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.

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I’ve been meaning to read Supreme Power for the last year and a half and somehow I just never go around to it. Lucky for me, I managed to pick up the three trade paperbacks of the main series when I was at Wizard World Chicago, so I decided to start reading the first TPB and ended up flying through it followed by the 2nd and boy was I impressed! J. Michael Straczynski can seriously write a badass story and the art by Gary Frank is simply amazing. A great combo if you ask me.

This story is Marvel’s second rendition of the original Squadron Supreme, which had it’s basis on DC’s famous heroes back in Avengers #85. It’s all fun stuff, but you can read the wikipedia article if you want more info on that series.

**spoiler alert for the first 12 issues**

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