World War Hulk: Gamma Corps

Collects World War Hulk: Gamma Corps #1-4 written by Frank Tieri and drawn by Carlos Ferreira.

I'll try to make this short and sweet, as I don't want to spend too much time on this sorry excuse for a comic book. The evil general Stryker brings together a strike force of super guys and gals that all have two things in common: they each have a grudge with the Hulk, and they are each the result of experiments involving DNA from classic Hulk villains, and, in one case, the big guy himself. Oh, and one more thing, they're all pretty lame. All Stryker wants is for them to take out the Hulk, because he himself has a grudge with the Hulk. And that's about it. Not much story here as you can see. In fact, most of the book is dedicated to telling the origin of each of the characters, pretty boring stuff... The sad thing about this book is that it was obviously meant as a build up to something more, but as far as I know these characters have not been heard of ever since. And I have a feeling things will stay that way...

The art is not good. Adjectives such as 'plain', 'boring', 'inconsistent' etc. come to mind. The only exception is the first dozen or so pages, which are actually pretty good. But it looks like deadlines have been sneaking up on the artist, because the art gets steadily worse until some of the pages are taken care of by a fill-in artist, at which point the artistic level of the book plummets to the bottom of the sea.

Marvel's editors must have known this book was a bad idea, so I can only assume they put it out so they could slap the WWH logo on it, and they knew it would at least bring home the production value. There's a lot of idiots out there who will buy a book just because it has a certain logo on the cover. So I guess that makes me an idiot... I strongly advice anyone to not buy this book. Save the money or donate it to charity or whatever. You will regret spending it on this book.

2/10