Okay so i'm pretty new to comics.,..
Anyone know of a good timeline (website or reference) of recent marvel stuff? I've just read Avengers Dissasembled and the complete Civil War as well as the death of Cap America. Good stuff
I'm just wondering if theres a website which deals with which order various series and specials go. I'm interested in finding out various things (no spoilers please):
*Why Iron Man made a suit for Spidey
*Where is the hulk
*Reed Richards investigations into clones
*Thunderbolts origins
*Dr Strange
*Xavier isn't head of mutant school? Who the hell is Emma Frost?
It's all a bit confusing for me as theres these long arcs which travel over several characters and series.
Basically are there any good starting points for this modern era?
The Avengers titles have been the spine of the Marvel U ever since Disassembled, so spooky's suggestion isn't bad. You also missed a major event between that and Civil War, which was the House of M.
To tackle your questions one at a time.
-Iron Spider Suit
The creation of the suit is covered in the Amazing Spider-Man issues of Civil War, although there's no real big mystery or anything. Pete and Tony became friends after he joined the Avengers so he made him a suit.
-The Hulk
To read about where the Hulk was during Civil War, you can pick up the "Planet Hulk" trade. (It's really good)
Thats followed up by "World War Hulk" which is not as good.
-Reed Richards
There's no specific issues dealing with that, he's just the smartest guy in the Marvel U and experiments with everything. If you're looking for reccomendations on Fantastic Four stories just say so I can do that.
-Thunderbolts
The original Thunderbolts team dates back to the 90s when most of the Marvel Universe heroes were thought to have been killed by Onslaught. So a bunch of villains took on heroic identities as part of an evil plan to win and then exploit public opinion..but most of them ended up actually enjoying being the good guys. So traditionally the T-bolts had been a team of former bad guys trying to redeem themselves. The current incarnation of the team though is much darker and is basically a pack of leashed dogs used to hunt down unregistered heroes - you saw how the start of that in Civil War.
The post Civil War Thunerbolts are a very very different thing from the pre-Civil War team.
-Dr. Strange
Not really a ton of Dr. Strange stuff out there, he shows up quite a bit in New Avengers, and there was also a really great miniseries about him called "The Oath." But to sum it up he's the most powerful sorcerer in the Marvel U.
-Xavier
That's... complicated. He's had numerous falling outs with the X-Men over the years. Emma Frost used to be an X-Men villain called The White Queen, she joined the team during Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run from the early 2000s.
The X-Men corner of the Marvel U is a whole seperate entanglement of stuff. If you are interested in getting into the X-books I could help but I'll save the effort unless you ask.
I've read through Sandman, Watchmen, Y- The Last Man, and am the middle of the Walking Dead. I really like graphic novels, and the longer serialized stories, and have done my research on the recommended ones, but I'm a little daunted on how to ease myself into the Marvel and DC Universe. I basically just want good stories dealing with the major superheroes in each universe.
Any thoughts?
I'm pretty much the same way. I like the DC and Marvel characters, but I don't care for canon or long complicated backstories, I just like good stories told with those characters.
Marvels, Kingdom Come, and the stories collected in The World's Greatest Superheroes are all Alex Ross art, and good no-strings-attached stories. The Punisher Max Hardcovers are all extremely good. All-Star Superman vols 1 and 2, Batman: Year One, Shazam! and the Monster Society of Evil are also all great.
The Ultimates 1 and 2.
I like all of the Loeb/Sale stuff, Batman: Long Halloween and Dark Victory, the Marvel color series: Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, and Hulk:Grey.
Superman: Birthright and Red Son are all pretty rad.
also, any of Paul Dini's Detective Comics
Daredevil: The Man with No Fear is excellent.
For X-Men you can go with Grant Morrison's New X-Men trades (the run's collected in three oversized paperbacks now) or Whedon's Astonishing (collected in two Hardcovers.)
None of the aforementioned really requires much background info on the characters at all.
The Avengers titles have been the spine of the Marvel U ever since Disassembled, so spooky's suggestion isn't bad. You also missed a major event between that and Civil War, which was the House of M.
To tackle your questions one at a time.
-Iron Spider Suit
The creation of the suit is covered in the Amazing Spider-Man issues of Civil War, although there's no real big mystery or anything. Pete and Tony became friends after he joined the Avengers so he made him a suit.
-The Hulk
To read about where the Hulk was during Civil War, you can pick up the "Planet Hulk" trade. (It's really good)
Thats followed up by "World War Hulk" which is not as good.
-Reed Richards
There's no specific issues dealing with that, he's just the smartest guy in the Marvel U and experiments with everything. If you're looking for reccomendations on Fantastic Four stories just say so I can do that.
-Thunderbolts
The original Thunderbolts team dates back to the 90s when most of the Marvel Universe heroes were thought to have been killed by Onslaught. So a bunch of villains took on heroic identities as part of an evil plan to win and then exploit public opinion..but most of them ended up actually enjoying being the good guys. So traditionally the T-bolts had been a team of former bad guys trying to redeem themselves. The current incarnation of the team though is much darker and is basically a pack of leashed dogs used to hunt down unregistered heroes - you saw how the start of that in Civil War.
The post Civil War Thunerbolts are a very very different thing from the pre-Civil War team.
-Dr. Strange
Not really a ton of Dr. Strange stuff out there, he shows up quite a bit in New Avengers, and there was also a really great miniseries about him called "The Oath." But to sum it up he's the most powerful sorcerer in the Marvel U.
-Xavier
That's... complicated. He's had numerous falling outs with the X-Men over the years. Emma Frost used to be an X-Men villain called The White Queen, she joined the team during Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run from the early 2000s.
The X-Men corner of the Marvel U is a whole seperate entanglement of stuff. If you are interested in getting into the X-books I could help but I'll save the effort unless you ask
.
I'll see if i can find the Hulk and House of M. I did wonder what all the 198 stuff was about. All i had was what i read in the synopsis. I'm not too fussed about FF but would like some recommendations into Xmen stories if possible.
I started reading really early Marvel comics (like the first stuff) and am just amazed how they did crossovers that early on. Stuff like X-men VS Avengers, FF meeting Spiderman and stuff like that. Cheesy 1960's stories but fun to read anyway.
The Avengers titles have been the spine of the Marvel U ever since Disassembled, so spooky's suggestion isn't bad. You also missed a major event between that and Civil War, which was the House of M.
To tackle your questions one at a time.
-Iron Spider Suit
The creation of the suit is covered in the Amazing Spider-Man issues of Civil War, although there's no real big mystery or anything. Pete and Tony became friends after he joined the Avengers so he made him a suit.
-The Hulk
To read about where the Hulk was during Civil War, you can pick up the "Planet Hulk" trade. (It's really good)
Thats followed up by "World War Hulk" which is not as good.
-Reed Richards
There's no specific issues dealing with that, he's just the smartest guy in the Marvel U and experiments with everything. If you're looking for reccomendations on Fantastic Four stories just say so I can do that.
-Thunderbolts
The original Thunderbolts team dates back to the 90s when most of the Marvel Universe heroes were thought to have been killed by Onslaught. So a bunch of villains took on heroic identities as part of an evil plan to win and then exploit public opinion..but most of them ended up actually enjoying being the good guys. So traditionally the T-bolts had been a team of former bad guys trying to redeem themselves. The current incarnation of the team though is much darker and is basically a pack of leashed dogs used to hunt down unregistered heroes - you saw how the start of that in Civil War.
The post Civil War Thunerbolts are a very very different thing from the pre-Civil War team.
-Dr. Strange
Not really a ton of Dr. Strange stuff out there, he shows up quite a bit in New Avengers, and there was also a really great miniseries about him called "The Oath." But to sum it up he's the most powerful sorcerer in the Marvel U.
-Xavier
That's... complicated. He's had numerous falling outs with the X-Men over the years. Emma Frost used to be an X-Men villain called The White Queen, she joined the team during Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run from the early 2000s.
The X-Men corner of the Marvel U is a whole seperate entanglement of stuff. If you are interested in getting into the X-books I could help but I'll save the effort unless you ask
.
I'll see if i can find the Hulk and House of M. I did wonder what all the 198 stuff was about. All i had was what i read in the synopsis. I'm not too fussed about FF but would like some recommendations into Xmen stories if possible.
I started reading really early Marvel comics (like the first stuff) and am just amazed how they did crossovers that early on. Stuff like X-men VS Avengers, FF meeting Spiderman and stuff like that. Cheesy 1960's stories but fun to read anyway.
The first 2 volumes take place before House of M, 3 and 4 take place after to help with your timeline.
Also spinning out of House of M was the X-Men: Deadly Genesis miniseries. This story was actually not all that great, and it relies heavily on knowledge of a really old X-Men story. I wouldnt really reccomend it, but when you get to this point you should probably check out the wiki since it is one of the main reasons Xavier and most of the X-Men stopped getting along.
After that things get a little trickier, the thing about X-Men is there are so many characters and books that it can be really daunting. For example, the team featured in the Astonishing series I mentioned above consists of: Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Colossus, and Lockheed.
After House of M the two main X-Men titles each kind of did thier own thing for a year. Uncanny X-Men had the Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire arc which is the continuation of the Deadly Genesis story. (It's better though) Xavier leads a team of X-Men (Havok, Polaris, Rachel Summers, Nightcrawler) into space to deal with the fallout of that story. However I'll be the first to admit my enjoyment of this story is not without bias since I'm a huge fan of the "X-Men in space" stories from the 80s which this draws heavily from. If you have no idea who the Starjammers or Deathbird or Gladiator or Lilandra are and have never heard of an M'kran Crystal this might not be for you.
The other X-Men title featured the earthbound adventures of yet a 3rd X-Men team. (Rogue, Mystique, Cannonball, Cable, Lady Mastermind, Sentinel X, Iceman and Sabretooth). That's collected in X-Men: Supernovas.
And after all that came Messiah Complex which was a big old fashioned crossover designed to set up a brand new status quo for all the X-books.
Nothing on Manifest Destiny? That has the greatest bearing on the current state of the X-Men in my opinion.
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When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
Well from his original post it seems he's still back in Civil War era Marvel is working his way forward from there.
Manifest Destiny is a whole nother post on its own and I think what I did mention was intimidating enough.
Good point. Sorry I doubted you.
I will say though, I enjoyed Manifest Destiny. It felt more lighthearted then X-Men has felt in a long, long time.
Folken, I'd say Manifest Destiny is required reading. It explains the X-Men's move to San Francisco in an effort to take a subtle comparison and make it blindingly obvious. I also enjoy the new X-Force, although it's pretty dark. If you liked what came out of Messiah Complex, you can continue it with Cable.
Sentry on
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
wrote:
When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
Well from his original post it seems he's still back in Civil War era Marvel is working his way forward from there.
Manifest Destiny is a whole nother post on its own and I think what I did mention was intimidating enough.
I'd love to hear it though!
Thus far I've read the trades for:
- all of Whedon's astonishing
- house of M
- Civil War
- Endangered Species
- Messiah Complex
What else would you recommend from the x-men universe that could be considered required reading?
After Messiah Complex they pretty much revamped the entire X-Men line.
Uncanny X-Men became the spine of the X-Men universe again, thats the book you want for major overarching storylines and a huge rotating cast of characters.
X-Men turned into X-Men: Legacy which for the first year was kind of an Xavier solo book but has since again turned into something else.
They also launched a new X-Force series featuring the team that was put together in Messiah Complex.
In my opinion it's a pretty good time to be an X-Men fan, because Greg Land aside this is the best the franchise has been since the early Claremont days.
Well, this isn't a "what should I read" thing, but it is a New To Comics thing:
Pull Lists. What are they? There's this website - www.mypulllist.com - but I've learned that its dates are slightly off. Is there something at the store (I go to a GC comics shop nearby) that is used, and they alert me to when stuff is coming out?
I like that Atrocitus genuinely wants to help save the universe...In the angriest manner possible.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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Pull lists are the lists of comics you ask your local comic shop to reserve for you. If you go to a shop and ask to start a box or pull list, they will usually give you a book called Previews, which is the official catalog for comics by Diamond Comics Distributors. You mark off what you want, like Iron Man or Fables or X-Men, and they will order a copy for you. This guarantees your copy of it, and it helps the comic store more accurately order issues so they have less overstocks.
Usually you can get at least a 10% discount off the cover price by opening a pull list at your shop. And as time goes on you can ask them to add or remove certain books.
I like that Atrocitus genuinely wants to help save the universe...In the angriest manner possible.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited July 2009
Not really.
The thing with variants is that you have to order a certain quantity to get them. Some variants are on a 1 for 50 or even 1 for 100 variant scale, where they are simply for those obsessive collectors. That's why shops sell them for big prices.
So I've been wanting to read Punisher for a while now, ever since I found out about the MAX series. But I fucking hate cheap-ass trade paperbacks, so I thought I'd wait until a bigger collection arrived.
I then discovered this motherfucker. I know it isn't MAX, and is expensive as shit, but, man, 1100 goddamn pages of Punisher.
Is this run any good? It doesn't tie into MAX, does it?
Cherrn on
All creature will die and all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai.
OK i've read through most of the initiative stuff, opened up the next issue #20 and it talk about
Wasp's death
Which i totally missed, is this in the Mighty Avengers or Iron Man?
Also...
Im confused about Iron Man, i know that v5 was launched after the movie as a kind of relaunch but then later picks up the whole Dark Reign thing, which issue do they stop the standalone stuff or is it all merged in the existing storyline.
Im trying to pick up Dark Reign after the Initiative and finding it hard to track issues inbetween. This is what i get for getting into comics at a late stage :P
Ah thanks, its hard to keep track with all this to be honest. I know now that Dark Reign comes after Secret Invasion. Something i would have missed if this whole skrull thing didn't pop up whilst i was reading the Initiative.
OK i've read through most of the initiative stuff, opened up the next issue #20 and it talk about
Wasp's death
Which i totally missed, is this in the Mighty Avengers or Iron Man?
Also...
Im confused about Iron Man, i know that v5 was launched after the movie as a kind of relaunch but then later picks up the whole Dark Reign thing, which issue do they stop the standalone stuff or is it all merged in the existing storyline.
Im trying to pick up Dark Reign after the Initiative and finding it hard to track issues inbetween. This is what i get for getting into comics at a late stage :P
The Iron Man Dark Reign stuff starts at issue 8. Issue 7 was a standalone story, while issues 1-6 were a six part story.
OK i've read through most of the initiative stuff, opened up the next issue #20 and it talk about
Wasp's death
Which i totally missed, is this in the Mighty Avengers or Iron Man?
Also...
Im confused about Iron Man, i know that v5 was launched after the movie as a kind of relaunch but then later picks up the whole Dark Reign thing, which issue do they stop the standalone stuff or is it all merged in the existing storyline.
Im trying to pick up Dark Reign after the Initiative and finding it hard to track issues inbetween. This is what i get for getting into comics at a late stage :P
The Iron Man Dark Reign stuff starts at issue 8. Issue 7 was a standalone story, while issues 1-6 were a six part story.
Ah thanks, is this Invisible Iron Man or Director of Shield, it's so confusing. I wish they just had some sort of moving timeline i could look at and pick out the issues im reading next. Instead of running through say "New Avengers" and finding out about the Hulk, Wasp and that without the substance.
I just finished Final Crisis and holy hell was it a confusing story. The part where Superman makes a trip to Limbo and the beyond the Multiverses just made me wonder if I had taken drugs before reading this book. Had to re-read three times that whole "Superman Beyond" section to clearly understand it... and I'm still missing a lot of things.
I think I'll need to go through a second reading of that one, because there's part I did not understand at all. At least Wikipedia clarified a few things, such as Dark Boss Side at the beginning being Darkseid. But still... confusing story.
Is there books tied to Final Crisis that I could read that would helped make it less confusing? I heard Seven Soldiers helped for the whole "New Gods in human bodies" aspect, but other than that?
My wife insisted that we rent the X-Men cartoon DVD set out of freakin' nowhere this week, and now she's lamenting that she didn't get into (American) comics when she was a teen. Are there any good Rogue-centric books out there?
OK i've read through most of the initiative stuff, opened up the next issue #20 and it talk about
Wasp's death
Which i totally missed, is this in the Mighty Avengers or Iron Man?
Also...
Im confused about Iron Man, i know that v5 was launched after the movie as a kind of relaunch but then later picks up the whole Dark Reign thing, which issue do they stop the standalone stuff or is it all merged in the existing storyline.
Im trying to pick up Dark Reign after the Initiative and finding it hard to track issues inbetween. This is what i get for getting into comics at a late stage :P
The Iron Man Dark Reign stuff starts at issue 8. Issue 7 was a standalone story, while issues 1-6 were a six part story.
Ah thanks, is this Invisible Iron Man or Director of Shield, it's so confusing. I wish they just had some sort of moving timeline i could look at and pick out the issues im reading next. Instead of running through say "New Avengers" and finding out about the Hulk, Wasp and that without the substance.
Invincible Iron Man, the Director of Shield book ended after Secret Invasion.
My wife insisted that we rent the X-Men cartoon DVD set out of freakin' nowhere this week, and now she's lamenting that she didn't get into (American) comics when she was a teen. Are there any good Rogue-centric books out there?
I can't think of any, but it's worth pointing out that she was a pretty important character in the X-Men Evolution cartoon as well.
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Hmm.. yeah, I might pick up the first trade tomorrow and catch up. Thanks!
Anyone know of a good timeline (website or reference) of recent marvel stuff? I've just read Avengers Dissasembled and the complete Civil War as well as the death of Cap America. Good stuff
I'm just wondering if theres a website which deals with which order various series and specials go. I'm interested in finding out various things (no spoilers please):
*Where is the hulk
*Reed Richards investigations into clones
*Thunderbolts origins
*Dr Strange
*Xavier isn't head of mutant school? Who the hell is Emma Frost?
It's all a bit confusing for me as theres these long arcs which travel over several characters and series.
Basically are there any good starting points for this modern era?
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
To tackle your questions one at a time.
-Iron Spider Suit
The creation of the suit is covered in the Amazing Spider-Man issues of Civil War, although there's no real big mystery or anything. Pete and Tony became friends after he joined the Avengers so he made him a suit.
-The Hulk
To read about where the Hulk was during Civil War, you can pick up the "Planet Hulk" trade. (It's really good)
Thats followed up by "World War Hulk" which is not as good.
-Reed Richards
There's no specific issues dealing with that, he's just the smartest guy in the Marvel U and experiments with everything. If you're looking for reccomendations on Fantastic Four stories just say so I can do that.
-Thunderbolts
The original Thunderbolts team dates back to the 90s when most of the Marvel Universe heroes were thought to have been killed by Onslaught. So a bunch of villains took on heroic identities as part of an evil plan to win and then exploit public opinion..but most of them ended up actually enjoying being the good guys. So traditionally the T-bolts had been a team of former bad guys trying to redeem themselves. The current incarnation of the team though is much darker and is basically a pack of leashed dogs used to hunt down unregistered heroes - you saw how the start of that in Civil War.
The post Civil War Thunerbolts are a very very different thing from the pre-Civil War team.
-Dr. Strange
Not really a ton of Dr. Strange stuff out there, he shows up quite a bit in New Avengers, and there was also a really great miniseries about him called "The Oath." But to sum it up he's the most powerful sorcerer in the Marvel U.
-Xavier
That's... complicated. He's had numerous falling outs with the X-Men over the years. Emma Frost used to be an X-Men villain called The White Queen, she joined the team during Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run from the early 2000s.
The X-Men corner of the Marvel U is a whole seperate entanglement of stuff. If you are interested in getting into the X-books I could help but I'll save the effort unless you ask.
Any thoughts?
Marvels, Kingdom Come, and the stories collected in The World's Greatest Superheroes are all Alex Ross art, and good no-strings-attached stories. The Punisher Max Hardcovers are all extremely good. All-Star Superman vols 1 and 2, Batman: Year One, Shazam! and the Monster Society of Evil are also all great.
The Ultimates 1 and 2.
I like all of the Loeb/Sale stuff, Batman: Long Halloween and Dark Victory, the Marvel color series: Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, and Hulk:Grey.
Superman: Birthright and Red Son are all pretty rad.
also, any of Paul Dini's Detective Comics
Daredevil: The Man with No Fear is excellent.
For X-Men you can go with Grant Morrison's New X-Men trades (the run's collected in three oversized paperbacks now) or Whedon's Astonishing (collected in two Hardcovers.)
None of the aforementioned really requires much background info on the characters at all.
I'll see if i can find the Hulk and House of M. I did wonder what all the 198 stuff was about. All i had was what i read in the synopsis. I'm not too fussed about FF but would like some recommendations into Xmen stories if possible.
I started reading really early Marvel comics (like the first stuff) and am just amazed how they did crossovers that early on. Stuff like X-men VS Avengers, FF meeting Spiderman and stuff like that. Cheesy 1960's stories but fun to read anyway.
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
A good place to start with X-Men is Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. It's collected in 4 trade paperbacks.
Volume 1: Gifted
Volume 2: Dangerous
Volume 3: Torn
Volume 4: Unstoppable
The first 2 volumes take place before House of M, 3 and 4 take place after to help with your timeline.
Also spinning out of House of M was the X-Men: Deadly Genesis miniseries. This story was actually not all that great, and it relies heavily on knowledge of a really old X-Men story. I wouldnt really reccomend it, but when you get to this point you should probably check out the wiki since it is one of the main reasons Xavier and most of the X-Men stopped getting along.
After that things get a little trickier, the thing about X-Men is there are so many characters and books that it can be really daunting. For example, the team featured in the Astonishing series I mentioned above consists of: Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Colossus, and Lockheed.
After House of M the two main X-Men titles each kind of did thier own thing for a year. Uncanny X-Men had the
Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire arc which is the continuation of the Deadly Genesis story. (It's better though) Xavier leads a team of X-Men (Havok, Polaris, Rachel Summers, Nightcrawler) into space to deal with the fallout of that story. However I'll be the first to admit my enjoyment of this story is not without bias since I'm a huge fan of the "X-Men in space" stories from the 80s which this draws heavily from. If you have no idea who the Starjammers or Deathbird or Gladiator or Lilandra are and have never heard of an M'kran Crystal this might not be for you.
The other X-Men title featured the earthbound adventures of yet a 3rd X-Men team. (Rogue, Mystique, Cannonball, Cable, Lady Mastermind, Sentinel X, Iceman and Sabretooth). That's collected in X-Men: Supernovas.
And after all that came Messiah Complex which was a big old fashioned crossover designed to set up a brand new status quo for all the X-books.
Manifest Destiny is a whole nother post on its own and I think what I did mention was intimidating enough.
I'd love to hear it though!
Thus far I've read the trades for:
- all of Whedon's astonishing
- house of M
- Civil War
- Endangered Species
- Messiah Complex
What else would you recommend from the x-men universe that could be considered required reading?
Good point. Sorry I doubted you.
I will say though, I enjoyed Manifest Destiny. It felt more lighthearted then X-Men has felt in a long, long time.
Folken, I'd say Manifest Destiny is required reading. It explains the X-Men's move to San Francisco in an effort to take a subtle comparison and make it blindingly obvious. I also enjoy the new X-Force, although it's pretty dark. If you liked what came out of Messiah Complex, you can continue it with Cable.
After Messiah Complex they pretty much revamped the entire X-Men line.
Uncanny X-Men became the spine of the X-Men universe again, thats the book you want for major overarching storylines and a huge rotating cast of characters.
X-Men turned into X-Men: Legacy which for the first year was kind of an Xavier solo book but has since again turned into something else.
They also launched a new X-Force series featuring the team that was put together in Messiah Complex.
In my opinion it's a pretty good time to be an X-Men fan, because Greg Land aside this is the best the franchise has been since the early Claremont days.
Pull Lists. What are they? There's this website - www.mypulllist.com - but I've learned that its dates are slightly off. Is there something at the store (I go to a GC comics shop nearby) that is used, and they alert me to when stuff is coming out?
Usually you can get at least a 10% discount off the cover price by opening a pull list at your shop. And as time goes on you can ask them to add or remove certain books.
Now, another one: If my local store charged 20 bucks for a Tales Of The Corp variant cover, are they trying to screw me?
The thing with variants is that you have to order a certain quantity to get them. Some variants are on a 1 for 50 or even 1 for 100 variant scale, where they are simply for those obsessive collectors. That's why shops sell them for big prices.
I then discovered this motherfucker. I know it isn't MAX, and is expensive as shit, but, man, 1100 goddamn pages of Punisher.
Is this run any good? It doesn't tie into MAX, does it?
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Which i totally missed, is this in the Mighty Avengers or Iron Man?
Also...
Im confused about Iron Man, i know that v5 was launched after the movie as a kind of relaunch but then later picks up the whole Dark Reign thing, which issue do they stop the standalone stuff or is it all merged in the existing storyline.
Im trying to pick up Dark Reign after the Initiative and finding it hard to track issues inbetween. This is what i get for getting into comics at a late stage :P
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
yeh but what series? Mighty Avengers, Order, New Warriors, Thunderbolts, New Avengers?
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
just explain to me the reason for the side switching and how the Red douche survived.
and who was the guy at teh end of issue 5, I lost track of the nomads and can barely tell them apart.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
The Iron Man Dark Reign stuff starts at issue 8. Issue 7 was a standalone story, while issues 1-6 were a six part story.
Ah thanks, is this Invisible Iron Man or Director of Shield, it's so confusing. I wish they just had some sort of moving timeline i could look at and pick out the issues im reading next. Instead of running through say "New Avengers" and finding out about the Hulk, Wasp and that without the substance.
I think I'll need to go through a second reading of that one, because there's part I did not understand at all. At least Wikipedia clarified a few things, such as Dark Boss Side at the beginning being Darkseid. But still... confusing story.
Is there books tied to Final Crisis that I could read that would helped make it less confusing? I heard Seven Soldiers helped for the whole "New Gods in human bodies" aspect, but other than that?
Invincible Iron Man, the Director of Shield book ended after Secret Invasion.
I can't think of any, but it's worth pointing out that she was a pretty important character in the X-Men Evolution cartoon as well.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation