Bruce Banner awakens in the desert and hitches a ride,
telling the driver that he is a meteorologist who was caught up in a tornado.
The radio reports on an incident the previous day involving the Hulk….
Bruce was at Mount Rushmore when the Wrecking Crew arrived to
demand one hundred millions dollars not to destroy the iconic monument,
breaking off Lincoln’s nose to show they mean business. Bruce turned into the
Hulk and beat the crap out of the bad guys, damaging the monument more than the
Wrecking Crew would have done. Then Thor arrived to stop Hulk who then took
Mjolnir away from Thor, whom he called “Hairy Lady,” and beat him into
unconsciousness with his own weapon. Hulk then took off….
In town, Bruce takes money from the bank, buys clothes, new
eyeglasses, and takes a motel room. Problem: the motel clerk, a big Hulk fan,
recognizes him; Bruce denies it but the guy approaches him for an autograph at
the local diner. Soon Bruce realizes everyone in the diner has fled and an army
contingent led by General Thunderbolt Ross arrives. Bruce warns them that if
they start something they will lose all of their equipment and weapons and
still not capture the Hulk. The army attacks anyway….
Bruce wakes up in the desert the next day only this time he’s
without his purple pants….
“Gammaragnarok” 4.5/5
Writer: Mark Parsons, Tom Cohen. Art: Ed McGuinness. Colors:
Kelsey Shannon. Letters: Dave Sharpe.
Synopsis: An emissary from a planet-conquering legion comes
to the Maestro’s world and demands surrender. The Maestro chooses war. He
recruits from his people young men and, using the spark of his own life, turns
them all into savage Hulks. They defeat the invaders and drive them off. Then
the Maestro asks one last thing of them: to go into space on a ship that will
explode because they are now too dangerous to live among the people.