"SMASHSTRONAUT" PART 5 OF 6!
• As President Thunderbolt Ross rains down gamma-irradiated hell, Bruce Banner's Starship Hulk experiment faces its toughest field test yet - this time, it might crack under the pressure.
• Bruce Banner thinks his control over the Hulk is now absolute... but what if he's wrong?
RATED T+
Honestly, this was the first real miss for me on Cates' run and it really undercut the reveal from last issue by showing us very, very little of the Hulk/Spider-Hulk kaiju fight. Instead we got a lot of monologuing back and forth between alt-Banner and alt-Ross before what was ultimately just a ramp up of the prior issue's ending. It all felt very "wheel-spinning."