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I don’t know if this will make any difference in the rankings, but I feel I would be failing my designation as The Human Footnote if I didn’t point out that Matt significantly misremembered Gaiman’s (as yet incomplete) MIRACLEMAN run. The issues he described (~”waiting for the big house to be built”~) is almost certainly OLYMPUS, the third volume of The Original Writer’s original run. While OLYMPUS has a lot of actual plot (including Kid Miracleman’s destruction of London), there’s also a long, languid framing sequence of Miracleman hanging around in Olympus remembering the events that lead to its creation. I found the framing sequence tedious when the issues were first published, but I appreciated them much more in the recent reprints (with the gorgeous new coloring that really complements and compliments Totleben’s art).
The first Gaiman arc (“The Golden Age”) is six short stories spinning out ideas tossed out in the last chapter of OLYMPUS–the 18 Andy Warhols, Miraclewoman and the lighthouse keeper, the children’s book about Winter, and so forth. The second arc, the one interrupted with two issues published and third completed, is about reviving Young Miracleman from underspace.
Anyway. I know the ESE rankings are objective, scientific, and unimpeachable, but it’s not often that your (collective) memories fail you.
On a different note, the absolute best thing JMS did on Spider-Man was the issue of Aunt May coming to terms with learning Peter’s secret. Just terrific. Issue #500, with the Mindless Ones attacking Manhattan, was pretty good, too. But “Sins Past” leaves me feeling like a Soiled One and I can’t imagine ever re-reading any of his run.