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X-Factor #28 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Tribute cover! Titled, "Aftermath," this issue deals with the fallout from all the recent events and tumult in this book. Rahne quits in an effort to avoid a vision of the future, shown to her by Tryp, that had her killing Layla and Madrox (right after the two got married!). …
X-Men Legacy #208-210 (2008): From Genesis to Revelation - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Well, this didn't take long. In the last arc, Professor X was killed. This led Cyclops to disband the X-Men. There are a few scenes with the X-Men, like a little fight between Frenzy and Omega Sentinel, but this mostly about the Professor. In this arc, which immediately follows that…
Amazing Spider-Man #549-551 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Last story, some of Peter's Spider-Man gear had fallen into the wrong hands, and now someone is leaving spider-tracers at homicide crime scenes. That's still going on, but now the staff at the Daily Bugle have also been hearing about a new goblin-style villain on the streets, but nobody has…
Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #29-32 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This title was all kinds of low-key amazing under the last creative team. Stuart Moore has big shoes to feel. Let's see how he does. Iron Man leads his SHIELD team into the foreign (made-up) country of Kirikhstan to find and neutralized a nuclear terrorist threat. It turns out…
New Avengers #38 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Titled, "The Breakup," this is one of those issues you really have to read. There's some "check-in" stuff, but it's not really that important. Like they get a new hideout that used to be The Leader's place. Then Jessica Jones shows up with some words for Luke Cage. Jessica Jones…
Cable and Deadpool #49-50 (2008): Series Ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This series has had pretty wide swings in terms of quality. These final issues are among the better ones--but not the best. Deadpool has a Savage Land adventure with Ka-Zar. While there, he accidentally causes a teleported invasion of Manhattan by dinosaurs who symbiote-infected dinosaurs. When they start to infect…
PATSY WALKER: HELLCAT #1-5 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This miniseries starts with Tony picking Patsy to serve as the Initiative's representative in Alaska... Issue one is mostly banter and set up, but it's masterfully scripted and wonderfully drawn. Every page feels alive and joyful...They even figured out a novel way to handle the recap page: Every page of…
Young Avengers Presents: Vision #4 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Vision is the focus of this issue. Turns out he has the power to alter his appearance. Don't think we've seen that before. He impersonates Tony Stark and Iron Lad in this issue, and it is meant to symbolize his own insecurity about his lack of personal identity (he was…
Angel: Revelations #1-5 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This historical miniseries takes place during Angel's senior year in High School, also known as the time when Warren Worthington first got his wings. The art is extremely stylized. For some, that might be a distraction. For me, I'm not a huge Angel fan. I don't need to see…
X-Force #1-6 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The X-Force team has had several, wildly varying versions in the past. This series reimagines them as the X-Men Kill Team. It's a solid idea and it's well executed but I'm gonna warn you from the get go: It resurrects Bastion. Bastion, at least for me, is one of the…
Thor #6-8 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Gosh I love this book. This story opens with a town hall meeting where the townspeople who live near the area where Asgard now floats are trying to meet with the Asgardians to figure out how to live together. A local civil servant asks Volstagg how the Asgardians dispose of…
MOON KNIGHT #14-19 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Mike Benson (who wrote for HBO's homage to brohood, "Entourage") takes over the reigns. Charlie Huston's run was just getting good. Benson's run won't be as good, but it's not terrible. "It gets a bad rap." Not really. I'd say mediocre is about the right rap for this run. Moon…
Clandestine #1-5 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Fantastic art. Decent story. Ties to the Marvel Universe. Okay, that last one is just barely. That's a dream sequence where the Crimson Crusader fantasizes that Spider-Man wants a team up. Excalibur is featured in this mini, too, during one of the many time-traveling jaunts. The Destine family connects with…
Young Avengers Presents #3 (2008): Wiccan and Speed - Earth's Mightiest Blog
For this issue of YAP, we get to know the characters Wiccan and Speed. I'm not sure why they didn't warrant their own issues? Maybe it's because the two characters are brothers, both children of Scarlet Witch, and are getting curious about their mother. Wanda has been missing since M-Day,…
The Order #5-6 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues have two major intertwining storylines, and also show The Order getting a new headquarters and the team publicist dealing with Becky "Aralune" Ryan's sex tape. The first bigger story has to do with mutated desert creatures attacking civilians. It's pretty straightforward, but solid, and ends with Milo having…
Thor #5 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
As you can see from the cover, this is the issue where Thor finds Sif in mortal form and makes her a God again. But that's a misdirect.! Hiemdall begins to see "darkness" that is hiding the dormant Gods from his vision, and when Thor goes to investigate he finds…
New Warriors #7-8 (2008): Reunion - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The first half of this two-issue arc has a whole bunch of character development. The problem is that I don't care about any of these characters. First of all, the pacing of pthis book has been fits-and-starts, with the first six issues seeming to focus on team formation but ...…
Fantastic Four #551-553 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In a distant, alternate future, Doctor Doom escapes imprisonment and gets alternate reality versions of Sub-Mariner and Black Panther to go back in time with him to stop Reed Richards from doing something that will create a terrible future. The dialogue when they initially meet is very strong. What is…
She-Hulk Vol #25-26 (2008): The Whole Hero Thing - Earth's Mightiest Blog
She-Hulk and Jazinda are supposed to be bounty hunters, but in this arc they quickly become vigilantes, looking for a man who blew up a bar last arc. Now, Jennifer happened to be in the bar at the time, so it makes sense that she'd want to track him down.…
Wolverine: Firebreak One Shot (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This one shot has two stories. Neither are worth much. In the first one, Wolverine kills a bear. The twist is that both the bear and Wolverine are on fire. In the second story, Wolverines frees a kid from a cult only to learn that the kid has been infected…
Ms. Marvel #22-24 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
As you can see from the cover, this story is an attempt to unify the various identities of Carol Danvers. I'm not sure it's successful, but it does a nice fan service of revisiting some major touchpoints in her past. At the end of last issue, the alien known as…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…