123. Hulk vol 1 #204 ... Marvel ...

And from that brief respite in the world of DC, we take a jump back into Marvel ... and back in time to the Hulk's early days! This is an interesting chapter. You see, at this juncture, Hulk has found his green love, Jarella again and they were brought back to our world from the micro-world that she inhabited

And during this trip, instead of the army hounding him, the army is actually helping him to try to rid himself of the Hulk ... something new to me as I never even knew Ross actually had a period like this ... all the while, Banner's love is Betty but she has married Talbot ... that I also didn't know ... and Talbot is having issues as he was captured recently and tortured ...

So the drama aside, what else?

The villain of the piece is not really the villain. For you see, another scientist named Kronos (how coincidental) has discovered and built a time machine. For a human test subject, they offered Bruce stating that if he went back to the past, he could prevent the accident from happening and thus never become the Hulk. And as he did so, the moment he never became the Hulk, well, the world he knew has changed, eh? And he seemed to be the only one who remembered

Rick is dead because he didn't go and save Rick but rather save his own skin and his sanity is hammered by this, his own self-preservation ... also has his true love changed? And what is the right thing for Bruce to do?

Many questions and as you can see even though this is a HULK SMASH book ... there is a lot more for the brain to ponder than what one might expect of a Hulk comic

Ratings: 6/10