong power to evacuate the planet, not only saving his people, but becoming a hero to the universe, as the planet harbors enough energy to satiate Galactus' hunger for a hundred thousand years.

However, after the Surfer restores Skaar's Oldstrong power, Skaar destroys the evacuation ships, and tells the Surfer that if he does not spare Sakaar, he will use the Oldstrong power to increase Galactus' hunger, and endanger more planets, including ones that Surfer has saved. After the Surfer informs the planet that their safety will lead to the death of countless other planets, he leaves Sakaar. Caiera denounces Skaar for his decision, and exiles him from the planet, absorbing the Oldstrong power from him and waits for Galactus to consume her

Skaar arrives on Earth with the sole desire to kill his father, the Hulk. After coming into conflict with the United States military, and other characters such as the Fantastic Four and the Warbound, he confronts the Hulk, though not the version who was present on Sakaar. After Hulk engages Skaar in battle, he effortlessly beats him, though their fight creates a fissure that endangers a nuclear power plant. Skaar ceases his attack when he realizes that this Hulk is not the "War Hulk" version that conceived him, who is the one he truly wishes to kill, and prevents the fissure from endangering the power plant. He declares Earth to be his new home.

Skaar later encounters Bruce Banner, who had been robbed of the ability to become the Hulk by the Red Hulk. Skaar then reiterates his desire to kill the Hulk, but not in Banner's form, since they truly are separate personas. Bruce offers to teach Skaar how to kill the Hulk, should he ever return, though this is a ruse to allow Banner to monitor Skaar, and impart fatherly wisdom in the hope of turning the savage warrior into a hero. Skaar demonstrates his ability to use cunning as well as his physical strength by hurling the villain Juggernaut into outer space. Subsequent lessons by Banner include encounters with Wolverine, Wolverine's son, Daken, Victoria Hand, Moonstone, a mutated Marlo Chandler, Tyrannus, the Mole Man and his army of Moloids.

After defeating the Moloids, Skaar is proclaimed a hero, and a parade is given in his honor. After a confrontation with the Red Hulk that angers Banner, Banner, fearing he will turn into the Hulk, teleports to the country of Latveria, supposedly to transform in private. During a subsequent battle between the Hulk and the Latverian villain Doctor Doom, Skaar intervenes, having teleported to Latveria with Banner's teleportation technology, as he does not wish Doom to rob him of the ability to kill Hulk. Doom overpowers Skaar with magic, reverting him to his human form, and reveals that this Hulk was a robot. Banner then arrives and rescues his son, seeing him in his human form for the first time, but Skaar rejects Banner's affection, believing that Banner cares only for his deceased wife. Concluding that Banner schemed to provoke Skaar's discovery of his teleporter in order to prompt him to come to Latveria for another "lesson", Skaar reiterates his desire to someday kill him as the Hulk

During the "Fall of the Hulks", "World War Hulks" and "Dark Son" storylines, Skaar comes to the aid of the Avengers by battling the Red She-Hulk, in a story that involves the villainous group the Intelligencia turning scores of people in Washington, D.C. into Hulks, including the genius Amadeus Cho, and capturing Banner. During the course of the story, Banner reemerges as the Green Scar, and Skaar, finally granted the confrontation he had longed for, attacks him. During the course of their battle, Hulk rescues a number of innocent bystanders endangered by their fight.

Skaar reacts to this compassion by ceasing his assault, but Hulk continues his, causing Skaar to revert to human form. These actions remind Hulk of Banner's own abusive father, and as a result, Hulk reverts to human form himself, and embraces his son, who accepts his love.[20] Skaar sets out on a journey with his father, sister, second cousin Jennifer Walters, Rick Jones, and Betty Ross, after which he senses his brother, Hiro-Kala, approaching Earth.

During the Chaos War storyline, Skaar helps his father and his friends in their fight against the forces of Amatsu-Mikaboshi. When Brian Banner is discovered to have also been brought back from the dead after what happened to the death realms and becomes a Guilt Hulk/Devil Hulk hybrid, Skaar helps his father fight Brian Banner.

 

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Skaar accompanied Hulk and the Warbound to the Savage Land when they were contacted by Ka-Zar on the death of some of the Sakaarians that were living there. They discover that Miek was responsible in a plot to use the Sakaarian bodies to store his hatchlings.When Skaar didn't want Hulk to harm the hatchlings, Miek then attempted to drug Skaar. Following Miek's supposed death, Skaar remained in the Savage Land to keep an eye on the remaining Sakaarians.

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Skaar was seemingly recruited by Norman Osborn to join the second incarnation of the Dark Avengers. His first fight with the team went against him when the New Avengers discovered them. Iron Fist managed to daze Skaar with a powerful chi-punch. After the Dark Avengers revealed that they had captured Captain America and were planning to capture the other Avengers and put them on 'trial', Skaar turned on his teammates with a cry of "Avengers Assemble!". It is revealed at that point that Skaar was actually a double agent. Skaar subsequently freed Captain America while the New Avengers defeated the remaining Dark Avengers.

Powers and abilities

Skaar has powers inherited from both his parents. Like the Hulk, his father, he has superhuman endurance, regenerative abilities, and superhuman strength and durability, which, like his father, increases when he is enraged, although he is not as strong as the Savage Hulk persona. He can boost his strength further with old power, in one instance having absorbed the energy of an entire city.

He also can revert to a human form when calm or otherwise incapacitated. However, in his case, his other form is half-human, half-Oldstrong. From his mother, Caiera, he has the powers of an Oldstrong, emerging from his birth cocoon able to walk and talk within moments, and he can draw power from the planet and harden his body. Having been born within the depths of a lake of lava Skaar is resistant to intense heat.

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

Have you peeped the new Hulk Season One graphic novel? Looks like it may be part of the Marvel Now reboot but I may be wrong. It basically retells the origin of the Hulk modified for the 21st century. Haven't finished it myself I'll give my take on it later

 

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Have you peeped the new Hulk Season One graphic novel? Looks like it may be part of the Marvel Now reboot but I may be wrong. It basically retells the origin of the Hulk modified for the 21st century. Haven't finished it myself I'll give my take on it later

@Morganfreemanking I've seen it at the comic shop a few days ago it was a Hard Cover i didn't flip through it but i think I am going to cop it this weekend, and since it's a reboot its a must cop to see how they change the story to keep current.

what you think about the book so far, hows the writing.... And who's the writer and artist.

 

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COMING at the end of AVENGERS vs X-MEN in THE NEW MARVEL NOW

THE INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK

Green, Indestructible, yup, that Marvel NOW! teaser was in fact the Hulk written by Mark Waid and drawn by Leinil Yu. Interestingly though, the Indestructible Hulk is the actual title, with the first issue hitting November 2012 as part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch at Marvel Comics.

In a first interview with CBR, Waid and Yu talked about their plans for the green goliath and his alter ego Bruce Banner, saying it started with Waid "fantasizing about what it would be like to take the core concept a little more "back to center" like we did with Daredevil." That means more superheroics for the strongest there is, but it's also more of a philisophical shift for Bruce Banner, as he takes "a whole new, less "woe is me" view of his condition," continued Waid.

In an interview with Marvel.com, Waid expanded on Banner's new outlook. "Again, we don't want to give away too much, but our Bruce Banner is...evolved. Enlightened. He's had an epiphany about his condition, and it affects everything. All I can say is that once upon a time, The Hulk was unique in comics because he viewed his condition as a curse, not a blessing; but now, 50 years later, a lot of super heroes feel that way."

The duo plans to focus specifically on Bruce and Hulk to start off, leaving the other gamma-irradatiated characters to the side for the time being. Jeff Parker's Red She-Hulk may crossover in the future, however, when Waid eventually explores Bruce coming "to grips with what he's wrought" by introducing the idea of gamma powered rage giants into the Marvel Universe.

For now? Hulk will actually be staying outside of his normal boundaries. The main supporting character alongside Bruce Banner is Maria Hill, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who will be joined by a new cast of scientists as Bruce heads back to science.

"Maria Hill and Bruce Banner are the main players in the series, and their Byzantine relationship is both funny and dark and they're a blast to write as a quasi-partnership," Waid told CBR. "And Banner will be in a lab again and will have a band of assistants who all have two things in common: they're all brilliant in their fields, and they have nothing to lose should they suddenly find they're sharing close quarters with an angry jade behemoth."

Just like Waid has done in the first year of his Daredevil relaunch and re-direction, he plans to stay away from Hulk's standard villains, instead planting the character deeper into the Marvel Universe by having him face some outside-the-box baddies like "Frost Giants, Psycho-Man, Kang the Conqueror, Attuma. All those and more are on tap."

Leinil Yu is excited to work with Waid again (the two teamed on the seminal Superman: Birthright which reestablished Superman's origin for a new generation), and has had fun with the Hulk's designs.

"Superman: Birthright and working with Mark is one of the highlights of my career and I'm about to get a chance to make another mark in the industry with Indestructible Hulk. I'm almost certain that this will be at the top of my resume, like Birthright is," the artist said. And the armor? "They asked me to hand in designs for the armor, which I thought was refreshing and could open up new story lines and possibilities. An armor to me implies an inherent vulnerability and that in itself is interesting, especially with the title Indestructible Hulk."

Waid promises, too, that the armor seen primarily in that big Marvel NOW! initial reveal poster by Joe Quesada has story reasons for even existing. "I mean, it's not like anyone looked at Hulk, the strongest and toughest character on Earth, and said, "Y'know what he needs? He needs armor. Maybe a Nehru collar." Trust me, we're smarter than that."

While CBR didn't ask about the floating robot head seen in the teaser and the cover to the first issue, they did find out a bit about the story, and how it ties to the end of Jason Aaron's current run.

"Jason wraps things up, elegantly and brilliantly. (I'm forever jealous of the ideas he based his whole run around.) Indestructible Hulk #1 picks up a few weeks after the events of Avengers vs. X-Men," Waid teased. "No one's seen Banner or the Hulk for a while, and that makes the whole world very nervous."

Indestructible Hulk #1, from Mark Waid and Leinil Yu, ships November, 2012.

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

Hulk Season One is a new exciting take on the origin of the Incredible Hulk. Reimagined in the 21st Century, subtle changes have been made. The first of many eye-catching updates is the role that Betty Ross, love of Bruce's life and daughter of his most persistent enemy "Thunderbolt, plays in the story. Instead of being merely an army brat, she is introduced as a lieutenant of the gamma base military. Rick Jones, the catalyst for the birth of the Hulk, is more of a deliquent youth than he was portrayed to be in the past.

the best thing about this story is that the writer tackles the inner struggle of the Banner/Hulk psyche early on and we are givin glimpses into his past to help us understand the constant battle he/they face.

 

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Hulk Season One is a new exciting take on the origin of the Incredible Hulk. Reimagined in the 21st Century, subtle changes have been made. The first of many eye-catching updates is the role that Betty Ross, love of Bruce's life and daughter of his most persistent enemy "Thunderbolt, plays in the story. Instead of being merely an army brat, she is introduced as a lieutenant of the gamma base military. Rick Jones, the catalyst for the birth of the Hulk, is more of a deliquent youth than he was portrayed to be in the past.

the best thing about this story is that the writer tackles the inner struggle of the Banner/Hulk psyche early on and we are givin glimpses into his past to help us understand the constant battle he/they face.

Aw shit I saw this at the comic store and I should of picked up.

 

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Hulk is official. Off the charts.

 

[Lou Cypher]

New series is Eh, i loved the way it started. This whole stay angry bit was kinda wack until #12 with Wolverine. Dude is fighting Dogmen Drug Dealers and russian space bears lol wtf.

 

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New series is Eh, i loved the way it started. This whole stay angry bit was kinda wack until #12 with Wolverine. Dude is fighting Dogmen Drug Dealers and russian space bears lol wtf.

The last two issues is picking up and you got to get next month for the end of this Arc. Dr. Doom showing up in this issue. DR. DOOM, INSANE BANNER AND THE HULK shit you know it's going down

 

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=g-all-u

 

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