Everyone’s favorite reporting team of Sally Floyd and Ben Urich are back to bring readers front line coverage of World War Hulk.
Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek at the six issue mini-series which arrives in stores June 27.
WORLD WAR HULK: FRONT LINE #1 (of 6) (APR072304)
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Penciled by RAMON BACHS
Cover by JOHN WATSON
In World War Hulk: Front Line #1 (of 6), the journalistic duo bring you a unique perspective on the opening shots of this summer’s “incredible” event and the initial conflict between Hulk & Iron Man that might just level Manhattan! This limited series reunites the Civil War: Front Line creative team of writer Paul Jenkins and artist Ramon Bachs to deliver a nuanced look at how the regular world is affected by Hulk’s war, all wrapped up in eye-catching covers by John Watson. Just who wants to help our intrepid reporters take down J. Jonah Jameson and how will the Front Line newspaper figure into it? And when one of Hulk’s allies is murdered by an unknown assailant, the NYPD is put on notice—if this mystery isn’t solved, New York City won’t be standing for much longer!
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Graah! Hulk SMASH amateur pedicurist!!!! SMASH!!!!
Oog…not ANOTHER Murder-Mystery. Couldn’t we just rename this ‘WWH: Miss Marple?’
The thing that gets me is the use of the word “nuanced” when the original series was anything but. Sally Floyd is a strident, unpleasant, and thoroughly ordinary character, and Ben Urich is one long love note to Frank Miller. The eleven issues of the previous Frontline series made no sense, had little dramatic structure, and were annoyingly Mary Sue-ish in their treatment of Sally “Little Miss Voice Of A Generation” Floyd.
Still you kind of have to admire the testicular fortitude to just come out and say “Okay, our big crossover is just a disjointed bunch of fight scenes, you need to buy this OTHER book entirely if you want any character moments.” Marvel editorial must have their pants specially tailored to accomodate the cojones necessary for that kind of blatant marketing ploy.
Any guesses as to who will be disloyal to our country because they don’t know what MySpace or YouTube is this time?
My money is on Daredevil.
“Listen, DOCTOR Banner… You talk about walking the roads of America! You talk about knowing about heroism… Can you tell me how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a
Tootsie Pop? Which Bundy child was the slut? Do you even know who Simon Cowell is?
You’ve been so busy with saving lives that you don’t realize I’m a $*@$ing idiot talking complete nonsense!”
Hulk flicks index finger and Sally turns to a fine red mist.
“How many legs has spiders got? Can you tell Hulk secret formula for Coca-Cola???”