A team filming
a documentary on the Hulk is introduced: director Rylend Grant, reporter Karla
Fuentes, sound man Tony Donley, and cameraman Manny. A flash forward shows them
underground, between some eerie figures and the Hulk….
The team visits
Viridian, New Mexico, having fallen on hard times since The Los Diablos Missile
Base closed. Bruce Banner’s mentor, Herbert Josiah Weller is interviewed. A local
man who runs a gas station shows them CCTV footage of one of the Hulk’s first
appearances. Several townspeople comment on Hulk or snipe at the filmmakers. At
night they break into the deserted Base and encounter a man running from a huge
monster, green and scaly with claws. The team jumps in their truck and tries to
leave but the Hulk appears and his battle with the monster causes the road to collapse
and the truck falls through to an underground cavern. While they try to
extricate themselves from the truck, they are surrounded by Moloids with the
Mole Man threatening to send the team’s corpses back to the surface as a warning.
Karla bashes him over the head with a boom mic but now Hulk smashes through
into this tunnel and he and the monster fall through into a lower level. Grant
insists they keep filming when he and Manny fall into the hole and hang on. Then
the monster steps on Grant. As the monster seizes him, Hulk grabs it from behind
as the mortally wounded man keeps filming. Hulk dispatches the monster,
mutters, “I hope it was worth it” and leaves….
The team films
Grant’s funeral for the documentary and spots Bruce Banner among the mourners.
And then the camera clicks off….
(No title
given)
Writer: Philip
Kennedy Johnson. Art: Travel Foreman. Colors: Matthew Wilson. Letters: Cory
Petit.
Synopsis:
Epilogue: a mine owner wants the dead monster (from the first story) out of his
mine as it has lain there for months. A trio of weird people stand by the
monster’s corpse, mourning their brother’s death. A woman called Eldest has an
arm turn brown and scaly, causing the dead monster’s eyes to light up. The mine
owner, standing above, sees this and one of the family turns into a huge
birdlike creature and shoots up knocking the man into the hole. The other
brother has a monster burst out of its body which, receiving permission for the
Eldest, slaughters the man. And they are looking for the Fractured Son, meaning
the Hulk….