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Annihilation: Prologue (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
20 years later and after multiple movies, the 2006 Annihilation event remains the high water mark for Marvel's Cosmic characters. "Prologue" was a double-sized book that serves as a launchpad for more than a half-dozen titles--nearly all of which rate as well-above-average to excellent. The special issue shows Annihilus, the…
New X-Men #24-27 (2006): William Stryker+many New X-Men die - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Look! It's a tribute cover! And it's not just "Days of Future Past" that gets a tribute... That cover is a little harder to place, but here's where they got it from... William Stryker, the old mutant-hating cult leader, is suicidal until Nimrod appears before him (pretending to be an…
X-Men Deadly Genesis #1-6 (2006): Banshee dies; 1st Darwin and Vulcan - Earth's Mightiest Blog
To honor the 30th anniversary of the most successful reboot of all time (1976's Giant-Size X-Men #1), Marvel retconned the origin of the Uncanny X-Men team. In the original story, Professor X assembled an international team to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa the Living Island. In this story, we…
X-Men: The 198 #1-5 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I'm surprised at how many cool miniseries came out as part of the Decimation Event. The 198 establishes the "Mutant Sanctuary," located on the grounds of the Xavier Institute, where mutants who survived the House of M depowering can come for refuge. It attracts an odd collection of criminals, weirdos,…
Runaways #13 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This issue is a dream. But before you get annoyed, it’s really well written and provides a solid look at Molly’s character growth. She dreams she’s been kidnapped by an evil headmaster and has to lead her fellow students to freedom. They don't believe her at first when she says…
Spider-Man Unlimited #14 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This series is about to end, so Marvel is bringing out the big guns. David Finch! Ron Garney! Doctor Doom! But this is still a two-story anthology comic so don't get too excited. A Doombot fights Spider-Man and Black Cat for a few pages, and then Mary Jane gets jealous…
Ares: God of War #1-5 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Call this the "Thorification" of Ares. The God has turned his back on Olympus because he is worshipped only by "base men" on Earth, which means he never gets full glory on the mountaintop. The other Gods will never treat him with the deference he believes he is due, so…
Spider-Man Family Featuring Amazing Friends (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
That title is a mouthful. This 80+ pager has five stories, and not all are canon. Three are reprints. And one of the two original stories is a "mini-marvels." So really it's just the first story that's worth covering here. It's got Spider-Man vs Video Man, alongside Iceman and Firestar.…
Thing #5-6 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Despite more pranking from the Yancy Street Gang, Ben tries to build a rec center in his old neighborhood. The Maggia hire Trapster and Sandman to stop him and the FF are busy doing other stuff, so Spidey swings in to help. The community center gets built, and there's a…
Spider-Man Unlimited #13 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
For story #1, Aaron Williams (creator of his own self-published comics) and Casey Jones (best known for indie work but not an unknown to Marvel) tell a humorous story where Spider-Man makes a deal with a local diner owner. He agrees to make burgers for Rhino and stop him from…
X-Men Unlimited #12 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Story 1: Wolverine's inner thoughts as he lays still, letting his healing factor do its work after a devastating set of injuries. Pretty boring. Story 2: Wolverine and Puck in a bar, and Wolverine shares a cliche old story that convinces Puck to give himself up to cops on a…
Uncanny X-Men #472-474 (2006): Claremont run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Oh, great (he said with defeated sarcasm). Jamie Braddock is here. He's a character I hate so much I have refused to tag him. I generally hate all the Captain Britain/UK Comics/Alternate reality crap. The fact that Chris Claremont's return (again) to the title he took from unknown to brilliant…
Uncanny X-Men #469-471 (2006): Wand’ring Star - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Like many of Chris Claremont's stories, this one lacks a firm center and touches on a whole bunch of subplots. Main idea, though, is that the X-Men are being watched over by Valerie Cooper's sentinels so they have to sneak around if they want to fulfill their traditional mission of…
Daughters of the Dragon #1-6 (2006): 8-Ball dies; 1st Ricadonna, Otis Johnson II - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Ooooh! Bondage cover! Sadly, this is not a story about how Misty and Colleen run a dominatrix business. Instead, they're working for the government, fighting bad guys. A group of truly D-list villains (other than Whirlwind--I think he's probably a B-lister)--steal a computer virus from a rich mobster named Ricadonna. …
Storm #1-6 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
With the subtitle, “Prelude to the Wedding of the Century,” I was not expecting this to be a teen romance. But here we are. If you’re a huge fan of Storm or T’Challa, you may find this tale rewarding. It tells of Storm’s pre-teen/teen years as a thief in (I…
Captain America #16-17 (2006): Collision Courses - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Last issue, Crossbones restored Sin's memory that she is really Red Skull's daughter, and now they're doing the "Natural Born Killers" thing. They rage across the Midwest, robbing banks and killing everyone in sight. Sharon and Cap track them down and uncover an AIM plot that was also being investigated…
Marvel Team-Up #79 (1979): Red Sonja; 1st Kulan Gath in 616 - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Claremont and Byrne return for the first story to bring Red Sonja into the MU. Only not really. Technically, Sonja stays in an alternate universe and is body-swapped with Mary Jane. She and Peter are at a party at the daily bugle... ...Where JJJ gives the staff each ten bucks. The…
Spider-Man and Red Sonja #1-5 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Decades ago, the powerful team-up of John Byrne and Chris Claremont got the great idea to team up Spider-Man with Red Sonja. The book, Marvel Team-Up #79, was dumb fun. The soul of Sonja travels forward in time to possess Mary Jane (whose possessed body magically is given the strength…
4 #29 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This issue takes place right after Hulk #91, in which Hulk was tricked into a mission and then exiled into space. As part of the Illuminati, Reed was one of the folks who manufactured the crisis that was used to lure Hulk. In this issue, he destroys the evidence but…
Amazing Fantasy #16-20 (2006): Death's Head 3.0; series ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This story reboots Death's Head by adding a 3.0 to his name. Even if this were 616 canon, it wouldn't be worth your time. Generic story. Generic "we introduced a new character" final panel. When I started this site I made the decision to only cover stories that happen in…
4 #28 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
With this issue, this series drops the “Marvel Knights” banner. What does that mean in terms of content? Nothing, really. It just makes alphabetically filing the back issues in your box more difficult. In this issue, Susan uses her powers to stop an abusive husband—and threatens to give him internal injuries…
X-Statix Presents: Deadgirl #1-5 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This book starts with Doctor Strange having hemmorhoids. A villain named Pitiful One gets the power to reanimate the dead—but only for 24 hours at a time. He picks Anarchist, Kraven the Hunter, Miss America and Mysterio as his personal army. As Dead Girl notes, only the popular kids tend…
Sensational Spider-Man #23-27 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A two-page cover announces that Marvel Knights: Spider-Man is over and is being replaced by this title. What?!? They missed a chance to publish an issue numbered “#1”?!? That would never happen today! Sadly, the story itself doesn’t warrant the hype. It’s another Lizard story, with a brief Vulture story…
DAREDEVIL #179 (1982) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The cover seems to promise the death of Daredevil. But it's really a Ben Urich story. Actually, it's Ben FOLLOWING a story that gets him too close to the truth. His source is assassinated in a movie theater, but he doesn't see who does it. He does hear her voice,…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6-7 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The best parts of these issues, as with most Peter David scripts, are the little bits between the main story. Like when a new person comes on staff at the Daily Bugle. The shamed son of the original El Muerto comes to New York to take Spider-Man’s mask, which apparently…
Daredevil #82-87 (2006): Devil in Cell Block D - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Much has been about this terrific story, and all the good stuff is true. I rated this as the seventh best DD story of all time, but on this reread I'm wondering if should have been ranked higher. I mean, it's got to be better than Daredevil Yellow, right? Maybe…
Young Avengers Special #1 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I’m not sure what happened here, but I can guess: The Young Avengers series was hugely popular, but ended with issue #12 for some kind of editorial reason. Marvel then decided to dip a toe in the waters and see if it could sell more YA books. What’s odd is…
New Excalibur #9 (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Another new creative team. Chamber gets his powers back. His ancestor was involved in the Crapula/Apocalypse miniseries, and descendants from that cult feed him Pac Blood. He's not happy about it. And Pete Wisdom is still an a$$hole. I like that he's back, but I still find this series exhausting.…
Untold Tales of the New Universe # (2006) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
2006 was twenty years after Jim Shooter's attempt to create a new universe of heroes, wholly unrelated to the shared universe created by Stan, Jack and Steve so many decades earlier. I know it has its fans, but most would agree the launch was not a success and it petered…
CABLE & DEADPOOL #26-27 (2006): Born Again - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Apocalypse is back in the pages of X-Men, so sadly that means X-adjacent titles get infected. These issues provide some backstory. Turns out, Cable has a long, circular history with Apocalypse: Cable infected Apocalypse with the same virus that Apocalypse then, in turn, gave to Cable as an infant. It’s…