Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 27, 2009 2:51:52 GMT -5
Powerpack, the 1980s run.
All Star Squadron, until about issue 55, where it was clearly dead in the water and switched to ancient reprints and origin stories.
The original run of Thunderbolts surprised me with it's quality - biggest accolade I can give? It's the only Marvel monthly I've collected since the 80s.
and yet for some reason they never released it in trade, asidee from the first couple issues.
on that note, Thunderbolts has been awesome from the minute they brought it back. doesn't matter whether it's Nicieza's fun villain-turned-heroes book, Ellis' dark and twisted boxed crooks or Diggle/Parker's black ops/wetworks team, it's always a quality read. except for Christos Gage's totally phoned in Secret Invasion stuff that didn't even bother to buil up to Osborne taking over (at least, if it did, it was somehow even less convincing than what Bendis wrote)
When I first found out that Ellis was replacing Fab, I was aghast. To me at the time, Ellis was a guy who liked satirizing the spandex set (Authority) or outright parodying it (NextWave, which was awesoome, but on a whole 'nother level). I wasn't sure he had it in him to do a serious book like this, especially following the heels of Fab's run, which was 800 kinds of awesome. But once he hit the ground running? Holy s***. "Faith in Monsters" is still one of the best arcs of the past decade IMHO. Anyone who can take American Eagle and turn him into a complete badass, let alone a complete badass who hands Bullseye his tail, is a genius.