The Hulk vs. Lex Luthor.. wait, that's not right

[sherkahn]

The Hulk vs. Aang, the Last Airbender/Avatar...

Nope, still not right.

The Hulk vs. Uatu. Closer, but no cigar.

Newsarama has the inteview with Greg Pak about the next major arc for the Hulk and his part of the Marvel Universe.

Incredible Hulks: Dark Son.

Let the family cliche's fly.





From the interview..."
Everything you need to know about Hiro-Kala will be revealed in "Incredible Hulks" #612 and #613 in the stories co-written by Scott and me and illustrated by the insanely great Brian Ching. The short and sweet version is that Hiro-Kala is the long-lost twin brother of Skaar who was left behind when Skaar unleashed his Old Power and goaded Galactus into eating Planet Sakaar. So Hiro-Kala might have a bone to pick with Skaar. Hiro-Kala's also become convinced that the Old Power, if left unchecked, will ultimately destroy the universe. And Skaar just happens to be the highest profile wielder of the Old Power around at the moment..."


suggested tags:
event: Incredible Hulks: Dark Son
character: Hulk/Bruce Banner
character: She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters
character: Skaar
character: Korg
character: A-Bomb/Rick Jones
character: Red She-Hulk/Betty Ross
group: the Warbound

creator: Greg Pak
creator: Scott Reed

Comments

[thokstar]

Why is Lex Luthor going after the Hulks? I assume that's who the guy in green armor on the right is. :P

[sherkahn]

Is his other son, the twin of Skaar, Hiro-Kala.

The hero killer.

[punishermax]

RANDY ORTON!?

[big_daddy_d]

Nah, he's the Legend Killer.

[terrykun]

With that scarring he looks more like Zuko than Aang.

[fifthie]

Bruce Banner: worst dad ever?

[thehood]

I'm sure his Father Brian Banner still has him beat. He at least loves his son Skaar and is in good terms with his daughter.

Hiro-Kala is just a jerk.

[long_silence]

What about his other daughter who has now become the Spider-Man villain Scorpion?

[thehood]

She isn't a Spider-Man villain, she's a secret agent. You are confusing her with Scorpia.

[long_silence]

She's a mercenary for hire now, last we saw she was working for the Kravinoffs and stole Gargan's Scorpion costume for them, temporarily disabling Spider-Man's powers in the process. She's not exactly a villain but she's not a hero anymore either.

But I meant that Banner isn't on good terms with Carmilla, I think he forgot about her.

[akodo_rokku]

She's not officially his daughter anyway.

[q99]

Yea, but the last thing we saw her do before that is help take down a Hydra base, and being hired to steal a Scorpion costume from villains likely didn't strike her as too villainous.

I'd say she's still more-or-less in the hero pile, even if she's towards the grey end of it.

[mullon]

And next year we'll find out there was a daughter down there too. And in five years we'll find out they had cousins.

[thehood]

He does has two daughters though.

Lyra(daughter of the Hulk and Thundra) and The heroic Scorpion, he was consived back before Bruce bacame the Hulk.

Anyway, Hiro-Kala has been around for awhile.

[espanolbot]

Hm, since you brought it up,

Hulk vs. Aang anyone?

[pyrotwilight]

Until Aang can gamma bend...Hulk would pretty much curbstomp Aang.

[espanolbot]

Really? Not even fully empowered Avatar Aang?

[pyrotwilight]

Nope, not even. Even fully empowered Aang is only dangerous because he's a walking natural disaster. It's dangerous for a normal human/bender but short of drawing all the air out of Hulk (and quickly) I don't think Aang could do much more than annoy Hulk.

[espanolbot]

Hm, Kyoshi was able to make an island all by her lonesome, I've thought that Aang could drop a mountain on him or something.

[freezer]

Yeah, but we've seen that even dropping a mountain on the Hulk won't stop him for long.

[long_silence]

What if Katara, Toph and Iroh taught him blood bending, metal bending and lightning generation?

[crinos]

Metal Bending and Lightning wouldn't work on Hulk, as for Blood Bending, Hulk is so strong, if Aang tried to blood bend him, the backlash would tear Aang to shreds.

Backlash

[nefrekeptah]

Uh, what backlash? Bloodbending is manipulating the fluids in a person's body, it's not like psychic control. And if a bending fails, there's no recoil to it, the element in question just fails to get bent. Also, physical strength means jack when the person in question is controlling every muscle and tissue in the body.

[wizardru]

It all depends on who's name is on the title of the comic and who the writer likes more. :)

[thehood]

This is we are talking about. All that would do is make him angrier.

Only

[nefrekeptah]

...fully empowered Aang is only dangerous because he's a walking natural disaster.

Oh, is that the only reason!? And here I was worried.

I'd see it as more of a stalemate; unstoppable force vs. immovable object; there's very little that can really hurt Hulk, but it's unlikely that the Hulk could get near enough to do any damage to Aang, if we're talking fully empowered Aang.

Not that this situation would happen anyway, unless Hulk hurt one of Aang's friends; he would probably focus more on calming down and communicating with the Hulk than outright fighting him.

Re: Only

[thehood]

True.

That said, Hulk's strengh does grwo as the fight goes own. So yeah, calming him down would be the only way to end it.

[thehood]

Sweet.

It's Greg Pak, so you know it's awesome.

I do love the team too. They're all basically Bruce's family( Lyra is on X-men duty though).

i wonder if Red She-Hulk will act as Skaar's steptmom, since she's back together with Bruce.

I'm also glad to see Bruce and Jen on a team together. They always said they had a brother/sister relationship, but they are rarely seen together and it's hardly ever explored.

[punishermax]

~ a large open field is full of large creatures. Most are green in some shade or another,tables are set up with food and picnic baskets. Hulk stands at a grill with a "Kiss Me I'm Gamma Irradiated" apron on"

"BURGERS ALMOST READY. AND BEFORE ANYONE MAKE SMART COMMENT ABOUT HULK EATING MEAT AND GETTING ANGRY OVER DEER AND BLAH BLAH HULK REFER YOU TO SIGN"

~Hulk points to sign on tree that simply states "GO FUCK YOURSELF"~

~Red Hulk quickly sneaks away from his place at the Kiddy Table, a small plastic table with plastic knives and forks with a happy face on it~

"OH NO NO NO. YOU STOP RIGHT THERE RED BENJAMIN HULK III. HULK TELL YOU BEFORE WE COME HERE: NO TERRIBLE DIALOGUE. THIS NICE PLACE, WE NOT NEED COMPLAINTS AGAIN. NOW SIT DOWN AND BE NICE."

"BUT I'M EDGY AND EXTREME! KIDS LOVE ME!"

"KIDS ALSO LOVE FARTS AND MOVIES STARRING CGI CHIPMUNKS.RED HULK IS ACTUALLY AS AMUSING AS FARTING CHIPMUNK. THAT REALLY THING YOU PROUD OF? EITHER YOU STAY QUIET OR NO FOOD FOR NEXT MONTH. HULK DO IT TOO."

~Red Hulk slinks back to the Kiddy Table as Abomination throws the football to Skaar~

"GO LONG COMRADE!"

"SURE MAN!"

~Skaar catches the ball as inspirational music plays~

"YOU'RE THE BEST ABOMINATION!"

"NO COMRADE...YOU THE BEST"

"HULK SO GLAD HE HAVE AT LEAST ONE DECENT SON"

~He looks meaningfully at Hiro who sits near the boombox staring at his green hand~

"God....I wish had my own corporation..."

[espanolbot]

Huh, is Hulk one of the mainstream superheroes with the most (biological) children now?

What with the woman who tried to boink Norman Osborn, Skaar, and Hiro?

Hm, I think that Tom Strong would also count, but he isn't exactly mainstream.

[an-idol-mind.livejournal.com]

Bruce Banner certainly has gotten around:

-Skaar
-Hiro-Kala
-Lyra
-the female Scorpion (maybe)
-a previous stillborn child with Betty

He's also slept with a lot of highly attractive women. Not bad for an emotionally repressed science geek with the world's biggest anger management problem.

[salamangkiero]

...and that image reminds me of Young Frankenstein. Cue the singing!

[q99]

Lesse, Tom has, what, Tesla, the boy with the nazi chick, and the moon girl, right?

Hm, that's really not all that much, 3 kids is a bit above average but not unusual.

One of the more unusual number of children in comics is from Gold Digger: Julia Diggers gave birth once and adopted once, and has four daughters, of which two and a half are biologically hers (plus a granddaughter).

[ninjapeps]

Hiro-Kala is still around? Son of Hulk took a nosedive when it shifted from Skaar to him.

[thehood]

He's actually kinda cool and he did have a realm of Kings tie in.

[book-of-daniel.livejournal.com]

At the rate he's breeding TLC is going to tap him for a new reality show: Bruce and Hulk Plus Eight.

[thehood]

It's odd that no one seems to crack jokes about Bruce's numerous kids and yet other heroes won't stop making fun of Jen for the Juggernaut thing.

[an-idol-mind.livejournal.com]

Maybe because Bruce hasn't slept with anyone who repeatedly tried to kill his cousin.