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What are the greatest marvel comics/stories?
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Winnie the Pimp
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i've been wondering as well lately...
trying to get into comics a couple times, what pisses me off the most is how DISORGANIZED/disjointed/confusing it all seems!
There's different "runs" by different authors and then some tell you to start with issue nr. 569(random nr) the other guy says you gotta start with 459 of THIS run etc.
Just really hard to know where to start...
that said i DID read Astonishing X-men by Whedon (4 volumes i think) and that was pretty good...
i'd love some pointers where to start for other characters as well though! and i don't have the time to read em ALL
trying to get into comics a couple times, what pisses me off the most is how DISORGANIZED/disjointed/confusing it all seems!
There's different "runs" by different authors and then some tell you to start with issue nr. 569(random nr) the other guy says you gotta start with 459 of THIS run etc.
Just really hard to know where to start...
that said i DID read Astonishing X-men by Whedon (4 volumes i think) and that was pretty good...
i'd love some pointers where to start for other characters as well though! and i don't have the time to read em ALL
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Spider-man clonealypse
TDLink
Member
I would say most of it has happened in the last decade or so...at least in my opinion. There is some pretty good older stuff here and there though.
Personally my favourites have been:
Probably in that order. Most Avengers stuff is pretty crap unfortunately.
Personally my favourites have been:
- Most of the recent cosmic marvel saga. Ie, Annihilation, Annihilation: Conquest, Nova, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Thanos Imperative.
- The Immortal Iron Fist
- The Runaways
- New Mutants
- Nextwave
Probably in that order. Most Avengers stuff is pretty crap unfortunately.
I think mine will always be the Claremont/Byrne collaborations - particularly X-Men of course but the loved the Marvel Team-Up with Spidey & Thor fighting the Living Monolith.
I liked Byrne's Fantastic Four too with his take on Doctor Doom & Galactus (They should be adapted for the movies). Obviously I haven't read marvel in a while...
I liked Byrne's Fantastic Four too with his take on Doctor Doom & Galactus (They should be adapted for the movies). Obviously I haven't read marvel in a while...
VeryGooster
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Lazy vs Crazy
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Best Marvel runs in the last decade or so have probably been Bendis on Daredevil and Vaughan on Runaways.
The Bendis daredevil run is the best extended run by one writer on a solo superhero book that I can remember, and it'll absolutely make you a Daredevil fan.
Runaways is all new characters and it's amazing.
Also the Whedon run on Astonishing X-Men is probably the best intro to comics you'll find. Don't listen to the people that tell you to read the Morrison run first because they are wrong.
If you want Avengers, probably the best place to start is with New Avengers 1, from 2005.
Edit: and yes Nextwave is fantastic but it's completely over the top and more or less out of continuity with the rest of the marvel universe.
The Bendis daredevil run is the best extended run by one writer on a solo superhero book that I can remember, and it'll absolutely make you a Daredevil fan.
Runaways is all new characters and it's amazing.
Also the Whedon run on Astonishing X-Men is probably the best intro to comics you'll find. Don't listen to the people that tell you to read the Morrison run first because they are wrong.
If you want Avengers, probably the best place to start is with New Avengers 1, from 2005.
Edit: and yes Nextwave is fantastic but it's completely over the top and more or less out of continuity with the rest of the marvel universe.
I agree (on both parts), it's a great place to start with SM though. As already mentioned, Ultimates is as best a place to start for Avengers as any.
I know not everyone is too fond of it but another great entry point into Avengers (albeit not the exact same 'classic' team you see on-screen) is Avengers Disassembled and then all the New Avengers issues.
Fun read for anyone who hasn't ever caught up on the entire Avengers-line before, imo. Even better than Ultimates in terms of longevity/reading material.
Salvor.Hardin
Banned
This is the greatest thing that Marvel has and will ever produce
Johnlenham
Member
Planet hulk and the one that follows are good reads. Some I know said civil war or something was good aswell.
the civil War graphic novel is a great read, i have't read any of the individual stories that lead up to it , but you can just read and enjoy that itself! Captain America on one Side Vs Iron man on the other side, the artwork is fantastic and its pretty much an all out war between all the marvel characters
This is the one you want - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Civil-War-TPB-Mark-Millar/dp/078512179X/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336932519&sr=8-1-spell
The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother against brother - and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse!
As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families begin to fall apart. The crossover that rewrites the rules, Civil War stars Spider-Man, the New Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the entirety of the Marvel pantheon
This is the one you want - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Civil-War-TPB-Mark-Millar/dp/078512179X/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336932519&sr=8-1-spell
The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother against brother - and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse!
As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families begin to fall apart. The crossover that rewrites the rules, Civil War stars Spider-Man, the New Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the entirety of the Marvel pantheon
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Cable & Deadpool
Cosmic Marvel is best Marvel, and Annihilation so epic you would be crazy not to read it, it includes Nova Thanos, and Galactus, and even a threat greater than those two!
Earth X and especially Universe X are really good. And for the regular continuity I enjoyed the Dark Reign period
Earth X and especially Universe X are really good. And for the regular continuity I enjoyed the Dark Reign period
shadyspace
Banned
Ennis' Punisher MAX is the best run of comic books ever.
BigJonsson
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Onslaught!
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Age of Apocalypse was one of my favorite Marvel stories. It's your typical grimdark alternate timeline that actually does something interesting with many of the characters.
Dark Avengers and Thunderbolts were good stuff as well.
Classic Claremont Dark Phoenix saga is boss.
Being a Spider-Fan, I have to recommend the first Spider-Man vs Venom collection (basically 4 issues from ASM 300-317). Before Venom became a parody of himself, he was a badass psychopath stalker who gave nightmares to Mary Jane and a broken nose to the Black Cat.
Dark Avengers and Thunderbolts were good stuff as well.
Classic Claremont Dark Phoenix saga is boss.
Being a Spider-Fan, I have to recommend the first Spider-Man vs Venom collection (basically 4 issues from ASM 300-317). Before Venom became a parody of himself, he was a badass psychopath stalker who gave nightmares to Mary Jane and a broken nose to the Black Cat.
cj_iwakura
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Always loved The Infinity Gauntlet/War, but that was years ago.
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
Age of Apocalypse
World War Hulk
Civil War
Onslaught
World War Hulk
Civil War
Onslaught
shadyspace
Banned
Yes to all this. Especially the cosmic stuff. Annihilation is perfection.
Str0ngStyle
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I'm co-signing on Ultimate Spider Man. Make sure to get the Bendis/Bagley volumes tho. Basically 1-4 at the very least
FollowSmoke
Member
I'm not into comic much anymore and this isn't a Marvel title, but check out Brian K. Vaughn's Y: The Last Man. It was amazing.
Also, there were a trilogy of X-Men novels I read when I was younger written by Christopher Golden. I can't remember the name of them. Mutant Empire, perhaps? They were really fun to read.
Also, there were a trilogy of X-Men novels I read when I was younger written by Christopher Golden. I can't remember the name of them. Mutant Empire, perhaps? They were really fun to read.
Winnie the Pimp
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Civil War and Earth X sound interesting.
Are they self contained though? Or just part of a larger series that you need to read first in order to understand better? (that is what i hate since i don't have the time for this)
If so: is there just that one book or is it split up into different volumes?
Are they self contained though? Or just part of a larger series that you need to read first in order to understand better? (that is what i hate since i don't have the time for this)
If so: is there just that one book or is it split up into different volumes?
Affeinvasion
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I really enjoyed Secret Avengers up to about #21 or #22 (essentially when Hawkeye took over as leader).
Avengers Academy is also pretty great especially if you like stuff like Runaways (they even make an appearance).
Has anyone mentioned Uncanny X-Force yet? Probably my favorite book at the moment.
Also stay the fuck away from Civil War. Soooooo bad, and its been retconned to hell. I actually felt like Secret Invasion was a more entertaining and universe changing event and it leads into Dark Reign which was alright up until (you guessed it, true believers! Another shitty cross-over event) Siege.
Also the Civil War story is all over the place since it took place in its own mini-series plus throughout most of the marvel single character runs. It gets really confusing and you miss some stuff if you skip some of the bigger Avengers books. It's not a terrible read, but you really need to slog through a lot of it to pick out the stuff that is actually good...and then there's the fact that it is a character assassination of Tony Stark (and in my opinion Captain America as well). They both come off as whiny bitches.
Best way to get through Civil War is to read single character runs that have tie-ins. Ms. Marvel is a great volume as is Thunderbolts for this.
Avengers Academy is also pretty great especially if you like stuff like Runaways (they even make an appearance).
Has anyone mentioned Uncanny X-Force yet? Probably my favorite book at the moment.
Also stay the fuck away from Civil War. Soooooo bad, and its been retconned to hell. I actually felt like Secret Invasion was a more entertaining and universe changing event and it leads into Dark Reign which was alright up until (you guessed it, true believers! Another shitty cross-over event) Siege.
Also the Civil War story is all over the place since it took place in its own mini-series plus throughout most of the marvel single character runs. It gets really confusing and you miss some stuff if you skip some of the bigger Avengers books. It's not a terrible read, but you really need to slog through a lot of it to pick out the stuff that is actually good...and then there's the fact that it is a character assassination of Tony Stark (and in my opinion Captain America as well). They both come off as whiny bitches.
Best way to get through Civil War is to read single character runs that have tie-ins. Ms. Marvel is a great volume as is Thunderbolts for this.
shadyspace
Banned
One of the best.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
In a word, yes. And they're available in a variety of rather nice collections depending on what you want to spend.
Here's a great 25 issue collection
Here's a smaller, more affordable collection to dip your toes into
D
Deleted member 13876
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Earth X is a trilogy. Earth X ->Universe X -> Paradise X. You can get them in 4 trades. Apart from that it's entirely self-contained and depicts a future Marvel U where most of the heroes are quite old and some are dead. It tries to explain why some things are they way they are in the Marvel Universe, has some twists on character's origins and intererconnects a lot of stuff. It's interesting but I feel you need to have a solid grasp of Marvel characters to get the most out of it, becuase it's very referential.
shadyspace
Banned
But really if The Avengers is what turned you on Ultimates 1 and 2 is what you want.
Tizoc
Member
*cracks knuckles*
Create a new notepad file kiddies, I'ma about to give you a megaton of info-
Agents of Atlas:
Various series over the past few years, but whenever they get an ongoing it sadly gets canceled. Some good stories in it, first book is written by Jeff Parker.
Alias by Brian Michael Bendis
Marvel's Cosmic series: Reading order is as follows:
1- Annihilation
2- Annihilation Conquest
3- Guardians of the Galaxy
4- War of Kings
5- Realm of kings
6- Thanos Imperative
7- Annihilators
...off the top of my head at least
Ares:
2 mini series, one by Mike Oeming and the other by Kireon Gillen.
Avengers:
Bendis has been the main author on the Avengers books since the early-mid 2000s, and his run is either love it or hate it. You could check out any Avengers series he wrote during the past 10 or so years, but also check out Avengers stories by the following authors:
Kurt Busiek
Dan Slott
Young Avengers is also pretty good.
Black Panther:
Christopher Priest wrote THE essential and perhaps best Black Panther series ever. Sadly it is not fully collected in TPB so you'll want to hunt for single issues for it. It'll be worth it however...at least IMHO.
Jason Aaron's short run collected in Secret Invasion: Black Panther is also good.
Captain America:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437559
Captain Britain & MI13:
Written by Paul Cornell one of my fav. writers, also about the only good book that has Blade in it.
Captain Marvel by Peter David
ClanDestine by Alan Davis
Criminal by Ed Brubaker (It's published by a Marvel subsidiary right?)
Daredevil:
Read books by the following writers in the following order-
1- Frank Millar
2- Bendis
3- Ed Brubaker
4- Mark Waid
Or better yet just get into Waid's Daredevil now, it's fantastic and entertaining.
Dr. Strange: Read the series written by JMS and Brian Vaughan.
EXiles: Read up until the last book Bedard wrote, then read Point of no return.
Fantastic Four:
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's original series is a must read if you're interested in knowing about the origin and history of the Marvel U.
For more recent series, the following writers have had some good stuff:
Mark Waid
JMS
Mark Millar
Johnathan Hickman
Grant Morrison's 1234 mini is also pretty good.
Great Lakes Disassembled by Dan Slott
Hercules by Greg Pak
Hulk: Anything by Peter David (10 years!) and Greg Pak
Red Hulk: Start with Scorched Earth TPB by Jeff Parker, Red Hulk becomes more tolerable when he starts writing it.
Howard the Duck: Just about anything Steve Gerber wrote.
Inhumans by Paul Jenkins and (epic art by) Jae Lee
Immortal Iron Fist by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction
Kick-ass by Mark Miller
Man-Thing by Steve Gerber (err and any other writer that wrote the character's series?)
Marvel 1985 by Mark Miller
Marvel Zombies 3-5 by Fred van Lente (Machineman being awesome~)
Anyone got any Moon Knight recommendations? All I got is the mid 2000 series by Charlie Huston and Greg Hurwitz.
Ms. Marvel by Brian Reed
Nextwave: Agents of HATE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuosmf1_mKs
Marvel Boy by Grant Morrison
Omega the Unknown
Power Pack miniseries by Gurihiru
Punisher by Garth Ennis, Jason Aaron and Greg Rucka.
Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan
The Sentry by Paul Jenkins
She-Hulk by Dan Slott.
SHIELD by Johnathan Hickman
Spiderman: Original series by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko if you want to see how the character started out. For a more modern/recent run, JMS' Amazing Spiderman run has been great for the most part (just stop before OMD). Avoid anything from the 90s.
The Hood by Brian K. Vaughan
The Irredeemable Antman by Robert Kirkman.
The Twelve by JMS.
Thor:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=429046
Thunderbolts: Various writers over the years but much of it has been great so far. Good starting point for the current/modern series would be Warren Ellis' run.
X-Men:
Too many to list, but off the top of my head:
Grant Morrison's X-Men followed by Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
Ultimate series:
DO NOT READ ANYTHING BY JEPH LOEB!
Mark Miller's Ultimates and Ultimate Avengers
Bendis' Ultimate Spiderman (among Bendis' best works IMHO)
Warren Ellis' Ultimate Trilogy
Ultimate Fantastic Four
...yeah that's it off the top of my head, you're welcome GAF <3
Create a new notepad file kiddies, I'ma about to give you a megaton of info-
Agents of Atlas:
Various series over the past few years, but whenever they get an ongoing it sadly gets canceled. Some good stories in it, first book is written by Jeff Parker.
Alias by Brian Michael Bendis
Marvel's Cosmic series: Reading order is as follows:
1- Annihilation
2- Annihilation Conquest
3- Guardians of the Galaxy
4- War of Kings
5- Realm of kings
6- Thanos Imperative
7- Annihilators
...off the top of my head at least
Ares:
2 mini series, one by Mike Oeming and the other by Kireon Gillen.
Avengers:
Bendis has been the main author on the Avengers books since the early-mid 2000s, and his run is either love it or hate it. You could check out any Avengers series he wrote during the past 10 or so years, but also check out Avengers stories by the following authors:
Kurt Busiek
Dan Slott
Young Avengers is also pretty good.
Black Panther:
Christopher Priest wrote THE essential and perhaps best Black Panther series ever. Sadly it is not fully collected in TPB so you'll want to hunt for single issues for it. It'll be worth it however...at least IMHO.
Jason Aaron's short run collected in Secret Invasion: Black Panther is also good.
Captain America:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437559
Captain Britain & MI13:
Written by Paul Cornell one of my fav. writers, also about the only good book that has Blade in it.
Captain Marvel by Peter David
ClanDestine by Alan Davis
Criminal by Ed Brubaker (It's published by a Marvel subsidiary right?)
Daredevil:
Read books by the following writers in the following order-
1- Frank Millar
2- Bendis
3- Ed Brubaker
4- Mark Waid
Or better yet just get into Waid's Daredevil now, it's fantastic and entertaining.
Dr. Strange: Read the series written by JMS and Brian Vaughan.
EXiles: Read up until the last book Bedard wrote, then read Point of no return.
Fantastic Four:
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's original series is a must read if you're interested in knowing about the origin and history of the Marvel U.
For more recent series, the following writers have had some good stuff:
Mark Waid
JMS
Mark Millar
Johnathan Hickman
Grant Morrison's 1234 mini is also pretty good.
Great Lakes Disassembled by Dan Slott
Hercules by Greg Pak
Hulk: Anything by Peter David (10 years!) and Greg Pak
Red Hulk: Start with Scorched Earth TPB by Jeff Parker, Red Hulk becomes more tolerable when he starts writing it.
Howard the Duck: Just about anything Steve Gerber wrote.
Inhumans by Paul Jenkins and (epic art by) Jae Lee
Immortal Iron Fist by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction
Kick-ass by Mark Miller
Man-Thing by Steve Gerber (err and any other writer that wrote the character's series?)
Marvel 1985 by Mark Miller
Marvel Zombies 3-5 by Fred van Lente (Machineman being awesome~)
Anyone got any Moon Knight recommendations? All I got is the mid 2000 series by Charlie Huston and Greg Hurwitz.
Ms. Marvel by Brian Reed
Nextwave: Agents of HATE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuosmf1_mKs
Marvel Boy by Grant Morrison
Omega the Unknown
Power Pack miniseries by Gurihiru
Punisher by Garth Ennis, Jason Aaron and Greg Rucka.
Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan
The Sentry by Paul Jenkins
She-Hulk by Dan Slott.
SHIELD by Johnathan Hickman
Spiderman: Original series by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko if you want to see how the character started out. For a more modern/recent run, JMS' Amazing Spiderman run has been great for the most part (just stop before OMD). Avoid anything from the 90s.
The Hood by Brian K. Vaughan
The Irredeemable Antman by Robert Kirkman.
The Twelve by JMS.
Thor:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=429046
Thunderbolts: Various writers over the years but much of it has been great so far. Good starting point for the current/modern series would be Warren Ellis' run.
X-Men:
Too many to list, but off the top of my head:
Grant Morrison's X-Men followed by Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
Ultimate series:
DO NOT READ ANYTHING BY JEPH LOEB!
Mark Miller's Ultimates and Ultimate Avengers
Bendis' Ultimate Spiderman (among Bendis' best works IMHO)
Warren Ellis' Ultimate Trilogy
Ultimate Fantastic Four
...yeah that's it off the top of my head, you're welcome GAF <3
Winnie the Pimp
Member
thanks, well fuck, i only have a basic grasp on the main Marvel characters so i guess that is not good enough to fully enjoy this lol, is there anything similar, self contained BUT approachable for a relativ noob then?
Matt Fraction basically touched gold with his whole Invincible Iron man and Immortal Iron Fist Run, that is for sure.
Also, from recent times, definitely the whole Uncanny X-Force series.
As for past events, there have been dozens that were mentioned previously, I can only suggest the Secret Invasion/World War Hulk/Civil War, and hell, Dark Reign events.
These big events often are quite a hit and miss, though - sometimes individual tie-ins produce a better story then the numbered event parts themselves. So you need to do a bit of a research before jumping in with a random hardcover or TPB.
Edit: and fuck, of course Marvel cosmic. Dear lord.
Also, from recent times, definitely the whole Uncanny X-Force series.
As for past events, there have been dozens that were mentioned previously, I can only suggest the Secret Invasion/World War Hulk/Civil War, and hell, Dark Reign events.
These big events often are quite a hit and miss, though - sometimes individual tie-ins produce a better story then the numbered event parts themselves. So you need to do a bit of a research before jumping in with a random hardcover or TPB.
Edit: and fuck, of course Marvel cosmic. Dear lord.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Stuff that has not been said in this thread
Ellis' run on Thunderbolts, one of my favourite runs every.
I'm gonna second, third, and fourth all of these bad boys.
And if you're interested in Spider-Man, Dan Slott's current Amazing Spider-Man run would be a great starting place. His whole run up until Spider-Island comes out in a nice paperback next month, so you can save yourself some money and wait for that one.
June 20th is the release here, on Amazon
Dark Avengers were great! I was really said when they ended.
D
Deleted member 13876
Unconfirmed Member
You could give it a shot and fill in the blanks with Wikipedia. As many others have stated so far Ultimates 1 and 2 are excellent if you liked the Avengers movie with the caveat that each character is a more dickish version of his normal counterpart.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
ok i am checking out stuff all over the place right now:
What is the opinion on "The death of Captn. America" by Brubaker? it is contained in 3 Volumes (how good is it and how much prev. knowledge would i need besides having seen the movie lol
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What is the opinion on "The death of Captn. America" by Brubaker? it is contained in 3 Volumes (how good is it and how much prev. knowledge would i need besides having seen the movie lol
)BuddyJoeHooker
Member
Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato Thunderbolts
Greg Pak & Carlo Pagulayan Planet Hulk
Mark Millar & Terry Dodson The Sensational Spider-Man
Jonathan Hickman Fantastic Four Run
Ed Brubaker Captain America Run
Edit: You need to read all of Brubaker Run to get Death of Captain America, it's not that long only 24 issues before it.
Greg Pak & Carlo Pagulayan Planet Hulk
Mark Millar & Terry Dodson The Sensational Spider-Man
Jonathan Hickman Fantastic Four Run
Ed Brubaker Captain America Run
Edit: You need to read all of Brubaker Run to get Death of Captain America, it's not that long only 24 issues before it.
Tizoc
Member
ok i am checking out stuff all over the place right now:
What is the opinion on "The death of Captn. America" by Brubaker? it is contained in 3 Volumes (how good is it and how much prev. knowledge would i need besides having seen the movie lol
Brubaker's run on Captain America is among the best, if not THE best Captain America series to date. Def. check it out. You don't need to have prior knowledge of Captain America mythos, etc. to enjoy it.
These are great reads that don't require background knowledge :
- Ultimate Spider-man : this is a very fun read and it's very consistent in quality. Stopped reading when it got relaunched, don't know if it kept up the quality. But you can't go wrong with the first 20 or so trades (about 130 issues). It's pretty impressive how Bendis kept this series fun for that long.
- The Ultimates : you can't go wrong here if you're looking for Avengers action. Read Ultimates 1 & 2, stay away from 3. Ultimate Comics : Thor' is a prequel to the Ultimates.
- Grant Morrison's New X-Men : recommended from start to finish.
- Whedon's Astonishing X-Men : another must read. Although Lazy vs Crazy is absolutely right, you'll get a bit more out of these books if you read Morrison's run first... I did it backwards and wished I'd read Morrison first. Either way : do read Morrison's and Whedon's take on X-Men. Seriously.
- Iron Man Extremis : exciting story, awesome art by Granov.
- Frank Miller's Daredevil run : this is collected in 3 trades and only gets better as it goes along. Also read 'Born Again' and 'The Man Without Fear' (origin story).
As others have mentioned, Bendis' run on Daredevil is supposed to be really good, haven't read it yet.
- Planet Hulk
New Avengers had a sale on Comixology recently. Bought all issues of vol.1 and so far (up to #40), I find it to be really disappointing. Early on, there are some good arcs (Sentry!), and the series shows potential, but then Civil War comes along and everything gets unfocused and became a drag to read. I was excited for this since I really enjoyed Bendis on Ultimate Spidey, but it seemed he wasn't having that much fun on Avengers...
NA is also tied into a bunch of other series and major events, so it can get a bit confusing at times. Read up on House of M, Civil War and other big events if you want to give this a try.
- Ultimate Spider-man : this is a very fun read and it's very consistent in quality. Stopped reading when it got relaunched, don't know if it kept up the quality. But you can't go wrong with the first 20 or so trades (about 130 issues). It's pretty impressive how Bendis kept this series fun for that long.
- The Ultimates : you can't go wrong here if you're looking for Avengers action. Read Ultimates 1 & 2, stay away from 3. Ultimate Comics : Thor' is a prequel to the Ultimates.
- Grant Morrison's New X-Men : recommended from start to finish.
- Whedon's Astonishing X-Men : another must read. Although Lazy vs Crazy is absolutely right, you'll get a bit more out of these books if you read Morrison's run first... I did it backwards and wished I'd read Morrison first. Either way : do read Morrison's and Whedon's take on X-Men. Seriously.
- Iron Man Extremis : exciting story, awesome art by Granov.
- Frank Miller's Daredevil run : this is collected in 3 trades and only gets better as it goes along. Also read 'Born Again' and 'The Man Without Fear' (origin story).
As others have mentioned, Bendis' run on Daredevil is supposed to be really good, haven't read it yet.
- Planet Hulk
New Avengers had a sale on Comixology recently. Bought all issues of vol.1 and so far (up to #40), I find it to be really disappointing. Early on, there are some good arcs (Sentry!), and the series shows potential, but then Civil War comes along and everything gets unfocused and became a drag to read. I was excited for this since I really enjoyed Bendis on Ultimate Spidey, but it seemed he wasn't having that much fun on Avengers...
NA is also tied into a bunch of other series and major events, so it can get a bit confusing at times. Read up on House of M, Civil War and other big events if you want to give this a try.
You two are winners.
Tizoc
Member
You could say Bendis had to write the stories according the status quo at the time and the changes done to the Marvel U. For one thing, Secret Invasion was intended to be an Avengers only story arc I think, but was made into a major crossover.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
ok, it's just all so confusing to me, so i need to start with what? Vol. 1 or let's say issues #1 to 24 then and THEN get to Death of Cap. A.? are they contained in a couple volumes?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0785128662/ just found this, that would get me up to speed right? seems to contain issues 1-25 if i understand that correctly so AFTER that i'd then get the "Death of...." issues and be good
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