A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
The complete Marvel Ultimate Universe reading order is now live on Comic Book Herald. It’s a great starting place for new Marvel comics fans, and my guide will cover you from launch in 2000 through present day.
Happy new year everybody! Enjoy the Ultimate Universe!
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Since 2013, I’ve been putting together mid-year and start-of-the-year guides to the best ongoing comics for new fans, collectors, and first (second, third…) time readers. As we begin 2015, though, I feel a need for a change to the approach, largely because 2014 marked the year I largely stopped collecting ongoing comics on a weekly basis. [Read more…] about The 2015 Guide to Catching Up With Ongoing Comics
I would guess that one of the hardest things to do as a comic book writer is to continually top yourself. Somehow, Scott Snyder keeps managing to do just that over his run on Batman. For a story that starts with Batman fighting a drug-crazed Justice League, Snyder is able to find a way to make part 3 of “Endgame” even more intense. [Read more…] about Batman #37 Review! – “Endgame: Part 3”
By way of Marvel’s fuzzy cover-numbering math, this month’s Captain Marvel marks the 100th issue of Carol Danvers starring in a super hero comic. Artist David Lopez offers a delightfully retro-slanted tribute to John Romita Senior’s 1977 Ms. Marvel #1 featuring the current status quo but the overt commemorations pretty much stop there. [Read more…] about CAPTAIN MARVEL #10 Review: “Happy Milestone, Carol!”
With issues more often than not intentionally structured as components of a greater whole, Brian Michael Bendis’s distinct writing style often cut both ways. The latest issue of All-New X-Men is a great example of this, offering twenty pages of bridge with very little landing as Jean Grey teams up with Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales… and Jean Grey. [Read more…] about ALL-NEW X-MEN #34 Review: “Crisis of Alternate Jeans!”