Eric J. Moreels

Oct 12, 2007, 09:38 pm

Coming from Marvel in August...

WORLD WAR HULK: GAMMA FILES
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, STEPHEN FAULKNER, AL SJOERDSMA, RONALD BYRD, MADISON CARTER, GABE SCHECTER, ERIC J. MOREELS, SEAN MCQUAID, STUART VANDAL, MICHAEL HOSKIN, DAVID WILTFONG & CHRIS BIGGS
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Who are the rebellious Renegades? Why did the young upstart Mastermind Excello search for the Hulk? How many identities and powers has Rick Jones had? What were the ramifications for the Illuminati for sending Hulk into space? How much destruction did the Hulk cause during his rampage towards vengeance? Find out in the WORLD WAR HULK GAMMA FILES – featuring various characters from Hulk's past including Jim Wilson, Wild Man, Captain Axis, coverage of every single gamma mutate there is, and more! View into the destruction caused during WORLD WAR HULK and the changes it has made on the Marvel Universe. Oh yeah, and the Toad Men, baby!

48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Andy E. Nystrom
May 16, 2010, 04:35 am

List of changes in hardcovers

Black Bolt
Hardcover Volume: 1
Page Count: Unchanged at 2
Text Changes: New paragraph at end of History
Graphic Changes: None

Caiera the Oldstrong
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Captain Omen
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Gamma Corps
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Base of operations expanded. 3rd History paragraph removed, 2nd revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Ryker illo cropped to headshot.

Gamma Mutates
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 5 to 6
Text Changes: New sentence added to Abomination, Bannerman, Lucy Ryker., Rick Jones Hulk, ½ sentence to Geiger. General Rigby now William, not Dwight; paragraph completely revised/expanded. Rhino, Sasquatch, and X-Force now separated out. 2 new sentences added to Froma. New paragraphs devoted to Horde and red-skinned Hulk.
Graphic Changes: New captioned illo added to Rick Jones Hulk. 4 headshots of Headshop replaced with captioned illo (Largo still a headshot). Horde and red-skinned Hulk have headshots. Some cropping/resizing of illos.

Horusians
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Hulk
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Increased from 8 to 9
Text Changes: Aliases and Known Relatives expanded. Some History paragraphs merged; end of three paragraphs have new text added to them (I could well be overlooking other pieces of texts embedded within these many paragraphs); last paragraph mostly revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old one now captioned secondary). 1 secondary illo removed, 12 added (10 captioned).

Illuminati
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: final 2 History sentences replaced with 2 new ones, followed by new paragraph.
Graphic Changes: New secondary illo.

Initiative
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Increased from 3 to 9
Text Changes: Vital Statistics completely revised and expanded, with different membership categories. History considerably revised and expanded (though a lot of the original text remains).
Graphic Changes: 8 new illos (7 captioned). 6 headshots removed, 108 added; of old ones, alter egos removed, some have new illos/statuses

Rick Jones
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Aliases, Group Affiliation revised. 3rd and 4th History paragraphs merged; final sentence in last paragraph replaced with 3 new ones.
Graphic Changes: Bucky and Hulk illos cropped. Captions removed from 2 secondary illos. New captioned secondary illo.

Proselytes
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: None
Graphic Changes: New secondary illo partly covering the main illo

Clay Quartermain
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Aliases, Known Relatives, Group Affiliation, Education revised. Alter egos added to History; new sentence added to final paragraph
Graphic Changes: Bucky and Hulk illos cropped. Captions removed from 2 secondary illos. New captioned secondary illo.

Renegades
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Members, Base of Operations revised. History somewhat revised/expanded, particularly in the middle of the last paragraph, new new final paragraph.
Graphic Changes: New captioned only illo (old main illo and headshots removed)

Rock & Redeemer
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Group Affiliation revised for both. History slightly revised. Both Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: One secondary illo removed, one added.

She-Hulk
Hardcover Volume: 10
Page Count: Increased from 4 to 5
Text Changes: Occupation and Group Affiliation revised. History initially somewhat revised/expanded, then 3 large new final paragraphs. Abilities/Accessories somewhat revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: new main illo (old one now secondary)

Tribbitites
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: Unchanged at 2
Text Changes: 3rd History paragraph slightly expanded
Graphic Changes: One secondary illo’s caption revised

Union
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Warbound
Hardcover Volume: 13
Page Count: Increased from 2 to 3
Text Changes: Current and Former Members and Base of Operations revised. History greatly revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: 2 headshots replaced with fully body shots, one headshot less cropped to full body shot; main illo thus no longer obscured by headshots; 4 new captioned secondary illos (2 share the same caption)

Kate Waynesboro
Hardcover Volume: 13
Now Listed As: Katherine Waynesboro
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Final History paragraph replaced with new expanded one. New stence added to beginning of Abilities/Accessories, then new sentence tweaked.
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old one removed). Power Grid revised.

Jim Wilson
Hardcover Volume: 13
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Woodgod and the Changelings
Hardcover Volume: 13
Page Count: Increased from 2 to 3
Text Changes: History somewhat revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: Headshots replaced with full body shots, still with First Appearances (Dovinia and Neptunus just less cropped from old headshot, while five others share one illo)

Captain Axis
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text Changes: Hair tweaked, Power Numbers revised
Graphic Changes: None

Amadeus Cho
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Increased from ½ to 1
Text Changes: Aliases expanded. History mostly revised and expanded. New sentence at end of Abilities/Accessories. Power numbers replaced with Power Grid.
Graphic Changes: None

Godseye
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Hero of the Day
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Inheritor
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text Changes: final line of History no longer cut off.
Graphic Changes: None

Janis Jones
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Increased from ½ to 1
Text Changes: History mostly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories a little revised.
Graphic Changes: Illo replaced with new one.

Mogol
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text Changes: None
Graphic Changes: New captioned secondary illo

Wildman
Hardcover Volume: 13
Page Count: Unchanged at ½
Text/Graphic Changes: None

Sidney Osinga
May 17, 2010, 12:47 am

nice work as usual, Andy, but didn't rick Jones get three pages? And some of his text ended up under Clay Quatermain.