Incredible Hulk #94

The INCREDIBLE Hulk #94

Date: June 2006
Title: Planet Hulk Exile Part 3
Writer: Greg Pak
Penciler: Carlo Pagulayan/Mike Avon Oeming/Alex Nino/Marshall Rogers
Inks: Jeffrey Huet/Mike Allred/Alex Nino
Letters: Randy Gentile

Colorist: Chris Sotomayor/Laura Martin/Lovern Kindzierski
Editor: Mark Paniccia
Cover Artist: Ladronn

Soldiers rush in and tell the rebels to drop their weapons but the rebels just ask for the Hulk to join them to bring the Red King down. Elloe is more than ready to join but the Hulk tells them to forget it and Elloe can't believe it. Suddenly, Imperial Death's Heads come crashing through and take out all the rebels in quick fashion. Elloe asks the Hulk to help them but he just tells her that he is going to finish dinner. Elloe asks why he won't help and he just says the pink rebels here are the same as the humans, first they call you a monster, then they need your help, and they they call you a monster again. A Death's Head grabs Elloe and the Hulk says that she is with them but she says she is not and is lead away just as Skee comes in wondering where Elloe is.

On a ship heading back towards the city, Skee is beating himself up for letting Elloe get in trouble. Skee talks about how thousands of citizens have disappeared since the Red King came into power. Primus comes out and tells them that their fighting has gotten them recognized by the Imperial Palace and tomorrow is a big fight. Primus leads them to their rooms and tells the Hulk, calling him Green Scar, that he has the look to go all the way out of all the members of the gladiators. The Hulk walks into his room to see the Red Kings Lieutenant, named Caira, standing in his room. She thrusts forward with a sword but the Hulk catches her hand. She notes that the Hulk is getting faster, the Hulk mentions he is also getting stronger and then they trade threats. She tells the Hulk that he is a problem for the Emperor and she was there to offer a place on the planet where he can find peace and not have to fight. The Hulk refuses and goes off with some ladies for the night.

The next day, the six remaining gladiators enter the arena where an announcer mentions that any slave who survives three rounds, becomes a citizen of the empire. Korg mentions to Skeethat after this, they are free and that the King would have to comply with this big of a crowd watching. An Imperial Dreadnought ship appears over the arena and a bomb slips out of the bottom of the ship falling directly towards the gladiator. The Hulk tells Korg to shield the others while he leaps towards the bomb. He grabs it and it explodes in the arena. The announcer starts saying the dropping a bomb is a clear violation of the rules but suddenly soldiers come and take his microphone away. Down in the arena, Korg sees if everyone is okay. Skee is obviously injured as suddenly Death's Head with laser cannons come out of the smoke and they figure it is the end. Skee tells the others what the weak points of the Death's Head are as Primus argues with the King's assisstant that they just can't change the rules suddenly. Down in the arena, one of the Death's Head is pulled back into the smoke, as suddenly the Hulk comes out and he is definitely not happy. He manages to defeat all the Death's Heads by himself and stands there and yells in triumph, with mulitple spears sticking in him as the crowd at the arena cheers for him.

Later, the Hulk and other warriors are in their cell recovering, including Skee, who died during the battle. Miek figures they will die tomorrow also. The Brood says that she has seen worse and tells how she was on her homeplanet and she and her sisters were swallowed by a creature that lived in the catacombs but before they died, the whole planet was destroyed, turning the creature into crystal and allowing the Brood survivors to float in space in the crystal body until they crashed to the planet there. Korg tells of how he and his brothers tried to conquer Earth when he was young and they were defeated by Thor, not knowing that not everyone on Earth was like him. The Hulk tells about the puny humans who hated him and about Banner who made a bomb to try and destroy the Hulk but it only made him stronger. Miek tells how he is along and always hiding and stealing and trying not to get killed or turned into a slave. He says that he has decided to fight for friends now, like Skee did before he died. Hiroim finally addresses them and says that they will be warbound and as they speak their names, it will bind each of them together forever.

Outside, Caira is talking to a guard about the Hulk as the guard mentions that people are talking about the legends based on what the Hulk has done. He then tells her that the Green Scar may have started the story but the Silver Savage will end it. Inside a prisoner box is a captive Silver Surfer dressed as a gladiator.

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