Incredible Hulk #83

The INCREDIBLE Hulk #83

Date: September 2005
Title: Terra Incognita Part 1
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Jorge Lucas
Inks: Jorge Lucas
Letters: Randy Gentile

Colorist: Javi Montes
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Cover Artist: Andy Brase

This issue of the Hulk is a House of M tie-in

A woman is painting white paint on Bruce's chest as an unseen person talks to him. The person mentions that Bruce's totem has been chosen and it is the snake, which represents power, charm and the drive to learn among other things. The person asks if the totem satisfies him. Bruce responds that his satisfaction does not matter and it is what it is. The scene pulls back showing a tribe of Aborigines and the elder leader says that Bruce has learned well and is on the path to becoming one of the true people. Suddenly the tribe leader stops and Bruce asks if there is a problem. The leader tells Bruce to listen with his heart and Bruce takes a second and hears a number of people who have come.

The man explains that the ones who are here are not of concern as they flee oppressors and they can sympathize with them. The people don't know that their oppressors are coming however. At the camp, Scorpion tells her mother via a wrist-com that people from as far as Sydney have come to be safe. Scorpion's mom tells her that she is in a sub in the ocean off Australia. Scorpion tells how in Australia, humans are being rounded up into internment camps. Scorpion mentions how AIM is doing good work there by showing humans that they don't have to just take the mutant oppression. Suddenly she feels what seems like an earthquake which do not happen in this area of Australia and figures they have company. Adam comes running to tell Scorpion that the mutants are coming and says that he thought that they would not come this far into the outback. Scorpion replies that bullies are never satisfied and keep on coming. Out of the woods, comes an army of mutant soldiers and while the human refugees run, the AIM soldiers grab their weapons and fire at the mutants.

Bruce asks the tribe leader if he will despise him once he sees his "other mind". The tribe leader says that Bruce is one of the tribe now and despising Bruce would be despising themselves. Besides, the mutant soldiers have entered a sacred place. The soldiers catch one of the refugees when Bruce confronts them. One of the soldiers mentions that they were not supposed to mess with the aborigines but the head soldier doesn't care. Bruce throws the boomarang but the lead soldier, Unus the Untouchable, just puts up his force shield and deflects it. Bruce tells him he is making a mistake but Unus just comes and pushes Bruce into the water as crocodiles come after him. The Hulk suddenly appears and throws a bunch of crocs at the soldiers. Unus puts up his shield and says it will take a lot more than that to get through the shield. The Hulk just slams his palms together and hurts Unus's ears. The Hulk comes up and Unus puts up his shield just as the Hulk kicks him away.

Back in the battle, Scorpion is fighting the human soldiers working for the mutants, asking them how they can be attacking fellow humans. Scorpion knocks a few of the soldiers out when a soldier in a giant battle suit steps up. Just then, Unus comes flying down in his shield bubble and hits the battle suit. The Hulk comes jumping in right behind him and Scorpion tells her mother what she sees. The Hulk lands and asks who attacked his people. The refugees point to the soldiers and the Hulk attacks them. Scorpions mother, Dr. Rappaccini, orders for a shuttle so that she can get to the scene and take advantage of the Hulk being there and exploiting him to the fullest potential.

Back at the mutant base in Sydney, Pyro is trying to tell Exodus that they have a major problem now that the Hulk is there. Pyro reminds Exodus that Magneto told them to leave the Aborigines alone and now look what has happened. Exodus sends Pyro flying, trying to remind him to respect him. He tells Pyro that they must eradicate all the humans and provide model for the future.

Dr. Rappaccini tells the Hulk that AIM is the last, best hope for humans and that in the next one to two centuries, humans will eventually be gone. Suddenly, Dr. Issacs comes rushing in and says that his son Aaron has been kidnapped by the soldiers. Dr. Rappaccini tells him that it will be alright now that the Hulk is fighting alongside them and then she notices that the Hulk is leaping away.

Bruce walks up to the top of a mountain to talk to the tribe leader. The leader mentions that he and the Hulk are the same person, which Bruce just can not accept. The old man mentions that AIM wants Bruce to go with them to help root out the oppressors and to change things. Bruce doesn't know what to do. The old man mentions that he has been walking in the dreamtime and it has not felt right because he realized that they were currently already in the dreamtime (meaning House of M) and it was not right. He wasn't sure if Bruce going with them would fix things but that is something Bruce must learn for himself. Bruce tells the old man he has never been happier in his life than here in the tribe. The old man tells him that perhaps it is time for the snake to begin his crawl toward awakening.

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