Jonathan Hickman reveals Marvel’s Ultimate Universe wasn’t originally supposed to end

[u/wendigo72]

https://aiptcomics.com/2026/10/05/jonathan-hickman-marvel-ultimate-universe-2/

Summary: Like everyone could guess, Hickman was gonna leave the book and another writer was planned to jump on after #24 issues But marvel changed their minds. Marvel now sees value in making trade paper bags be 24 issues to be prestige-format books instead of numbered volumes

[u/Verwind2]

Looking at a story and saying "This is a good stopping point, I think we should end it here" isn't bad.

But they should have told the writers that beforehand.

[u/jockeyman → u/Verwind2]

The end of Ultimates and the line as a whole is like a car crash with how rushed and jumbled it was.

[u/ContraryPython → u/jockeyman]

It was so bad that it allowed DC to start curbstomping Marvel for the first time in decades.