@bonifidehustla: he's in the top 5.

@thedailybagel:

Wasn't Bruce in the top 5 already. Doc Green has Extremis and he's way smarter than Bruce. He is probably number 1 with being smart and using strategies since none of the other smart people could take out the Hulks. LOL

@bonifidehustla: Bruce was top 7.

@thedailybagel:

I see but it seems like Doc Green is way smarter than Bruce. I guess i need to see more feats. It seems like he made that time machine with ease and very quick when he needed the adamantium.

@thedailybagel: Wrong. Dr. Banner is in the top 5 smartest men on Earth. It can be said that he's at top 3, with only Doom & Richards coming before him. And even then, it's highly debatable considering there's a lot that Banner can do that even people like Doom, Richards, Stark, Pym and T'Challa cannot. And that was way before the extremis was introduced.

He was in the Top 7 but it was never outright stated where anyone stood in those rankings. He could have been Number 1 or Number 7.

These days it seems like its Reed out in front & then Stark, Banner, Pym, maybe a couple of others in a very close & pretty interchangable group (leaving villains out of it). I think theres a very good chance Doc Green is now Number 1, theres been a bit of "Smartest One There Is" talk but you can never really count Reed out of it.

@greenscar1990: he was in the top 7 but where he was in that list is debatable.

Arno Stark has the potential to be the new smartest guy.

@greenscar1990: Wrong again, Hank Pym is the third smartest man in the Marvel Universe after Doom and Reed, not Banner. At best Banner might be fourth but he's not in the top 3. He wasn't the one appointed Scientist Supreme of the Marvel Universe after all.

I guess it depends on more feats of Doc Green to see how smart he really is. If the other people are the smartest they should figure out what his true plan is.

Lets just say, he is a really smart guy!

@lvenger: Scientist Supreme of the MU my ass. It was nothing more than Loki disguising himself as Eternity when he confronted Hank Pym. So who's wrong now?

These last couple posts have been ace. Thanks for all the updates, gents.

@greenscar1990: Starlin in addition to writing the statement of Hulk's strength, also wrote Thanos on two occasions pimp-slapping Hulk with the utmost of ease. He also wrote Thanos to stomp the Annihilators; Hulk is not a Skyfather like being as Thanos is, nor is he a high Herald level.

The number of ways to which Thanos could dispatch of Hulk are in their numbers; not even Skyfather beings like Odin can knock Thanos out, or Champion/Thor with Power Gem.

Hulk beating or giving Thanos a decent fight is purely fan-fiction.

*Thanos did not compare Hulk to Power Gem Champion either; that's abundantly taken out of context.

As of right now, it certainly seems like Hulk will get a crack at the all powerful Thanos. Will he win? No, probably not. Will he get slapped away immediately? No, probably not. The truth usually lies somewhere in between.

IMAO Yes.

I must say you got very good taste in your avatar and I'm glad you agree with me. LOL

Thanks same :)

@frozen: giving him a decent fight isn't that far fetched. I think it'll probably be a largely physical confrontation with it being even or hulk having a slight upper hand untill thanos brings out his other powers and wrecks him.

THANOS VS HULK #1 (of 4)

JIM STARLIN (W/A/C)

VARIANT COVER BY RON LIM

• An all-new four-part story by fan-favorite Jim Starlin begins here!

• The Hulk is kidnapped by Pip the Troll and traded to Annihilus!

• Then Thanos of Titan gets thrown into the mix…

HULK #9

GERRY DUGGAN (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)

AN X-MAN COMETH FOR THE “OMEGA HULK”

• DOC GREEN says “Hello, KITTY!” The PRYDE of the X-MEN guest stars.

• Plus – BRUCE BANNER returns! ...But in what shape?

• And – a recently de-powered HULK is placed in mortal danger.

Thoughts on 006? Just picked up and read, enjoying so far, looking forward to 007 with Rulk vs Doc Green :)

Isn't Hulk 7 supposed to involve Skaar? What's Rulk doing here already? I thought Duggan was saving him till last due to the animosity/rivalry between the two.

End of 006 had Rulk aware A-Bomb has been "cured" and off to fight. Maybe he'll take an issue to catch him...who knows.

Ah I see. Actually, I just checked the Marvel site for Hulk 7 solicits and it's not there. There isn't any info for Hulk 7 which is peculiar.

Either way i hope Red Hulk is cured and the rest of them except Skaar. I never really liked clones i wouldnt call She-Hulk one since she fights way different and more agile than Hulk.

The Omega story is really good but it's not worth losing A-Bomb and possibly Rulk... please some one make it stop ;_;

I hope it continues there was never no need for them 2 especially.

If you look at it that way you might as well cross out 80% of the Avengers and X-Men since so many people have the same kind of powers and make other people's powers redundant. They are both completely different people and characters and that's all that really matter.

My review of Hulk #6: Omega Hulk, Part 2

http://www.comicvine.com/hulk-6-the-o-hulk-chapter-two/4000-465844/user-reviews/2200-44254

Be sure to comment!

@greenscar1990: what was the hulk annual like? Did doc green show how powerful he is?

@thedailybagel: It was very good. Doc Green proves to be very cunning, intelligent, and very powerful. He quite literally rips up a mountain and throws it an his city-spanning enemy! I'll say no more than this. It's best that you pick it up and read it for yourself.

Savage Hulk #4 was also equally very good. All I can say about that issue is that people should be thankful that Hulk/Banner only focus their power through strength/brute force alone. If they would focus their power into other abilities, those abilities would be as infinite/limitless as the Hulk's strength. :)

@greenscar1990: awesome, I'll defintely pick it up!

Naw not 80% have the same powers of both the Avengers and X-men. Actually Marvel is pretty good with different powers compared to DC. There should only be 3 hulks Hulk, She-Hulk, and Skaar IMO. Then again I'm not really a fan of Avengers or X-men anymore. I care mostly about solo comics now.

No it really is like 80%. Every one just has increased speed, agility, durability, and super strength. Then when you have the more unique powers they have multiples like 5 different claw/feral mutants like wolverine, 5 spider-people, a ton of telepaths, a ton of energy absorbers/projectors, etc.

All I'm saying is if you try to cut out characters because someone else has other powers like them, then you're killing a lot of your creative freedom. It's not like powers are what make characters different.

@greenscar1990: what if focus is power true telekinesis?

Avengers 34 spoilers.

The fact Doc Green is still in control of Banner's body after an 8 month time skip sorta scares me.

Hulk vs Skaar. Head for cover.

Hulk, or perhaps we should say Doc Green, has been seeking out his former gamma-irradiated colleagues in order to try to cure them. It hasn't been going as smoothly as he'd like. Next up...Skaar!

HULK #7

(W) Gerry Duggan (A) Mark Bagley (CA) Gary Frank

DOC GREEN GETS HIS SITES ON MORE GAMMA TARGETS

• DOC GREEN versus SKAAR versus...hmm. We don't want to spoil it

• But were you worried Doc Green forgot about the GAMMA CORPS?

• Plus, an appearance by a very unexpected green-skinned member of the of the HULK family.

Rated T

Item Code: AUG140826 In Shops: 10/15/2014 SRP: $3.99

Thats good news to me. I figured they would let Banner take back over.

@bonifidehustla: I want to see Banner and Hulk(The one from PH/WWH) talk inside of his head and agree to get their body back they will work together and then share the body 50/50 once it's over. I always thought after Hulk got smarter and had some real life experience on Sakaar that Banner and Hulk should have worked more like Firestorm from DC comics..

I'm not really a fan of getting rid of the other Hulks. I haven't seen or heard if it will be a permanent thing, but I've to like characters like Rick as A-Bomb and even Ross as the Red Hulk. Sure these guys had the same basis of their abilities (being strong, big, healing factor can transform etc), but they were very separated as far as characters go in personalities and some had unique abilities. I hope at some point in this arc that Rick does become A-Bomb again or if Ross and Skaar if they get cured becomes the Red Hulk and well...hulked up Skaar again. And I surprisingly like Doc Green. I'm liking Duggan's take so far, but I'm more against this whole concept going on.

@god_spawn: I think the femi-hulks are safe with all the female orientated stuff marvel have been doing lately. Ross has a big role in the thunderbolts so he should be good, I'm not sure on rick or skaar though. I'm thinking at least one of them will be on there way out.

@thedailybagel: I think at least She-Hulk is safe because she still has her on-going, unless it got cancelled and I didn't know about it. I'm not sure what Red She-Hulk has been up to lately, she is really the only Hulk I don't care too much about. I like Banner, Skaar, A-Bomb, and Red Hulk. I can see Rick being the most expendable. I think it would be interesting to see what happens to Skaar since he wasn't bombarded with gamma rays, but he was born with his power. Is he just gonna be little Skaar then with his Old Strong power for a period? So I'm just kind of hoping his run gets to a point where they do come back if all of them do get drained.

Whens hulk fighting thanos? Like what day does that comic come out?

@jashro44: I think it's around December.

I wish it was sooner.

I really do like Doc Green he really is a Lex Luthor with Hulk powers.

Here is a short sum up of what i think of the 3 comics that came out.

Hulk annual - pretty fun yet tragic story and a nice add to the Hulks rogue gallery. Also this shows how Hulk with prep is far more deadly in a fight than ever perceived before.

Savage Hulk #4 - a good story all around, i just didn't like how Davis perceives Hulk as nothing but a monster and every time he stops or spares someone it's Banner thats stopping it. But that's just his own personal view on the matter and like i said the story was good enough.

Hulk #6 - It was pretty great, another solid chapter from Duggan. And personally i hope every Hulk except She-Hulk get's depowered. Like i said before they just take away from what makes the original Hulk unique while literally not adding anything new. It's all just the same powers, the only difference is their personalities. Which is not enough to justify it. Bring back the good old days when there was 1 green goliath everyone knew and feared.

As for the upcoming Hulk vs Thanos mini series. I hope it turns out good and even though Thanos is more powerful then the Hulk i still hope the 2 would have an altercation, maybe just a pure brawl match. Because i would hate for the title to outright lie just to sell more issues.

I really liked the annual. It felt like I was reading one of the old Hulk stories I read when I was a kid.

@jonny_anonymous: me too. hulk is indeed deadly with prep time. defeating an omnipotent being is not easily. it will take raw strength with super intelligence to defeat that kind of being. lol

@medulaoblaganda: he never beat an omnipotent being...