Incredible Hulk #77

The INCREDIBLE Hulk #77

Date: March 2005
Title: Tempest Fugit Part 1of 5
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Lee Weeks
Inks: Tom Palmer
Letters: Randy Gentile

Colorist: Studio F
Editor:Tom Brevoort
Cover Artist: Lee Weeks

A shark is seen swimming off into the distance. A few seconds later, the shark is seen coming back until you realize that it is just the shark's head. The Hulk then comes walking across the ocean floor, holding the other end of the shark.

Flashback to Bruce in high school, talking to himself about a stupid mistake he made on a math test. Another student complains how Bruce flows the grade curve but Bruce just turns to him and says that he was not talking to him. The teacher asks who he was talking to and Bruce says no one while the Hulk is seen sitting directly behind him.

On the ocean floor, the Hulk jumps across a cravice when something suddenly grabs him.

Bruce is sitting at the lunch table writing in his book and the Huk asks what he is writing and Bruce says that it is none of his business. Bruce overhears another student harassing a female student. The Hulk tells Bruce that it is none of his business.

The Hulk is pulled down in to the crevice by a giant squid. The squid tries to pull the Hulk in and eat him but the Hulk breaks off a tooth and jams it into one of the squid's eyes. The squid loosens it's grip and the Hulk reaches out and rips off two of the squids legs. The squid hits the Hukl away but the Hulk is not going to let him get away that easy so he leaps back to himi but the squid shoots ink out and disappears. The Hulk heads to the surface and sees an island. The Hulk makes it to the beach and then realizes he can not hear his own voice and proceeds to throw up. The Hulk lays on the beach and slowly turns back into Bruce while realizing that his body must have developed a gland making an oxygenated perfluorocarbon emulsion so that he could breathe underwater. The emulsion filled his lungs and equalized pressure so that he could breathe fluid. Bruce then collapsses on the beach while two sets of eyes look at him from the jungle. A two-headed monster comes out and stands before the unconscious Bruce when suddenly fire comes out and strikes the monster. A man in a blindfold asks a woman named Gwen if he got it. Gwen tells the man, named Ripley, thathe did and just keep aiming for the roar while she goes and helps Bruce. Bruce mumbles that he is a hero. Ripley and Gwen back up, keeping the monster at bay with the flame thrower and dragging Bruce along. Suddenly they run into the grey Hulk standing in front of them.

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