Vaneta Rogers has interviewed Greg Pak about “Skaar: Son of Hulk” for Newsarama. Here’s an excerpt:

NRAMA: Seeing as Skaar is, basically, a newborn, is this a coming of age story?
GP: It’s an exploration of what you get if you raise a person in a war-torn world stripped of every vestige of civilization – and then ask him to play nicely with others. Skaar will absolutely come of age during the course of this story – but not exactly in that heartwarming, afterschool special sort of way.

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At the Sunday afternoon “Mondo Marvel” panel at WizardWorld Los Angeles, Marvel announced that penciller Ron Garney will join writer Greg Pak on the “Skaar: Son of Hulk” series that debuts in June. Marvel.com has more. Here’s an excerpt:

SKAAR: SON OF HULK focuses on the child of the Hulk and Caira the Oldstrong, his now-deceased wife. With his mother dead and his father back on Earth, Skaar grows up fending for his life on the post-apocalyptic planet of his birth, Sakaar.
“There’s a grand tradition of stories that explore the fantasy of savage survival,” explains Pak. “Maybe the more civilized and protected yet weirdly complicated and exposed the real world becomes, the more we’re attracted to stories about barbaric worlds where the rules are brutally simple. After battling bureaucracy and petty hypocrisy all day long, it can be nice to escape into a fantasy world where people survive by their wits and fists and swords.
“But there can be an element of wish-fulfilling denial to these kinds of stories—an artificial dream of noble savagery that can hide the true costs of brutalization and war. With SKAAR: SON OF HULK we’re embracing—and exploding—that fantasy, mining it for all its epic adventure and harrowing subtext.”

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