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This volume collects The Incredible Hulk 112, The Incredible Hercules 113-115, and a Hulk vs. Hercules one-shot. Now, I will limit my rant about the crazy numbering system Marvel Comics is regularly using to this sentence; despite my pet peeve about changing the name and focus of a comic but keeping the numbering system, the Incredible Hercules rocks.

With smart writing by Greg Pak--who got me back into comics after a long drought with his Planet Hulk story arc--and Fred Van Lente, the Incredible Hercules focuses on Herc and Amadeus Cho, and switches between Hercules’ mythical past and the world-upside-down present. This story arc finds Ares, the God of War, using the chaotic aftermath of World War Hulk to pursue his own vendetta against Hercules. It also involves Amadeus Cho trying to bring down S.H.I.E.L.D. and balancing on a knife point between becoming an evil genius and a, well, good genius.

I can’t say enough good things about how this comic is written, and the pencils by Khoi Pham are solid as well. Pick up this graphic novel. ‘Nuff said. ( )