[Marvel] Civil War guidance requested
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After almost a decade off, I have leapt with reckless abandon back into comics. My helpful local comic book store employee got me started off with House of M, and then I went ahead into Civil War.
I've seen the checklist that Marvel has, and have read most of what I thought I would like off of that. It's been pretty easy picking up the TPB's, but no I am a bit lost as to where to go next. So far I've read Civil War, Civil War: Spider Man, and Civil War: Fantastic Four.
I've really gotten into Iron Man and Captain America (both of which I did not like so much before this). I'm going to pick up Civil War: Frontline next, but after that, what?
I know that World War Hulk is just about to wrap up (borrowed a friends copy of Planet Hulk - pretty cool), but what about inbetween Civil War and now? When does 'Cap bite the big one?
HALP!
I've seen the checklist that Marvel has, and have read most of what I thought I would like off of that. It's been pretty easy picking up the TPB's, but no I am a bit lost as to where to go next. So far I've read Civil War, Civil War: Spider Man, and Civil War: Fantastic Four.
I've really gotten into Iron Man and Captain America (both of which I did not like so much before this). I'm going to pick up Civil War: Frontline next, but after that, what?
I know that World War Hulk is just about to wrap up (borrowed a friends copy of Planet Hulk - pretty cool), but what about inbetween Civil War and now? When does 'Cap bite the big one?
HALP!
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oh, also do not purchase Civil War: Heroes for Hire, it is painfully bad.
The X-Men Civil War stuff is avoidable as well. They weren't bad but nothing really happened.
Frontlines kind of sucked...I think I liked volume 1 but volume 2 was not so hot.
As for what to read from there, it depends a lot on what bits of CW you liked. The Avengers were at the heart of that conflict and therefore you probably are more interested in them, so I'd check out New Avengers and Mighty Avengers, as well as Cap and Iron Man. The Heroes for Hire arc between CW and WWH was a good segue between the two and connected them fairly well. Punisher War Journal had an arc that sorta had to do with the death of Cap. There's also New Warriors, which spun out of the war.
Honestly, there's a lot and it's really dependent on which part of the Marvel Universe caught your eye during the crossover.
doom the fuck tree
Matter of fact, ignore most of the regular Marvel Universe right now and embrace the Ultimate Universe.
If you don't feel like it however, pick up Planet Hulk, Rise of Fall of the Empire (Uncanny X-Men), Runaways, Nextwave, um...my mind is hurting, I can't think of anything.
As for the Ultimates, I loves em! I had already picke up Ultimates 1&2, now I'll be getting the TPB's for the "teams".
These tie in but are all varying degrees of terrible.
The Punisher wasn't bad if you pretend the Punisher in it is not Frank Castle.
Thunderbolts might have been better if I'd known more about the characters or the dialog wasn't so needlessly long. And I LIKE dialog in my comics.
Heroes for Hire is just terrible in every way possible. It was painfully bad. It is one of maybe two comics in history I've almost stopped reading. I probably would have stopped, too, if it wasn't part of CW. It did have a few good moments but they all revolved around the bug guy.
I disagree with you with respect to Heroes for Hire. I thought it was a strong intro for the series and it actually showed a pro-reg team that was as not full of assholes, not turning on their anti-reg friends, and actually going after bad guys instead of unregistered heroes. It was also a good continuation from the Daughters of the Dragon miniseries.
No way!
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that wwtMask is recommending Black Panther in this forum.
Anyway, Cap is assassinated in Captain America #25, which will be in the next Cap TPB (shockingly enough titled The Death of Captain America) to be released next month, as well as the Captain America by Ed Brubaker Omnibus, which collects #1-25, and is chock full of patriotic goodness.
:roll:
Those issues of BP were pretty damn good. Only downside was the penciling musical chairs they were doing. They must've had three different guys for that arc.
Hey, I won't if they won't. Note that I didn't start anything.
Do get Civil War: Iron Man. It contains both the Confession and the story where Iron Man and Captain America meet in the rubble of the mansion and debate over the echo of their first face to face meeting with each other, I believe, and it goes a long way to legitimizing to Pro-Reg side (something that needed to be done, in my opinion, for the sake of the story).
I've read up to four, and I wouldn't mind knowing how long it's going on for(I imagine a long time).
Excuse the fuck out of me.
I was just waiting for my winnings.
Oh shit, I've been found out!