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X-Men: Emperor Vulcan #1-5 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This miniseries focuses on what happened to Gabriel Summers (aka Vulcan)--the lost brother--after the space epic "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire." In the wake of that tale, Havok, Rachel Grey, and Lorna Dane have joined the Starjammers, and they lead a revolt against the new Shi'ar Emperor: Vulcan.…
Daredevil Annual (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Ed Brubaker's run on Daredevil, like several that preceded his, is mostly just one long story--but in this annual we get a one-and-done story. Much of the action is kind of random in this annual. Not bad, just random. The main story is: Black Tarantula gets early release from Rikers…
Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #1-6 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Joe Casey | Eric Canete I love Joe Casey but, unfortunately, I didn't love this miniseries. To be fair, though, it was released at the same time that the main Iron Man title was doing the best Mandarin arc I've ever read. LINK TO THAT This was clearly just an attempt to…
Wolverine #57-61 (2007-2008): Brain Dead - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Some bad guys blow up Wolverine's brain by putting a bomb in his mouth, leaving him "brain dead." Doctor Strange arrives. Doctor Strange examines him and says that the bomb took away Logan's soul. Strange visits Wolverine on the astral plane... ...Which looks like a bar to Logan. Strange then…
Super-Villain Team-Up Modok's 11 #1-5 (2007): Mentallo dies - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Okay, that title is a mouthful but then again MODOK's mouth is pretty f-in big. And I mean that both figuratively and literally. I'm not sure what was in the water at Marvel's offices in 2007 and 2008, but whatever it was, they should drink more. So many great series…
Thor #4 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Thor continues his mission to find all the Asgardians who have been transformed into mortals, restore their memories, and bring them back to New Asgard. His journey takes him, in his Doctor Blake form, to a mercy mission in Africa, where he routs villainous rebels. He comes across three men…
Cable and Deadpool #45 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Deadpool and Hydra Bob have been bumped into a time travel adventure. While their friends try to get them back, they find themselves in World War II teaming up with Captain America and Bucky. It's a fun issue. At the end, the Fantastic Four (Black Panther/Storm version) show up to…
Penance: Relentless 1-5 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This miniseries explores the transition of Speedball into Penance--a move from one of the absolute worst characters in the Marvel Universe into one of the most interesting. Paul Jenkins, a fantastic comic book writer, was responsible for that initial transformation and he uses this book to explore the character more…
Cable and Deadpool #46 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Continuing the "team up" theme of this book now that Cable is dead, the Fantastic Four get involved. Both a past version of them and the current Storm/Black Panther configuration. All these team-up issues are fun, but not much to say about them. The travels end here as Deadpool and…
Foolkiller MAX #1-5 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I hate what MAX does to Foolkiller. Steve Gerber's vision for the character was a brilliant spin on superheroic vigilantism. This series is just turning him into another version of Punisher. Actually, it's even more gratuitously violent and bloody. A follow-up, Foolkiller: White Angels, also came out in 2008.
Irredeemable Ant-Man #11-12 (2007): Series ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Oh my God is this a bad ending. Ant-Man, apparently, got knocked into a coma as a result of his participation in World War Hulk, which enabled SHIELD to find him, capture him, and debrief/torture him. His buddy Black Fox sneaks on board the Helicarrier to help him. Yes,…
Black Panther #31-34 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
We were led to believe that Black Panther was dead and the Panther/Fantastic Four era was over, but here's several more issues of it. And they're...Terrible. What in my view started as a pretty fun run on Black Panther ends up being almost unreadable. Panther and his wife Storm and…
Wolverine: Origins #16-20 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Now that Captain America is dead and Logan has his memories back, he gets drunk in front of the Captain America statue at the Smithsonian and reminisces about how during World War II he and Nick Fury freed Cap and Bucky from a prison camp. Only to learn thereafter that…
WOLVERINE #56 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Jason Aaron writes a single issue drawn by new series artist Howard Chaykin, where Romulus puts Wolverine in a pit where a man with a machine gun constantly shoots at him. For weeks. Wolverine has to talk his way out to get the man to stop shooting him, get out,…
Spider-Man Family #5 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
, Clayton Henry Pana Moreshead, Eduardo Garcia COVER In addition to reprinted material, we get two stories. First, Morbius steals some magic mojo to try to cure his friend who has ALS, but ends up raising a demon who Spidey and Doc Strange have to manage. Then Kraven's son…
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #97-100 (1983) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Danny Rand is now in possession of the Power Gem of Quon. Master Kahn, Iron Fist's old enemy from his solo series, returns and tries to get it. He brings with him one of the wolves that killed Iron Fist's mother back when he was a child--the animal has become…
THE BOYS #5-18 (2006-2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Continuing my tribute to this series. To see all the posts, click the tag below. After introducing the main themes in #1, the cast in #2, and perversion in #s 3-4, Ennis delivers the irony: Wee Hughie is romantically linked to a super, and he doesn’t know it.Also, Butcher has…
A Tribute to The Boys...Issues #1-4 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Ennis has his detractors who say he’s shallow and full of hate, and maybe that’s true, but I’m not a hater. I love Garth Ennis. I love his Punisher. I love Hitman. I love the few Spider-Man stories he’s written. I even love Crossed, as sick and demented as it…
Spider-Man: One More Day (2007-2008): JMS run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Welcome to a Spider-Man event that may be the most hated of all time. But I like it. A lot. One More Day is the tale where Spider-Man makes a deal with the devil so that Aunt May can live. It picks up after an assassin hired by Kingpin tries…
Ms. Marvel #31-34 (2008-2009) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It's easy to forget sometimes that Ms. Marvel is one of Marvel's oldest characters. Long before she got powers she was Carol Danvers, a Major in the U.S. Air Force who befriended Captain Mar-Vell. These issues explore her past as a soldier, doing for Danvers' military service what others have…
CAPTAIN AMERICA #31-36 (2007-2008): The Burden of Dreams - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The full title for this story arc is "The Death of Captain America, Act 2 - The Burden of Dreams: Parts One through six.". That's a mouthful. Cap is dead. Sharon Carter is torn up that she was the actual assassin--even though she was being mind-controlled by Dr. Faustus. Bucky…
She Hulk #21 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This issue is a confusing mash-up of alternate reality versions of 616 characters, but I think the upshot is that She-Hulk is back on Earth 616 and can change between human and hulk form again. It was a hard slog to read through, so I might have missed something.
X-Men: Messiah Complex (2007-2008): 1st X-Force, Hope Summers; Mr. Sinister, Caliban, Lady Deathstrike die; Professor X dies (again); X-Books reboot - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Oh good. Another X-event. I suppose when you have what is essentially a universe of heroes (mutants) inside a universe of heroes (Earth-616), telling global stories about the sub-group in event form makes a kind of sense. But it's also dizzying. This one is actually good, though--so that helps, too.…
Thor #3 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This book continues to be amazing. Thor goes to New Orleans, where Heimdall has been transformed into the body of a mortal with no memory of his past. But before Thor can return him to his Godly state, Iron Man shows up. I love that. Thor humiliates Tony, beats on…
MS MARVEL #18-20 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Machine Man (yay!) and Sleepwalker (boo!) join Ms. Marvel's initiative team and help rescue Araña who has been (sigh) kidnapped by Puppet Master. He's also got a few other D-list female heroes in his clutches, including Tigra, which leads to a Tigra-vs-Ms.-Marvel fight. This is silly, of course. There are…
Spider-Man Family #4 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Another anthology. The first story is for kids, by Chris Eliopoulus. Puppet Master helps a kid being bullied by giving him living action figures. Eliopoulus may be "all ages" but he's always worth reading. After that, Spider-Man teams up with the Agents of Atlas against some monsters, and gets his…
Sub-Mariner #1-6 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
During the Civil War, Namor was part of the Illuminati but he walked away from the surface world rather than become a government stoolie with Iron Man. This series starts with Tony Stark in a submarine, surveying the wreckage of Atlantis. They find what appears to be Sub-Mariner's skeletal remains.…
Thunderbolts #116-121 (2007-2008): Ellis/Deodato run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The Thunderbolts have struck fear in the hearts of unregistered heroes, who are now voluntarily surrendering to them. But at the base, which doubles as a prison for the supers they've captured (like Hellrazor), we see the team falling apart. Doc Samson assesses Penance (a.k.a. masochist Speedball), and decides the…
MARVEL PREMIERE #4-10 (1973): Ancient One dies - Earth's Mightiest Blog
How do you create a generic Dr. Strange story? You pick a bunch of weird names that mostly involve the vowel "U," utter a bunch of oaths ("By the Vishanti!" "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!"). "I call upon the vapors of Valtorr!" Then, you have a long, drawn out…