For the first time in a long long time, I finished my stack of monthly comics before the next month’s arrived.  Anyways, here are the rankings:

Top 5:
1. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #9) [Miles has his first run-in with the police.]
2. Justice League (Issue #8) [Green Arrow’s pursuit of the Justice League was pretty entertaining.]
3. Daredevil (Issue #10.1) [Daredevil makes a play in his conflict with Megacrime.]
4. Ultimates (Issue #9) [Reed Richards should not be trifled with.]
5. Moon Knight (Issue #12) [I had no idea that this issue was the end of the title, but I really enjoyed the conclusion to Bendis and Maleev’s story.]

I swear one of these months, I’m going to catch up on my comic books.  My new comics came two weeks, but here’s the rundown.

1. Ultimate Spider-man #9, Ultimates #9, Ultimate X-men #10
2. Amazing Spider-man #683 and #684, Avenging Spider-man #6, Scarlet Spider #4
3. Justice League #8, Batman #8, Green Lantern #8, The Flash #8, Detective Comics #8, Batman The Dark Knight #8
4. Avengers vs. X-men #1 and #2, AVX VS #1, Avengers #25, New Avengers #24 and #25, Secret Avengers #25 and #26, Avengers Assemble #2
5. Fantastic Four #605, FF #17
6. Captain America #10, Captain America And Hawkeye #629, Winter Soldier #4
7. Daredevil #10.1 and #11, Moon Knight #12, Mighty Thor #12.1 and #13, Venom #15 and #16
8. Supercrooks #2, The Secret Service #1
9. Brilliant #3

Top 5:
1. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #8) [Regular artist Sara Pichelli returns as Miles has a run-in with his uncle, The Prowler, and Aunt May finally hears about the new Spider-man.]
2. Fantastic Four (Issue #604) [Steve Hickman finally tied up some threads that he started early in his run on Fantastic Four.]
3. Ultimates (Issue #8) [Nick Fury seems to have been outplayed by the President of the United States.]
4. Justice League (Issue #7) [In this new take on the Justice League, Colonel Steve Trevor has an important job.]
5. Ultimate X-men (Issue #9) [A tale from Camp Angel.]

My new comics came in the mail last week.  I’ve been behind on my reading for months, but I’m getting pretty close to being caught up.

1. Ultimate Spider-man #8, Ultimates #8, Ultimate X-men #9
2. Amazing Spider-man #681 and #682, Avenging Spider-man #5, Scarlet Spider #3
3. Justice League #7, Batman #7, Green Lantern #7, Detective Comics #7, Batman The Dark Knight #7, The Flash #7
4. Avengers Assemble #1, New Avengers #23, Avengers #24 and #24.1, Secret Avengers #24, Avengers vs. X-men #0
5. Fantastic Four #604, FF #16
6. Captain America #9, Captain America And Bucky #628, Winter Soldier #2 and #3
7. Daredevil #10, Moon Knight #11, Mighty Thor #12, Venom #14
8. Kick-Ass 2 #7, Supercrooks #1

Top 5:
1. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #7) [Fill-in artist Chris Samnee returns for another issue, and while I’m still looking forward to Sara Pichelli’s return, I liked the art and the script much more than the last issue.]
2. Ultimates (Issue #7) [I’ve really enjoyed how the two storylines have started to intersect.]
3. Justice League (Issue #6) [This issue wrapped up the first story arc, which I definitely liked.  I hope the book continues to be equal parts characterization and action.]
4. Ultimate X-men (Issues #7 and #8) [Both of these issues were good, but I especially liked the Jean Grey story in #8.]
5. New Avengers (Issues #21 and #22) [Victoria Hand’s role in the Norman Osborn saga finally seems to be revealed.]

My new comics showed up two weeks ago, but I hadn’t finished my stack of comics from the month before, so this is a little late.  Anyways, here’s the rundown:

1. Ultimate Spider-man #7, Ultimate X-men #7 and #8, Ultimates #7
2. Amazing Spider-man #679.1 and #680, Avenging Spider-man #4, Scarlet Spider #1 and #2
3. Justice League #6, Batman #6, Green Lantern #6, Batman The Dark Knight #6, The Flash #6
4. Avengers #22 and #23, New Avengers #21 and #22, Secret Avengers #22 and #23
5. Captain America #8, Captain America And Bucky #627, Winter Soldier #1
6. Daredevil #9, Moon Knight #10, Mighty Thor #11, Black Panther #529
7. Venom #13.1, #13.2, #13.3, and #13.4
8. Fantastic Four #603, FF #15
9. RASL #13

I’m way, way behind on my comics, so these are the rankings for my January comics, which I received in the mail in early February.  Hopefully I’ll catch up soon.

Top 5:
1. Ultimates (Issue #6) [I’ve enjoyed the new Ultimates book, but this was the first issue where I really felt engaged by both major storylines.]
2. Justice League (Issue #5) [It’s been fun seeing all the members of the team get to know each other.]
3. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #6) [The story for this issue was strong as it usually is, but the fill in artist did not compare to Sara Pichelli.]
4. Green Lantern (Issue #5) [Sinestro’s team-up with Hal Jordan continues.]
5. Avengers (Issue #21) [In this issue and in New Avengers #20, the Avengers are dealing with the repercussions of Norman Osborn being on the loose.  Both issues were entertaining, but they feel like rehashings of the Norman Osborn stories from a year or so ago.]

My monthly comics came in the mail last week and I would have been bummed that they were late if I wasn’t so far behind on my reading.  Here’s the rundown:

1. Ultimate Spider-man #6, Ultimate X-men #6, Ultimates #6
2. Avenging Spider-man #3, Amazing Spider-man #677, Daredevil #8, Amazing Spider-man #678 and #679
3. Justice League #5, Batman #5, Detective Comics #6, Batman: The Dark Knight #5, Green Lantern #5, The Flash #5
4. Avengers #21, New Avengers #20, Secret Avengers #21 and #21.1
5. Captain America #7, Captain America And Bucky #626
6. Moon Knight #9, Black Panther #528, Mighty Thor #10
7. Venom #12 and #13
8. Fantastic Four #602, FF #14
9. Superior #7, Brilliant #2

I’d gotten way behind on my comics (I started a job and oddly enough, I haven’t had the free time to keep up with my reading) so I just finished my monthly comics.

Top 5:
1. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #5) [Miles gets himself a real costume.]
2. Justice League (Issue #4) [Aquaman might just be a badass.]
3. Ultimate X-men (Issues #4 and #5) [I’m not sure if Quiksilver knows what he’s doing.]
4. Batman (Issue #4) [This story about The Court Of Owls by Scott Snyder has been really cool and Greg Capullo is killing it on art duties.]
5. Green Lantern (Issue #4) [At some point, I’d really like to read all of the Green Lantern stuff by Geoff Johns, but for the time being, I’m really enjoying the current issues.]

It’s a bad sign for the all the Avengers books that my Top 5 is filled with DC books.  New Avengers has been pretty good, but Avengers has been sub-par and Secret Avengers went from being one of my favorite comics to being my least favorite Avengers book.  I hope they rebound soon.

My new comics came in the mail this week.  Here’s the goods:

1.  Ultimate Spider-man #5, Ultimates #5, Ultimate X-men #4 and #5
2.  Justice League #4, Batman #4, Detective Comics #4 and #5, Batman The Dark Knight #4, Green Lantern #4, The Flash #4
3.  Amazing Spider-man #675 and #676, Avenging Spider-man #2
4.  Avengers #20 and Annual #1, New Avengers #19, Secret Avengers #20
5.  Captain America #5 and #6, Captain America And Bucky #625
6.  Fantastic Four #601, FF #13
7.  Daredevil #7, Moon Knight #8, Black Panther #526 and #527
8.  The Mighty Thor #9
9.  Venom #10 and #11
10.  Kick-Ass 2 #6