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The big Marvel event - World War Hulk - was next.

Paniccia talked about the prologue by Peter David, Al Rio, Sean Phillips and Lee Weeks. "We get a little bit more inside the heads of the characters to find out their reasoning behind sending him out," he said. "We find out why Hulk is so mad."

Staring in June is, of course, World War Hulk, with Greg Pak, John Romita, Jr. and Klaus Janson. They showed the covers but the fifth one was, mysteriously, blacked out with a question mark. Incredible Hulk #106-109 will be a story about heroes "sympathetic to the Hulk," including, according to the slide, Hercules, Angel and Namora.

Gary Frank will return to Hulk to draw a couple issues of that story.

Gage talked about World War Hulk: X-Men #1-3, whichexplores Hulk interrogating Professor Xavier - to find out how he would vote if he was part of the Illuminati group that sent Hulk into space. "It's going to be a lot of fun," said Gage, something he's wanted to do since he was a kid. Covers by Ed McGuinness, art by Andrea DiVito.

Paniccia discussed World War Hulk: Gamma Corps #1-4 by Frank Tieri and Carlos Ferreria, which uses some characters from Paul Jenkins' run on Hulk.

This provided a natural segue for Jenkins to talk about World War Hulk: Frontline, which allows Jenkins to pit Hulk against some of the "disposable" characters in the Marvel Universe.

He then joked about how he was hoping to be on The Colbert Report after killing Typeface in Civil War: Frontline. Jenkins informed that "We're not going to go with the 32 page format, we're going to do 22 pages," although much like Civil War: Frontline, the stories will be broken down into different sections.

The series will also have 2-page "humor backups" with his Sidekicks partner Chris Morneo, involving, in part, the group of super-heroes trying out for the Rhode Island team as part of the 50-state Initiative.

Gage and Paniccia discussed the various World War Hulk tie-ins, including Iron Man (Hulk is naturally mad at Iron Man) and Heroes for Hire, which will take that group to the Savage Land.

Avengers: The Initiative will tie-in to World War Hulk for issues #4 and #5, with Brevoort adding that "The Hulk's arrival on Earth is the first major engagement most of these characters are going to have. It's going to be sort of a baptism by fire for many of these characters."

Jenkins then used the opportunity to say that Hulk will rematch against the Thing in World War Hulk: Frontline #3.

Jenkins then asked the audience who he wanted to win between Thing and Hulk, and, naturally, it was roughly a 50/50 split.

"Will X-Factor be in World War Hulk?" McCann: "No. The mutants will have their hands full," aside, presumably, from World War Hulk: X-Men.

"Will there be any overlap between Annihilation: Conquest and World War Hulk?" - No, not really, according to Brevoort.

"Does Hulk have a reaction to Cap's death" - Brevoort: "He cries."

"Will Thor be around during World War Hulk?" - Not saying.

"Does the Sentry play a role in World War Hulk? - Brevoort: "Yes, a big role."

"Punisher during World War Hulk?" - McCann: "Shoots people?"

"Wolverine in World War Hulk?" Gage - "Hulk will fight Wolverine in WWH: X-Men."

"Hawkeye in World War Hulk?" McCann: "In Young Avengers, there's that girl named Hawkeye."

"Is Hulk able to control his transformations?" Paniccia: "I don't want to say whether or not you'll see Bruce Banner in World War Hulk."

Will Ben and Sally yell at the Hulk since he doesn't know about MySpace?" Brevoort: "The Hulk actually has his own MySpace page."

McCann: "Sally's in his top 8."

"Doc Samson in World War Hulk?" Paniccia: "He'll be in World War Hulk and Hulk #106."

"Frontline possibly an ongoing?" Jenkins: "If we succeed in World War Hulk, we'll do one for whatever the next major event is."
"Will the New Avengers be involved in World War Hulk?" Brevoort: "The characters will, but the books will be not, neither Mighty or New."

"Will World War Hulk ship on time?" "Absolutely."

"What villains will we see fighting the Hulk in World War Hulk?" Paniccia, jokingly: "Tony Stark." He continued, "It's mainly the heroes who will try and protect when Hulk comes to Earth with an army of aliens."

"Thunderbolts?" Brevoort: "Thunderbolts will not be in World War Hulk."

Jenkins: "One character I can tell you will fight the Hulk, not joking, is Captain Rectitude."

Rick Jones in WWH? McCann: "He'll play a pretty big role."

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