{"id":30812,"date":"2026-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30812"},"modified":"2024-03-13T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:54:18","slug":"world-war-hulk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/01\/13\/world-war-hulk-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World War Hulk 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Incredible Hulk, gladiator, space warlord, avenging hero\u2026 back to fighting tanks like he has for 40 years. The Hulk is just not interesting to me. It\u2019s only when writers do something radically different with him that I get interested. Well, this month, Thunderbolt Ross spends several pages recapping how Hulk has been seen as both a hero and a villain all these years, but he always becomes a monster again, Ross has always known the truth. Then the military starts in with the bullets and missiles and things that have never stopped the Hulk despite 40 years of trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now Strange is in Hulk\u2019s mindscape, and in the real world, Hulk is just standing there, flailing at nothing, so the army keeps up its futile attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hulk breaks Dr. Strange\u2019s hands. That guy\u2019s hands can\u2019t catch a break. Back in the real world, it\u2019s game on again, as Hulk spends several gonzo John Romita, Jr. pages tearing up the military, but it\u2019s still just more of the same, no matter how good Romita is. If you\u2019ve seen Hulk smash a tank once, you\u2019ve seen it a thousand times. Maybe never better than here, but it\u2019s still just Hulk smashing tanks. Then he leaps up into Ross\u2019s helicopter, drags him out, and they crash to the ground. Meanwhile\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This entire event is just waiting for the Sentry to get it together, when everyone involved seems to know he\u2019s their only hope, but chose not to deploy him first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While that\u2019s going on, Hulk\u2019s other goons have arrived at Dr. Strange\u2019s house to find Rick Jones trying to get in. Then Iron Fist, Ronin and Echo emerge to fight, but are soundly thrashed by these no-name lames. The heroes get dragged back to that arena Hulk\u2019s people are making, but Rick is left behind with the magic bad guy. For no obvious reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did Rick get back there so fast? There\u2019s a lot of talk about justice between Rick and the alien bug, and then someone else shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever. I remembered not liking this, but I didn\u2019t really remember how unengaging and hollow it is. Also I thought it had more Spider-Man, but he\u2019s kinda wandered out of the narrative. Will he be back? I don\u2019t remember. We\u2019re just spending 4 issues waiting on Sentry to show up. More waiting next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Incredible Hulk, gladiator, space warlord, avenging hero\u2026 back to fighting tanks like he has for 40 years. The Hulk is just not interesting to me. It\u2019s only when writers do something…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[2222,49,2223,2368,63,59,625,64,118,435,2369,2370,247,2349,2218,1959,90,187,2367],"class_list":["post-30812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-christina-strain","tag-doctor-strange","tag-echo","tag-greg-pak","tag-hawkeye","tag-hulk","tag-iron-fist","tag-iron-man","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-klaus-janson","tag-korg","tag-miek","tag-reed-richards","tag-rick-jones","tag-ronin","tag-sentry","tag-thunderbolt-ross","tag-wong","tag-world-war-hulk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30830,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812\/revisions\/30830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}