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BERKELEY PLACE’S TOP 10 DAN SLOTT COMICS - Earth's Mightiest Blog
NOTE: This is a reprint of a 2013 post from another site, and has not been updated to include Slott's post-2013 work. It is reprinted here for kicks and giggles, and because Dan's a great writer. Dan Slott. His name is now spoken in harsh whispers, and he is one…
Livewires #1-6 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Remember in the mid-'90s when Marvel put out a whole bunch of really, really bad comics just to see if anything would stick and nothing did? Well, at least lots of those were not 616 canon. SHIELD builds a bunch of androids (Project: Livewires) to do black op missions. Like,…
CREATURES ON THE LOOSE FEATURING MAN-WOLF #32-33 (1974) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Man Wolf's daddy, J. Jonah Jameson, continues to hide evidence of his monstrosity. As an agent of ironic justice, Kraven is hired to kidnap both John and JJJ, and then force JJJ to hunt his son. Man-Wolf is in an alley, looking up at the window of his "when I'm…
X-Men #14-16 (1965-1966): 1st Sentinels! - Earth's Mightiest Blog
We start with the X-Men earning a vacation! Not sure taking a one-hour bus ride to New York City counts as a vacation. It's more of an outing. Anyway, before they can go they have to hide their various mutant traits. Beast binds his feet. Angel binds his wings. They…
WEST COAST AVENGERS #37 (1988): Tigra, Hank Pym, Mockingbird, Moon Knight quit; Vision, Scarlet Witch join - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It’s about time for a major line-up shift! (Frankly, this book could use a creative team shift as well, but let’s not dwell on that.) As a result of her having hidden from her fiancé, Hawkeye, that she was raped and killed her assailant, Mockingbird is forced off the team.…
Marvel Comics Presents #90-97 (1991): Ghost Rider and Cable - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This marks the beginning of MCP being, essentially, a team-up book. Nearly every issue has an 8-page story about Wolverine, usually coupling him up with someone, and another 8-pager with a Ghost Rider team-up. The other 16 pages are still short stories, usually one multi-part or one 8-page standalone. Ghost Rider’s first…
FANTASTIC FOUR #57-63 (1966-1967): 1st Blastaar - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is a long-form epic titled... Doomsday! And it's excellent! Stan and Jack were really getting into this kind of story telling now, which kind of parallels where they were at with Avengers at this time as well. Major arcs would generally have a “major” and “minor” storyline, which intersected…
X-23: Innocence Lost (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
X-23 has appeared several times already but doesn't have an official origin story yet. This is that. While it's true that you don't really need to read it to know what's going to happen (it is pretty by-the-numbers as far as origins go), it's executed well and is a solid…
New Warriors #1-6 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The team is re-cast as reality film stars, filming their own adventures. The series introduces a new member: Microbe. Night Thrasher is his legal guardian. The team have some minor skirmishes against D-list villains like Tiger Shark, the Super Apes, etc. Then the producers try to force conflicts amongst the…
Marvel Two-In-One #61-63 (1980): Starhawk, Moondragon, and Warlock - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Please forgive the horrible title of this issue, "The Coming of Her!" It’s actually a good story. Would anyone have thought that a Thing comic would produce significant events for Marvel’s cosmic universe? In these issues, we meet the female Adam Warlock. Fans know that Warlock was originally called Him, and he…
New X-Men: Academy X #7-9 (2005): Haunted - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The cover to issue #8 made me realize I have a tag for when comic books "cover" (i.e., imitate) prior covers or iconic panels, but I don't have one for when they reference movie posters. Oh well. I'm just going to use my "comic book covers" tag for all of…
SPIDEY SUPER STORIES #15 (1976) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
One of the most fun issues so far. First, he meets Storm and makes a web umbrella. Then, he gets into a buggy race with Shocker and wears protective goggles over his protective eye lenses. Belt and suspenders! He also takes on the Electric Company version of Swarm. Storm guest…
Spider-Man/Human Torch #1-5 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Now here's an awesome miniseries. In fact, it's one of the best things Dan Slott has ever done (although that post on Dan Slott may not be live yet--it eventually will be). It's not "important." It doesn't "matter." But it's a lot of fun and it's great character work. The…
Spider-Man Unlimited #8 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Story 1: Fanboyz. Fanboys imitate Spider-Man and the hero rescues them from themselves. Not sure why it is spelled with a "z" but I guess it's because that makes it funnier? (Except it doesn't.). Story 2: Spidey helps people during an Earthquake. Collectively: Not terrible, but not really worth your…
Uncanny X-Men #452-454 (2005): Chasing Hellfire - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Sage has gone to the Hellfire Club, so a team goes after her, bickering among themselves the whole way. Rachel and Emma’s catfighting gets extreme and astral because Rachel seems Emma as a homewrecker. Which, to be fair, she is. After Emma crushes Rachel she makes a postfeminist argument for…
PUNISHER MAX #25-30 (2005-2006): Slavers - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Beginning in issue #24, “The Slavers” story arc tackled human trafficking. It was a way to show how Punisher’s “broken windows” approach to crime could actually have an impact internationally, even if it couldn’t address the roots of the problems. As you might guess from the title, it focused on…
She-Hulk #10-12 (2005): Series Ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This volume of She-Hulk comes to a close here, but the next one starts right away with a new #1 and the same writer. A Watcher named Zoma relates the history of Titania. Her origin. Her abusive childhood. And all the reasons she hates She-Hulk. Zoma is relating the tale…
Thunderbolts #2-6 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In issue #1, we met the Fathom Five--a gang of Atlanteans who caused unrest on the surface world before being taken down by the Thunderbolts+Genis Vell. In these issues, the Fathom Five story continues. Issue #2 has the T-bolts quickly besting the Wrecking Crew and handing them over to Code…
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #86 (1970): Black Widow new costume - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Pretty significant issue. First, we have to make sure readers know who Black Widow is... Then, it's the big costume change... It's the first appearance of Black Widow's skin-tight leathers, which she self-describes as a "modern image." But it's not just leather. It's chains, too. This would be her signature…
Marvel Knights 4 #13-14 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
"Eyes Without a Face" is ... Gross. Ignore the buttshot on the cover. There's nothing sexy here. Puppet Master kidnaps a doctor and his own daughter, and forces the doc to perform experimental eye transplants to cure her blindness. Daredevil (of course) is a guest star as he finds dead…
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL. 1 #89-90 (1971) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
#89 almost feels like a Steve Gerber comic. (Imagine how awesome it would have been if he'd written Justice League!) Mike Friedrich writes an offbeat tale about a creative writer (named “Harlequin Ellis”) who fantasizes about Black Canary, and in the last panel, Friedrich appears to tell the reader what…
Daredevil: Redemption #1-6 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Matt defends the West Memphis Three! OK, not really. But sorta. He goes to Alabama to defend three kids accused of Satanic ritualistic murder. It's a Matt Murdock adventure. He barely wears the red suit. And unlike a few other stories featuring plain-clothes Murdock, he also barely ever uses his…
MARVEL TEAM-UP #103 (1981): Ant-Man - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This issue starts with Scott Lang Ant-Man feverishly welding some wires, making urgent repairs to something that appears to be mission critical. Then, after the splash page, we see it’s his daughter’s ROM doll. I love this intro sequence—very well done—but it’s very hard to believe because NOBODY bought ROM…
Fantastic Four: Foes #1-6 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
An interesting idea: Tell some stories from the villain point of view. Sort of. The emphasis on the narratives in each of these six issues is to focus on the villains as they attack the FF. The through line story is that Reed Richards does some "analysis" and discovers that…
New Thunderbolts #1 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
When we last saw a team with the name Thunderbolts, they were fighting The Avengers and their former villainous identities had been exposed to the world. This reboot (with the very cute title, "Reassembled") takes the team in a totally new direction. It starts with Abner "The Beetle" Jenkins getting…
Excalibur #11-12 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Like most Claremont X-stories, there are multiple simultaneous stories in these issues. The main one has Callisto tracking down Sugarman, who killed the Magistrates, and seemingly killing Sugarman. A major subplot has Magneto and Xavier trying to restore Scarlet Witch from her coma (which followed the Avengers: Disassembled story). Magneto…
Iron Man #1-6 (2005): Extremis+A New Origin - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It's been a long time since we had a really good Iron Man book, so Extremis is a very welcome change. It's intent was to reboot Iron Man, much like Thor and Captain America also underwent major changes in 2005. Much has been written about it and I can't imagine…
Runaways #1-6 (2005): 1st Victor Mancha and Excavator - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Time for the second “season” of Runaways and, thankfully, the same creative team is back. We start with a new runaway kid trying out to be part of the Wrecking Crew, who are in Los Angeles to rob banks and take advantage of The Pride’s absence… The Runaways arrive to…
PUNISHER MAX #19-24 (2005): UP IS DOWN AND BLACK IS WHITE - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Thus far in the series, Garth Ennis has explored Punisher as an actor on the world stage: The arcs had him interacting with FBI, CIA, IRA and SHIELD. In this, the fourth arc, he gets back to his street crime roots. Nicky Cavella, a junior Mafioso with ambition, figures out…