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Rating:  -
No. this is definitely not the best Hulk story there is. Sure, it's not a bad one either - but don't set your hopes high before you're reading enough about it so you will decide fairly if it worth your money.
It's Daniel Way, which apparently not many in the comics industry like. He now writes the Wolverine Origins ongoing series, if this rings any bells. I personally love his writing - he puts the character through many situations, emotional situations, which hasn't been dealt like his style. In this particular story we get to see two versions of Hulk - the heroic type, and the confused type. That's the best thing I like about this story.
The first issue in this collection is nothing but awesome. But the following issues have a very unreliable background story. I simply don't buy it. It's too farfetched. But what you do get, if you're not trying to analyze the scientific and historic contradictions between this story and the actual world is a pretty good story, lots of interesting plot-twists and action packed TPB.
The one thing that really really bothered me, and I mean REALLY bothered me, is that they added the Hulk Handbook 2004 to this TPB. Why. There's no real good reason for putting it in. I really dislike all those handbooks out there, and it's a waste of money. I prefer if they just gathered the 4 issues, took off a couple of dollars and that's it.
I gave it 4 because I really like it, but if I was a really new reader or a really old Hulk-fan I wouldn't give it more than 3.
Rating:  -
INCREDIBLE HULK: PRELUDE TO PLANET HULK collects THE INCREDIBLE HULK (3rd series) #88-91, and is written by Daniel Way, and drawn by Keu Cha & Juan Santacruz. After Peter David's second departure from the book, fans wondered what would become of the Hulk. The results here were rather unspectacular, but they did ultimately lead somewhere interesting in the form of PLANET HULK and the current WORLD WAR HULK miniseries. Here, Bruce Banner hides out in Alaska until fate--and Nick Fury--come a'calling to usher his brutish alter-ego into the service of S.H.I.E.L.D., the super-spy organization. Sent into space, the Hulk finds treachery...but is that anything new for the green goliath? In short, no, no it's not. True, there's terrific art by Keu Cha, who only stayed on board for half this 4-part story (leaving lackluster Santacruz to ape his style for the second half). However Daniel Way's script is weak, threadbare, and doesn't really say anything new about the characters in it. Here, the Hulk once again takes on the Bruce Jones shorthand characterization of a nearly-mute brute instead of a more fully realized entity. Skip this book and proceed directly to PLANET HULK proper. Two stars.
Rating: -
In order to launch you into Planet Hulk. This totally sets up the Planet Hulk Series so that you can pleasantly get lost into the series.
Rating:  -
As a prelude, it's interesting to see how Nick Fury and the Illuminati "tricked" Hulk into space, but it's unnecessary--everything you need to know about the storyline is summed up in the first few pages of the Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk collection. The The Road to Civil War trade paperback, reprinting the first Illuminati one-shot, actually shows the five "heroes" coming to their decision to shoot the Hulk into space--so I would recommend that book over Daniel Way's stoic execution here.
Rating: -
I had recently read the planet hulk hardcover and had read the original Illuminate oneshot that showed the decision on what to do with the Hulk. So i was looking foward to finally picking this up.
Basically it sets the stage for how the hulk ended up in space. But it is pretty lackluster. Do yourselves a favor and read the oneshot, or the Road to Civil War trade instead, that includes the illuminati oneshot that shows the decision.
Also half this book is made up of Hulk Handbook 2004, which is useless. it is just profiles on hulk characters that is a waste of space and paper. It is just fluff to add more bulk to this already slim book.
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