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Hulking & Wiccan (subtitled Possibilities) is an Infinity Comics webcomic from Marvel Comics, centred around the titular married couple. The series is written by Josh Trujillo and illustrated by Jodi Nishijima, with color by Matt Milla.

Set in the shared Marvel Universe, the series revolves around magic that puts both characters into different lives and different relationships, showing them what might have been. But when they can't even remember their old life together, how will they get it back? And do they even want to?

As with Marvel's other Infinity Comic webcomics, it's a single-column vertically scrolling comic that's designed to be readable on a phone screen, rather than using a traditional comic book approach to panels and pages.

As an Infinity Comic, the series was initially only available via the Marvel Unlimited app. However, it has since been converted into a comic book format and republished as a one-shot Hulkling & Wiccan comic book in June 2022.

The first issue was released November 1, 2021.

An arc in Marvel's Love Unlimited webcomic acts as a Sequel Series.


Hulkling & Wiccan provides examples of:

  • Alternate Universe: Billy and Teddy seem to be dropped into another universe with a different past, with their original memories suppressed, The ending suggests that both Eidolon and Goebig are real, as they're shown alone and distraught, missing their now-vanished boyfriends. But that also leaves unanswered questions about the nature of things - it seems Billy and Teddy were physically dropped into that setting, not just replacing their alternates' minds, and there are no alternate versions of them left behind.
  • Big Bad: Agatha Harkness is responsible for the alternate reality, although it tapped into Wiccan's own powers.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Downplayed. Billy and Teddy are reunited and return to their own universe. But Goebig and Eidolon - well-intentioned guys who genuinely seemed to love their respective boyfriends - are left abandoned and alone.
  • Brick Joke: Iceman brings a pie to the dinner party and comments that nobody's eating it yet. A slice is seen, uneaten, on the bedside table after the party ends. Teddy finally eats some at the very end of the series, after they're returned to their own place and time. It's awful.
  • Cast Full of Gay: Apart from the two leads, the first issue features Northstar, his husband Kyle, and Iceman. And then there are the Hulkling and Wiccan's alternative partners, Goebig and Eidolon.
  • Continuity Nod: Goebig lost his homeworld and his people to the Annihilation Wave.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: When Goebig grabs the murderous robot ZeeZee, who seems to he a genuine threat to Hulkling, he's reduced to a junkpile with one blow.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Goebig wears one over his right eye.
  • The Game Come to Life: At the end of the first issue, Wiccan finds a handheld gaming console he thought he'd left behind on Earth. It’s showing the launch screen for a game called Possibilities, with avatars for him and Hulkling displayed. He presses 'Start'... and reality shifts.
  • Infinite Canvas: The vertical scrolling variant. The webcomic is published as a single column with no page breaks. The art was significantly rearranged when later republished as a traditional comic book.
  • Meaningful Name: Goebig is a super-strong brawler who's even larger than his brawny boyfriend Hulkling.
  • Rescued from the Underworld: Billy apparently rescued Eidolon this way, although he's still trapped between life and death.
  • Space Pirates: Goebig describes himself as a space pirate.

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