Oh boy… here we go again. To say that One More Day was a controversial Spider-Man story is like saying that Sarah Palin is just somewhat misguided about her political views. OMD brought the comic book world crashing to its knees and crushed the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of nerds. I mean, if Spidey’s marriage can’t survive a little meddling from the devil, what chance do any of us have? However, you are almost able to forgive Joe Quesada for the bastardization of Spidey canon (I don’t acknowledge that JMS had anything to do with that story) because Brand New Day has been, for the most part, an enjoyable ride. ASM has, since OMD, been a pretty damn good comic book. And to find that kind of consistency from a large group of writers working on one book, pushing it out 3 times a month, is rather astonishing.

And then Quesada decided to pick at that slowly healing scab. Enter One Moment In Time. Even the title brings up horrific, sleepless nights caused by OMD. But enough introduction. Let’s see how the first issue of this thing holds up.

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Ultimate Hulk Annual Cover

Over the past few months, Marvel has been pushing out a bunch of Ultimate annuals to prepare its readers for Ultimatum. These annuals have been of varying quality. Spider-Man and Fantastic Four/X-Men annuals were pretty decent. Ultimate Captain America annual was… well… not. The much delayed Ultimate Hulk Annual came out this week and is, unfortunately, grouped into the latter category. Apparently Jeph Loeb‘s annuals… well… suck. One would think that the writer for Ultimatum would write better tie-ins, but that’s a complaint for another post.

The Ultimate Hulk annual actually seems to focus much more on Zarda, Power Princess herself, of Squadron Supreme. The beginning of the issue focuses on Captain America’s analysis to Tony Stark about whether she is cut out to be on the Ultimates or not. The rest of the issue features her encountering and fighting in the Hulk.

Click through for the rest of my review.

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