Hulk Family: Green Genes One Shot (2009)

When Red Hulk hit the scene, he became an instant fan favorite.  It’s funny because most of the comic readers I talk with trash the initial Red Hulk run as mindless action but (a) it was a monster sales-wise, so people obviously wanted it and (b) it’s Hulk.  Hulk is always at his best when he’s fighting.

Anyway, Marvel has never been known to leave cash on the table so they tried their best to capitalize on Red Hulk’s success by pushing out a bunch of features featuring Hulk and Hulk-adjacent characters.  These books are very uneven (as are nearly all anthologies).

The first story lets Fred Van Lente write She-Hulk again after Peter David took over her monthly series and ran it into the ground (in a very rare loss for Peter David, who is almost always an amazing writer).  She fights alongside Joe Fixit against a couple mutants in Nevada.  Ironically, I believe this takes place during Peter David’s (fantastic) run on Incredible Hulk, many years ago.  I guess that’s the circle of life.

Van Lente also writes a story here about Amadeus Cho, where he makes Scorpion cry by foiling her mission to help AIM get their own Hulk.

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Next, Greg Pak and Jeremy Raapack offer a brief Skaar interlude–presumably to sell his main book to new readers.  Hulk’s other kid, Lyra–his daughter with Thundra.  This story is not 616–all the characters are alternate reality versions–but since Lyra will find her way to the 616 eventually, I’ve tagged her.  

After that, we get a reprint of She-Hulk #1 by Stan Lee.

Not much worth reading here, but it’s not awful.