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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #525-528; FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #1-4; MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #19-22 (2005-2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is a busy crossover across three of the Spider-Man books, with three writers and three artists. It attempts to make some sense of the Morlun/Spider-Totem stuff introduced by JMS. The story is told in three Acts. In the first act, Peter gets sick and learns he is dying. While…
Marvel Knights Ghost Rider #1-6 (2005-2006): Road to Damnation - Earth's Mightiest Blog
When we last saw Johnny Blaze, he was in Hell. We see now that his sentence is to race away from demons towards an open gate--only to have the gate slam shut at the last minute and the demons rip him apart, night after night. But one of Hell's demons,…
DAREDEVIL #76-81 (2005-2006): The Murdock Papers; Bendis run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Matt Murdock, his identity essentially exposed, has taken advantage of his new public persona by taking over Hells Kitchen. The people seem to like it. That's Daredevil smiling. Very rare event. In fact, Daredevil is the most popular superhero in New York City. The FBI isn't cool with it, though,…
House of M #8 + HoM: The Day After (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Last issue we saw the iconic panel... ...That changed Marvel's mutants forever. Kinda. In the wake of Scarlet Witch's utterance, we see Peter wake up with Mary Jane and other signs of normalcy, but not all is as it was before the HoM reality was created. A bunch of the…
DRAX THE DESTROYER #1-4 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
When you think of Drax the Destroyer, do you think of this: Or does your mind go here: If the latter, then you're thinking of the Drax from this miniseries, which rebooted the character and really serves as the beginning of the reimagining of Marvel's "Cosmic" family of comics. There…
Pulse #10+Special Edition (2005): House of M - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A short tie-in focusing on a reporter in the House of M world who is told by Hawkeye that the world has been altered. Since he's got awareness of the event, I'm assuming he'll be brought back to life at the end of House of M. I know this story…
New X-Men: Academy X #16-19 (2005): House of M; series (kinda) ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The Hellions in House of M are still a squad, but they work for the mutant-run SHIELD. These are their stories. Da-dum. Y'know, when I started reading House of M I was really looking forward to this. I'd read the miniseries before but not all the tie-ins, and I thought,…
Uncanny X-Men #462-465 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In the pages of Excalibur, which was also written by Chris Claremont, Storm's squad of X-Men were helping Excalibur prevent the Weaponeers from conquering Zanzibar. The UxM HoM tie in starts there, but when the "white flash" happens in House of M #1, Rachel Grey's powers react instinctively and shunt…
House of M #6-7 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The human heroes fight the mutant villains in the AvX part of this story. We also learn that what we thought was true up to now, wasn't. Like with all Bendis stories, there's an important twist. We've been led to believe (mostly by Wolverine) that the House of M manifested…
New Thunderbolts #10-12 (2005): Purple Reign/House of M - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Since its relaunch, Thunderbolts has had a simmering Purple Man story. Here's where it takes off. And yet, smack dab in the middle (issue #11) is a House of M tie-in. Rather ponderous. When last issue ended, "Swordsman" had stabbed Purple Man to rescue Songbird who, I'm sure, was about…
Captain America #10 and House of M #3-5 (2005): 1st Layla Miller - Earth's Mightiest Blog
House of M issues #1 and #2 were about creating the "House of M" version of reality, and at the end of issue #2 we saw that Wolverine knows that the world is wrong. Why Wolverine? Because Logan sells comics, of course. In these issues, he explores the new world,…
Wolverine #33-35 (2005): House of M - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This tie-in to House of M takes place BEFORE House of M, establishing Wolverine's anti-establishment past in this reality. Logan is already a character with lots of "fake memories" used to misdirect readers (or fix continuity gaps). Now on top of that he's the only character in HoM who has…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUASAR! - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Wendell Vaughn first appeared as a character called "Marvel Man," but was rebranded in The Incredible Hulk #234 by Roger Stern and Sal Buscema as Quasar. The book hit the stands on January 16, 1979. Quasar has never been the most popular Marvel "cosmic" character, but he did get his…
Black Panther #7 (2005): House of M - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I remember reading through old "What If?" comics a few years ago and counting how many of the stories there ended up actually becoming canon in some way. What if Elektra had lived? Much to Frank Miller's dismay, she was resurrected. What if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four? He did.…
Young Avengers #7-8 (2005): Secret Identities - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The New Avengers debate whether to tell the Young Avengers' mommies and daddies about them. Vision is still in Avengers custody and he's being examined by Tony Stark, but the rest of the kids are back to living "normal" lives by day and donning spandex at night. There are some…
Spider-Man Unlimited #11 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is a good issue. In the "A" story, Electro bets on a fight between Spider-Man and Hulk that is on the T.V. at a bar. In the "B" story, Peter Parker's class is at a museum and witnesses a fight between Thing and Hulk. Peter can't change into Spider-Man,…
Incredible Hulk #83-86 (2005): House of M; P David run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Peter David ends his return to the title that he made into a monthly must-read ends with a House of M tie-in. It has Hulk in the HoM universe finally finding a place to hide--with an Australian aborigine tribe. ...Only to have the mutant armies intrude on his peace and…
House of M Tie-Ins (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This post covers: Fantastic Four: HoM Iron Man: HoM Mutopia: House of M Spider-Man: House of M I suppose character tagging these "fake reality" series is controversial because none of this actually ends up happening when this reality gets "un-realitied" at the end of House of M. But my view…
Fantastic Four #296 (1986): 25th Anniversary Issue - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A giant-size issue in which Thing rejoins the team. But first takes a brief stint as The Mole Man. The issue celebrates the team’s 25th anniversary, with a bunch of vignettes including a re-telling of their origin and a story that brings The Thing back to the team. The three…
House of M #1-2 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
And here we are, at the start of one of the most influential and important events in Marvel history. These first two issues establish the concept that most of these tales take place in a distorted reality. But unlike Age of Apocalypse, these are NOT alternate or non-616 realities. They…
Defenders #1-5 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Doctor Strange gets the gang back together after Dormammu and Umar team up to try to take over the planet. Nothing at all important or consequential, but not all comics have to matter. Sometimes being fun is good enough. Dormammu creates fake versions of The Defenders and an entire fake…
Excalibur #13-14 (2004): Prelude to House of M; series ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Excalibur are trying to protect Zanzibar from being taken over by the Weaponeers. Lots of fighting. But none of that matters. The reals story is that, while that is going on, Xavier is trying to pull Scarlet Witch out of the coma she landed in after “killing” The Avengers in…
THE FLASH #102-107 (1995) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
NOTE: This series was first published in 2013 on an old site. It is republished here for kicks and giggles, without revision. "Shroom!" In these issues, Mark Waid's Flash is starting to lose a little speed (pun intended), but I love this picture: And the Shazam/Flash team up is fun.…
New X-Men: Hellions #1-4 (2005) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
There’s a lot of groups called Hellions in the history of the X-Men. The titular group here is the squad of students assigned to Emma Frost, and they just beat all the other teams in an intermural competition. The teens decide to go on a trip together and Rockslide and…
THE FLASH #108-117 (1995-1996) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
NOTE: This series was first published in 2013 on an old site. It is republished here for kicks and giggles, without revision. In issue #101, Waid introduced the idea that Flash can "share" his speed force access to enable another person to get speed powers. But what can be given…