Hulk sent to distant planet. Distant planet blows up. Hulk back. Hulk smash. Pretty good story about the consequences of doing "the right thing." Oh, and the consequences of "destroying the world." ( )

So, a quartet of heroes banished the Hulk to a planet where he started out as a slave and worked his way up to ruler. Eventually, he found love and got married only to have the space ship blow up, wiping out his new-found people and his wife. Needless to say, the Hulk's pretty annoyed about all of this and returns to Earth to kick some super-hero posterior and take some names.

And that's where World War Hulk begins. And then you spend the next hundred or so pages with the Hulk battling various Marvel superheroes and other foes as he gets madder and madder, which only makes him stronger. It's kind of fun, but not being a huge Hulk fan, a lot of the broader implications of things and developments were lost on me. But having heard some good buzz on this one and seeing it marketed as an "event" in the Marvel Universe, I was curious enough to pick up the trade paperback collection of the mini-series and give it a try ( )