r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/wendigo72 GO READ CHOUJIN X!!! • 16h ago

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

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

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u/Bluefootedtpeack2 16h ago

Did imperial end and if so did hickman say it wouldve been better but x?

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u/Pome1515 10h ago

Welcome to the post line collapse of Hickman. Its never his fault and everything you didn't like was actually editorial muzzling him. He did the same in Avengers, Krakoa, GODS etc.

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u/Bluefootedtpeack2 10h ago

Yeah its definitely a pattern

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u/Pome1515 10h ago

Likewise we're getting a flurry of interview and press releases about how he was fucked over and wasn't able to tell the ending of Krakoa, how he resigned so he could tell stories that he is passionate about etc.

This reada like he's known his rep took a hit and hes trying to salvage itm

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u/wendigo72 GO READ CHOUJIN X!!! 6h ago

It’s pretty obvious from just reading the comics Hickman didn’t get what he wanted to do with krakoa. Like what, do you think he was lying when he said he wanted it to end to move on to something else but marvel was reluctant to do so?

It’s plainly obvious with how inferno was written that’s the case. Even here, he’s not arguing that marvel stopped him from doing more spider-man. Just that he was under the impression it was gonna continue under a different writer which the ending to his spider-man run makes that pretty obvious too

Fans have been asking him about his krakoa plans that were scrapped for many years now. It’s only recent he’s actually confirmed what everyone else already knew