Hulk #9

Bruce Banner, imagining himself chained to a tree and fired upon with a variety of weapons, is undergoing therapy with the Samson Protocol, a program where he is analyzed by a hologram Doc Samson. He has programmed it so that he must complete two hours of therapy every day to be allowed into the Starship Hulk control deck; the ultimate goal: to have “Samson” determine whether Bruce is sane enough to continue these voyages. Samson asks Bruce for a happy memory from his childhood and Bruce recalls Logan James Gidley, a school friend who was always nice to him and whose home became a safe refuge for Bruce—until the father came to pick him up every time. Samson okays Bruce’s return to the control deck…