Jordan 9,500 BCE: Tribal elder Adad takes Tammuz, his son’s
friend, out to the site of a green meteor’s crater. Tammuz and Shalim were planning
to run away to find better pastures elsewhere but Adad hurls Tammuz into the crater
as a sacrifice. Tammuz is horribly changed by exposure to the radiation in the
pit….
At the village, Shalim wonders where Tammuz is and suspects
his father has harmed him. Instead, Adad claims that Tammuz chose to be
sacrificed for the good of the tribe. Word comes of a gigantic beast sighting
and Adad leads the hunters out to kill it. The massive green monster is
fearsome to behold but the hunters manage to entangle it in a net and Shalim
fires an arrow into the monster’s eye, apparently killing it. After this, he
spots a birthmark on the beast which tells him he has killed Tammuz….
Tammuz is drawn through the Green Door by the One Below All….
The tribe feasts on the monster while Adad pays tribute to
Tammuz, who “willingly” sacrificed himself so that the Goddess would provide.
The monster’s head, mounted on a stake, draws all of its flesh back to itself,
tearing through the bellies and mouths of the tribespeople and reconstituting the
Hulk’s body. He faces Shalim, the only one left unharmed because he couldn’t
bring himself to eat the meat of his friend and thinks, “Never stop making them
pay.” He kills his friend and walks on alone….
“A Little Fire”
Writer: David Vaughan. Art: Kevin Nowlan.
Synopsis: Bruce Banner arrives in the deserted town of
Verdigris, Kansas, where he visits a movie theater run by the Scarecrow. The
villain has the town’s citizens hypnotized by film of their greatest fears on
the big screen while he feasts on them. Scarecrow sits Bruce down and feasts on
his fears until he drops dead from fright. But Banner arises as Hulk and he scares every one of the victims into fleeing the theater, leaving only
Scarecrow’s fears to manifest on the screen. The villain is being chased by a
mob but he tries to stop the film before the end and fails—and Hulk forces him
to see his greatest fear: burning to death….