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Yeah, but Wally also didn't become the fastest till a good chunk into his career as the Flash, post Barry death.
New World is
not so much
Steaaaaaaam
Preferably Daredevil
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What pseudo-exiles book is this now?
sorry, I can't not yell that.
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I seem to remember Zeus telling Herc at the end of his series, that he could return to Olympus and be godly again, if he wanted to. But, Herc instead chose to hang out in Brooklyn a while longer, and explore his mortality.
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How do you organize your floppies?
My one short box has overflowed to the point of a foot-tall stack on the floor and I need to get another. But now I'm thinking - short or long? How should I organize going forward? My first thought is to go yearly. So I'd pick up another short box for what I have right now, then pick up a long box in September or so and sort out a shortbox for 2011, a long box for 2012, and a shortbox for incoming/to be read stuff beyond that. (When that second short fills up, grab a 2013 box and all that.)
The problem with that is that it works okay, but not great from an archival perspective - ie: it'd be harder to read complete runs. The other options are doing it alphabetically (okay, but causes an issue with the boundary of single boxes and adding in new issues down the road) or by publisher to a degree, which would be uneven in Marvel's favour in my case.
Any tips?
edit: I keep going back to my archiving training in order to try and fix this but alphabetizing new scheduled accessions that need to be kept in series with stuff from further back in the schedule pretty much laughs right at institutional archiving.
It's also why I'm cutting back because storage is never not going to be a pain in the ass
Unless we're talking digital
You still have that minor problem of pulling entire runs, but it works pretty cleanly to access, especially if you note where specific sets come from in big year-spanning runs.
they fit so well on the shelf
plus spines, so you can find what you want to read really easily!
Anything I don't have a full run of, I just keep in longboxes.
Acid-free sheet protectors can be used in lieu of comic-sized sleeves, and are cheaper. But, the comics sort of slide around in them, which bugs me.
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Nowadays I just try my best to at least keep arcs/events together, and even that's starting to slip.
Still, it's only a problem with the mini-series and annuals. And only because I'm feeling lazy.
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From my understanding, Action Comics 775 is the issue where the battle itself takes place, but which other ones should I pick up if I want a better understanding of the story? and in what order should I read them?
Joe Kelly spearheaded the Ending Battle story that goes like this
Superman 186
Adventures of 608
Man of Steel 130
Action 795
Superman 187
Adventures of 609
Man of Steel 131
Action 796
It's a very good follow up to Action #775, but if you wanted to you could just read Action Comics #796 alone to get another cool Superman is incorruptible moment.
And then you get JLA #100, and then the JLA Elite maxiseries.
Not aware of any such app, but why not upload the doc to Google Docs or put it in Dropbox?
Collectorz
I gave it a shot on my desktop years ago. It's ok I guess, but I just remember it being a lot more of a pain in the ass than I was looking for (trying to catalogue 2000k + comics tends to be a timesink).
I believe there's an IPhone app, I've never used it but it might be a good place to start looking.
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I recently purchased Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and, after showing it to my gaming group, they have basically flipped out and are firmly in when-are-we-playing-this-you're-going-to-run-a-game-right-now-don't-think-just-say-yes mode. I do indeed intend to run a game for them, but I need to beef up my comics knowledge first.
So to finally get to my question: What should I read to get up to snuff on the major events in the marvel multiverse? People say things like House of M, Civil War, and Planet Hulk and I have no idea what they're talking about. I actually did read the Schism miniseries, but without any context I didn't really know what any of it meant and I think my main questions were what happened to all the X-Men and why is Emma Frost not a villain anymore. Also, here's a list of characters that my group seems to identify with (not all of them are marvel characters):
Hulk
Captain America
Iron Man
Catwoman
Amethyst(?)
Starfire
Sentry
Wonder Woman
Martian Manhunter
Runaways(?)
SHIELD in general
X-Men in general
Avengers in general
If you have suggestions on good arcs or runs for those characters, I would really appreciate them.
TL;DR: Suggestions on important story arcs and events in Marvel, and general suggestions on good reads for the characters/groups listed above. Assume that I know very little, because I know very little.
Thanks!
I will be setting the campaign in an alternate timeline (Earth-### or whatever), but I want to have events and milestones that I can draw on that will be familiar to them, because they will enjoy that.
I also want to read comic books, so suggestions would be appreciated.
As far as Schism, what happened to the X-Men is that the Scarlet Witch went kind of crazy back in Disassembled, depowered a lot of mutants, and prevented any more mutant babies from being born. Emma Frost has actually been a good guy since the mid-90s. I haven't read any of those stories, though.
You've listed a lot of characters, and honestly most of them have quite a few good arcs you could read.
For Hulk, most people agree that you could jump on with Planet Hulk and World War Hulk, and if you want to read more, you can start Greg Pak's run with Son of Banner.
For Captain America, a good story to read would be Captain America: Man Out of Time, and you could follow that up with Ed Brubaker's Eisner-winning run, starting with The Winter Soldier.
For Iron Man, I'd recommend picking up the Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, vol. 1, which is the beginning of the Iron Man stories that Matt Fraction is still writing, and are pretty great.
For Catwoman, you're going to want to read Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke's recent Catwoman series, starting with Trail of the Catwoman.
For Runaways, just read Brian K. Vaughn's original Runaways series, starting with volume 1.
For SHIELD, I would definitely recommend reading Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors, and once you're done with that, follow it up with SHIELD.: Architects of Forever.
For the X-Men, read Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. It's a really fun short series.
For Avengers, read Kurt Busiek's run on the title, starting with Volume 1. It's good stuff.
I'm afraid I can't really help much with the other characters you've listed, though.