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Product Description: Savage alien planet! Oppressed barbarian tribes! Corrupt emperor! Deadly woman warrior! Gladiators and slaves! Battle axes and hand blasters! Monsters and heroes... and the Incredible Hulk! Let the smashing commence! This deluxe hardcover collects the entire "Planet Hulk" saga, plus extras! Collects Incredible Hulk #92-105, Giant-Size Hulk #1, "Mastermind Excello" story from Amazing Fantasy #15, maps, character designs. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-25
Space Opera Gladiator
I read World War Hulk first, but had been following the hype for Planet Hulk in the year of its publication. I bit the bullet and coughed up the 35 bucks (35 dollars for a paperback comic?!).
The artwork is really wonderful - and the story is entertaining. Just about everything about the story is derivative and I've seen it several times before - every character, the main and side plots - but still it was a good read (probably because of it, rather than despite it - something of a tribute, while forwarding the difficult-to-expand-upon character of The Hulk).
Not a 35 dollar read, mind you, but a good read.
Highlights for me were the fast moving detailed scenes (Flash Gordon meets Gladiator), and The Spike (not quite zombies, or the techno-organic virus of Warlock fame).
Borrow it and give it a read! Rating:
Date: 2008-06-20
Smashing
Thanks God there is Greg Pak.
He likes the character, more than this: he knows him. The Hulk has never been so well-handled since the 90's. Based on the 1985 Hulk's epic crossroads by Bill Mantlo, and on the Superman's Exile in 1988, Bruce is thrown on a distant, savage and unknown planet, And from slave to king, passing through gladiator and rebel, the Hulk makes friends, saves people and says he doesn't care about puny pinkies - just to save them again. The story is long, though, and sometimes the art doesn't work that well. If you are a Hulk fan, or just like good MARVEL comics, then this is for you. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-06
great book great art!
let me start by saying that i have only loosely followed the hulks career. I bought a few hulk comics her and there and always found it interesting when he would turn a new color(Grey/green) or get a new personality for an old color. but i began hearing about this book from a few friends and i decided to check it out.....and i am so glad i did!
The story in this book is top notch. It really is. the writes created a great new world for the hulk to play in, except theres on catch; hulk is not "strongest one there is". At least not at first. With out trying to give away to much about the story you find out that when hulk arrives on the planet he entered some kind of "power draining portal" which left him much much weaker. for instance early on he can actually be made to bleed, which is not an easy thing to do. In fact Hulk is even made into a slave and sold as a gladiator.
Anyway over the course of the story we meet another very powerful hero from the marvel universe that has also been weakened and trapped on this world. I wont give away who it is but i think you will be pleasantly surprised when he hits the Hulk in the face with a Mace.
The hulk eventually makes friends with some fellow slaves and goes on to do some great things on this new world, but ill let you read about that on your own.
Now we all know that story isn't every thing in a comic book, the art is great as well. The colors are strong and vibrant and the hulk truly looks angry in the book.
The reason i gave this book a 5 star rating was because i found it very hard to put down. i just had to see what happened to the hulk next and the book never disappointed me. do your self a favor and just give it a shot. Rating:
Date: 2008-06-04
Hulk Smashin' Great
Every so often, there comes a tale -- with equal parts passion and pathos, with equal parts pride and prejudice -- that not only redefines what a character has meant throughout the already visited pages upon pages of illustrated storylines but also re-establishes the hero as a dominant force for storytellers, readers, the company's universe, and (arguably) the entire comic book industry. PLANET HULK is such a masterpiece.
It's difficult to talk about the adventure without giving too many elements best left revealed and explored by the reader. This trade paperback -- collecting issues of the HULK's monthly run as well as a few additional installments from other sources -- has more welcome twists and turns than any good piece of literature could hope for. Briefly, earth's (Marvel) superheroes have reached the breaking point in their inactions with the Hulk; fearing that the 'monster' could eventually turn the immeasureable dark fury against mankind, they construct a spaceship to send him to an unpopulated world in deep space where the Hulk can live out his days in isolation. The problem: not only does it make the Hulk angry ("you won't like me when I'm angry"), but also he's delivered to the wrong planet ... this one ruled by a 'Ming-the-Merciless' type who forced his citizens to fight-to-the-death ritualistically in huge arena. Think of the movie GLADIATOR ... only in space ... with dozens of alien creatures ... and with an even unhappier ending with the smoothest cliffhanger this side of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Really, that's all I should say. To reveal more would truly spoil the surprise, the PLANET HULK is full of them. This is one story for the ages, and it's best experienced by the audience. Rating:
Date: 2008-05-16
Freaking amazing
I could go into great detail about WHY this is so good, but many people already have. They are right. All you need to know is that it is freaking amazing. |
