Year: 2008
Major Events:
- Secret Invasion ends and leads into Dark Reign
- Spider-Man’s Brand New Day phase begins, with a 3-times-per-month publication schedule and three rotating creative teams.
- Matt Fraction starts writing Uncanny X-Men
- Reggie Hudlin’s run on Black Panther ends
- She-Hulk bangs Hercules
- Mark Millar’s horrible Fantastic Four run begins
- The Red Hulk storyline begins
Best New Series: Red Hulk, X-Force
Major Series Cancellations: Black Panther, Cable and Deadpool, Punisher War Journal, War Machine, X-Men: First Class Volume 1.
Important Deaths: Wasp, Abomination, Frank Castle (becomes a Frankenstein), Caretaker, Skrull Captain Marvel, Thor Girl, White Tiger.
Top 15 New Characters:
- Old Man Logan
- Red Hulk
- Rescue (Pepper Potts)
- Victoria Hand
- Lady Bullseye
- Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn)
- A-Bomb (Rick Jones)
- Anti-Venom
- Lyra (Hulk’s daughter)
- The New Nova Corps
- Blue Marvel
- Ghost Riders of the world
- Aleksandra “Sasha” Kravinoff
- Mister Negative
- Sebastian Druid
Top 25 Stories:
- Punisher Max #55-60 (Valley Forge, Valley Forge)
- New Avengers #38 (Luke Cage and Jessica Jones split)
- Wolverine #66-72 (Old Man Logan)
- Immortal Iron Fist #8-14 (Seven Capital Cities of Heaven)
- X-Men First Class #11
- Captain America #37-42
- Captain America: White (final issue is in 2016)
- Incredible Hercules #116
- Red Hulk #1-6
- Ghost Rider #28-32
- Fantastic Four #551-553
- Magneto: Testament
- Ghost Rider #20-23
- Invincible Iron Man #1-7
- Amazing Spider-Man #555-557
- X-Force #1-6
- Amazing Spider-Man #574 (Flash loses his legs)
- Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #21-28
- Amazing Spider-Man #568-573
- Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch