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World War Hulk: Damage Control (Incredible Hulk) Paperback – January 1, 2008

by Dwayne McDuffie (Author), Greg Pak (Author), Salva Espin (Contributor),
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World War Hulk is over. But the Aftersmash has just begun! Heroes and monsters rise and fall as the events of World War Hulk reverberate through the blasted ruins of New York City with goliath impact in a massive story featuring the Warbound, the Renegades, Heroes for Hire, Iron Man, Tom Foster, and Damage Control. And yes, smashing will be involved. Plus: We don't know if you heard, but Hulk came back to earth and made a HUUUUUUUUGE mess. Who's S.H.I.E.L.D. gonna get to clean it up? DAMAGE CONTROL, the roughest, toughest dilapidated dirt dogs this side'a the universe. If anyone can clean up the aftereffects of World War Hulk, they can. But while they're picking up the pieces, they find that the war... may not be over! Collects World War Hulk: AfterSmash and World War Hulk: AfterSmash: Damage Control #1-3.
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  1. Print length
    112 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Marvel Enterprises
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    6.75 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0785123881
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0785123880
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel Enterprises (January 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785123881
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785123880
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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  1. Dwayne McDuffie

    Dwayne McDuffie

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    Dwayne McDuffie is the co-creator of the Emmy Award winning television series STATIC SHOCK and of Milestone Media, the most successful black-owned comic book company in history. In television, he was a Writer/Producer for Warner Brothers’ JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED and is currently the co-producer/story editor of Cartoon Network’s BEN 10: ULTIMATE ALIEN. A leading proponent of multiculturalism in media, Dwayne has created dozens of characters for comics, television and videogames, notably, Marvel Comics DAMAGE CONTROL and DEATHLOK II, and Milestone Comics ICON and HARDWARE. Dwayne is a multiple Emmy and Eisner Award nominee, and is the winner of the 2003 Humanitas Prize.

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    Greg Pak

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    Greg Pak is a comic book writer and filmmaker best known for comic books such as "Planet Hulk," "Action Comics," and "Mech Cadet Yu." He wrote the "Code Monkey Save World" graphic novel and "The Princess Who Saved Herself" children's book, based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton.

    Pak co-wrote the fan favorite "Incredible Hercules" series with Fred Van Lente, with whom he also wrote the new How-To book, "Make Comics Like the Pros."

    As a filmmaker, Pak directed the award-winning feature "Robot Stories" and dozens of shorts, including "Happy Fun Room."

    Pak is represented by Sandra Lucchesi of the Gersh Agency, Los Angeles. For more about his work, visit twitter.com/gregpak and gregpak.com.

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Playjon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story Line
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2012
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One of the best story lines I have ever read in comics. Planet Hulk and World War Hulk are just amazing. Even if you don't follow Hulk comics this is a great read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016
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It wrapped up the series pretty while. I would recommend reading it.
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Tomas
3.0 out of 5 stars World War Hulk Aftermath
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2010
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Good side story describing waht happened after Worl War Hulk in New York city. A lot of characters brought together for this story.
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MISTER SJEM
4.0 out of 5 stars OVERALL GRADE: B
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2015
It's time to fix up New York City after the hulk raged through it but there are conflicting parties involved. I liked some of the focuses on the non superheroes in this one, too, but it's the first I've read of the series (library copy).

Artwork was done well.
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Luquillo
2.0 out of 5 stars Cleaning up after the Green Goliath.
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2015
Originally written 10-1-11

World War Hulk has come to an end and the rage filled monster, The Hulk, has failed in his attempt to demolish the city, and his Warbound have been captured and are on their way to confinement. New York City has been almost completely devastated and now it's time to suck it up and move forward. The construction organization, Damage Control, have been called in to clean up the mess and rebuild the city. -summary

World War Hulk was no doubt a very fun ride with some cool action and character interactions. It followed up Planet Hulk very well despite not being as engaging. Where Plant Hulk was far more on the thought provoking side and shifted away from the typical Hulk-like stories; World War Hulk in a lot of ways was an old fashioned Hulk story. Damage Control is the aftermath, and it really did begin with a spark but it could have been so much more. In the end, I really didn't find it to be that great of a conclusion to the epic World War Hulk storyline.

I always found the idea of Damage Control to be an interesting one. Their primary purpose is to clean up the damage created in superhero vs. super-villain battles, which use to leave me wondering at one point; who takes care of all this damage? The first story was pretty entertaining with some action here and there. It pretty much reveals the fates of certain characters plus ties up loose ends. Greg Pak finishes things off rather well and sets up future storylines. He did keep the storyline entertaining with some good ideas. The plot is very fast paced, and it follows Iron Man as he tries to coordinate the salvage teams and begin NYC for repair, some brief battles breakout for the action fan. In short, this part is pretty satisfying and the artwork by Rafa Sandoval is pretty impressive. The characters are very well drawn with some nice detail, and the colors help bring out the best.

The second story which happens to be the three parter drags this book almost completely to the ground. The late Dwayne McDuffie has wowed me in the past with his writing, unfortunately, this is not one of those moments at all. The story features mainly character interactions and I found almost all of them to be boring as hell. The topics weren't very interesting, and they would just drag and drag and drag, with almost no possibility of a resolve in their future, and when one of these very lame moments finally did reach a conclusion, it was one of those roll your eye moments because it was so stupid. McDuffie tried a lot of forced comedy, but it only hit the mark when it didn't come off forced, with one part concerning the big hats talking about NYC's superhero vs. super-villain battle insurance. I thought this part was hilarious and it was well done. Everything else was just terrible and I found myself wanting to skip pages because I was so damn bored. The artwork isn't as good as the first chapter, and there's also a comedic twist thrown in on the character designs.

In closing, I highly recommend the WWH story arc, however, I only recommend this book to the completest and those who closely followed the story. It doesn't add much to the overall story, and to top it off, it wasn't much of a fun read either.

Pros: First story, and some artwork

Cons: Second story is very close to awful
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N. Durham
3.0 out of 5 stars The aftermath
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2008
In the aftermath of World War Hulk stands a decimated New York City and a ravaged populace as Damage Control begins, with Tony "Iron Man" Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. helping to clean up the mess. We also see what develops as the Hulk's Warbound are taken into custody, as well as the aftermath of the involvement of Hercules, Amadeus Cho, and co. to boot. This TPB is really only worth checking out if you followed World War Hulk pretty closely (the event didn't seem to have as much overall impact compared to Civil War or currently Secret Invasion) or care as to how the place recovered after the cataclysmic battle between the Hulk and Sentry. If you don't, there really isn't anything here that'll hold your interest. Still, what's featured here isn't bad, and there's pretty good artwork throughout as well. All in all, if you dug World War Hulk and are curious as to how the Marvel universe recovered, Damage Control is worth checking out.
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Ana Pastor Valdivieso
2.0 out of 5 stars World War Hulk Damage Control
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2008
I didn't like this item of the world war Hulk, the first part is kind of interesting, where you see the warbounds, and what happens to them after the war is over, and you might enjoy the proytct for the reocnstruction of New York, but the talking building is too much, and frankly, I found it disrespectful for the comic fans.
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