Between this and Ultimate Spider-Man #100, this wound up being the best week for comics I've had in a long time.
Easiest way to describe this issue is a HUGE fight issue. And increadibly gory.
The issue starts with Hulk destroying a majority of Crimson Dynamo's robots. The Colonel (Whom they never actually call Red Skull. . .) sick Abomination on him while he and Cap get ready to throw down. Hawkeye jumps in to try and kill the Colonel, but Hurricane gets to him and starts to seriously beat him down. Abomination is really beating down Hulk and mocking him by saying that he stronger, bigger and has retained his genius intellegence and that Hulk is nothing to him.
Hurricane is basically just beating Hawkeye to death when suddenly Quicksilver wakes up and attacks Hurricane. Hurricane mocks Quicksilver for the whole fight, mocking his relationship with Wanda, Magneto and saying she could just pop Hawkeye's head at the speed their going. Quicksilver completely freaks. He mocks Hurrciane, asking what speed she was trained at ("Mach 5? Mach 10? I was hitting those numbers when I still had pimples!") while Hurricane begs for her life. Quicksilver breaks Light Speed and Hurricane just disintigrates. Hawkeye then tells Quicksilver to stop fooling around, as Quicksilver just glances at him.
Cap and the Colonel just keep on fighting, with Cap breaking the Colonel's lightsaber in two. They both grab a piece and continue to duel.
After this we switch back to Fury, Betty and Wanda. Fury just gets up with his assault rifle, gives Betty one and all three start mowing down Liberator troops. Swarm also continues to beat the crap out of Wasp.
Then, Brian Braddock and a few others go up to some Liberator troops, mocking them for not thinking of secret identities and Brian takes off his glasses and rips off his shirt to show his Captain Britian uniform Superman-style (Nice tribute, Millar).
Swtich back to Hulk and Abomination. Hulk starts mocking Abomination's intellegence as he turns the tables and starts kicking the crap out of him while Abomination begs for his life! ("What's the square root of six million, two hundred and elventy! What's the capital of Texas? How many legs has spiders got? Can you tell Hulk the formula for Coca-Cola? Ho ho ho! Not so clever now, EH!?)
Swtich back to Fury, Betty Wanda and Wasp rescuing Bush. The Swarm attacks them then. . .Wasp takes Pym's Giant formula and CRUSHES Swarm!
Crimson Dynamo switches to a suicide mission and just starts wasting civilians. Loki decides to get directly involved now.
Iron Man shows up in a gigantic. . .cannon (Iron Man 6!) and just lasers pretty much everything (While he's completely drunk, of course), including Crimson Dynamo.
Switch to Hulk ripping off Abomination's arm (While Abomination begs, Hulk congragulates Tony on blowing up people. :lol: ) Abomination asks how Banner could beat him when he was so much smarter. Hulk proceeds to litterly punch through Abomination's head, telling him he thinks too much.
All the fights continue when Pym decides to switch sides, telling Ultron to attakc the Liberators. Ultron is pretty confused as Pym explains that he was a traitor to the Liberators the whole time, but Ultron agrees to follow Pym anyways. Quicksilver tells Pym that nobody will beileve him, but Pym insists that was the plan from the beginning.
Back to the Colonel and Cap. Cap tells the Colonel to give up, but the Colonel asks why he would do that to just get executed. Cap explains America doesn't do things that way. A bunch of Liberator soldiers tackle Cap and the Colonel pick up his severed lightsaber and prepares to execute Cap by beheading. Hawkeye tries to get Cap his shield, but it's too far, so. . .he gives it to Hulk. Hulk chucks it, and cuts off the Colonel's hands. Cap breaks out of the hold and grabs the saber. The Colonel asks if Cap has something funny or witty to say. . .and Cap jsut stabs him through the heart, saying "No jokes, Abdul."
Cue gigantic splash page of all the Ultimate heroes breaking out and fighting back.
The Ultimates think they've won. . .but Loki flies up, getting ready to just unmake everything. So, Scarlet Witch decides she can stop him. Loki laughs, saying she can only bend probabilites, while he is a god of them. She uses her powers to bend the probability of Thor showing up and Loki practically craps his pants. Cue Thor splash page. The end.
Simply amazing issue. I'm a little upset that they jsut killed a lot of the Liberators (Especially the Colonel), but still, it was amazing. Very curious to see the Thor/Loki fight and see what happens to Pym.
5/5