Incoming Indestructible Hulk artist Matteo Scalera tweeted some more pages of his first issue on the book in addition to the ones that were shown on comicbookresources the other day. I am digging the darker feel to the art, it fits a bit with Daredevil character being in the mean streets of New York (is he still in Hell’s Kitchen).

In this weeks installment of Axel-in-Charge at comicbookresources.com had Mark Waid as a guest interviewee. They showed some pages of Walt Simonson artwork from issue #8 plus some artwork from upcoming Hulk artist Matteo Scalera from issue #9. Matteo’s artwork definitely has a darker look to it, looking forward to seeing some more pages to get a better feel for his work. Mark also talked about the Hulk book a little:

The Hulk story that’s coming immediately in the wake of the current story drawn by Walt Simonson is a crossover between “Indestructible” and “Daredevil.” I’m not sure I can name one story where those two characters have teamed up that’s not some giant spread of 45 heroes in some event. What’s the draw or the in to getting these two personalities together in a logical way?

Waid: Well, there is a commonality. I think we’ve hinted at this, but the two of them have been in communcation for quite some time, and this two-parter is the next step in something big happening between the two series.

Alonso: Hulk will become Daredevil!

Waid: Aw, you blew it, Axel! [Laughter]

Speaking of “Age of Ultron” as we were a minute ago, the next big Hulk arc follows up on the event where the Hulk gets some crazy time-powered armor of sorts. What’s the deal there? If you’ve been playing with super science and “Age of Ultron” is a super science event, what did you draw from it to press on forward in this book?

Waid: Part of the aftermath of “Age of Ultron” is while Hulk is the strongest there is, the question is going to be whether he’s strong enough to hold all of the space-time continuum together.

We had a ton of questions on the world of “Indestructible Hulk.” Let’s start with CMBMOOL who wants to know, “I enjoy seeing the Hulk taking on science mission/big threats for S.H.I.E.L.D. Given that the Hulk’s a member of the Secret Avengers, any chance of you having story in the future featuring Hulk teaming up with Nick Fury Jr.?”

Waid: At some point, yeah. We’ve talked about in year two using more of the S.H.I.E.L.D. cast, actually…including Agent Coulson.

He continues, “I’m also curious about your upcoming Hulk/Daredevil team up and it makes me wonder why doesn’t Matt go to the likes of Bruce Banner or Hank Pym or even Reed Richards to help out with Foggy’s cancer problem?”

Waid: It’s because we have to assume that they’ve had this conversation before. I hate, hate, hate superhero comics where two grown crimefighters turn to each other and one explains to the other why superheroes can’t fix cancer. It trivializes cancer. It trivializes the suffering of cancer patients. I understand the impulse to ask the question in a universe full of superscience and Cosmic Cubes, but Starlin covered this ground well enough in “The Death of Captain Marvel” and that was like 30 years ago. I’d rather handle it with an off-hand line of Ant-Man saying to Matt, “There’s just some things we can’t do anything about.” like they both already know this, because there is no good answer to that question that doesn’t make Reed Richards look like a jerk. And then when do you stop? Why don’t you cure AIDs, Reed? Why don’t you cure diabetes? Why don’t you cure world hunger? Everything becomes about what the superheroes can’t do. Trivializing real-world problems is not their function. Their function is to inspire and to catch bank robbers and stop Ultron.

A number of people asked about the other Hulks of the Marvel U showing up. Any word on that?

Waid: Yeah, we’re talking about that for year two. I’m just trying not to make it “The War of the Rainbow Hulks.”

GreenScar1990 was one of the people on the boards asking about some other classic Hulk tropes and villains, including Maestro-like stories with the time travel angle coming up?

Waid: Some of the Hulk-centric villains we’ll be doing more with. I think the Abomination is overdue for a reintroduction. As far as other versions of Hulk, this is something Jason Aaron is doing really well with his “Thor: God of Thunder” book right now, and so I’m really nervous about treading on that ground.

Last one from him is, “What future artists can we expect on Indestructible and is there any that you’d like to work with? I don’t know about you, but I’d love to see Paul Pelletier, Dale Keown and Olivier Coipel do some issues and a few story arcs.”

Waid: I love a lot of those guys, but for now we’re really happy with Matteo Scalera. He’s doing great work, and he’s doing it on time, and he’s really talented. But if for some reason Matteo needed some time off, I would not be averse to knocking on Howard Chaykin’s door and asking him to come visit. I think Chaykin’s Hulk would just be a massive force of nature.

It looks like Walt is still working on the last issue of his run on the Indestructible Hulk comic book as he tweeted the latest page he is working on, which is a 2 page spread of the Hulk. Hulk looks huge!!!

Walt has been a little quiet recently with his Hulk artwork tweets but he dropped a big one last night. Here is a great page from Issue 7, page 2 which shows the Hulk flying with Thor’s hammer and busting through the Frost Giants. Definitely interested in seeing how the Hulk was capable of picking up the hammer since he has never been able to do that before.