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Ultimatum: March on Ultimatum

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With a title like March on Ultimatum, I was kind of expecting a cohesive story that set the stage for the Ultimate Marvel Universe's first big crossover event. Instead, this is essentially Ultimate Annuals Volume 3. Yes, it vaguely leads into Ultimatum TPB, but if they had just called it what it is I probably wouldn't be so bothered.

Anyway, the Ultimatum tie-in comes in the form of the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four annuals, which feature a complex, time and dimension hopping storyline with future X-Men, a tyrant Sue Storm and...I don't know. I kind of lost interest halfway through, which is a first for me as a major fan of the Ultimate Universe. Aside from a cryptic warning about the upcoming Ultimatum, the story didn't seem to have much to do with the crossover.

The rest of the book wasn't much better. The Ultimate Captain America Annual gave us a very well illustrated origin of the Black Panther, but the story was a bit dull. Then again, it tied into Ultimates 3 so how good could it have possibly been. The Ultimate Spider-Man story was fun and full of teen angst, though it read more like an issue of Invincible. What (barely) saves this book from a 2-star rating is the Ultimate Hulk Annual, which featured a massive (and hysterical) encounter between Hulk and that psycho Zarda from the Squadron Supreme. It had an ending I was definitely not expecting.

Ultimate Annuals Volume 3 - sorry, March on Ultimatum - is worth picking up if you're a fan of the Ultimate Universe, but if you're expecting it to be important to the Ultimatum crossover, you're going to be disappointed.