Why are there now seven Hulks (Three of whom are children of the original Hulk)? What are the differences between them all? And where did this all get started? We explain all for beginners and Hulk-curious bystanders.
The Bastards
Skaar
You can tell who Skaar is from the title of his 2008 solo comic series, Skaar, Son of Hulk. More properly, he's the son of the Hulk and Caiera, the Hulk's wife from the Planet Hulk storyline. Surviving his mother's death, his attempts to save his planet from Galactus backfired and saw him exiled to Earth, where…
The Reds
Red Hulk
Who is the Red Hulk? More than a year after his creation, we're still no closer to his identity, but what we do know is that he was created as part of a military program to be "everything the Green Hulk isn't," which includes smart, immoral and apparently invincible. Besides regular Hulk strength and healing…
The Originals
Hulk
The original and potentially still the best, Robert Bruce Banner is the Hulk we all know and love: The man who risked his life to save someone from the Gamma Bomb they'd designed, only to get caught in its blast himself and end up with the most destructive case of Multiple Personality Disorder ever (Because, yes;…
Marvel Sees Double With New Hulk War
What happens when one World War Hulk isn't enough? Marvel plans to answer that in a new storyline spanning the Hulk franchise this December, as Jeph Loeb and Greg Pak team-up to write smash-filled sequel World War Hulks. Spoilers ahead.
Learn the Rules of Crossover Comic Perfection
With Marvel's Secret Invasion in full swing and DC's Final Crisis mere weeks away, it's worth looking at just what it is about superhero comics' crossover summer events that make them the four-color equivalent of your first sexual experience. They're something you get all excited about ahead of time before the actual…
Hulk Smash Military Industrial Complex!
Over the weekend at WonderCon, author Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) gave a talk about the not-so-secret allegorical tales that lurk beneath the BAM! POW! of your typical superhero comic book. I caught Wolk on the con floor and asked him to explain the political subtext of Greg Pak's recent World War Hulk series. In…
io9 Talks to "World War Hulk" and BSG Comics Writer Greg Pak
Greg Pak's Robot Stories was one of our favorite indie science fiction films of recent years. It explored people's emotional relationships with robots — and robots' relationships with each other — through three short narratives. Now Pak is writing comics, including the recent World War Hulk and a Battlestar Galactica…
Get Your Friends Hooked On The Legion
Does the Legion of Super Heroes confuse your loved ones? This gang of super-powered teenagers in the 30th century has an admittedly complicated backstory, including a dozen home planets and a billion soap-operatic entanglements. Luckily, the perfect holiday gift is also the best Legion teaching tool. Eye For An Eye,…
