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Synopsis: As Captain America gives the eulogy for the funeral service of those killed in the Hulk attack, Janet Pym is rushed from her apartment to the hospital. Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is all healed up, but still confined in a holding cell in the Triskelion. A man named Eamonn Brankin brings Banner up to speed: hundreds of people were killed in the attack, the public isn't aware that Banner and the Hulk are the same, and worst of all, Banner cannot leave his holding cell because since he mixed the Hulk formula with the Super Soldier serum, the Hulk intrabodies are forming a permanent bond with Banner's DNA. Banner doesn't believe it and demands that Hank Pym check the figures, but Brankin tells Bruce that Hank Pym is MIA.

After the service, Betty Ross is already checking numbers to see the Ultimate's approval rating. Nick Fury seems a bit peeved that she sees the casualties as a way for publicity. Meanwhile, Cap's old friend Bucky and ex-fiancee Gail meet him on the steps of the cathedral. You can tell they really care for Steve, but their talk is cut short by Fury who tells Cap that a situation has developed.

The team (minus Hank and Banner of course) meet in Jan's hospital room. She is covered by bites, which the staff believes to be ant bites she received when in Wasp form. Luckily, Jan had the strength to convert back to full size before the paramedics arrived, otherwise they would have never seen her. The neighbors called because they heard a domestic disturbance, and the team figures out that's why Hank has gone missing. As the press rushes into the hospital, Fury tells S.H.I.E.L.D. to get Jan to the Triskelion.

Later, Stark, Cap, and Betty have coffee at a diner. Betty tells Steve and Tony that though for the most part, Hank was a sweet romantic guy to Jan in college, there were times where Jan would come in with bruises, or even one time he hit her so hard that the roof of her mouth split in two. Stark wonders why she would put up with that, but Betty thinks its because Jan has very low self-esteem. They ask Betty why she didn't tell anyone this before, but Betty said it was supposed to stay between Hank and Janet. But, as Jan's ambulance is shown on TV, it is now everyone's business.

Back at the Triskelion, Fury talks to the Black Widow. Apparently, there is a secret team that the public (if even the Ultimates) doesn't know about, which both Black Widow, Hawkeye, and some mutants are part of. They are to deal with an extra-terrestial threat, which Widow says is too big of a threat for the "photogenic little media darlings." Thor arrives for the Ultimates meeting, but he's the only one there. Stark is running late, but that still leaves Cap unaccounted for. It turns out that he is in the Satellite Room, tracking Hank Pym. And once he deduces Giant Man's loaction to a pub in Chicago, he calls transport for a helicopter.

Review: Millar once again writes an amazing comic book. Yet, it is terrible that this book has been delayed as much as it has. There is no reason a book should be, what is it? 5 issues? behind where it should be. Especially one this good. Hitch's art, which usually is astounding, was mediocre this issue, with even Thor's entrance seeming to lack the usually gleam Hitch manages to put into his work on this title. The panel with Black Widow seemed hastily drawn, but he did do a good job drawing a depressed Banner. And does anyone else think with each issue Nick Fury looks more and more like Samuel L. Jackson?

The story itself was great. The last panel of Cap was chilling. I would not want to be in Hank's shoes when he finds him. The idea of another team is interesting, but I thought Hawkeye was supposed to join the public team. Has he been on this secret team all along? Looks like Millar has some fun things planned. The team is a bunch of misfits, with Cap, Stark, and Thor being the only ones with their heads on straight. Betty is too concerned with herself, Fury has too much to handle with running SHIELD, and of course that leaves the Pyms and Banner. And the best part about Millar's writing is that I love reading all of them. The best comic on the stands at the moment, and make sure you pick up with Ultimate X-Men / Ultimate crossover, Ultimate War when it hits the stands. It's gonna be great.