It turns out that there has been no more accurate predictor of future
Hulk storylines than the covers of old issues of
What If?
To wit:
Yes, they've done the "
Hulk with Banner's brain"--multiple times!
Or...
OK, not with
Jarella in the
Microverse. But they did send Hulk to a planet where he got to hook up with a hot chick and essentially be a
big-ass barbarian brawler...
Or...
Yeah,
Rick's been a Hulk before,
and an
Abomination...is he still
A-Bomb? Have we seen Rick lately?
Or...
OK, that's a pretty
generic premise, as there's plenty of times Hulk has gone "
berserk." I guess we count this.
Of course, there are some premises
so far-fetched that
Marvel writers would
never adopt them in the "real" world of
Marvel-616:
Oh, wait, they
did do that one. Of course, he's not
red here, but still....
The premise is fairly sound, then...if you're a Hulk writer hard up for story ideas, just go digging in the old What If? bins!
BONUS: what did happens if
Thunderbolt Ross became a
(non-red) Hulk?
Not such a good ending for Rick Jones...
Well, that's not so good.
Meanwhile, still on his very first day as Hulk, Ross accidentally kills his daughter
Betty:
Hey, kids--COMICS!! (But it's only a What If?, so it doesn't count, right? Right??
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