publication date: November 2023

story: Phillip Kennedy Johnson

pencil: Travel Foreman

colors: Matthew Wilson

Bruce Banner and Charlie Tidwell reach Florida.
A mysterious creature makes its victims see loved ones, to lure them into the swamp and absorb them.
Bruce meets the Man-Thing, who absorbs him into his body to communicate.
Ted Sallis, the scientist transformed into the Man-Thing by a supersoldier serum he created, informs Hulk that the Firstborn threatens the Nex of all realities and he needs his help to stop her.
Charlie is lured into the swamp by the monster, who shows her her dead little brother.