In the previous comic, a horrible accident leaves Doctor Octavius with mechanical arms permanently attached to his body and his short term memory erased. He wants revenge and goes after Justin Hammer the man whom he was spying on Norman Osbourne for and who was working on his own set of genetic oddities. He calls a press conference to reveal what Hammer has done and Spider-Man shows up to take down Doc Octopus or Doc Ock, which he does. But he's not alone. Sharon Carter of S.H.I.E.L.D. also shows up and decides to investigate the lab where the genetic abnormalities exist.

Carter makes the mistake of letting Flint Marco out of his cell thinking she was freeing a prisoner and instead the Sandman escapes. Spider-Man helps with taking him down but the scientists have a gun that shoots a dart that takes him out for ten minutes that they use to put him in lockdown. But he's only the second after Doc Ock that they'll get.

In the basement of one of Wilson Fisk's buildings, they find a man there with no fingerprints who has electrical abilities. He tries to escape but Iron Man, Captain America, and Sharon Carter stop him. Now he's put down in the containment center with Doc Ock, Sandman, and Norman Osbourne who are receiving therapy from Dr. Henry Pym.

Then Kraven the Hunter comes to town wanting to hunt down Spider-Man but this time he's genetically altered himself. He's brought along his camera crew again. Then Captain America, Thor, and Sharon Carter capture him and send him to the containment center. Nick Fury has plans for them that Dr. Henry Pym thinks is possible with rehabilitation. If anything they can be brought forth to legally sane enough to stand trial.

But something goes wrong and the bad guys take over the containment center and kill nearly everyone who works there and they get out with the intent of making Nick Fury pay. Fury puts people on Aunt Mae and Mary Jane to keep them safe but no one is keeping Spider-Man safe from them and they kidnap him and tell him they have Aunt Mae and if he doesn't help them they'll harm her. So he goes to do what they say.

This is a great comic, though Spider-Man isn't in it as much as you would like. Though he isn't he's replaced by some pretty high hitting characters such as Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Nick Fury, and Sharon Carter so you don't mind not seeing him so much. The artwork has either gotten better or I've gotten used to it but I think it doesn't bother me as much anymore. It's not half bad, actually. I really enjoyed this book and I give it five stars out of five stars. ( )

Okay, so, this Agent Carter is kind of a stupidhead. She lets the Sandman out of the Hammer building where he'd been kept. And even though S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to hold many of the worst, genetically modified baddies, they invariably manipulate and escape. Bad guy rehab is a great idea, but goes terribly wrong with these guys, especially when one is Norman and is obsessed with Peter Parker. Peter freaks out a bit, worrying about his aunt and girlfriend, which is understandable. Because one of these guys on his own is bad enough, but 5 all together, blackmailing Spider-Man to join them, is an almost unstoppable force. Well, possibly not unstoppable, but Captain America is pissed at S.H.I.E.L.D. for anything that has to do with the experiment that made him a super soldier and Wasp is concerned about her husband who was injured in the breakout. I adore all these realistic complications, especially when Aunt May gives S.H.I.E.L.D. agents hell until she can see Peter. Stuff gets real, and it even goes as far as the president of the US. Luckily, our friendly neighborhood spider-man manages to come out on top. But something tells me that after this, things are only going to get more complicated for poor Peter. ( )

As a previous reviewer stated, this is an Ultimates book with Spider-Man as the guest star. The trade collects one issue of Ultimate Spider-Man and the mini Ultimate Six.

The story itself is pretty interesting, although slow going at some times. Bendis writes Spidey well, and though he does a fair job on the Ultimates, he doesn't give them the spark that Millar does. I did like how he wrote Cap using 1940s slang, however; that was a nice touch.

My main problem is the art; it's just not very good, and it became a distraction after a while. ( )