Trade Tuesday: Planet Hulk
Welcome to another edition of Trade Tuesday, where I post something I want to trade and then you and I barter. Ohhh! Only kidding! As introduced last week by our good friend Sheldon, Trade Tuesday explores a title we are currently reading be it a past, present, or future title (Secret Invasion 2: Kree is soooo awesome by the way).
So for my first go at this I’ve chosen Planet Hulk. To give you some background on Planet Hulk, it went down about 2 and a half years ago during Civil War. The Hulk was launched into a wormhole and long story short, he wound up as a slave-turned-gladiator on the war-torn planet of Sakaar. If this sounds kind of familiar that’s because you saw the movie Gladiator and you remember the plot.
Weakened by his journey through the wormhole, Hulk is able to be captured and made to fight to earn his freedom. He is grouped with other gladiators to create the most motley of all crews, and let me tell you, this is one of my favorite teams in recent Marvel history. The group mainly consists of Korg, who is pretty much a more intelligent version of The Thing; Miek, the early comic relief goofy looking bug with four arms; Heroim, an elite shadow warrior outcast ; The Hulk, who is referred to as The Green Scar; and finally one of the last remaining Brood who also happened to be a member of the Royal Guard.
The entire premise of Planet Hulk revolves around Hulk being viewed by the common people as the savior of the planet Sakaar. As Hulk and his gang fight their way up the ranks, becoming more popular, they have repeated run-ins with the Emperor and soon see his evil and decide he must be overthrown (See? I wasn’t joking about that Gladiator plot). The entire story arc is really long, spanning about 12 issues, so there is a whole lot more to this story.
If you haven’t read Planet Hulk I would highly recommend it as I enjoyed it more than both Civil War and Secret Invasion. Perhaps what’s even better is that it sets up the events of World War Hulk which I’ll be writing about for my next go around here on Trade Tuesday! ::thumbs up, big smile::
Butner Brimberry
Butner@comicimpact.com
7 people have left comments
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Simon wrote :
I think you may enjoy Son of Hulk
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Kryptinite wrote :
Even though I’ve never been a huge fan of the Hulk, this storyline actually sounds somewhat appealing. I’ll have to add this to things I should keep an eye out for.
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Sheldon wrote :
Wow that was wayyyyy better then Sheldon’s TT review……..hey wait a sec!!!!
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Butner Brimberry wrote :
Ah - I should have noted that I have never been a fan of the Hulk at all but for whatever reason I read this title and now I think I’ll read more Hulk
Posted on March 4, 2009 at 11:00 am
D wrote :
The Hulk never interested me, but this sounds kind of cool. When is Planet Butmac coming out?
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 5:25 pm
» Blog Archive » Trade Tuesday - World War Hulk wrote :
[...] Last time I did this segment, I wrote about the very amazing Planet Hulk. If you are reading this article and have not read Planet Hulk then I will warn you there are nasty, vicious, sexy spoilers laying ahead. But, you can just read my article on it and that will get you caught up. [...]
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 6:11 pm
» Blog Archive » Skaar Is going to be here soon….. wrote :
[...] member Butmac will cum all over him self when he sees this. Because if you have been reading his Trade Tuesday. You know how much he was in love with Planet [...]
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