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World War Huh? (WWH Spoilers Within)

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I’ve finished reading World War Hulk and… I’m really not sure how I feel about it.

I mean, I guess there really wasn’t any other way to end it. It wouldn’t have made sense for Hulk to kill everyone, because Hulk is not a killer and, even if he was, there wouldn’t be any comics left to publish if Hulk killed everyone.

The Miek thing… I don’t know. I mean, basically sacrificing his home, his race, and ultimately himself (he obviously knew that would be the result of killing Rick Jones), just to keep the Hulk’s rage going, because he believed that it was what the Hulk “needed”? Very odd and I’m not sure that I buy into it.

I know that Miek allowing the Red King’s people to blow up the ship is supposed to redeem the Illuminati, but I’m not sure that it does. I mean, they didn’t plan on killing the Hulk, fine. But they’re still somewhat responsible. They put Hulk on that ship against his will, thus they are responsible for what resulted from their actions.

And Hulk’s “suicide/sacrifice”? Ehhh…. I understand that it was necessary to bring an end to the story, since things couldn’t just go back to normal and he wasn’t going to kill them. I don’t like it, but I’ll accept it. The self-loathing, rage, and ultimate self-sacrificing nature IS in character for him, really.

So here are my revised predictions. From CBR’s interviews with Mark Paniccia and Fred Van Lente, we know that:

Skaar, Son of Hulk looks to be pretty damn cool and Skaar just may be even more powerful than his father, being half Shadowperson and half Gamma-powered Hulk, and is likely to be a must-read for those who loved Planet Hulk

Also…

Incredible Hulk is changing to Incredible Herc and will focus on Hercules and Amadeus Cho while they evade the Initiative and try to find a way to take down SHIELD. Since Cho is in Incredible Herc, it seems that he is most likely NOT the Red Hulk, as I previously guessed.

But this blurb from the Van Lente interview:

Some might wonder why Van Lente and Pak’s collaboration is keeping The Incredible Hulk’s old numbering system instead of launching with a new number #1. “It’s partly because the functions of the Hulk will be in the new adjectiveless ‘Hulk’ series that Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness are doing,” Van Lente explained. “So I think it’s neat that Herc is kind of keeping Hulk’s seat warm. The good news is we keep getting renewed with story arcs so right now there’s no definite end to ‘Incredible Herc’ so maybe ‘Hulk’ will continue on as well.

leads me to believe that Hulk is not planned to run indefinitely and Incredible Herc will eventually go back to being Incredible Hulk. This, combined with the final panel of World War Hulk, leads me to believe that Bruce Banner is not dead and that this image:

Is a before/after split and not a split between two characters,

And that the blacked out man in this image:

is Bruce Banner, as I originally believed, making this image a red herring.

Of course, it is totally possible that the coloring on the final WWH panel was a red herring and I’m totally wrong, but this is my current theory and I’m sticking to it.

For now.

tag: Red Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Marvel, Amadeus Cho, Bruce Banner, Speculation, Rumor, Hercules, Incredible Herc, Hulk, World War Hulk, WWH, Skaar Son of Hulk

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