The next page is of the Hulk smashing a table as cabinet members flee in terror, listening to him exclaim “Hulk Smash Puny Paperwork.”

This is Banner’s nightmare that he shares with Dr. Rappiccini while they lie in bed together. She finds it all amusing but he takes it seriously. He’s afraid he’ll lose control. She calms him down with a kiss. Banner wonders why he feels so comfortable with her. She tells him that they had a fling back in college but Banner only recalls a girl named Nicky. This was her apparently. Nicky is short for Monica. He apologizes for not calling and for how it ended. But she laughs it off. There are better things they could be doing right now.

Out on the water front John’s girlfriend pulls herself onto a pier where she is immediately apprehended by guards. They proceed to take her away but are stopped. Scorpion is casually dresses on a nearby boat and asks what the girl has done. Scorpion is told that the girl posses a security risk. Scorpion decides that she can take the girl herself. The men want to object but stand down when Scorpion shows them a display of her stinging power.

Inside Scorpion’s boat, the girl thanks her. It doesn’t take long for her to recount her experience is Australia so far. Her boyfriend John was taken from her. They were told that they were looking for subjects in routine medical trials. It seemed like a good idea since they had no money and nowhere to go but then people started disappearing. They tried to run away but John was separated from her. She begs Scorpion to find him. He has a Captain America tattoo on his arm. Scorpion promises.

In Banner’s new office, he sits opposite members of his new staff for the last meeting of the day. Housing is an issue now as more and more immigrants pour in. One staff member suggests just having them live off the land in the outback, but Monica and another staffer thinks that posses too much of a security risk. Banner is concerned about encroaching on Aborigine land. He decides that the answer is simple. They put the people to work clearing and building themselves. There must be engineers and the kind in those numbers. This brings up the concern over dealing with mutant governments to get materials for these homes. Banner has a solution for this too. He has Adam take down a memo and distribute it. Mutant governments will cooperate with Australia or Hulk will smash. That done, there is just one more issue; a staff member would like the Hulk to make an appearance for the people to make sure they feel sure of the power backing the new government. On this, Banner will not budge. The answer is no. Hulk is a weapon, not a party trick.

Banner walks out of the meeting disgusted. As he walks down a hallway he passes an aboriginie statue that seems to speak to him as if it where his former mentor. It says: “ The dreamtime will not last. But it can do great damage while it does. People are disappearing, two minds. How can you not hear the screams?” Banner barley registers this warning before Scorpion appears in front of him and tells him she has an issue that needs dealing with.

Elsewhere, she and Banner don civilian disguises and talk to a man looking for the medical volunteers she heard about from the girl earlier. The man is reluctant to answer any of Banners questions about the facility so Scorpion simple knocks him out. That done, the two begin looking for clues. Banner finds a hidden switch under the man’s desk. It reveals a trick wall that Scorpion falls through. He finds her at the bottom of a staircase relatively unharmed. The two move through the facility and are shocked by what they find. An army is being built out of those who signed up. They are being fitted with cybernetic parts. Their presence is soon noticed and members of that new army swoop in. Banner Hulks up and he and Scorpion being fighting, with Scorpion taking down the boy she identified as the boyfriend John. He’s already too much gone as a cyborg. Other cyborgs try to take down the Hulk but are stopped by Dr. Issacs. He’s surprised to see Hulk to say the least. Scorpion demands answers from the trembling Doctor. He tells them that the army is to fight off Mutant invasion forces. He’s sure that he mutants won’t leave them alone. Hulk wants to know why he wasn’t told. The doctor tells him that Dr. Rappiccini wanted it that way.

In another location Monica watches as all of this happen, and realizes she may have a problem.

Review: The Hulk deals with bureacracy. To me, this was much more entertaining than the cyborg twist at the book’s end, which I’m not sure I’m sold on yet as we got no real set up for it in the previous issues except for Exodus’ assumption that AIM had some sinister plan. The small revelation that Hulk had a fling with Monica earlier interests me slightly. I wonder if this could somehow mingle Hulk’s mythos with that of the new Scorpion. As I don’t read Amazing Fantasy, I’m not sure if it already exists or not. I honestly hope we hear more about this later; at least to find out if she was just lying. Other wise the bedroom exchange just seems like a waste of time.

I was glad to see some mention of the Dreamtime again. The message seemed cryptic and I’m not sure exactly what it signifies but hopefully we’ll find out in the last issue of the tie in. Still. It was one page, a couple panels on one page so not what I was exactly hoping for.

This is probably my least favorite of the three issues so far. There was much less humor (outside of the opening paper smashing, which I thought was funny) and I’m just not sure I like the whole cyborg army thing. It seems so left field. I hope the last issue picks up the story more and give us a little more green.