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Immortal Iron Fist #16 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Danny turns 33 and thinks about his life. And his money. Unhappy with where he is, he turns his private corporation into a nonprofit, tells his lawyer Jeryn Hogarth that he's using his private fortune to fund Luke Cage's underground Avengers, team... ...and buys back he and Luke's old Heroes…
Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure #1 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Here's the premise: The story itself has the team fighting a guy called "Mega-Man" who has a weapon called a Mega-Blaster. It's definitely not a story that "needed to be told," but it's fine. It's pretty in keeping with the latter part of Lee/Kirby's run. Not sure it's canon.
Incredible Hercules #117-120 (2008): 1st God Squad - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues are the Secret Invasion tie-ins for this book, and like everything else this series does, they do the tie-in very differently. Athena assembles her own "God Squad" to fight the Skrull Gods. Each recruit gets a few pages early on to orient the reader on where they…
X-Men: First Class #8 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Everything about this comic is so joyful. In this story, the team meet Man-Thing, who shunts them across the Nexus of Reality into alternate worlds where Iceman becomes a frost giant in Asgard, Jean becomes Dark Phoenix, alternate Colossus meets the team, etc.
X-Men Origins: Beast (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I do like this series, even if it's just retelling familiar material. Unlike most major heroes, the X-Men don't get many dedicated origin stories, so these still feel fresh. In fact, it took fifty issues of the X-Men series before Beast even GOT an origin story. Plus, top talent is…
Secret Invasion #2 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Last issue ended with a ship full of 1970s versions of major heroes attacking the two major Avengers teams. During the fight, we see that each group of heroes thinks the other are skrulls. Lots of big fighting ensues, with dinosaurs because they're all in the Savage Land. I'm a…
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is another flashback issue about an ancient Iron Fist. This time, it's Bei Bang-Wen, who fought with China against England during the Second Opium War. He dies at the end of the issue. I like these journeys into the past. Part of me wishes they could have been told…
Mighty Avengers #12-13 (2008): 1st Secret Warriors - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In addition to being a Secret Invasion tie-in, these issues establish the next phase for Nick Fury. They also have AWESOME covers that pay tribute to early issues of The Avengers--and that will continue past this short story arc and across all issues of the Mighty Avengers' Secret Invasion tie-in. …
The Eternals #1-6 (2008-2009) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It's not a risk to say that there's never been a good Eternals movie. But I'm also going to go out on a limb here and say that there has never been a great Eternals comic. I know that fans of Jack Kirby will say that's sacrilege, but...Can anyone tell…
The Order #8-10 (2008): 1st Ezekiel Stane, Mullholland and Heavy die, series ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Every issue of this series has started with a character being interviewed. For #8, it's Mullholland Black from before the Order got rebooted. Holly tells interviewer Pepper Potts that if she got her powers back she'd "get revenge." Flash forward. Holly has been kidnapped by the Black Dalhlias, her old…
X-Men First Class #6-7 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
It involves some aliens robbing the X-Men of their powers right before a Sentinels attack such that, when the Sentinels arrive, the kids no longer register as mutants. Powerless, they fly out to respond to a distress call from Scarlet Witch and, while in the air... ...their powers return! Perfect…
Amazing Spider-Man #559-561 (2008): 1st Paper Doll, Screwball - Earth's Mightiest Blog
So here's the thing about the "Brand New Day" format: It's got rotating creative teams, each turning in several issues every few months, which means they all want to create their own internal plotlines and also have to pay tribute to all the other storylines so that the reader feels…
King-Size Cable Spectacular #1 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This isn't a bad comic but...Why? It's just Bishop following Cable through time to try to kill the baby (Hope) who is under Cable's protection. There's no reason for this to be a one-shot special--it's just part of the series. Oh, but they tacked the first several pages of Deadpool…
FANTASTIC FOUR #50/479 (2002) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Somehow, I missed doing this issue chronologically. Hm. Anyway, it's their 'Nuff Said issue, with several stories. First, the series creative team offers the main story, "Anniversary." It's the anniversary of the creation of the team, and each member muses about what it's been like to be on the team.…
X-Men First Class #8 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In the final issue of this maxi-series, the kids team up with Gorilla Man and have an adventure in Africa where Bobby has to freeze some hippos before they eat him. Professor X has gotten lost there, so the team have to recover him. Solid story, but not the…
Hulk Vs. Hercules: When Titans Clash #1 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Hulk goes on a rampage in Olympus so Athena summons Hercules to stop him. I mean, there's a subplot where Athena acts like Loki and Ares acts like Thor, but it's not much. There's also a brief return of the old super-hero wrestling group, where Herc and Thing fight…
Black Panther #39-41 (2008): Series Ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Reggie Hudlin's run on Black Panther is certainly not without controversy. I enjoyed the early issues. Then it got a little tiresome. It was still cool to see T'Challa and Storm get hitched. For these last few issues of the series, though, Hudlin is gone and instead we have…
Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #1-3 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This miniseries shows what happened after Reed Richard's got taken down by skrulls (one of who was disguised as his wife) in Secret Invasion #1, so that the aliens could open a portal to the Negative Zone. We get the (unnecessary) backstory of how the skrulls kidnapped Sue in the…
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 #1-4 (2008): Secret Invasion - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Two years ago, Paul Cornell wrote a very British take on the character Wisdom, in which he introduced skrulls that looked like the Beatles. One of them, John Lennon Skrull, returns on the first page of this series. The head of MI13 orders the guards to execute John, and apparently…
X-Men First Class #7 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
So far, this series has been largely harmless, telling small stories that take place between issues of the early Lee/Kirby days of the X-Men. This issue adds a fairly significant plot thread, but it doesn't go anywhere after this...Which supports the argument that this comic is not canon. What is…
X-Men: First Class #4 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The X-Men get a 2-week Spring break, so Iceman and Beast go on a road trip. It's fitting that this is a vacation issue and we get a guest artist--the first time Roger Cruz hasn't drawn an issue of this book. It's also the first issue of this series that…
X-Men: First Class #2-3 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This series has been doing excellent one-and-done stories that take place "between" the old Lee/Kirby X-Men issues. This is a foray into a two-issue story. Like all the other issues of this series so far, it's a home run. Professor X summons the team to go to Monster Island. Once…
X-Men First Class Special #1 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I'm guessing Marvel had no idea this book would both be excellent and hugely popular. It was planned for 8 issues and then renewed for a volume 2, but in-between they asked writer Jeff Parker to throw together a little anthology. Anthologies usually are excuses for filler, but not this…
THE BEST COMICS BASED ON TOYS OF ALL TIME! - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This list is for comics that followed, not preceded, a line of toys. Let’s do it. HONORABLE MENTION: THE INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS (Top Shelf, 2007). Okay, I’m cheating here. Indie comic book creator Jeff Smith, who is best known for his books about Star Wars, is one of my favorite autobiographical…
She-Hulk #31 and and X-Factor #33-34 (2008): The Darwin Awards - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Peter David crosses over his two ongoing Marvel series AND serves the Editor Mandate of crossing over with the Secret Invasion event AND brings back a fan favorite mutant, Darwin. The action starts in X-Factor #33, where the team has relocated to Detroit after the destruction of Mutant-Town and has…
DAREDEVIL #106 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The great artist Paul Azaceta comes aboard for a done-in-one about Matt's relationship with his wife, Milla. She has had a complete mental breakdown and is institutionalized, and Matt's friends are concerned that he, too, has snapped. He is full of regret about everything Milla has gone through as a…
Guardians of the Galaxy #1-3 (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Participants in the big war against the Phalanx are recovering... ...and Star-Lord brings them together to face a new threat and form a team: Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Mantis, Phyla-Vell, Adam Warlock, Gamora, and Drax. And also Cosmo the Dog as the chief of security of Knowhere, which they operate out…
X-Men Origins: Jean Grey (2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
For the second of this series of one-shots, we get Jean Grey's origin. We don't learn a lot here, it's mostly a canonic re-telling, but reading this back-to-back with Colossus' origin in issue #1, I noticed that the death of someone close was the trigger for both characters' mutant abilities. …