The Craptacular B-Sides #1-3 (2002-2003)
Here’s a highly unusual book. And it’s canon!
The B-Sides are three high school grads with super powers who are taken in by a conman to become a team: The Craptacular B-Sides.
They live in a town in New Jersey known for having many powered residents. The town is invaded by skrulls. The Fantastic Four guest star and help prevent a huge Kree-Skrull throwdown in the town.
Created by a writer for Magic the Gathering and an Eisner-nominated indie artist. It’s pretty good. Offbeat and different.
The B-Sides cast never comes back.
Wolverine #177-178 (2002): Shadow Pulpit
Wolverine helps foil a plot to undermine the Catholic Church by installing a Shadow Pope who has a mind-control device that can make everyone Catholic. This is the scariest plot…
UNCANNY X-MEN #414 (2002): Northstar joins
Professor X hires Northstar to teach at X-Institute after he and the team try to save a local Canadian mutant, who ends up killed by his own powers.
MARVEL KNIGHTS: CAPTAIN AMERICA #4-6 (2002): Warlords
Last arc, Captain America disclosed his secret identity to the world. This leads the Secretary of State to dismiss Cap–saying that now that people know who he really is, he…