Comic Book Day - Incredible Hulk 110

We're coming at you with a second helping of Comic Book Day reviews and yes it's another Marvel book because I haven't reviewed anything Marvel for a while and I just got caught up on my Incredible Hulk/World War Hulk reading. For starters I don't think this issue should have come out before WWH #4, but it did so oh well. Also WWH really hasn't been that cool as of late because so many books aren't dealing with it (Like Spider-Man, the X-Men in their own titles, etc.) so it doesn't feel like it's really happening.

This issue takes the oppurtunity to remind us yet again that Tony, Reed, Strange and Bolt rocket the Hulk into space and inadvertently killed the Hulk's planet, wife and unborn child. Frankly speaking if they remind me of this one more time it's really going to make me not care about the event which would suck because it was a good storyline and a touching Hulk moment. After all what was the prologue for it not to tell us what they keep reminding us of. At any rate Amadeus Cho has infiltrated Madison Square Garden which has been turned into a Gladiator Arena. After a feel misunderstandings Cho presents an idea to the Hulk, he's apparently stolen 1.2 Billion dollars from Archangel (Who I don't think is that rich and if he is that would still hurt him bad!) and bought the original testing site that made the Hulk and a bunch of land around it. With his device anything that's not Gamma made, like the Hulk, would go numb upon entering the field and anything electronic would shut down upon entering the field. So no one could bother the Hulk or bomb the Hulk.

Except that's not what the Hulk wants. Cho then goes on to tell the Hulk he's not a killer and goes through his past and debunks everyones beliefs on who he's actually killed and what not. The body count is surprisingly low in Cho's favor (who's arguing the Hulk isn't a killer to the Hulk who's arguing that he is a killer). Cho drops a bombshell on us though... the Hulk sees in numbers like he does. Meaning he can see all the risks of his every move, and where civilians are and how to destroy tanks and helicopters without killing anyone. It really rings true, even throughout WWH he still hasn't killed anyone. Hulk still tells him to eat shit and Scorpion blasts him with a new concoction that messes with him bad, and while he's down for the count Amadeus tells the Hulk that every thing, is his own fault and that he is a monster. It's pretty a great line, and Cho uses it to push the Hulk in to a fury of rage. The Hulk's response of course is to smash, and he buries Cho alive but uninjured as we find out when he's freed by Herc.

There's a lot of good stuff happening in this book, even if Amadeus Cho has taken over the title for the most part. I just wish the Hulk wasn't a broken record in each issue and it always kinda seems like something has to attack him in each issue of WWH and IH. I'm still looking forward to the ending of WWH and seeing the new ramifications it has on the Marvel U, but I don't think this is a storyline is one for the history books.

Preview pages enjoy!