The ship in the top panel looks a *little* like the Firefly-class ship from "Serenity." Not completely, but a little bit.
I thought maybe they'd stopped the "all Brood are evil" with PLANET HULK that had a non-evil Brood. Greg Pak himself said in a MARVEL SPOTLIGHT he disliked the idea that any alien race could be "totally evil." Thus, he made No-Name part of Hulk's Warbound.