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Blade #7-12 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In the final issues of this way-better-than-expected series, we continue to jump between flashbacks and the present day... ...As Blade finally uncovers the truth about his father. Along the way, he meets Union jack (the third one), who has information for Blade: Lucas Cross is working with another vampired named…
Onslaught Reborn #1-5 (2007): Rikki Barnes dies - Earth's Mightiest Blog
I don’t know who loved the first Onslaught event, but somebody must have. This series marks 10-years since that event and so we’re going back to it. Sigh. And look! Captain America is on the cover to the first issue! So...This X-Men story is now a Cap story because the…
FANTASTIC FOUR #215-216 (1980): Wolfman leaves - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Marv Wolfman's run ends well: A two-parter featuring my favorite negative zone baddie: Blastaar The Living Bomb-Burst! I can't tell you how many times I read and re-read this story as a kid. I loved the opening pages. But most of all I loved... Blastaar escapes the Zone. While he…
Nova #1-3 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Richard Rider is the last of the Nova Corps, has all their combined powers, and communicates instantly and constantly with the Worldmind. He's basically freelancing, flying all over the galaxy to clean up messes left in the aftermath of the Annihilation event, but ends up in a "super gravitational event"…
Annihilation: Conquest-Starlord #1-4 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Like the first story arc in the Annihilation saga, A: Conquest began with a one-shot prologue and was followed by two miniseries and a series launch (Nova) before we got the main, six-issue miniseries. This mini is where Starlord becomes the guy we know from the movies, and starts to…
Ms. Marvel #13-14 (2007): The Deal - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Tony has asked Ms. Marvel to lead his new Avengers team, and in return she asks to also be given a smaller team ("Operation: Lightning Storm") that would hunt down the worst of the worst. Her goal? She wants to be the greatest hero on Earth--which was the concept of…
Ghost Rider #8-11 (2007): Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Illinois - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Satan possesses the corpse of the recently deceased supervillain Jack O'Lantern (killed by Punisher during the Civil War). He then terrorizes the town of Sleepy Hollow by beheading teenagers and raising the dead. Ghost Rider arrives and re-kills the villain. It's a Daniel Way script and...It's good. Ghost Rider should…
Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #1-5 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Cap’s been shot to death. The MU heroes have feelings about it. Jeph Loeb scripted, based on an idea from J. Michael Straczynski. Five superstars handled the art, each getting to do one issue and each focusing on one of Elizabeth Kubler Ross' Five Stages of Grief. First, Leinil Yu illustrates “denial”…
Annihilation: Conquest Quasar #1-4 (2007): Warlock returns - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is the second chapter in the second "Book" of the Annihilation event. The new Quasar (Phyla Vell) and her lover Moondragon are contacted by a mysterious voice urging them to find the "savior" who will vanquish the Phalanx. Meanwhile, Phalanx have managed to infect Super Adaptoid--making him even more…
Annihilation: Conquest Prologue (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
How do you follow a game-changing event? With a sequel, of course! Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning architect a follow-up to the Annihilation Wave event with a second event. It starts with this one-shot, takes place in the wake of the Wave event. The weakened Kree race are taken over…
PUNISHER MAX #43-49 (2007): Widowmaker - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This story introduces the MAX Punisher universe's Lady Punisher. On the villain side, it introduces the Five Wives--five mafia women widowed by Punisher. Yeah, girl villains girl hero is a little too...Something. But it's still a good story.= I could argue that Widowmaker is his most complex tale in terms…
The Loners #1-6 (2007): 1st Red Ronin 2 - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Way back in the first issue of the second Runaways volume, we met another group of child heroes who had formed a support group for others like them. That group was Excelsior. Their goal was to support each other in not using their powers. Right. Because teenagers hate to be…
Punisher War Journal #5 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is another great issue--the fifth in a row. It starts out like a Punisher MAX story: With an anonymous beat cop narrating how he interrupted Bushwacker during a crime in Times Square, and then learned that the criminal was there with the full cooperation of SHIELD agent GW Bridge.…
BLACK PANTHER #26-30 and FANTASTIC FOUR #544-550 (2007): Storm and T'Challa join FF - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues are a complicated mess chronology-wise. Storywise they're...Also messy. But not terrible. In his own book Black Panther and Storm are now married and are trying to figure out how best to "be in the world" as a couple, especially given all the complications of the post-Civil War environment.…
THIS DAY IN COMIC BOOK HISTORY! - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The Avengers #223 by Dave Michelinie and Greg LaRocque is a fan favorite. It's the classic issue where Ant Man takes a ride on a Hawkeye arrow in a grand one-and-done story in which the duo took on Taskmaster. I wrote about it here. That terrific comic hit the stands…
Avengers: The Initiative #1 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Despite the impressive variant-covers-that-form-a-poster, few major superheroes appear in this debut issue. The first issue DOES have a ton of heroes--but not the name-brand ones from the cover. Kids. It's about a boot camp for superheroes. Some debut and die, some will never amount to anything, and a few will…
Marvel Comics Presents #1-8 (1988-1989) (Shang-Chi story) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Despite the fact that Shang-Chi is featured in the first 8 issues, along with a bunch of other characters, only Wolverine is on the cover of all of them. Chi doesn't even make it into a corner box. On the one hand, I get it: Everyone loves Wolverine. But on…
Thunderbolts Presents: Zemo #1-4 (2007) aka: Zemo: Born Better - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Baron Zemo is a Nazi who was party to the execution of millions of people during World War II. This story tries to explain him through the eyes of an academic who is writing his thesis on Zemo and believes he has been sent back in time. The researcher works…
Mighty Avengers #1-6 (2007-2008) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Tony Stark forms a new Avengers team comprised of heroes who registered with the government during Civil War. Issue #1 sets the tone: Action-packed. We start with some flashbacks about how Tony recruited the members, including asking Carol Danvers to be the leader instead of former team leader Wasp. The…
Civil War: The Initiative (One Shot) (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This book was just a platform to launch the era of Tony Stark's leadership of SHIELD. It has several stories. The first one has Collective, who killed Alpha Flight under the thrall of Xorn. He joins a newly forming Omega Flight, and will serve as the newest version of Guardian.…
CABLE & DEADPOOL #40-42 (2007): Cable, Black Box die - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This story takes place after X-Men #198, wherein a Shi'Ar soul eater attacked Cable's island land of Providence and killed a bunch of people. Rogue defeated the threat in the X-Men story, so this takes place in the aftermath. Cable decides he has to blow up his entire island because…
Thunderbolts #112-115 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
After all the action last issue, the team does an extended debrief. Moonstone tries to rationalize the reasons why a lame-o like Jack Flag was able to defeat the team and nearly evade capture, while Songbird (who wants her leadership position back) disagrees. Radiative Man complains about his new uniform…
X-Men #197-199 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
The team have Sabretooth in custody and in the hands of Chris Bachalo he looks...cute. No. No thank you. Also, yeah, you should engage the safeties. Trust me. By the end of this post, you're gonna be sorry. Last arc, Rogue got infected with a lethal virus. To save her,…
Punisher Presents: Barracuda MAX #1-5 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Barracuda, the villain from one of Ennis' most notorious stories in Punisher MAX, got his own MAX miniseries in 2007. It was bonkers and fun and incredibly violent. It's also not canon. The story involves Barracuda taking down a foreign government, and it is played much more for humor/over-the-top violence…
Sensational Spider-Man #40 (2007): Spidey meets God - Earth's Mightiest Blog
This is Aguirre-Sacasa’s final issue. I can’t say I’ve loved his run, but I can imagine writing a “side series” to the JMS “Amazing” title was really hard, given how many big changes happened for the character in that title. This issue, e.g., has the “Back in Black” sidebar on…
Zombie MAX #1-4 (2006-2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
No, this isn't Marvel Zombies. It's very different. I believe that Simon Garth was the first named Zombie in the Marvel Universe. In this series, he is reimagined with a new origin. So I'm pretty sure this is NOT 616 canon. I'm covering it, though, because I enjoyed it. Anyway,…
Spider-Man Family #1 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Another anthology of new and reprinted material. Story #1 by Sean McKeever and Terrell Bobbett has symbiote Spider-Man fighting Sandman. It’s not clear to me when it takes place chronologically. It’s fine. Story #2 is a Hellcat/Black Cat team up by Fred Van Lente and Frederica Manfredi. It’s got some…
Thunderbolts #110-111 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
If you’ve read my site you know that T-Bolts has been relatively low in my estimation for the vast majority of its 100+ issue history. But now that changes, thanks to Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato Jr. And the difference between this run and everything that came before starts in…
Sensational Spider-Man #38-39 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues have the helpful “Back in Black” bar on the cover to indicate that, chronologically, they take place during Amazing Spider-Man #539–543. I’ve noted in that post that it’s unrealistic to think that Spider-Man had time to do anything else during the course of those issues, where he was…
Ms. Marvel #11-12 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
A.I.M. is storing Ms. Marvel’s old foe Doomsday Man in the sewers under New York City. They let him out to hunt Ms. Marvel. Carol and her post-Civil War sidekick Arana fight him. He critically injures Arana before Ms. Marvel decisively defeats him. Arana’s father blames Carol for her injuries…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #17–19 (2007): Back in Black - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues have the helpful “Back in Black” bar on the cover to indicate that, chronologically, they take place during Amazing Spider-Man #539–543. I’ve noted in that post that it’s unrealistic to think that Spider-Man had time to do anything else during the course of those issues, where he was hunting…
Amazing Spider-Man #539–543 (2007): Back in Black; Aunt May shot - Earth's Mightiest Blog
One of the (many) great things about J. Michael Straczynski’s run on Amazing Spider-Man was his willingness to embrace the “event changes” of Civil War and then take further risks with it. Peter Parker’s identity is now public, so this story arc explores why secret identities are so important. Kingpin…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #20-23 (2007): Peter David run ends - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues have the helpful “Back in Black” bar on the cover to indicate that, chronologically, they take place during Amazing Spider-Man #539–543. I’ve noted in that post that it’s unrealistic to think that Spider-Man had time to do anything else during the course of those issues, where he was…
Heroes for Hire #6-8 (2007): Orka dies - Earth's Mightiest Blog
In issue #6, a kid hires the heroes to find his missing robot, which was stolen by super-villains, and it turns out to be... A Doombot! That's funny. And I love seeing the Headmen, who are the botnappers. The Doombot cuts off Humbug's head and blows a hole through Orka.…
Blade #3-6 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
These issues start a long-form story that ties together the rest of the Blade series. We continue to see flashbacks to Blade's past, but these issues ramp up the storyline. Blade kills a vampire who was only recently turned, and is now wanted for murder. He still fulfills his mission…
Wisdom MAX #1-6 (2007) - Earth's Mightiest Blog
Wisdom leads a team of MI-13 agents to stop hostile fairy incursions from Otherworld and the story goes bonkers from there. He gets help from another British agent, Shang Chi. Lots of fanciful stuff along the way, including several alternate-reality threats, nightmares, a martian invasion, and the return of Jack the Ripper.…