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would think that Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's Immortal Hulk was ending with #25,
since the titles character is apparently dying. But when it comes to this book
dying is just one of those things because the book is currently solicited up to
#27 with no end in sight. Ewing has said that the book did go farther than he
wanted it to at times especially when in #19 we saw Betty Ross devouring Hulk's
heart. Bennett made the scene even more gruesome than Ewing planned and the
editors had no problem with the contents of the issue. The idea at the start of
the series was to place Hulk in a position of absolute strength then slowly show
his weaknesses to building the tension and the character. And Ewing makes it
clear that a lot of what we see is all Bennett. He gives him an idea with the
script and Bennett takes it from there. #23 and 24 will show the final battle
between General Fortean and the forces of Shadow Base. #25 will ship the same
month as Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk, which Ewing and Filipe Andrade will
team to show the Hulk fight Carnage. #25 from Ewing, Bennett and German Garcia
will have the Hulk fight the fundamental forces of creation in a story that will
jump forward billions of years in the future to show the heat death of the
universe. In #25 we will see the Ninth Cosmos. The idea that the cosmos were
numbered was introduced in Ewing’s run on Ultimates. In that book it was
established that the current, post-Secret Wars iteration of the Marvel
Multiverse is the Eighth Cosmos. So #25 is set billions of years in the future
in a completely different space and time where it’s promised that the Ninth
Cosmos will have to deal with the Breaker of Worlds, who may or may not be the
Hulk because Ewing isn’t telling. The original idea was for a five-issue arc but
Ewing broke it down to a tight forty pages. Garcia will draw 28 pages of it and
he created the look of the Ninth Cosmos. Bennett is only doing two pages but
Ewing says there is a reason for that. But that of course is not the end because
issues #26 will concentrate on Bruce Banner's underground fortress and #27 sees
Hulk fighting the Minitaur, all still form Ewing and Bennett.
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