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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 (or #35, depending on your numbering preference)
Marvel
Marc Guggenheim (W)/ Mike McKone (A)
JIM: "I was darn excited heading into this issue—the annual with the cover tease: 'Jackpot's Secret Revealed!' I've been a pretty outspoken fan of 'Brand New Day' so far (suck it up, get past the continuity changes and there's some damn good Spidey here!), and the lingering mystery around the red-headed superheroine has been one of the questions I've been most curious to have answered since Spidey's world was put into the hands of the Brain Trust (comprised of issue scribe Guggenheim, Bob Gale, Dan Slott and Zeb Wells, for those who haven't been paying attention). So, who is Jackpot? Your answer: Alana Jobson!

"Wait? Wha-huh? Who?!

"While I definitely expected the Brain Trust to throw a curveball and not have popular guess Mary Jane Watson be revealed as Jackpot's secret identity (no amount of her calling people 'Tiger' was going to convince me that MJ would be caught wearing bell-bottoms in 2008—that girl's got fashion sense!), the reveal of a complete nobody was a disappointing shock.

"That glaring let-down aside, the issue tells a pretty compelling story—which reveals mogul Walter Declun (from Guggenheim's 'Civil War' arc on Wolverine—which I loved) is back from the dead and is involved with a new super villain named Blindside—but in the end, they invested me in a character (Jackpot was just highlighted in Secret Invasion Spider-Man, not to mention all her ASM face time!) and her future only to deliver a disappointing reveal and kill her off. As always, lingering plot threads in the issue have me aching for more ASM action, but this seems like the Brain Trust's biggest misstep so far on what has been a great run."