Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk

Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk

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caption = Cover of Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #1, by Leinil Yu.
schedule = erratic
format = mini-series
publisher = Marvel Comics
date = December 2005 to ?
issues = 6 (2 so far)
main_char_team = Wolverine
The Hulk
writers = Damon Lindelof
artists = Leinil Francis Yu
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colorists = Dave McCaig
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"Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk" is a comic book miniseries, published by Marvel Comics. The series is set in one of Marvel's shared universes, the Ultimate Universe. It was written by "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof, and illustrated by artist Leinil Francis Yu and colorist Dave McCaig. The title characters square off after Wolverine is contracted by Nick Fury to assassinate the Hulk, who is known to be residing in Tibet. Lindelof has revealed that neither Wolverine nor the Hulk will die, their powers will be shown in new ways, there will be cameos by other Ultimate characters, and at least one new major Ultimate character will be introduced (currently believed to be Ultimate She-Hulk), excepting the introduction of Ultimate Wendigo. [http://comics.ign.com/articles/667/667856p1.html] [http://comics.ign.com/objects/772/772078.html#news] It was originally planned as a six-issue, bimonthly series. But after only two issues, the publication of the remainder of the series was indefinitely postponed. The series takes place between Ultimate X-Men issues 69 and 71 and before Ultimates 2 issue 11.

Issue One

Wolverine awakens to find his lower half missing, his body having been ripped in half by the Hulk minutes earlier. Using his keen sense of smell, he finds his legs have been thrown to the top of a mountain. As he climbs up a mountain to retrieve his legs, he recalls the events leading up to his current situation.

He recounts meeting Nick Fury, Betty Ross and Jennifer Walters, and being told that the Hulk is alive and responsible for several "incidents" of mass destruction after a public "execution" by S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury gives Logan (Wolverine) the assignment to hunt down and "take care" of the Hulk. Wolverine tracks the Hulk to a small Tibetan village, where the Hulk is found lounging, surrounded by scantily clad women. Upon seeing the Hulk, Wolverine says "Hi, Bruce". (A minor goof, as in the 2nd issue this line is delivered from another perspective as "Hello Bruce")

Issue Two

We see the events leading up to the fight between Hulk and Wolverine from Banner's point of view. The comic begins with Banner being left for dead on an off-shore ship, bound to the ground as a bomb looms beside him. He transforms into the Hulk at the last minute, and the explosion fails to kill him. The Hulk swims to Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, transforming back into Banner as he reaches the shore.

Banner finds himself drifting from one lifestyle to the next, forced to relocate every time he loses control of his temper and transforms into the Hulk. The first time, a Parisian psychologist accuses Bruce of not letting himself get angry over losing Betty, calling him impotent and unknowingly calling him "David", driving him over the edge. The second time he is working as a farm hand and his superior mocks him for eating tofurkey, a tofu turkey substitute. The third time, Bruce musters the courage to call Betty once more, only this time a man picks up the phone. He ventures to Tibet in search of the Panchen Lama, a monk along the same line of holiness as the Dalai Lama, who turns out to be a child. The Panchen Lama predicts that Bruce's intentions of being there is to find an answer to his problem with him changing into the Hulk when he gets angry. The Panchen Lama explains that it is his duty, upon the Dalai Lama's death, to find his reincarnation, and similarly, it is the Dalai Lama's responsibility to do the same for the Panchen Lama. He then mentions an old proverb about which one discovered the other first, stating that most people know the question in modern times in relation to chickens and eggs. He then poses to Bruce the question 'what if it is not you that changes into the Hulk, but the Hulk that changes into you?'. We then go forward in time to the point in which the first issue ended, where Logan says 'Hello, Bruce' upon finding the Hulk. The Hulk demurely answers 'Hello yourself, Logan. Would you like a hot cocoa?' This is presumably the first time we see the Hulk in the Ultimate Universe in a calm, rational state.

Delays and future of the series

The third issue of the series has met with many delays. It was originally solicited for April 19, 2006, only to be resolicited for May 17. That date came and went, and after about a week with no word on the issue's fate, Marvel announced that it would be released July 12. Further delays caused the issue to be bumped to August 9, then September 20, then October 25, then November 1, November 8, and December 27. Finally it was announced in mid-November 2006 that the third issue of the series had been officially canceled until all of the remaining issues of the mini series are completed.

At a panel at San Diego Comic Con 2008, Quesada and Lindelof announced that all of the remaining issues had been scripted and that once Yu had finished his work on "Secret Invasion", he will provide artwork for the remaining issues. [ [http://comics.ign.com/articles/894/894074p1.html?RSSwhen2008-07-26_180300&RSSid=894074 IGN: SDCC 08: Status Of Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk] ]

Animated feature

At San Diego Comic-con 2008, Marvel and Lionsgate screened a 40-minute animated feature called "Hulk vs. Wolverine." The feature included the first time the villian Deadpool was included in a cartoon and included several characters and some of the historic roots of Wolverine's past. [http://blastmagazine.com/2008/07/comic-con-2008-hulk-vs-wolverine-was-a-treat/] The full film will be released in 2009 as "Hulk Vs".

In Ultimate X-Men # 97 after a fight with Colossus in which he rips one of Wolverines legs off. The two heroes are in the X-Men's sick bay talking over their fight when Wolverine makes reference to when he and the Hulk fought. He explained to Colossus that the Hulk had ripped the lower half of his body off. He said to Colossus "after I healed from that you should have seen what I did to the Hulk... it was epic."

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