In the aftermath
of the explosion at the Omnisapient Corporation, Jacob Feinman is lying
severely burned in an intensive care unit; his brother refuses to pay for his
medical care and his future seems hopeless….
Red Hulk arrives at a barbecue cookout in Texas and scares everyone away so he
helps himself to some ribs and relaxes. Annie, his LMD aide, arrives and
examines the nanites in his head to see if they can be removed. Rulk also
reveals he is not sleeping since sleep might entail his changing back to
Thunderbolt Ross when the nanites would kill him. General Fortean arrives in
the Thunderbolt and orders missiles to be fired at Rulk who leaps into
the air to intercept them to protect Annie….
Jacob
is visited by Dr Kurinji who was fused into a machine/human hybrid now calling
herself Zero/One. She gives him an injection to deaden his pain and stimulate
his system and takes him away to be her assistant in her plan to build the
future….
A
missile fired by Fortean burrows into the Earth and creates three giant rock
monsters to fight Red Hulk….
Zero/One
takes Jacob to an Omnisapient base on an oil drilling platform, soon to become
a ship. She also explains she intends to refit all the corpses aboard into an
undead workforce. She names Red Hulk as an enemy of the future and plans to go
to India to rebuild an “engine of destruction” to destroy him….
Once
Red Hulk has finally destroyed the three rock monsters (which took longer than
he expected due to their ability to repair themselves), General Fortean visits
via hologram. He apologizes to Annie, saying that Thunderbolt’s
instruments will be recalibrated to detect her and advises Rulk to get some
sleep (which would kill him, remember?). Annie stays up with him into the night
to help him stay awake….
Out
in space, Uatu and Uravo, the two Watchers, see the doomsday machine Omegex
begin its long flight to Earth on a mission of destruction….
“Save
the Date Part Two”
Writer:
Jeff Parker. Art: Tim Seeley. Colors: Matt Milla. Letters: Ed Dukeshire.
Synopsis:
Having discovered that the two monsters he was fighting in the cave in Yucatan
were She-Hulk and Lyra (the other She-Hulk), Rick “A-Bomb” Jones learns he was
deceived. Enemies had attached a device to his head that caused a fraudulent
visual that he was responding to an environmental group asking him to
investigate a possible toxic threat and also disguised the two She-Hulks as
monsters. Lyra uses her wrist computer Boudicca to show him the result of his
mission: he would have unleashed a torrent of stored energy that would kill him
and cause catastrophes all over the world, leading to Lyra’s future. The enemy
leader, Chibi, arrives and reveals herself to be Ixchel whose people have been
trapped in that cavern for over a thousand years; they had developed great powers
of mental projection and tricked Rick into trying to free them so they could
conquer the world. The punchline is that the three-way Hulk battle broke the
crystalline wall imprisoning them and they are now free. Rick and the She-Hulks
flee the volcano as it erupts in a giant shaft of light. The She-Hulks plan to
prepare for the coming invasion and A-Bomb asks Lyra for a date.
“Hulk
Sunburn”
Writer:
Audrey Loeb. Art: Dario Brizuela. Colors: ?. Letters: ?
Synopsis:
The Mini-Hulks, lying out by the pool, have a contest to see who can be the
tannest but they all end up sunburned red.