Mighty Marvel Minis

[Starkicker]

I was starting to make up my "want list" for some comic con shopping at the end of the month (Paradise Con - Toronto, looks like a good time). I was surprised at how many Marvel mini series I wanted to pick up. Over the past year there has been about a million (give or take almost a million).

I'm going to be looking for Ares, Daughters of the Dragon, Books of Doom, Defenders, Ghost Rider and Drax.

So what was your favorite Marvel mini? There are alot more than the 9 in the poll, so please mention your fav if its not listed.

[The Fury]

Only voted for one of those books becuase it is the only one i think deserves it.

Marvel Zombies.

[Beast]

Only voted for one of those books becuase it is the only one i think deserves it.

Marvel Zombies.
What he said. :D

[xakko]

Does Great Lakes Avengers: Misassembled count?

Because that was far and above my favorite. Tho' I am enjoying the Son of M mini.

[Billy Parker]

I voted "other" for Sentry!

[Faded]

Other for X-Statix: Dead Girl, GLA/X, Madrox, or Deadly Genesis.

[The Adventurer]

Drax and Ares

Marvel Zombies wasn't bad either.

[ghostrider666]

Not even close, MArvel Zombies.

[Taskmaster]

Marvel Zombies and Ares are amazing, but anybody that tells you Ghost Rider is worth picking up ought to be run over with Ghost Rider's bike, that book sucked

[Haunt]

i actually find Son of M more intriguing than Marvel Zombies. and i like Kirkman. nothing is really happening in the last issue of Marvel Zombies that didn't happen in the issues before it. they are finding people to eat. it's fun but it's mindless fun. compare that to Pietro's descent into evil. there are just so many questions posed by this mini. what will become of Quicksilver? what will become of Luna? what will Black Bolt do? what are the ultimate effects of the terrigen mists? who, if anyone, is going to die during this? with Marvel Zombies, i can tell you who is going to die; the living.

[Core]

MARVEL ZOMBIES was good, but Brubaker's work on BOOKS OF DOOM has be great--solid art, great characterization, use of continuity in a way that doesn't restrain the story, and multiple narrators of questionable dependability. Great stuff.

ARES and SENTRY have also been fun reads so far.

[Tragix]

"SENTRY" Limited Series...

then "IRON MAN: INEVITABLE" and "SPIDER WOMAN: ORIGIN"...

[milhouse123321]

I'm liking X-Men: The 198 quite a bit
and Gravity rocked

[Agentum]

I'm not fond of zombies so i voted for Defenders.

But i have not read all in the list hehe

[Earth2Jeff]

Marvel Zombies has been my recent fave, hands down. Son of M, Spider-Woman and Deadly Genesis have been pretty damn good too.

[blackbolt]

X-Men: 198

[Tony Starkz]

Dude,you left off Sentry,best mini right now,and Ultimate Wolvie VS Hulk.

[Joe Rice]

The late great Seth Fisher's artistic genius trumps all this other standard fare. And, of course, I'm the only one to vote for it yet.

[Joe Bullseye]

Bullseye Vs. Punisher was great.

[isaac a person]

Had to vote for Gravity. Aside from being a good book, it is the only one on the list that I have read the whole series :D . I have enjoyed the Son of M issues, Hine is doing really good character work with Pietro. Books of Doom has been good as well, Brubaker rocks!
Any of the others, I couldn't say.

[Hippy-san]

Of the ones listed I enjoy Ares and Son of M. I'm sure Zombies is great, but I'm waiting on the trade. Oh, and Deadly Genisis has been great so far. Coincidently, the book about the third Summers brother is also my third Brubeaker book. :p

[thomas_catbiscuit]

marvel zombies was brillant (even though i forgoto pick up the 1st issue DDOOOHH!) and not far behind it is daughters of the dragon (even better now it has ties to the new hero's for hire title). the x-men minis have been pretty standard apart from son of m.

[RonnieThunderbolts]

So many good ones to choose from! I ended up voting on Ares, but I wanted to be able to choose Gravity, Sentry, Deadly Genesis, Dead Girl, Ultimate Extinction and Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk. I also get the Spider-Woman: Origins and Sentinel Squad ONE minis, and I've gotten some of the 198, which I like a little.

Son of M I liked a lot, and though I've only read some of the issues that have come out, I haven't bought them yet, and I'll probably wait for the trade now. If Gravity is fair game, I am tempted to mention the Hood :) I loved that book too. Dead Girl, oddly like Gravity in a way, is light hearted fun. Greg's crush is not unlike that of Dr. Strange, and its very funny to see Dr. Strange used in such a way. Humanizing, poking fun a little, but ultimately using the character's inherent qualities to show his part in the story. Greg as the hero, and Strange as the hero's man.

Deadly Genesis is done well, and the back-ups make me remember why I used to like the simpler older days of the X-Men. Sentry is very cool, always keeps me guessing, is beautifully drawn, and could end up one of my favorites, or a clunker, depending on how it pans out. Spider-Woman: Origins... I question why I get this every month. I've yet to satisfy myself. I guess its the continuityophile in me, because I hate the senseless retcons that in no way clarify or simplify her origin, I despise the Luna Bros artwork just as much as I enjoy it, leaving me with a bland, uninterested feeling.

Both Ultimate Extinction and Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk are both fun and huge, and the beauty of Ares, its simple, its explosive, and its well done. Travel Foreman, though at times in each of these issues inconsistent, gives any overall unique and well rendered style with a flow and storytelling that is both interesting and effective. When he's 'on' in an segment of an issue, he's very much 'on.' I guess Oeming and Foreman have won me over, because if my theory is correct, he'll be one of the New Avengers soon, and he'll be someone I've hitched my horse to by then thanks to their work.

(My theory is that Civil War will lead to literally, Tony's Goverment-sanctioned New Avengers and Cap's outlaw anti-Registration New Avengers. Where Tony will have SHIELD Agent Spider-Woman, Ms. Marvel, and potentially a paranoid Sentry, Cap will have Spider-Man, after switching sides, Luke Cage, probably Ronin, and possibly Ares. What a hoot that'd be... Herc'd likely join up with Tony just to spite Cap for consorting with his lout of a brother!)

Anyhoo, of all the minis I've tried recently, Spider-Woman: Origins have left me most cold and disappointed, and Gravity, Dead Girl, Sentry and of course, Ares, have all exceeded my expectations and gotten me very "in" to those characters.

[Ullar]

GLA/X, Gravity, Defenders, Madrox/X-Factor, Sentry, Deadly Genesis. But I voted for Gravity.