Bruce Banner dispatches Red Hulk to the
desert where a teleport tube is coming down. It disgorges Woodgod, convergence
of myth and science, whose task is to destroy the Hulk. Red gives him a beating
and sends him rushing back though the portal. Then the Impossible Man pops up
to tell Red that he is announcer for a galactic battle about to commence…and
suddenly Xemnu the Titan appears from the tube. This is a rematch arranged by a
consortium of gamblers across the galaxy to decide who is the real Hulk and the
winner gets the other’s planet for a prize. It turns out that, unlike Green
Hulk, Red Hulk is not impervious to Xemnu’s mental commands and the Titan has
Red hitting himself. But Green Hulk arrives to join in and Xemnu summons his
army of monsters (Zzutak, Taboo, Martian Who Walks Among Us, Creature from
Krogarr, Blip, Venusian, Makluan ) to attack the Hulks. Impossible doesn’t like
the unfair odds and so turns a Valizian Compounder on the Hulks, which fuses
them into a single bisected being, possessing the powers of both Hulks. As the
compound Hulk beats up each of the hench-monsters, Xemnu summons his real
weapon: Kluh, a version of a gray Hulk who speaks in an elegant manner. The
newcomer punches compound Hulk into the sky and as he plummets, Bruce and Ross
have to find common ground so they can work together. They find it in their
love for Betty. On landing, they punch Kluh’s lights out, then seize the
Makluan and use his fiery breath to roast Xemnu, and kick all of the enemies
through the tube. Impossible suggests that the compound Hulk would make a lot
of money on the galactic fighting circuit but he/they decline. Vehemently. So
they are divided and sent back home, deciding never to speak of this again.
“Save the Date Part One”
Writer: Jeff Parker. Pencils: Tim Seeley.
Inks: Tim Seeley. Colors: Matt Milla. Letters: Ed Dukeshire.
Synopsis: A-Bomb (Rick Jones) arrives in
Yucatan, summoned to investigate something that fell from the sky and burrowed
into a mountain; after a kiss for luck from Chibi who called him, he descends
into the tunnel and finds a crystal cavern. But then two huge fish monsters, a
green one and a red, speaking in an alien tongue, arrive and A-Bomb attacks
them. They beat him into unconsciousness and we see that they are She-Hulk and
Lyra, and Rick has been deceived by an image inducer….
“Hulk Bubblegum”
Writer: Audrey Loeb. Art: Dario Brizuela.
Colors: Dario Brizuela. Letters: ?
Synopsis: The Mini-Hulks enter a candy
store where they argue about who can blow the biggest bubble with their gum.
They all blow huge bubbles that burst and make a mess of the store.