World War Hulk Reading Order
By bigtalk 0 Comments
Here's my after-the-fact "World War Hulk Reading Order".
I saw a reading order on another site (I don't remember where) that was broken down by page. It wasn't complete and too nit-picky for me. This is the order I store mine in:
World War Hulk Reading Order:
World War Hulk Prologue: World Breaker
Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #106
then
- Daily Bugle (2006-Present) - #9
Daily Bugle announces upcoming WWH, Iron Man, etc.
- Iron Man (2005-Present) - #19
this is the battle with Iron Man
- Iron Man (2005-Present) - #20
follows immediately after battle with Iron Man
- World War Hulk: Front Line - #1
we see Hulk battling Iron Man at the end of this book without a
conclusion
- World War Hulk - #1
we witness the conclusion to the Iron Man battle
- Irredeemable Ant-Man (2006-Present) - #10
Ant-Man is in the Hulk during the Iron Man battle
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #107
we see the Iron Man battle then Hulk beats up Hercules
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #108
Hulk has just finished punching on Hercules
- Ghost Rider (2006-Present) - #12
Ghost Rider comes face to face with the Hulk. Must be post
Iron Man Battle
- Ghost Rider (2006-Present) - #13
the face off between Ghost Rider and the Hulk continues
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #11
the Hulk's forces have landed on Earth
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #12
Heroes for Hire get on Hulk's space ship
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #13
Heroes for Hire are prisoners on Hulk's space ship
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #1
Hulk goes after Xavier. This could go before Ghost Rider.
Doesn't really matter.
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #2
Hulk continues his questioning of Xavier.
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #3
Hulk demolishes all X-Men and leaves.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #1
This could go most anywhere. It's an introduction to the
Gamma Corps
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #2
Origins of Gamma Corps members.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #3
No time reference for this one. hulk battles Gamma Corps and gets
his neck snapped. Must be before arena.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #4
Hulk recovers from his broken neck. Beats Gamma Corps and
heads out (for Avengers battle?)
- World War Hulk - #2
Battle against She-Hulk and the Avengers then destroys the
Fantastic Four
- Avengers: The Initiative - #4
Hulk has already beat up Samson and the rest
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #109
Hulk tells Renegades to go away and starts building arena
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#2
Hulk's forces are on Earth and the 24 hours is just about up
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#3
Hulk has already defeated the FF
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #110
Hulk hasn't begun his arena battles.
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #14
Heroes meet in arena. It is empty; must be before arena battles.
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #15
This continues immediately after 14.
- Avengers: The Initiative - #5
Hulk is obviously not busy with arena battles. He beats up Avengers
Shadow Initiative.
- World War Hulk - #3
Hulk finishes arena. Dr Strange confronts him and gets his hands
crushed. Dr Strange summons Zom.
- World War Hulk - #4
Hulk defeats Dr Strange/Zom. Arena battles begin. Sentry takes
flight.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#4
We see some arena battles from crowd perspective.
- Marvel Spotlight: World War Hulk
Good time to have a Spotlight.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Files
May as well think about different Gamma characters at this point.
- Punisher: War Journal (2007-Present) #12
Side story. Punisher fights aliens and evacuates civilians from New
York.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#5
We see Sentry enter the scene.
- World War Hulk - #5
Battle between Sentry and Hulk and conclusion to WWH.
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #111
Kind of a recap. We see the battle between Dr Strange/Zom and
Hulk as well as the battles between Hulk and Sentry. Then the
conclusion.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#6
Another recap from a different perspective. Also we see aftermath.
Now we are in the Aftersmash:
- What If? Planet Hulk
I put this in Aftersmash because it felt right.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash
Follows immediately soon after WWH #5.
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #112
Follows sometime soon after WWH #5.
- Incredible Hercules (2008-Present) - #113
These can just keep going in order...
- Incredible Hercules (2008-Present) - #114
This is the last Aftersmash for Incredible Hercules. (It only
says it's Part of Aftersmash on the variant cover.) #115 carries
on the fun, but it's strictly Herc and Cho now.World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #1
This could be read right after Aftersmash (or while your reading
Incredible Hercules.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #2
This is next.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #3
This one finishes up this mini (it got kinda silly.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #1
This could be read right after Aftersmash (or while your reading
Incredible Hercules and Damage Control.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #2
Follows immediately after #1.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #3
Amazingly, this comes after #3.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #4
Yup. This one's next!
- World War Hulk AfterSmash: Warbound - #5
Now, we're done.
I really enjoyed WWH and the Aftersmashes as well. Aren't comics cool?
If anyone thinks the reading order should be different or if I missed something, I'd love to hear it.