This November, Mark Waid and incoming artist Mahmud Asrar forge headlong into Inhumanity.
In the fallout of INFINITY, Dr. Bruce Banner begins construction on a bomb of unprecedented power. What threat proves so daunting that it demands a solution far more devastating than a Hulk?
Mark waid speaks on the role of Banner in Inhumanity saying, “Thanks to the events of Inhumanity, something noxious this way comes There’s something drifting over from where [the Inhuman capital] Attilan used to be, over toward more populated areas. The world’s greatest scientists—the Reed Richards, the Tony Starks and so forth—bow to Bruce Banner and his expertise. No one knows more about weird radiation that can turn you into a monster than Bruce Banner does.”
Waid continues on saying that this is a problem for Bruce Banner to solve not the Hulk. “The problem is that this isn’t something you can punch,” Waid continues. “This is more of a problem for Banner and his assistants than for the Hulk. Obviously the Hulk manages to elbow his way into every conflict anyway, and that will happen here.”.
Mark Waid also says that this story arc will involve a paradigm shift in the Hulk Banner relationship “The whole ethos of this run has been ‘Hulk destroys; Banner builds.’ That paradigm is reversed here. Banner is building a bomb. But remember: This, in a way, is Banner’s chance to redeem himself for the gamma bomb he built all those years ago that created the Hulk and caused all this destruction. It’s really an interesting internal conflict in the Marvel Universe and everyone turns to Banner for a solution. His solution is, ‘Okay, I’m going to build a bomb.’ That’s not what you want to hear out of Bruce Banner, but there’s a method to his madness and a redemptive method to this madness.”