News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Life
Culture & Art
Hobbies
News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Culture & Art
Hobbies
X-Men #200-204 (2007): Blinded by the Light - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A group of X-Men are working for Mister Sinister as a new Marauders team, and acting at his direction they are murdering mutants who have precognitive ability or who know about alternate timelines. Cable is the most notable death but, of course, he’s not really dead. Blindfold dies, too. …
Uncanny X-Men #487-491 (2007): The Extremists - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Masque leads an “extremist” faction of Morlocks who kidnap Leech. Caliban is injured during the fight, but escapes and warns the X-Men about what is happening. It turns out, Masque’s group is looking for Magneto to convince him to help them rule the world—and they need Leech to de-power Magneto…
She-Hulk #19-20 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In the last arc, She-Hulk captured The Leader. Now, he's put on trial, arguing that the gamma rays that evolved his mind also gave him a criminal personality, and Jennifer is called as a witness and Leader's lawyer argues that she, too, has been mentally impacted by gamma... There's a…
She-Hulk #15-18 (2007): Planet Without a Hulk - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This story takes place while Hulk was stranged on the planet Sakaar. It begins during the Civil War, where we see Iron Man promising Jennifer that she won't have to become an agent of SHIELD just because she registered. We also see Tony Stark and other Illuminati planning for a…
MYSTERY PANEL OF THE DAY - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This one is a hard one--but I'm also using it as an excuse to hype one of my favorite sci fi comic books. Know what it is? Answer: Warren Ellis' "Orbiter." It's a great graphic novel in which a group of scientists essentially perform an autopsy on a space shuttle.…
Spider-Man Family #2 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Cover In addition to several reprinted stories, this issue has a strong original lead feature by Sean McKeever and artist Kano, and a second one that’s….Not strong. In story one, Spider-Man takes on Venom. The art is the real star here. It’s fantastic. The writing is solid too. Venom…
Irredeemable Ant-Man #7-8 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
At the end of last issue, Ant Man stowed away in Carol Danvers’ purse. He didn’t KNOW it was Ms. Marvel’s purse, but he figures it out when he sees her registration card. He fantasizes about whether she has a giant penny in her hideout—which is a Batman reference. After…
Annihilation: Conquest #1-6 (2007-2008): 1st Guardians of the Galaxy; deaths: Moondragon, Korvath - Earth's Mightiest Blog
After three miniseries and the launch of the Nova series, the background for main event is established and ready to start. The Phalanx have assimilated the Kree and several powerful cosmic characters. Teams of heroes have formed to fight them. We start with the last stand of Blastaar... They fall,…
Punisher War Journal #11 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This story explores what “heroes” mean through three unrelated stories: GW Bridge speaking with Tony Stark about why he doesn’t want to be in SHIELD without Nick Fury. Winter Soldier wanting to beat the crap out of Punisher for dressing up like Captain America in the last story arc. And…
X-Men: Endangered Species (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Endangered Species began with a one-shot and then ran as eight-page back-up stories spread across the X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor and New X-Men titles. So this post covers parts of the following issues, which also have their own posts for the non-Endangered Species stories appearing in those books: E.D. One Shot New X-Men #40-42 Uncanny X-Men #488-491 X-Factor #21-24…
AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #2 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Let me just open by saying that I appreciate done-in-ones, especially at the dawn of the “event fatigue” era of Marvel. Last issue, the new “Avengers in Training” team was formed, and in this issue they are called on for their first mission: Rescuing the President of the United States from…
AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #3 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Dani Moonstar, who has experience both as a teacher and at dealing with serious trauma, becomes the special tutor for Trauma. There’s more fun, well-done training sequences—including an “everybody fight Thing” sequence. For the main event: Komodo and War Machine are assigned to capture a superhero fugitive: Spider-Man. There’s…
New Excalibur #18-24 (2007): Series Ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Why is it that nearly every single Excalibur story is just fucking tedious? Why is it so hard to write for this team? Anyway, this storyline pits the team against Bran "Albion" Bardic. In his reality (yes, it's yet ANOTHER alternate reality incursion), World War One went on for 100…
Daredevil #95-105 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
For the first time in a long time, we get a Daredevil story that's ... kinda bad. It was bound to happen. When Brian Michael Bendis left the title, he left a whole bunch of loose ends. One of them was Matt Murdock's bride, Milla Donovan. She'll be the center…
X-Factor #17-20 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
After another very cool adventure seeking to reclaim a lost dupe, Jamie Madrox returns home to find Mutant Town surrounded by razor wire. Valerie Cooper tells him that Rahne and Rictor have been arrested for attacking FBI agents (it was a mistake) who were tracking a new terrorist organization called…
New X-Men #37-41 (2007): Magik returns - Earth's Mightiest Blog
As a result of House of M, Magik has been resurrected and the demon Belasco has been slaughtering leaders across dimensions to find her. This included taking Limbo back from Amanda Sefton, who fell back to Earth at the end of the last arc. Next, he pulls the students from…
GHOST RIDER: TRAIL OF TEARS #1-6 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain return to their Ghost Rider saga. This miniseries takes us back to the U.S. Civil War, where a ex-slave named Caleb takes revenge on a gang of white "lawmen" who stole his freed family's farm. Caleb, a free man, manages to get farmland for his…
FANTASTIC FOUR #20 (1963): 1st Molecule Man - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This issue had the first appearance of Molecule Man and the second of Watcher. Uatu had only appeared once, in F4 #13, but by his second appearance he was already breaking his oath of non-interference to tell the team about a new threat. ...Molecule Man! But at least he professed…
Omega Flight #1-5 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
As part of The Initiative, Sasquatch, the sole surviving member of Alpha Flight, pulls together a group of new heroes. He asks Talisman (daughter of Shaman), but she says no. Then he gets beaten up by Wrecking Crew and she feels guilty so she changes her mind to yes. They're…
Nova #4-12, Annual #1 (2007-2008): Annihilation Conquest - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Nova is the only ongoing series launched out of the Annihilation event so far, and it kind of bridges the "Wave" and "Conquest" chapters. The first three issues had Nova return home to Earth, only to find that his experiences going through a cosmic war had led him to outgrow…
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #6-10 (2007): The Initiative - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Frank Castle has learned of the death of Captain America--the man he (and many others) believed to be the last true American, with values and courage and strength and all that. Punisher even gets his own version of a Cap costume. Fitting that he decides to take on the opposite…
Heroes for Hire #9-10 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Paladin gets the team a gig to go to the Savage Land to capture Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy because SHIELD scientists think their DNA might hold the secret of the cure to cancer. So, it's a quest for Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy. When they finally find their targets…
Annihilation: Conquest Wraith #1-4 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The Phalanx capture a being in outer space who says he has no name. Okay. But if that's true, then why is this book called, "Wraith?" Anyway, he has a fear power and it works well against the Phalanx. Still, he's overwhelmed, captured, and tortured by the Phalanx-infected Ronan. Wraith…
Blade #7-12 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In the final issues of this way-better-than-expected series, we continue to jump between flashbacks and the present day... ...As Blade finally uncovers the truth about his father. Along the way, he meets Union jack (the third one), who has information for Blade: Lucas Cross is working with another vampired named…
Nova #1-3 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Richard Rider is the last of the Nova Corps, has all their combined powers, and communicates instantly and constantly with the Worldmind. He's basically freelancing, flying all over the galaxy to clean up messes left in the aftermath of the Annihilation event, but ends up in a "super gravitational event"…
FANTASTIC FOUR #215-216 (1980): Wolfman leaves - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Marv Wolfman's run ends well: A two-parter featuring my favorite negative zone baddie: Blastaar The Living Bomb-Burst! I can't tell you how many times I read and re-read this story as a kid. I loved the opening pages. But most of all I loved... Blastaar escapes the Zone. While he…
Onslaught Reborn #1-5 (2007): Rikki Barnes dies - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I don’t know who loved the first Onslaught event, but somebody must have. This series marks 10-years since that event and so we’re going back to it. Sigh. And look! Captain America is on the cover to the first issue! So...This X-Men story is now a Cap story because the…