The state of my Marvel Chronology read thru:

Currently I'm reading issues cover dated November of 2000. Avengers is still solid but the Captain America and Iron Man books went off the rails a bit. Well, Iron Man did a lot. That last arc with Yinsen being a religious icon...

...yeesh. I'm still enjoying Dan Jurgens' Thor. This is my first time reading the Garth Ennis run of Punisher. Loving that. The Sentry was just introduced. I still remember the gimmick behind his character. Marvel Knights is ok. Same with Daredevil. We're just on the cusp of...

...the Bendis run. I remember enjoying that quite a bit. Speaking of Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man just started and it's as good as I remember. That counter balances the not so good state of Amazing Spider-Man. (Though Peter Parker Spider-Man is really great!) Spider-Woman is..

..absolutely terrible. Spider-Girl is the only MC2 title left at this point, I'm sad to say. I liked those books a whole lot. Thunderbolts has become a chore to get through, as was the Christopher Priest run on Deadpool. However, his Black Panther is running on all cylinders..

...at this stage. Captain Marvel is...not Peter David's best, but it's still enjoyable. Too bad he wasn't still on Hulk, because that book took a nose dive after he left. Claremont just left Fantastic Four, which is good because it was another one that I would hold off..

..on reading because of how much I wasn't enjoying it. As far as the Mutant corner, it's not so great at this time. Bishop is a wonderful book. I'm in the middle of Robert Weinberg's run of Cable, which I've always cherished. Gambit...well, lets just say I'm skimming through it..

..at this point. The Counter X books, Generation X, X-Force, and X-Man, are hit and miss. Gen X just never had a good run after those initial fifteen issues or so. X-Force and X-Man are not bad, just forgettable. Mutant X is still terrible. Wolverine is a bore. X-Men the..

..Hidden Years is at the point of the series where it just kind of..happens. I don't know how to describe it, but it's gone from a curiosity to plain old dull. Uncanny and X-Men are in the middle of the second Claremont run. I'm actually enjoying them a lot more this time...

..around. That's not to say they are good. They're deeply flawed books. I'm just enjoying it more than I have the previous times I read it. X-Men Black Sun is a mess, too, but I get a kick out of it. Lastly, Universe X has just begun around this time. I remember not liking..

..it when I read it about fifteen years ago. I think a lot of that had to do with my lack of knowledge of the Marvel Universe. I think it will be a different outcome now that I've read everything from Fantastic Four to 2000.

So, anyway...that's where I'm at with...

..the Marvel Chronology. At the pace I'm going, I don't think I'll ever catch up to what's current. I still have twenty years of comics to read before then.

Thanks for reading if you read this thread. And stuff.