2008 is Marvel's best year so far

[cap5]

For the X-men it started in the fall of 07 with Messiah Complex and continued with Divided we Stand in all the X-titles
Cable-this serers started of at a slow pace but its very importent to the X-verce since cable has the Messiah baby and the latest issue 6 is a very importent issue since it deals with if Scott Summers made the right decision in trusting the baby with Cable
As far as the rest of the X-tiles Legacy,Uncanny and X-factor has been well writen and Im earger to see what happens next.
Young X-men has been so so
X-force -I dont buy it so I have nothing to say about this one
With Spider-man During OMD I still buy the comics but i cant tell if its a good move by marvel to make spidy single,I like the 3 times monthly thing,I have a feeling BND is going to get better with NWTD coming up and the last ark with Kraven's first hunt is the best ark so far in my view.I like how there going to use Spidys villians again ,not the new ones
Captain America has been great all year round
Ghost Rider and Moon night are great books and its getting better with each issue
Secret Invasion I love it the story And the tie in's are great all of them has been relly good tie-in with New and Mighty the top books Avengers the Initiative a close secend with Ms Marvel and Captain Briten and MI13 is my new book to get
Hulk is good Im still on the fence about this but its a fun book and i like it
So with top talent like Brian Reed,Brian Bendis,Jason Aaron and meny more
2008 is a good time for Marvel

[Jim Thompson]

Captain America has been great all year round

Hulk is good There's the stuff you said I agree with. I'd add Thor, Amazing Spider-Girl and The Dark Tower series to the list of good product coming out of Marvel.

Having noted that, 2008 was the year Marvel all but lost me as a customer.

[stingerman]

There's the stuff you said I agree with. I'd add Thor, Amazing Spider-Girl and The Dark Tower series to the list of good product coming out of Marvel.

Having noted that, 2008 was the year Marvel all but lost me as a customer.

Same with me. I get Nova and Ghost Rider. Dumped everything else.

[ThePhenom]

Alas my main reading lies in the Ultimate universe and I'd say 2008 was the worst year to date for the imprint.

Otherwise though, barring some of the Secret Invasion stuff, I have enjoyed a lot of the stuff from the MU.

I'd also like to add Fantastic Four and Wolverine, trying to hold back my pro-Millar bias, but barring extreme hatred for Millar both titles have great creative teams.

Also the new Runaways I think is something worth noting that's great in '08.

[pryde15]

2008 has been mediocre. The X-Books have been uninteresting since Messiah Complex ended.

[Lord S]

WWH was fun last year...Annihilation, the year before. This year...next to nothing.

Nova has been interesting...but overall 2008 has been pretty meh for me so far. Can't really recall getting excited about anything.

[Hulk_Is]

Can't really say myself, but most of us haven't been around for most of Marvel's exsistence - let alone some of our ages at certain points in Marvel's history.

I've been a fan since the early 80's as a child, but I wouldn't know if Marvel had it's best year at any point during the 80's, too young. It would have to been the late 90's that I could have taken note of a great year for Marvel because I would have been older, but we all know what kinda year Marvel had then.

All that being said, I think Marvel's been crankin' out some things as of late to get excited about nonetheless.

[mr. batman]

Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy have been good too

[DasPoppen]

Nova, Herc and Ghost Rider are the stand out books. Avengers: Initiative, Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy are good reads.

The X-books were better prior to Messiah Complex. Cable is boring, X Force dull, Young X Men a train wreck. My favorite X-book - Carey's X-Men - was replaced with an o.k., but far from great Xavier solo title. X-Factor remains good but doesn't reach the heights of issues 13-17. And Uncanny has been treading water all year.

[Babylon23]

For the most part, Marvel lost me a few years ago, and I'm not seeing much that has me wanting to return to the fold. I check in on books at my LCS to see if I can find anything that holds my interest, but aside from a few core titles

Personally, i think the x-books have suffered since Messiah Complex. Spider-Man and Hulk no longer interest me. I've found the Thor relaunch pretty dull. Secret Invasion is pretty boring, although I did like the return of Mockingbird.

On the plus side, Captain Britain is excellent, seeing Michelinie and Layton on Iron Man was fun, and the announcement of an Agents of Atlas ongoing has me excited. Ultimate Spidey, The Initiative and Iron Fist continue to be good.

[Guru_Pitka]

Well, from the look of things - for every 10 less than satisfied people - Marvel did find somebody who is more or less thrilled.

In some Bizarro world that has to be a great thing, right? :biggrin:

[RedRonin]

I wouldn't say best year, but it's been great so far.

[Skeets]

For the X-men it started in the fall of 07 with Messiah Complex and continued with Divided we Stand in all the X-titles
Cable-this serers started of at a slow pace but its very importent to the X-verce since cable has the Messiah baby and the latest issue 6 is a very importent issue since it deals with if Scott Summers made the right decision in trusting the baby with Cable
As far as the rest of the X-tiles Legacy,Uncanny and X-factor has been well writen and Im earger to see what happens next.
Young X-men has been so so
X-force -I dont buy it so I have nothing to say about this one
With Spider-man During OMD I still buy the comics but i cant tell if its a good move by marvel to make spidy single,I like the 3 times monthly thing,I have a feeling BND is going to get better with NWTD coming up and the last ark with Kraven's first hunt is the best ark so far in my view.I like how there going to use Spidys villians again ,not the new ones
Captain America has been great all year round
Ghost Rider and Moon night are great books and its getting better with each issue
Secret Invasion I love it the story And the tie in's are great all of them has been relly good tie-in with New and Mighty the top books Avengers the Initiative a close secend with Ms Marvel and Captain Briten and MI13 is my new book to get
Hulk is good Im still on the fence about this but its a fun book and i like it
So with top talent like Brian Reed,Brian Bendis,Jason Aaron and meny more
2008 is a good time for Marvel
Bolded the only great things. Everything else is average to bad.

[Leocomix]

Thor and The Twelve are fantastic

Captain America is still strong but I peffred the period when Falcon, Sharon, Bucky and Tony Stark were the protagonists. Now it's Bucky with a little bit of Falcon. Sharon has been a victim

Bendis has lost it. While Mighty Avengers had incredible art, New Avengers and Secret Invasion are letdowns.

Hulk has seen a return of fun stories with excellent art.

Spider-Man has been the best in years overall. It is fun. The writing isn't as good as JMS but

Daredevil is strong with Brubaker bringing back the pre-Miller mythology while keeping the noir tone.

Messiah Complex was readable but nothing came out of it. Bar the great finale of Astonishing X-Men and the out-of-the-box X-Factor, the X-titles remain on the whole unreadable

Thunderbolts by Ellis was a masterpiece that should relaunch the title for a couple of years. Actually with Deodato, Osborn and Venom, this felt like pre-BND Spider-Man without Spider-Man

FF is a disappointment.

Ennis finished an incredible run on Punisher but Fraction uses gimmicks in War Journal

Iron Fist was completely revived as a franchise.

Iron Man gave a fantastic conclusion to the fight versus Mandarin and a new title slowly finding its marks

Hercules has been a surprise hit in mining the mythological aspects that made the character a millenia old favourite

[CyberCoyote]

There's the stuff you said I agree with. I'd add Thor, Amazing Spider-Girl and The Dark Tower series to the list of good product coming out of Marvel.

Having noted that, 2008 was the year Marvel all but lost me as a customer.

They did lose me, for four months or so. Fortunately they produce a great line of kids books in MA, so when I ordered those I gave in and went for the outstanding Nova and Guardians books.

I'm not a big fan of the doomed and dour cynical landscape the MU has become, but there are still bright spots.

[Grapeweasel]

Aside from turning Spider-Man into a boob and letting Humberto Ramos spoil Runaways, I think things are looking pretty good.