There's nothing technically wrong with any of the stories, even if you approach them purely as "What If?" shorts -- they do stand alone, but let's not pretend that the comic is anything more than an exercise in servicing nostalgia. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean the book isn't ever going to be on any "top 10 comics in 2009" lists. It's one for hardcore Hulk enthusiasts only, but at least they will enjoy it. Read Full Review

Wow, that was REALLY bad. First of all, the idea of the book was pretty doomed as is. 4 different stories in a normal sized comic. 4 different stories about 4 different Hulks from 4 different worlds that had 4 different continuities in other comics before this one. And you can either make it for those few people who were familiar with all of these Hulks, or you could just make some stories in these settings, but without any real weight for the continuity of these characters. You know, to make new readers interested in those original storylines and maybe sell some TPBs to them. But they chose the first option...

But either way, even though I consider myself a Hulk fan, I'm not familiar with 2099 Hulk at all, never tried to read anything about him at all, so this story missed me COMPLETELY and the awful art made it even worse.

The microverse story was... okay. A bit weird and tangled, pretty nonsensical, but kinda sad, I guess. But this Jarella sob story was many years old already and I can't really give any points for that one. Never read the original Jarella period of TIH, maybe that's why it doesn't touch me. But I believe Planet Hulk was much stronger in a way of making Hulk feeling a loss.

House of M Hulk appeared only in the Incredible Hulk series during House of M event and I've read it. Didn't like it then. Found it really boring and didn't think it made much sense. But here's a conclusion for the story of House of M Hulk no one really asked for. And it's bad. Really, I don't know, maybe if you loved House of M Hulk back then, you might find this conclusion good or even satisfying, but it's not my case. Not at all. What the hell just that was? All this Betty stuff was too absurd and random. And how could Bruce still become the Hulk when he got this power dampening collar on his neck? And what was that conclusion? I really didn't understand Hulk's reaction. It's just bad all around. Though, the art was fine.

But what I clearly remembered well, because just read it yesterday, is Future Imperfect. There's an epilogue for that VERY GOOD limited series and... What the fuck was that? Again. UM... I don't even know where to start. First of all, you'll understand nothing at all if you didn't read Future Imperfect. But if you did - you might find this crap insulting as hell.

You see, back in 1992 Peter David wrote a really solid story with a lot of... edgy stuff. But it wasn't too edgy. It was edgy in an elegant way. Of course you saw that Maestro raped all these concubines, but this mini-epilogue made a really huge accent on how this Char girl was defiled by Maestro and how she can never be free after that. Spoiler: she forgets her pain in just a few more pages... And how is that possible, that she got pregnant after what... one night? It wasn't even really shown that she had time to have anything with Maestro at all. What did he do with all the other women who got pregnant? Or did he have some hidden heir? I think I need to catch up on this Maestro stuff... And even if she really got pregnant, she really wouldn't feel it here yet. She just makes a guess? Like, it was unprotected, so she might be carrying his child? What if his body can't produce offspring after so much radiation he sucked in? Nah, nevermind. I just checked it - she already died in Abominations. I don't know if the child crap was made by that author back then or David made it out here just for fun...

But! This wasn't really as bad for me as this Cap shield twist. It really made me doubt that David himself wrote this story. But no, it was him. How... no, really... how could he ruin that conclusion of Future Imperfect? It feels like a hand of Jeff Loeb or Garth Ennis touched the script... I don't even want to describe the situation and absurdity of it. Just open the comic and see for yourself.

Yeah, you bet I didn't like this comic at all... I mean, the microverse story wasn't really bad. Was cool to see Herb Trimpe also. And maybe I'd like the 2099 Hulk story if I knew the context. But... I totally knew the context of House of M and Future Imperfect Hulk. And I doubt it's anything different.

Can't wait to see the issue 2... more