Marvel Recommendations Megathread

[Phelpzy]

Need some advices here please. I have never read anything concerning the Runaways and well, long story short : what's worth reading ? Is that in your opinion any good ?

Thanks in advance.

All of it! Great series, but if you want a place to start that's good it's the begining by Vaughn, the title kida declines after he leaves

[Castel]

Thanks for your answer, i will try all that then. It really sounds interesting.

[Beacon]

Need some advices here please. I have never read anything concerning the Runaways and well, long story short : what's worth reading ? Is that in your opinion any good ?

Thanks in advance.

BKV’s original stint on Runaways is the best thing to come out of the Joe Q era of Marvel.

Joss Whedon’s six-issue stint is pretty solid too.

The crossover minis with the Young Avengers were disappointing but still decent enough.

Everything after that was garbage.

[BigT]

So I buy my comics digitally and they have Gambit Vol.4 and Rouge Vol.3 on sale for $0.99 an issue. Are they worth picking up? I've never read an X-Men comic because I just started reading comics earlier this month and have been waiting for a sale. Here they are http://www.comixology.com/Marvel-Mon...-collection/23

Also Exiles Vol.1 is on sale any idea how that is?

[Beacon]

So I buy my comics digitally and they have Gambit Vol.4 and Rouge Vol.3 on sale for $0.99 an issue. Are they worth picking up? I've never read an X-Men comic because I just started reading comics earlier this month and have been waiting for a sale. Here they are http://www.comixology.com/Marvel-Mon...-collection/23

Haven’t read either but Gambit was written by the guy who wrote Chew so that’s a plus. The guy who wrote Rogue tends to be all over the place quality-wise.

Also Exiles Vol.1 is on sale any idea how that is?

BUY IT NOW!

Exiles was the X-Book I bought when I wasn’t buying any other X-books. The entire series* is well worth reading.

*Except for the Chuck Austen and Chris Claremont runs and you can mostly ignore those.

[BigT]

Haven’t read either but Gambit was written by the guy who wrote Chew so that’s a plus. The guy who wrote Rogue tends to be all over the place quality-wise.



BUY IT NOW!

Exiles was the X-Book I bought when I wasn’t buying any other X-books. The entire series* is well worth reading.

*Except for the Chuck Austen and Chris Claremont runs and you can mostly ignore those.

I decided to try out the #1 of each and it's funny cause I thought I would like the Gambit or Rouge ones cause I've heard of them. Turns out I like Exiles is the best, I'm going to pick up the issues on sale and continue from there.

[Beacon]

I decided to try out the #1 of each and it's funny cause I thought I would like the Gambit or Rouge ones cause I've heard of them. Turns out I like Exiles is the best, I'm going to pick up the issues on sale and continue from there.

You might think about reading them of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited considering that the series ran for a hundred issues even when you don’t count the various minis, annuals, one-shots, and sequels. That adds up pretty fast even when dealing with a series that mostly manages to avoid crossover tie-ins. You could also save money by skipping issues #26-30 (not particularly good or necessary and 28-30 are more about filling in gaps in Austen’s Uncanny X-Men run than the Exiles) and EVERYTHING* between issue #89 of volume one and the first issue of the short-lived but awesome volume two.

*Volume #90-100, the Die by the Sword mini, and ALL of New Exiles aren’t exactly Claremont’s best work and Jeff Parker starts volume two with a (mostly) different team anyway.

Also, I haven’t read it yet but I understand that Greg Pak’s current run X-Treme X-Men volume two (which doesn’t have anything to do with XXM vol one) deals with a lot of the same stuff Exiles did (a bunch of alternate reality X-Men lost in the multiverse).

[BigT]

You might think about reading them of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited considering that the series ran for a hundred issues even when you don’t count the various minis, annuals, one-shots, and sequels. That adds up pretty fast even when dealing with a series that mostly manages to avoid crossover tie-ins. You could also save money by skipping issues #26-30 (not particularly good or necessary and 28-30 are more about filling in gaps in Austen’s Uncanny X-Men run than the Exiles) and EVERYTHING* between issue #89 of volume one and the first issue of the short-lived but awesome volume two.

*Volume #90-100, the Die by the Sword mini, and ALL of New Exiles aren’t exactly Claremont’s best work and Jeff Parker starts volume two with a (mostly) different team anyway.

Also, I haven’t read it yet but I understand that Greg Pak’s current run X-Treme X-Men volume two (which doesn’t have anything to do with XXM vol one) deals with a lot of the same stuff Exiles did (a bunch of alternate reality X-Men lost in the multiverse).

So for Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited are you able to view all of Marvel's digital comics or is it limited to only older comics? Basically is everything purchasable off of comixology also viewable using unlimited?

[Beacon]

Marvel DCU has a lot of flaws.

The comic viewer is flash-based (so it won’t work with iOS devices) and only works online.

You’re stuck with what they give you (though really that’s true for Comixology too).

Most of the comics available are between twelve and two years old. They’re getting better about adding old comics but you aren’t likely to see anything recent unless it’s the first part of a series, creative team, or story that they’re pushing.

There are a LOT of gaps. Sometimes it’s understandable; I get only having the first two thirds of the main Spider-Island story as a teaser to get people to buy the print collection. Sometimes it isn’t; when I first got into it I tried to read Priest’s Black Panther run but there were a couple issues missing even though Marvel has no interest in collecting those stories.

However it’s a LOT cheaper than Comixolgy if you just want to read a lot of comics and don’t care how current it is.

PS: Here’s a (somewhat outdated) list of complete MDCU series …
http://marvel.com/news/story/12586/r...ted_series_now

Note that most of those are minis. Also the list wasn’t 100% accurate even then and they add, delete, and re-add comics on a pretty regular basis.

[frank castle129]

I'm reading Civil War and want to know what to read after to catch up to AVX. I would like to finish Avengers Vs X-Men before the Marvel Now series come out. I just want read the issues that give the main story leading up to AVX because I don't have time to read every tie in. Thanks for any help.

[Global Honored]

I'm reading Civil War and want to know what to read after to catch up to AVX. I would like to finish Avengers Vs X-Men before the Marvel Now series come out. I just want read the issues that give the main story leading up to AVX because I don't have time to read every tie in. Thanks for any help.

You can get by with just purchasing the main AvX series. That is where the meat of the story is. There have been 9 issues thus far.

[ddub65]

I've been pretty interested in Deadpool for a while now but haven't read much of anything with him in it. Can anyone reccomend some good Deadpool runs? I've heard the current series isn't very good, can anyone shed any light on it for me? Thanks!

[nsiops]

Just read the Thunderbolts Ultimate Collection by Ellis. I really loved it. Are there any other Thunderbolts collections that someone could recommend?

Also I am a fan of Taskmaster and Norman Osborn. I've read the Taskmaster mini by Van Lente and all of the Dark Avengers stuff with Osborn. So can someone recommend some more books featuring these characters.

Thanks

[HectorP]

Just read the Thunderbolts Ultimate Collection by Ellis. I really loved it. Are there any other Thunderbolts collections that someone could recommend?

Also I am a fan of Taskmaster and Norman Osborn. I've read the Taskmaster mini by Van Lente and all of the Dark Avengers stuff with Osborn. So can someone recommend some more books featuring these characters.

Thanks

I don't know if you've read the original Thunderbolts by Busiek, but they're mandatory if you haven't and enjoyed Ellis. They're even out in the same format if I recall correctly.

[Beacon]

I've been pretty interested in Deadpool for a while now but haven't read much of anything with him in it. Can anyone reccomend some good Deadpool runs? I've heard the current series isn't very good, can anyone shed any light on it for me? Thanks!

Joe Kelly’s run (Collected in Deadpool Classic v2-5, also he has one story in volume one but the rest isn’t all that great)

Gail Simone’s run (sadly Deadpool #65-69 and Agent X #1-7, 13-15 have yet to be collected)

Fabian Nicieza’s Cable & Deadpool (Collected as Deadpool & Cable Ultimate Collection v1-3)

Also the Hulkpool stories Jeff Parker wrote in World War Hulks: Hulked out Heroes #1-2 were pretty fun.

Just read the Thunderbolts Ultimate Collection by Ellis. I really loved it. Are there any other Thunderbolts collections that someone could recommend?

Also I am a fan of Taskmaster and Norman Osborn. I've read the Taskmaster mini by Van Lente and all of the Dark Avengers stuff with Osborn. So can someone recommend some more books featuring these characters.

Thanks

The problem with recommending Thunderbolts based on the Ellis Thunderbolts is that it was too different from what came before it (which I liked better anyway) and a lot of what came after it just tried to copy it without adding anything. Thunderbolts didn’t really recover from Ellis until Jeff Parker came along and merged elements from various runs into a series that works.

If you liked the characters in the Ellis Thunderbolts you should look into Bendis’ Dark Avengers and the Secret Invasion and Siege minis. Also check out any Marvel comic with the “Dark Reign” banner since it’s the same basic concept on a much larger scale.

You could also read Ellis’s Nextwave. It’s a completely different kind of comic though.

Agents of Atlas is basically Thunderbolts in reverse. It’s about a bunch of heroes pretending to be villains. Also it’s one of the better recent Marvel books.

And if you like Van Lente’s Marvel villain comics then you owe it to yourself to check out Super Villain Team-Up: MODOK’s 11.

While we’re on the subject of good villain comics, you should give the Hood a look. I wasn’t nuts about what Bendis did with him in his Avengers comics but his introduction in BKV’s original Hood mini (under the MAX imprint) was a great look at a streetlevel super villain. The second Hood mini (by Jeff Parker under the Dark Reign banner) did a good job explaining how the BKV Hood and the Bendis Hood could be the same person…though I still don’t care for the Bendis take.