Ultimate Origins #1 - Marvel

I've been waiting for this book ever since I saw it advertised. All you have to do is pick up any Marvel book and you'll find it plastered all over the inside. It's usually in a 3 or 4 page add. Anyways, I guess this mini-series is going to give us the origins of all of our favorite Ultimate heroes. This issue starts with Bruce Banner trying to talk to Spider-man. Unfortunately, Spider-man just thinks he's another nut-job. But, before the army descends on him, he tells Peter, "It's all connected. That's it. That's the secret. You . . me. They don't want you to figure it out. They don't want you to know." We then jump back to WWII. 1942 to be specific. President Roosevelt wants a symbol of America out there fighting along-side the troops. Rallying them, if you will. We then cut to Sicily in 1943 when 3 soldiers are thinking about robbing a ransacked house. There's Howlett, Fisk and Fury. Before they can take off though, it's discovered what they're doing. Fisk makes a run for it, but Howlett and Fury are taken in to custody. Since Howlett is Canadian, he is turned over to them. Private Fury finds himself little while later in a cell with several other prisoners. But he is soon taken out to be experimented upon. My guess is he's the first successful attempt at the super-soldier serum. But with his enhanced strength he breaks out and makes a run for it. A year later, it looks like the same scientist is in Alberta Canada, and they're going to experiment on James Howlett. Again with his enhanced strength he breaks free but this time he's gunned down before he can escape entirely. Through that mishap they discover the mutant genome. And immediately they begin talking about how they can spread it to other humans. That's when James Howlett becomes . . Mutant Zero. This series is brought to us by Brian Bendis and Butch Guice. I like the idea of showing us these heroes origins. We can see how they differ from those of the regular Marvel Universe. But, we haven't really been shown how they're connected yet. This is a 5 issue series, so . . we have some room to go. Overall though, I thought this first issue was fantastic.