Red Hulk #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRed Hulk #8 is a pivotal chapter in Benjamin Percy and Geoff Shaw's 2025 series, bringing Tamika Bowden — the exoskeleton-wearing vigilante Wildstreak, a character absent from Marvel continuity since the Civil War era nearly two decades earlier — back into a prominent role within a major event storyline. The issue deepens the series' sustained engagement with Marvel's deep bench of techno-organic characters: Deathlok (Luther Manning) and Machine Man (Aaron Stack) are woven into a narrative that explicitly interrogates military bioweapons ethics under Doctor Doom's authoritarian world order. By placing these three obscure-to-mid-tier characters at the center of a flagship event tie-in, Percy and Shaw make a pointed argument that the Hulk corner of the Marvel Universe is richer than gamma-smashing alone. The issue also continues the sustained reinvention of Captain Simon Ryker as War-Wolf — a villain whose roots stretch back to the original 1970s Deathlok stories — making #8 a genuine convergence point for four decades of Marvel's cyborg mythology.
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The 2025 Red Hulk series was conceived by writer Benjamin Percy as a tie-in to Marvel's One World Under Doom line-wide event, with Percy pitching a story in which Thunderbolt Ross — uniquely valuable as both a military strategist and a walking gamma weapon — would be kidnapped by Doctor Doom and held in a 'Think Tank' prison complex. Percy and series artist Geoff Shaw had previously collaborated on the 'Sabretooth War' arc in Wolverine (2020) and the Wolverine/Ghost Rider: Weapons of Vengeance crossover, establishing a working shorthand that series editor Mark Paniccia described as relentlessly kinetic. A prelude story ran in Incredible Hulk #19 before the ongoing launched with issue #1 on February 26, 2025, timed deliberately to coincide with the Red Hulk's MCU debut in Captain America: Brave New World.
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- Written by Benjamin Percy, art and cover by Geoff Shaw, colors by Bryan Valenza, letters by VC's Cory Petit; edited by Mark Paniccia under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski.
- Released September 10, 2025 (cover date: November 2025); rated T+ (13 and up); 32 pages.
- Tie-in to Marvel's One World Under Doom event; the series as a whole is listed as issue #71 of 78 in that event's full reading order.
- Wildstreak (First Sergeant Tamika Bowden) appears as a supporting character — she was created by Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe and first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #26 (1993), but had not appeared in a Marvel comic since Civil War-related tie-ins circa 2006 before the 2025 Red Hulk series reintroduced her.
- War-Wolf — Captain Simon Ryker, a character whose Earth-616 counterpart traces back to Super-Villain Team-Up #4 (1976) and whose War-Wolf identity debuted in Red Hulk #6 (July 2025) — serves as the primary antagonist at Project Alpha, a secret U.S. bioweapons facility in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) appears only remotely (on-screen), not in person; the issue's antagonism is driven by Ryker and the U.S. Army, reflecting the series' theme that Ross faces threats from his own government as much as from Doom.
- Deathlok (Luther Manning, Earth-7484) and Machine Man (Aaron Stack, Earth-616) continue as supporting cast — the trio's dynamic draws direct narrative lines back to the original 1970s Deathlok stories in Astonishing Tales, where Major Simon Ryker was Deathlok's arch-nemesis.
- Two variant covers were published alongside the standard Geoff Shaw/Marte Gracia cover: a 1:25 incentive variant by Puppeteer Lee and an open-order variant by Anand Ramcheron (colors by Guru-eFX).
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