I'm talking about the "main focus villians" of the runs. Sure, there'll be plenty of inmates in a jail. Sauron was the focus.

Also, I've always considered Viper and Silver Samurai to be mainly Xmen/ Wolverine villians. I'll give you the hand being a big part of the Viper story. I'll also agree that Black Widow was fairly important... in a story about Sauron... and yes, the one shot.

JacinB, you're so right... what was I thinking? continuity? How could I EVER want that to make sense! Bendis, you are my comic god! I should be punished for not seeing his true vision...

He made a big deal that it was one year after the Ultimates, Vol. 1. It had no established temporal relation to anything else in the Ultimates universe.

However, here's is what we do know:
1) Ultimate Hulk was captured, tried and 'executed' at (or immediately prior to) the beginning of this 'year' of the Ultimates.
2) After this Ultimate 'year' began, Nick Fury figured out that Banner was alive and sent Wolverine to kill him.

During those meetings with Wolverine, I'm reasonably certain the either Fury mentioned something going on currently in the Ultimate X-Men title, or there was mention in the Ultimate X-Men title of a mission that Fury had sent Wolverine on.

That ties Ultimate Hulk vs. Ultimate Wolverine's timeline to the current timelines in both the Ultimates and Ultimate X-Men.

Ultimate Spider-Man has been a day in, day out account of Peter Parker's life. I can't remember the last time there has been any time 'gap' in there. (He goes from coming back from Genosha with Kitty straight into his current arc, for instance.) It's similar with the Ultimate X-Men title, though they do leave reasonable 'holes' of time for Kitty to go 'on dates' with Peter that would explain her appearances in his title.

However, despite those 'ties' from book to book, the overall timeline is a jarbled mess. Ultimate Fantastic Four seems to operate in a universe almost entirely independent of anything else in the Ultimate universe. Ultimates ties to Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate X-Men ties to Ultimate Spider-Man, but the Ultimates doesn't tie to Ultimate Spider-Man.

And none of the 'other' Ultimate books (Ultimate Team-Up, Ultimate Six, Ultimate Nightmare/Extinction, etc.) tie into the other 'normal' Ultimate titles. They're not mentioned. Characters that have a big impact on the 'regular' Marvel universe, that you would expect to be impact players in the Ultimate universe, and that we see show up in those 'other' Ultimate titles (Vision, for instance) are never even talked about again.

In the Ultimate Six and Hobgoblin story arcs, Hawkeye is shown as a loner, even going so far as stating "I hate kids." In Ultimates 2, he's a loving family man who goes on the warpath after his wife and two kids are slain.

In that same story arc, Spider-Man gets upset and punches Nick Fury and Fury decides that it's time for Spider-Man to lose his powers ... and, we've not seen Nick Fury, SHIELD, or any of the Ultimates since.