Kassius OhYes
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Post by Kassius OhYes on Jan 28, 2012 19:10:53 GMT -5
I've recently been buying many graphic novels (mostly Dc). I've been wanting to get into some Marvel stuff and I really like the premise of the Deadpool character, particularly from playing the Ultimate Alliance video games. Could I please get some help with my first Marvel purchase. Feel free to make suggestions. All replies appreciated
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Post by Chris Hammers on Jan 28, 2012 20:00:38 GMT -5
Deadpool is a featured character in Uncanny X-Force which is an awesome series still in its early issues. 18 I think. Vol 1 of the graphic novel is out and called "The Apocalypse Solution" and Vol 2 "Dark Angel" is coming out next month I believe.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Jan 30, 2012 19:23:02 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm wondering this too. I'm an avid DC fan and am interested in getting back into Marvel but I have no idea where to even begin. DC was easy since I'm only interested in Post-Crisis continuity, I started with Crisis on Infinite Earths and went from there, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with Marvel and the correct order in which to read their material. DC wasn't easy putting everything in chronological order, especially at first but I was finally able to do it. I'm completely lost when it comes to Marvel.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 7:52:21 GMT -5
Cable & Deadpool has been re-collected into three "ultimate" trades. This is an easy way to catch an entire run and to start off with Deadpool's best. If you enjoy these, Deadpool: Suicide Kings should be your next purchase. As far as the current run, I stopped getting the trades after volume 5 due to a few terrible arcs. Deadpool Team-Up is fun, but not a must read.
Cobra: The best way to deal with marvel is to pick a hero or team, and stick with it. If you're interested in just following the big events, here's the order: Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Siege
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Post by CM Poor on Feb 2, 2012 11:35:37 GMT -5
If you really want to jump on board with Marvel, I'd recommend starting with either House Of M, or the New Avengers (volume 1, from 2005). Either place would be a good starting point and really kind of sets the status quo for each subsequent event. If you really want to establish, grab the Avengers: Disassembled trade, and go from there. The Avengers are really central to most of what happens in the Marvel U, so it's a good backbone to work from.
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Post by T R W on Feb 2, 2012 13:22:39 GMT -5
Yeah the Avengers is a good place to start from. To me, Marvel is fairly easy to follow up until Civil War, where it becomes kind of a mess of crossovers. But starting with Avengers Disassembled is a good idea, or just with the first volume of new avengers. But you'll want to read House of M and all of the crossovers after that.
But for the most part, you can pick a hero (Cap, Iron Man) and just follow their stories. I'm a huge fan of Cap, and reading Brubakers run on Cap is amazing.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Feb 2, 2012 13:29:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm wondering this too. I'm an avid DC fan and am interested in getting back into Marvel but I have no idea where to even begin. DC was easy since I'm only interested in Post-Crisis continuity, I started with Crisis on Infinite Earths and went from there, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with Marvel and the correct order in which to read their material. DC wasn't easy putting everything in chronological order, especially at first but I was finally able to do it. I'm completely lost when it comes to Marvel. I'm the same way. I found a list of all the various Crises in the DCU and started reading through them. Working my way up to Final Crisis. Then I can start on the new 52. I keep making side notes and get distracted by individual series, but I know what's going on in the universe. I have no idea where to start with Marvel either. Civil War is awesome. I didn't have any clue who the vast majority of the characters were beyond the iconic ones, but I still enjoyed it. When DC has a crossover it tends to cross over every single book they publish. Marvel tends to have crossovers that only affect a handful of books. At least that's what it seems like to me. Makes it more confusing as the books that weren't in the crossover then refer to events that happened in the crossover.
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Post by T R W on Feb 2, 2012 13:39:58 GMT -5
Honestly, with Marvel you can mostly just read the main "event" books, and skip the crossover stuff. I would just fill in the details with the books of characters you like.
Secret War, Avengers: Disassembled, House of M, Planet Hulk, Civil War, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Seige, Doomwar
If you're into X-Men, there are several X-Men events as well you could catch up on.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Feb 2, 2012 18:00:13 GMT -5
Cable & Deadpool has been re-collected into three "ultimate" trades. This is an easy way to catch an entire run and to start off with Deadpool's best. If you enjoy these, Deadpool: Suicide Kings should be your next purchase. As far as the current run, I stopped getting the trades after volume 5 due to a few terrible arcs. Deadpool Team-Up is fun, but not a must read. Cobra: The best way to deal with marvel is to pick a hero or team, and stick with it. If you're interested in just following the big events, here's the order: Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Siege Well Spider-Man is my favorite hero and the X-Men are my favorite team so I guess I'll go with that. Thanks for the advice. Yeah, I'm wondering this too. I'm an avid DC fan and am interested in getting back into Marvel but I have no idea where to even begin. DC was easy since I'm only interested in Post-Crisis continuity, I started with Crisis on Infinite Earths and went from there, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with Marvel and the correct order in which to read their material. DC wasn't easy putting everything in chronological order, especially at first but I was finally able to do it. I'm completely lost when it comes to Marvel. I'm the same way. I found a list of all the various Crises in the DCU and started reading through them. Working my way up to Final Crisis. Then I can start on the new 52. I keep making side notes and get distracted by individual series, but I know what's going on in the universe. I have no idea where to start with Marvel either. Civil War is awesome. I didn't have any clue who the vast majority of the characters were beyond the iconic ones, but I still enjoyed it. When DC has a crossover it tends to cross over every single book they publish. Marvel tends to have crossovers that only affect a handful of books. At least that's what it seems like to me. Makes it more confusing as the books that weren't in the crossover then refer to events that happened in the crossover. I don't know if you care or not, but just so you know The Final Crisis isn't the last big event of the Post-Crisis Era. There's still the Blackest Night and Flashpoint which is the actual end it. Not sure if you just aren't interested in reading them or you assumed The Final Crisis was the last thing before the New 52 started but I thought I'd let you know either way. I would definitely at least read Blackest Night though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 21:35:34 GMT -5
Well Spider-Man is my favorite hero and the X-Men are my favorite team so I guess I'll go with that. Thanks for the advice. The current Amazing run starts with Brand New Day.
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Post by CM Poor on Feb 2, 2012 21:44:18 GMT -5
If you're an X fan, you're only doing yourself a disservice by not getting all three volumes of Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Feb 2, 2012 22:08:17 GMT -5
If you're an X fan, you're only doing yourself a disservice by not getting all three volumes of Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. I'll definitely look into that. I'm too into DC's Post-Crisis stories right now. I really don't want to start tackling Marvel's history just yet, but I did read X-Men: First Class on the side recently so I wouldn't mind reading those on the side either.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Feb 3, 2012 9:27:39 GMT -5
I don't know if you care or not, but just so you know The Final Crisis isn't the last big event of the Post-Crisis Era. There's still the Blackest Night and Flashpoint which is the actual end it. Not sure if you just aren't interested in reading them or you assumed The Final Crisis was the last thing before the New 52 started but I thought I'd let you know either way. I would definitely at least read Blackest Night though. Yeah, I started reading Countdown to Final Crisis with Final Crisis, Blackest Night and Brightest Day after that. Then I got distracted by the Matrix Supergirl character, the post-Crisis Wally West Flash when he really has no clue what he's doing and he's trying to take over for Barry and the post-Crisis Wonder Woman 'cuz I'm in to the Greek mythology.
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Post by T R W on Feb 3, 2012 9:34:26 GMT -5
Brightest Day is awful. Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night are awesome. But Brightest Day is barely readable. Unless you really just love Deadman or Hawkman.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Feb 3, 2012 10:38:55 GMT -5
I don't know if you care or not, but just so you know The Final Crisis isn't the last big event of the Post-Crisis Era. There's still the Blackest Night and Flashpoint which is the actual end it. Not sure if you just aren't interested in reading them or you assumed The Final Crisis was the last thing before the New 52 started but I thought I'd let you know either way. I would definitely at least read Blackest Night though. Yeah, I started reading Countdown to Final Crisis with Final Crisis, Blackest Night and Brightest Day after that. Then I got distracted by the Matrix Supergirl character, the post-Crisis Wally West Flash when he really has no clue what he's doing and he's trying to take over for Barry and the post-Crisis Wonder Woman 'cuz I'm in to the Greek mythology. Yeah, I have the first four volumes of Wonder Woman's Post-Crisis reboot as well as Superman Exile and They Saved Luthor's Brain which are both important stories pertaining to Matrix Supergirl. How was the Countdown to Final Crisis? I heard it wasn't that good and just made things more confusing and really didn't have much to do with the actual Final Crisis so I didn't bother with them. Also, I didn't think Brightest Day was that bad. I enjoyed reading them.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Feb 3, 2012 12:16:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I started reading Countdown to Final Crisis with Final Crisis, Blackest Night and Brightest Day after that. Then I got distracted by the Matrix Supergirl character, the post-Crisis Wally West Flash when he really has no clue what he's doing and he's trying to take over for Barry and the post-Crisis Wonder Woman 'cuz I'm in to the Greek mythology. Yeah, I have the first four volumes of Wonder Woman's Post-Crisis reboot as well as Superman Exile and They Saved Luthor's Brain which are both important stories pertaining to Matrix Supergirl. How was the Countdown to Final Crisis? I heard it wasn't that good and just made things more confusing and really didn't have much to do with the actual Final Crisis so I didn't bother with them. Also, I didn't think Brightest Day was that bad. I enjoyed reading them. I haven't got very far into it. I think I've read like 4-5 issues. I had forgotten about the Matrix Supergirl altogether. For some reason I've gotten hooked on the "badass women" genre which I don't know what that says about me. I picked up Manhunter as well as Birds of Prey and ate them alive. It'll be awhile before I get back to Countdown to Final Crisis again. I discovered ComicRack which I highly, highly recommend. You can create reading lists, it tracks everything you've read and if you've got an Android device you can sync your lists back and forth. It's very nice.
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Feb 5, 2012 0:17:12 GMT -5
Brightest Day is awful. Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night are awesome. But Brightest Day is barely readable. Unless you really just love Deadman or Hawkman. Thank God someone else agrees with me. Brightest Day was putrid.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 2:17:29 GMT -5
I know you like Deadpool but when reading Marvel it was during the Civil War arc. To this day it is still my favorite story. It branched me off into Spider-man, Captain America and most of all IronMan. I'd say begin there because it was kind of the start of the whole Marvel Universe being flipped upside down and going into Chaos. Plus you get a feel for every character.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Feb 7, 2012 9:27:40 GMT -5
Is Civil War really a good beginning though? I ask because it's such a recent storyline. I know if someone asked this question about DC I would tell them to start with Crisis on Infinite Earths. In my mind, all of DC spins off from there and that's a 15 year old storyline. I'm not knocking Civil War as I really, really enjoyed it and would recommend it, but there were parts of it I couldn't entirely follow as I had no clue who the characters were or what their backstory was. Is Civil War the Marvel equivalent of crisis?
You might also look at the ultimate universe. I enjoyed that a lot up until Ultimatum. I don't think I read any after that.
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Post by T R W on Feb 7, 2012 11:33:11 GMT -5
I think House of M is a better starting point than Civil War.
I mean, if you REALLY want to catch up, I'd tell you to start with Secret Wars and Infinity Gauntlet.
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