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This World Our Hell
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The Hulk and Jackie McGree wander through what the Green Goliath described as Hell: a dimension in ruins, with a beacon of green light shining from the ground to the sky. They entered this place after the Green Door was fully opened by Carl Creel in Los Diablos. As they start walking, the Hulk starts talking about the question Jackie made him when they met in Minnesota: she asked him how she could be like him. Hulk understands the desire: many tried, some succeeded in a sense. But why does Jackie want to become like the Hulk?
The reporter tells him that it is about rage: he can let all that rage go, and use it to destroy. And he is always pardoned: if he destroys a city, Doctor Strange tries to find him a quiet place to rest. Or maybe Iron Man finds a paradise planet for him to live in. Why do they not punish him when he commits acts of rage? Jackie wants to be able to feel, to use and especially to be forgiven for that kind of rage. The Hulk is stricken by the words of the girl: she understands what rage really is. She is not ashamed of it, she does not try to separate anger from herself. She does not refuse her angry side.
So Jackie once again tells the Hulk that she would gladly step in a gamma machine, but in that moment, someone speaks: it is the hollow body of Rick Jones), rotten and empty, repeating old lines from memory.
Somewhere else, Creel is kneeling and in shock for what happened: what was the creature that made him open the Green Door? Trying to lift him up and answer his questions is Puck, member of Gamma Flight. He is experienced with magic and devils, and believes that what Creel absorbed with his powers was magic in nature. He also believes that the thing which controlled the Absorbing Man is finally the real deal, the real Devil. Something he has been searching for a long time. Creel is dumbfounded, and asks him who he is to know all this things. Puck answers with the strange and bizarre experiences that he lived through, then tells Creel that he will help close the door he opened up.
Back to the Hulk and Jackie: the two inspect the talking corpse of Rick Jones, and soon experience the appearance of another "empty shell", this time belonging to Jackie's father. The thing shocks her, and when the Hulk tells her to leave him, she explodes in rage and tears. His father died because of him: all the stress caused by the Hulk destroying their house led to a life of hard work that, in the end, was too much for Mr. McGee. But then, another corpse appears: the one of Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross). The Hulk feels something is not right: Ross is still alive, so why is he here?
As he tries to understand, the corpse transforms into a monstrous version of the Red Hulk and starts fighting the Hulk. The Green Goliath gets angrier and angrier, remembering all of the times that Ross refused Banner and hunted the Hulk. He rips the Red Hulk apart and becomes a true machine of rage and violence. Above, near the green beacon, Brian Banner speaks: he tells his son, separated from the Hulk and in the middle of the green light, that he has always been right. The Hulk is a monster, and it is better for Bruce to remain parted from him.
Creative credits
Writers: Al Ewing
Interior art: Joe Bennett
Color: Paul Mounts
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GCD: 1918096