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DEMON #44 (1994) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
NOTE: These posts on Garth Ennis' "Demon" comics were originally on another side, published back in 2015, reprinted here for posterity Ennis and McCrea revive The Haunted Tank. Garth would go on to write many, many war comics, including a revival of The Unknown Soldier. It's truly amazing how many…
MARVEL KNIGHTS PUNISHER #19 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is another done-in-one, but it ties to Garth Ennis' prior work with this character. It starts with Punisher wounded and being taken in by a woman from his past. This character lived in the same tenement as Castle in the Welcome Back Frank story. She's left New York and…
X-Men Unlimited #39 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Someone thought it would be a good idea to make this book monthly this year. This issue has three stories featuring Storm. First, Jason Pearson writes and draws Storm and Magneto get into an argument that Storm is not “mutant enough” because she’s thrown in with Professor X instead of the…
UNCANNY X-MEN #416 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Issue #416 marks the Marvel debut of artist Kia Asamiya, best known at the time for work in Japanese Manga books. As for the writing, well, the above scene says it all. Iceman resents that Stacy X is now on the team and rants to Nightcrawler that he's tired of…
AVENGERS #62/477 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is Geoff Johns' first great issue of his run. The ones before were good, but not this good. And *surprise* it's about Jack of Hearts--the world's most lame Avenger. The issue is basically two studies of two characters who don’t get a lot of facetime. Jack of Hearts’ powers…
Avengers #63/478, Iron Man #64/409, Thor #58/560 (2003): Standoff - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Dan Jurgens has been doing some cool stuff in the pages of Thor, wherein Thor has become…A God. By which I mean, he is actually worshipped as a God in a Church of Thor. In Slovakia, it is apparently a crime against the State and Thor’s worshippers are killed. That’s some heavy…
PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN #50 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
JMS and JR Jr. have been running wild in Amazing Spider-Man, and got to tell a beautiful story about Peter Parker revealing his super-identity to Aunt May, and Aunt May revealing that she knew all along. In this story, Peter tells her that Norman Osborn is Green Goblin. It feels…
UNCANNY X-MEN #415 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In a "between big stories" issue, we get a fairly silly story about a mutant with seduction powers who, with her husband, screws with Angel and Iceman. In the quieter panels we see what it is like for Northstar to join the team. He crushes on Iceman.
A PANEL FROM EVERY ISSUE OF GARTH ENNIS' THE DEMON - Earth's Mightiest Blog
NOTE: The posts on Garth Ennis' "Demon" comics were originally on another side, published back in 2015, reprinted here for posterity In 1993, there weren't a lot of reasons to read comic books. And then a little-known Irishman whose experience was mostly in the British anthology 2000 AD (home to…
MOON KNIGHT #34 (1983) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The new creative team of Tony Isabella and Bo Hampton come aboard. Fans are not happy. But the parting gift is a final Bill S. cover. This is a one-off story. It's fine--someone is trying to infect a ghetto with a drug that makes people go nuts. Gena--who owns the…
X-STATIX #6-8 (2003): Moons of Venus - Earth's Mightiest Blog
With Professor Xavier's help, Venus Dee Milo has been dimension-hopping, trying to track down her family. He kills an interdimensional invader along with the way, with a pistol. Xavier has become more familiar with her--and her difficulty not having a corporeal body--so he makes her a suit that will express…
AVENGERS #12 (1965) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
“This Hostage Earth” pits (pun intended) the A-team against Mole Man and the Moloids.(Get it? Pits them against Mole Man? A guy who lives underground? Hello? Is this thing on?) Thor is not amused. Ants make Hank Pym aware of the threat and he's like, come on dude, I'm a…
MOON KNIGHT #31-33 (1983): Doug Moench leaves - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Bill Sienkiewicz is gone, but Marvel tries to hide it by keeping him on the covers. And he inks #33. And he's on the promotional art (above). Again: He's not on the interiors. The story suffers greatly because of it. This was the beginning of the end. They'd had a…
Thunderbolts #76-81 (2003): Series Ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
While the Thunderbolts team we all knew and some of us loved (I myself was largely indifferent) was busy breaking up in the Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries, the pages of the actual Tbolts ongoing series ran a self-contained series for six issues before the book was cancelled. Thunderbolts #76-81 are, basically, a…
DAREDEVIL #37-38, FANTASTIC FOUR #73 (1967-1968): DD Switches Bodies with Dr. Doom! - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A ridiculous premise turns into a pretty good comic: Dr. Doom body switches with Daredevil! A multi-issue epic that ends in the pages of F4, with guest shots by just about everyone. It starts with a powerful example Doom's evil: He does not comply with traffic rules. Once they meet,…
New X-Men #134-138 (2003): Riot at Xaviers - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Ever since Grant Morrison started his run on X-Men, he's been slowly simmering a Phoenix storyline. Despite the cover of issue #134 featuring Jean Grey in flames, this issue is really about setting the stage for something else. We do get to see how Cyclops' affair with Emma Frost is…
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49-50 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The storyline with Ezekiel and the Spider God business moves forward in the background. But the main event for these two issues is Peter and Mary Jane. In issue #49 they are looking for each other and then end up face-to-face by accident, in an airport. Issue #50 has the…
Thunderbolts #75 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
As the cover to Thunderbolts #75 illustrates, this issue is about blowing the team up. Thunderbolts #76 will have a new creative team and an all-new lineup that will try to be funny while the Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries takes over the main storyline and ultimately leads to a rebirth/rebranding in New…
DAREDEVIL #41-45/421-425 (2003): Lowlife; 1st Milla Donovan - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Daredevil meeets his future wife. Seriously. Issue #41 starts with a woman walking with her blind friend down the street. They part, the blind woman steps into the street, and nearly gets hit by a truck--but Daredevil swoops down and saves her. Yes, it's a re-enactment of Daredevil #1, only…
GIANT-SIZED DEFENDERS #3 (1974) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I was just perusing this issue recently for kicks and giggles. I’d forgotten it was the precursor to Marvel’s Contest of Champions, which, in turn, was the precursor for the original Secret Wars and then, again, the recent Secret War that revamped the entire Marvel Universe. Thus, GSD#3 is one…
ALIAS #16-21 (2003): The Underneath - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Brian Michael Bendis actually makes Spider-Woman 3 (Mattie Franklin) compelling. After stopping a bodega robbery, Jessica gets home and finds Mattie in her bathroom, messed up and strung out. Before Jessica can find out what she's doing there, Mattie flees. Scott Lang, who had his first date with Jessica last…
Spider-Man: Get Kraven #1-6 (2002-2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The first issue of this series reprinted the pages of “Call Me Al,” a back-up feature that appeared behind several books in earlier months—told in installments of about 5 pages per issue. Nobody wants to read a 5 page serialized story that is spread out across multiple series and months. …
Captain America #7-11 (2003): The Extremists - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Here’s one way to know you’re in trouble: The cover to the first issue of your story says it is part 1 of 4, but the splash page says there will be five parts. Ladies and gentlemen, nobody is editing this. I’ve been underwhelmed by this Marvel Knights series. The…
Elektra #18-22 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The South Central sensei Drake takes on Elektra as a student, while the Hand realizes where she is and tries to bring her back to their ranks. There’s a lot of history and development for both Elektra and Drake here. Drake, ultimately, is an irrelevant character—so you may not find…
BERKELEY PLACE’S TOP 10 BRIAN WOOD COMICS - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Note: This was first printed in 2015 on an older site. It is reprinted here for posterity. It was also printed prior to the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to his being blacklisted by the industry. Even if the cancellation of Mr. Wood was warranted, these are still some…
Spider-Man Tangled Web #20 (2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
J. Jonah Jameson gets enraged about Spider-Man, has a heart attack, and goes into therapy to look at his anger. We then get a look at his childhood, which is exactly what you would have expected: Abusive drunk dad. Mom who doesn’t protect him. So he takes up boxing and…
Marvel Team-Up #31 (1975): Iron Fist - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Spidey and Fist fight a guy named Drom who is aging backwards. Not just that, he also TALKS backwards. It turns out, he was born this way but actually was born as a baby and then suddently became an adult and...You know what, it doesn't make sense. Or matter. Because…
LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #14-16 (1973): 1st Shades, Comanche, Stiletto - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It’s been over a year, and we really haven’t had a good origin story, so it makes sense for Steve Englehart to finally get around to writing one. These issues are Englehart’s last, and the last under this title (it would pick up in #17 as “Luke Cage: Power Man”),…
HULK #45-49 (2002-2003) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Look! The cover of issue #46 is a wonderful tribute to Apocalypse Now. Home Base's Agent Pratt returns and attacks Banner, but Sandra Verdugo is also alive--and she intervenes to save him. Pratt's nearly invulnerable so he survives Verdugo shooting him in the face repeatedly. As for Sandra, she is…
Marvel Knights Punisher #16-17 (2002): Vertical Challenge, aka, The Time He Ran Wolverine Over With a Steamroller - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is a ghastly set of issues that has horrorshow, over-the-top violence. And nut-shots. It's delightful. Punisher and Wolverine go after a mob boss who is a midget. Logan is also short. Hence the title, "Vertical Challenge." It's best known for this scene: