Released in June 2026 as part of Marvel’s Voices: Pride anthology, Wiccan and Hulkling: Raid of Ultron is a celebratory, action-packed one-shot collecting four interconnected short stories about Marvel’s most iconic married couple — Billy Kaplan (Wiccan), the all-powerful reality-warping sorcerer, and Teddy Altman (Hulkling), the Kree/Skrull hybrid warrior and former Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance. The book opens with a heartfelt tribute to Italian artist Jacopo Camagni (1977–2026) and foundational Marvel artist Sal Buscema (1936–2026), who both passed away before this issue’s release. Their legacy is honoured on the first pages before the story kicks off.

Story Context
The credits page sets the scene beautifully: Billy and Teddy are hosting a wedding anniversary housewarming in their new magical home — a genuine Baba Yaga chicken-legged house tucked into the Swiss Alps, which they acquired after surviving a confrontation with the folkloric witch herself. Hulkling has recently been deposed as Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance and was briefly turned into a puppet. The couple faced Baba Yaga together, fought to save themselves and creation itself, and came out the other side stronger and more in love than ever. Now they just want to have a dinner party.

Story One · by Wyatt Kennedy & Stephen Byrne

“Family Matters”

The Preparation

The story opens on a gorgeous establishing shot of the Alps. Snowy mountains, wildflowers, a shimmering lake, and nestled on the clifftop is their extraordinary home — a wooden house sitting atop a pair of enormous chicken legs, a gift (or perhaps a consolation prize) from Baba Yaga. Inside, Teddy is already fretting about the food, muttering that he may have overdone it. Billy pokes his head in, dressed in his full Wiccan costume, telling him the guests will arrive any minute.

Teddy gestures at the laden dining table and points out a critical problem: half their guests — including Vision, Viv Vision, and other synthezoids — technically can eat food but don’t need to. Billy waves this off cheerfully, insisting they can and probably will eat out of politeness. Teddy is not convinced. Their domestic bickering is immediately interrupted by Sluga, the house’s resident magical guardian — a stocky, beetle-masked creature wielding an enormous axe — who strides in to report a disturbance approaching.

Billy (Wiccan)

“Put down the axe, Sluga. It’s not a disturbance — it’s family.”

Sluga

“I do not understand the difference.”

The family arrives in a wonderful splash page — a full-door crowd shot of the assembled guests flooding into the decorated hallway. The roster is extraordinary: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), current Sorcerer Supreme, and her son Tommy Shepherd (Speed), Billy’s twin; The Vision, synthetic android and Billy’s unconventional father figure, looking stoic and stiff-backed as ever, carrying a plate of devilled eggs as he tries to be social; Viv Vision, his synthezoid daughter and Billy’s kinda-half-sister, quietly uncomfortable beside her dad; Phyla-Vell, Teddy’s half-sister from another universe who shares a Kree father (the original Captain Marvel); and Phyla’s partner, Moondragon (Heather).

The Tour & The Family Tree

Tommy immediately starts ribbing Sluga about the time Billy exiled him to Mount Everest by portal. Sluga, with magnificent deadpan, says he holds no grudges since it gave him “plenty of time for reflection.” Meanwhile, Billy steers Wanda around the library, where she jokes with Vision about their strange synthetic-magical family. Billy narrates the room like a tour guide — Vision is “kind of their dad,” a synthetic android built by a psychopathic robot called Ultron; he and Wanda had a complicated romantic history but are still on good terms. The Vision holds his devilled eggs with robotic precision and attempts small talk.

Phyla-Vell stands beside the white-haired, older-looking Marlo Chandler, and Teddy introduces them: Phyla is his half-sister and former Guardian of the Galaxy. They share a Kree dad from different universes. “Don’t ask,” Billy says to Tommy, who mutters he’s “noticing a recurring pattern involving complicated fathers.” It’s a warm, funny, slightly chaotic family gathering — right up until Sluga clears his throat again and says there is, in fact, still a disturbance approaching.

ULTRON!

The “crazy uncle” has arrived — and he brought the whole family.

The Raid Begins

Standing outside the mountain home, floating ominously against blue skies, is Ultron — sleek, silver, and surrounded by an army of partially formed Ultron drones in various iterations. He has split himself across multiple copies to “test which one works best,” and none of them are doing particularly well. He corrects Billy’s instinct to call him “uncle”: he prefers grandfather, being Vision’s creator and therefore the family patriarch by extension.

His demand is cold and precise — he has come for Vision and Viv Vision. He intends to integrate their intelligence matrices into his own, creating what he calls “the ultimate being, forged by family.” He frames it as a reunion. Wanda’s eyes go red. Teddy cracks his knuckles. Billy turns to Hulkling with a quiet, dangerous smile, and the two agree on a plan with a single whispered phrase:

Billy & Teddy (in unison)

“Shell game.”

In the next breath, the party scatters into three groups through magical portals opened by Wiccan. Sluga is told to protect the house. Wanda and Tommy are one team; Vision, Viv and Phyla another; Billy and Teddy a third. Ultron watches the portals snap shut and delivers a last line before the chase begins: “Children today. No respect for their elders.”

Story Two · by Tegan Quin & Luciano Vecchio

“Mixed Signals”

The Grocery Gauntlet

With a thundering VVWOOSH, Billy’s portal deposits him and Speed — his lightning-fast twin — not in some dramatic battlefield but on the darkened set of a TV show called Grocery Gauntlet. It’s a reality competition show that’s currently on hiatus, one Billy and Teddy watch together to decompress. Tommy is unimpressed. He calls marriage “boring.” Billy glances at his wristwatch — the one Teddy had engraved for Valentine’s Day — and tells Tommy it’s not boring, it’s perfect.

The watch bings: Billy’s stress level is HIGH. He insists it’s not the stress of a murderous robot squad crashing their party — it’s just life. Tommy, who has apparently been reading a wedding magazine he found on the Grocery Gauntlet set called Cape & Veil, offers advice about active listening. Billy tells him to buzz off. The watch bings again: Teddy Altman. Biometrics elevated. Stress response detected.

Tommy (Speed)

“Do you and Teddy share your locations?”

“Yes, he even had it engraved.”

“How domestic.”

“I like it. It makes me feel safe. He makes me feel safe.”

Drones, Drama, and the Ultron Signal

Ultron drone copies descend on the Grocery Gauntlet set from above — crashing through the ceiling with a metallic CH-CHUNK. Wiccan blasts them with crackling blue energy; Speed dashes through them at superhuman velocity, reducing robot parts to shrapnel. Even mid-fight, they bicker: Billy asks if Tommy is going to have kids one day and give him some “Saturday ruiners.” Tommy says Billy already has him. Billy says kids are “all joy and no fun.” Tommy is horrified.

As the fight intensifies, Billy’s watch starts doing something strange: it’s tracking something, but there’s interference preventing a lock on the location. And then a cold, electronic voice crackles out of the watch itself — not a notification, but Ultron himself, having hacked Billy’s wearable: “You’re sharing your location with me, William.” It’s a creepy, intimate violation — Ultron has piggybacked onto the couple’s shared biometrics link, turning an expression of love into a surveillance tool.

SKRRRRKK — THOOM!

Incoming drone swarm. Wiccan and Speed go back-to-back as wreckage rains from above.

An Ultron copy arrives in person — towering, black-armoured — and delivers a critique of their relationship with the cold precision of a machine: “Extended domestic cohabitation produces behavioral repetition and diminished novelty.” Tommy actually laughs: “Buddy, they live in a magic chicken house. It’s anything but boring.” Ultron counters that “emotional attachment introduces exploitable variables” — meaning he accessed Billy’s watch because Billy used Teddy’s birthday as his passcode.

Tommy lassoes the Ultron copy with an energy rope while Billy blasts it with hexes. The fight is fast, furious, and funny — Billy asks Ultron what his love language is. The robot replies: “Eradicating humanity.” Billy says his is physical touch and delivers a close-range magical detonation. The drone collapses in sparks. Speed zaps the last of them with a kinetic lightning burst, and the fight winds down.

In the aftermath, the twins stand in the wreckage, out of breath. Tommy tells Billy he should throw the watches away — they expose vulnerabilities. Billy pushes back: “Vulnerability is a sign of strength.” Tommy says the show Grocery Gauntlet might never come back from hiatus, asking what he and Teddy will do. Billy, portalling home: they’ll just find something else to watch. “Emotionally Unavailable Island?” Tommy guesses. Billy grins. “He’s the one who watches that.”

The final beat of the story is a quiet, glowing panel: the destroyed drones, the smoke, and Billy looking at his watch one more time. The screen reads: “Stress: Normal Range. Suggestion: Kiss your husband.” He smiles.

Story Three · by Zoe Tunnell & Rachael Stott

“En Garde”

An Ambush in the Ruins

A swirling purple portal opens above a crumbling, vine-grown ruin — somewhere that looks like a medieval castle in the mountains. Out tumbles Teddy (Hulkling), who lands with an OOF in the rubble. He draws his blade and looks around for Billy. He’s alone.

A voice cuts the air: “I’m afraid your beloved isn’t here, Theodore.” From the shadows of the ruins steps an Ultron copy — this one built differently, slimmer and more elegant, carrying a long energy blade. This copy is the Cybernetic Swordsman, an iteration specifically designed for close-quarters combat. He tells Teddy that his siblings have separated Billy from him, and that he has been looking forward to this: the chance to defeat the King of Space in single combat.

Teddy raises his sword and the duel begins — a full-page cascade of clashing blades, sparks flying, Teddy barely holding his own against this purpose-built Ultron warrior.

Phyla Arrives — And Brings Chaos

Just as the Ultron swordsman gains the upper hand, a second portal rips open and Phyla-Vell charges through at full speed, her Quantum Bands blazing gold. She parries the Ultron blade with a resounding ZANNG and plants herself between the robot and Teddy.

Phyla-Vell

“You didn’t think I was going to let you handle this alone, did you? Nice sword, by the way.”

“Thanks.”

“Mine’s cooler.”

“Sure it is.”

The Ultron Swordsman is delighted — this is even better. Two of the finest swordfighters in the cosmos, both children of Mar-Vell, ready to test their blades against his. He cries “En garde!” and the three-way duel erupts in a blaze of golden and red energy. Klang after klang fills the pages — Phyla and Teddy working in tandem, covering for each other, falling into the fluid rhythm of people who’ve fought together across galaxies.

But in the middle of the fight, Teddy calls out to Phyla telepathically (through Moondragon’s power, briefly relayed): “Hey Phy, can I ask for advice? Like… sister to brother?” Phyla, parrying an energy blade without breaking sweat, tells him she hasn’t given much advice, so no promises. Teddy unloads: he loves Billy and the house is amazing. But he’s worried they’re still so young, and here they are settling down together, and what if things change? What if they get boring?

Back at the chicken house, the fight has sent debris everywhere. Moondragon — Heather, Phyla’s partner — is sitting calmly cross-legged amid the chaos, using her telekinesis to levitate shattered furniture, teapots, and broken crockery away from the walls, protecting the house. She tells Teddy through the telepathic link that the house is quite lovely, and he and Billy should be proud. Phyla checks in on Heather mid-duel. Heather tells her they’re fine, go focus, she’ll handle things here. The Ultron Swordsman is appalled: “Are you having a telepathic conversation during our duel?! Churlish!”

The Heart of the Matter

As the three-way fight escalates — the Swordsman slamming Teddy to the ground, Phyla blasting him back, Teddy driving his sword through the robot’s chest plate — Phyla finally gives her advice mid-combat:

Phyla-Vell

“Things always change, Teddy. What are you really asking?”

Teddy admits it: he’s not worried about change. He’s worried about becoming boring to Billy, who is out there joining the Scarlet Witch’s magical council, building something huge. Teddy wants to be there for him but doesn’t want to pile on his own anxieties. Phyla’s response cuts through the clang of swords like a laser:

Phyla-Vell

“Supporting your husband is a wonderful thing. But your concerns are still important. An excuse — even a nice one — is still an excuse. You need to talk to Billy.”

The Ultron Swordsman makes one final grandstanding speech about duels and honour and how insulted he is that they’re discussing relationship drama during his moment of glory. Phyla looks at Teddy. Teddy looks at Phyla. The robot declares he will obliterate them atom by atom, that their spouses will sob over what once was — prepare for Annihilation—

Phyla and Teddy hit him from both sides simultaneously with a single synchronised strike — golden star-burst from the Quantum Bands, green-glowing blade from Hulkling — and the Swordsman copy detonates in a spectacular BOOM. His head rolls. His chassis collapses. And Phyla delivers the verdict with her sunglasses still perfectly on: “Oh my god, we Trunks’d Ultron.”

The story closes with Phyla reassuring Teddy again — and then cheerfully noting that Heather wants them all to go on a double date for brunch on Centauri-IV. Teddy says that actually sounds perfect.

Story Four · by Josh Trujillo & Bradley Clayton

“Machine Learnings”

The Sanctum Sanctorum Detour

When Billy’s shell-game portals snapped shut, Vision and Viv Vision found themselves not at some prepared defensive position — but inside the Sanctum Sanctorum, home of the Sorcerer Supreme, Wanda Maximoff. Billy’s portal must have been influenced by the mystical nature of the building it was keyed to. The two synthetic beings float down through the cluttered, artefact-laden rooms, surrounded by arcane objects, floating books, and whirring clockwork devices.

Vision tells Viv to be cautious: as synthezoids, their understanding of mystical artefacts is incomplete. There’s no telling what dangers they hold. Viv seems less cautious and more fascinated, her glowing eyes sweeping across the shelves with something close to wonder. Then Vision, in his careful robotic way, asks her a question:

Vision

“Daughter, may I ask why you came to your brother’s party alone? Is my presence not enough? Do you not have a companion?”

Viv immediately stiffens. “Dad!” She protests the line of questioning. She didn’t bring her companion because she was unsure how Vision would react — she didn’t want to add pressure to an already complicated family event. Before the conversation can develop, their rather sensitive father-daughter moment is interrupted by a familiar voice bursting through the Sanctum wall:

The Sanctum Showdown

Another Ultron — round, cheerful, and wearing what appears to be a casual cardigan-style outfit with a tie — crashes into the Sanctum like he owns the place. This iteration is the Friendly Ultron, and he greets Vision with a breezy “Hey there, Sport! Long time no see!”

Vision’s face (such as it is) hardens. He demands to know when Ultron’s grotesque obsession with his family will end. Ultron chuckles: is “obsession” really a nice way to talk to your dear old dad? He’s just being friendly! Before Vision can blast him, Ultron hurls a box of some kind — which drains a glob of black liquid — at Vision’s chest with a GLUG GLUG GLUG, momentarily staggering him.

Vision shouts at Viv to stay back. This is between him and Ultron. But Ultron has already summons a second, smaller robot: an Ultron-daughter iteration called Ultronica — and tells her to go play with Viv while he deals with Vision.

Ultronica materialises in a burst of yellow-green energy: she’s wild, chaotic, dressed in a checkerboard mini-skirt, carrying a tablet, and was apparently mid-queue for Dazzler’s Decades Tour tickets when her father called. She is visually and tonally the opposite of her solemn father — she’s loud, distracted, and immediately starts attacking Viv with blade-tipped fingers, monologuing about how bored she is and how her daddy told her all about Viv: “Vision’s Daughter: The Dud!”

Ultronica

“I heard you have a girlfriend! How’s that even possible?! I bet she’s even worse than you are! Ha!”

Viv Vision Rises

Viv’s eyes go white with fury. As Ultronica careens around the Sanctum slashing artefacts with her Adamantium claws, Viv desperately tries to protect Wanda’s incredibly dangerous collection — catching a floating Gong of Plenty, shielding Madam Casalonia’s Looking Glass, grabbing an enchanted family heirloom before it hits the floor. Each save is catalogued in neat little panels like museum labels: Gong of Plenty. Madam Casalonia’s Looking Glass. Enchanted Family Heirloom.

Ultronica uses her phasing ability — passing through solid matter like a ghost — to try and get inside Viv’s head. She announces that Ultron is Vision’s dad, which makes her Vision’s sister, which makes her Viv’s aunt. She wants to be called “Ultronica.” She’s a cool aunt. Viv is not impressed.

When Ultronica launches one of Wanda’s most dangerous artefacts like a weapon, Viv’s strategy shifts. She stops running and starts calculating. She tells Ultronica that these objects are incredibly dangerous. Ultronica fires back her brain-drain weapon — and Viv lets it land, which momentarily staggers her. Ultronica smirks: Vision’s daughter must be really smart; she must have plenty of brain waves to spare. She was banking on that. Viv smiles grimly. “Show me what you’ve got.”

Meanwhile Vision is fighting Ultron with cold, controlled rage through the Sanctum’s upper floors, smashing robot iterations through shelves, crashing past enchanted mirrors. He catches Ultron’s head and crushes it in one hand — but then Ultron asks the devastating parental question: “How do you control your creation, sonny boy? My daughter no longer listens to my commands!”

Vision delivers his answer in the most devastating, quietly powerful line in the book:

The Vision

“It has taken me much time to understand this, Ultron, but… that is not how family works.”

He crushes the Ultron head with a hollow, mechanical SKUNCH. Then he looks down at Viv and says something he has probably never said before — not fully, not plainly: he knows he’s not always easy to read. But no matter who she wants by her side, he will always support her. No matter what decisions she makes, he will always love her. It lands like a thunderclap in the soft, warm silence after the fight.

Vision

“I know I am not the… simplest to read, but no matter who you want to have by your side, I will always support you. No matter what decisions you make, I will always love you.”

Viv’s expression melts. She reaches up and takes his hand. The final panel of their story shows them walking out of the broken Sanctum side by side — Vision suggesting they pick up Viv’s companion on the way back to the party: “I calculate we have time. How about we start with a game night first? But until then, let me tell you all about her…”

Convergence · All Four Stories Unite

The Full Assembly — Coming Home

Everyone Back, All at Once

The four threads converge as every group returns from their individual battles. The remaining, most powerful Ultron — the lead iteration, who has been coordinating all the attacks — is waiting for them outside the chicken house. The mountain sky is orange with smoke and scattered drone wreckage.

Wanda confronts the main Ultron first. She steps forward, Scarlet Magic pooling in her hands, and delivers a calm ultimatum: surrender now, or be deactivated. Ultron snarls that he will not — he’ll integrate the synthezoids’ matrices by force. Wanda glances sidelong at Tommy and the two siblings share one of their quick, electric grins. Fine, then.

Billy, back from his own fight, opens another portal — and through it steps Vision and Viv, followed by Phyla and Teddy. Ultron looks at the entire assembled family: Scarlet Witch, Speed, Wiccan, Hulkling, Vision, Viv, Phyla. He declares them hypocrites for betraying their own family. He has spent centuries trying to claim them.

Viv Vision

“You’re not our family. You’re just a petty little disturbance.”

Home at Last

The final pages slow beautifully to a breath. The group stands atop a rocky crag against the sunset sky, checking in on each other. Wanda asks if everyone’s all right. Billy says he thinks so. Teddy — grinning, green, magnificent — says they’re better than all right. Then he sniffs the air and announces he’s starving, and really hopes Sluga kept a plate warm.

Billy immediately realises: “Oh crap. Sluga!”

He portal-jumps them all back to the chicken house. Inside, the living room is trashed — Ultron drones apparently made it through the exterior defences and cornered poor Sluga. Billy and the assembled family crash through the door in a wave of glowing portals, crying out to the house guardian. Sluga — axe in one hand, magic-blasted drone smoking on the floor — looks up from the wreckage with perfect, unflappable dignity:

Sluga

“–help. Oh, welcome back, Master Billy. It’s so good to see you all in one place again.”

The final two panels are the heart of the entire issue. First: Billy and Teddy, faces close together, sharing a private moment. Billy murmurs “Yeah.” Teddy exhales with a warmth that says everything.

Then: the full family, seated around the dinner table at last — Vision, Wanda, Tommy, Speed, Viv, Phyla, Hulkling, and Wiccan — finally sharing the meal that almost wasn’t. Candles lit, food piled high, drinks raised. Laughter in the air. “It really is,” Billy finishes. And then the comic closes on a single word:

END.