Incredible Hulk #88

The INCREDIBLE Hulk #88

Date: January 2006
Title: Peace in our Time Part 1
Writer: Daniel Way
Penciler: Ken Cha
Inks: Ken Cha
Letters: Randy Gentile

Colorist: Jason Keith
Editor: Mark Paniccia
Cover Artist: Brandon Peterson

The Hulk, with a full beard, is grabbing fish out of stream along with the bears, in the wilds of Alaska. He sees an airplane fly overhead and starts running. The pilot lands the plane near a cabin and as he gets out, he tells "Robert" that he has his supplies. Bruce holds up a recently caught fish and asks the pilot if he is hungry. The pilot goes with Bruce to the cabin for dinner where he notices the traps are still on the wall where the previous owner left them four years ago. Bruce mentions he is not into trapping andthe pilot mentions that he has been delivery supplies for awhile and all Bruce seems to do is fish and be alone. After eating, the pilot says he has to get going but that he will bring a smokehouse kit the next time so that Bruce can smoke some of the salmon Bruce catches and sell it at the nearby market. He also offers to come to the bar at the nearby town but Bruce says that he is better off at the cabin, alone. The pilot tells Bruce that he figures Bruce is up here alone to forget something but he should remember not to forget his humanity. The pilot says he is full of surprises and tells Bruce he will see him on Saturday. Bruce then asks what day today is.

Bruce makes it to the bar and Mark, the pilot, greets him at the bar with a girl. He offers Bruce a drink but Bruce replies that he does not drink. They sit down and talk for a few minutes when the woman, Katie, asks Bruce to walk her to the bathroom, which is outside, since it is a little rough at the bar. Bruce is waiting for Katie outside the bathroom when he sees two men harassing a drunk woman and offering to give her a ride home. Seconds later, Katie comes out and Bruce is not there. Mark steps up and asks where Bruce is and Katie wonders the same thing.

Somewhere else, the two men stop the car along a side road and are attempting to assualt the woman. The Hulk sneaks up on one of the men and throws him into the man's car. He then goes to the other man, who is by the drunk woman, and grabs him by the head. lifting him up. Meanwhile, the other man grabbed a shotgun and shot the Hulk, unfortunately, the shell fragments hit his friend, killing him. The man gets scared and runs back to the car and tries to start it. The Hulk comes up and flips the car over. The Hulk sees another car coming down the road so he takes off, while the woman he just saved wonders who is going to believe her.

Days later, Mark lands at Bruce's cabin and tells him that he brought the kit he mentioned before. Bruce says that he won't be needing it and Mark is surprised. Bruce just says again that he doesn't need it. Mark tells Bruce that he has something else for him and pulls out a cell phone. Bruce says that the phone won't work up here in the Alaska woods. Suddenly the phone rings and Mark reminds Bruce that he is full of surprises. Bruce opens the phone and a holographic image of Nick Fury who tells Bruce that they need to talk.

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