Made My Leap Into Comics!

[Rellings]

Well, I just made my first big purchase since picking up Wolverine: Origins 1-3, and Wolverine #1. I ordered the first 3 Wolverine TPB's titled, Brotherhood, Coyote Crossing, and Return Of The Native.

I ordered from Amazon.ca and saved some money on the Free Shipping, coming in at $52. Which is actually good compared to buying them at my LCS for 20 odd dollars apiece.

After I save up a bit more cash, I'll order the remaining 4 Arcs and be all caught up.

So this is my first "real" leap into Marvel, and comics in general. After I'm caught up on Wolverine, Im gunna dive into Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk, and look forward to contributing to the forum.

CHEERS.

[Gambit8370]

Get Frank Miller's original Wolverine TPB.

That will set the bar higher for you when you're ready.

[Anubis]

Good for you Rellings. :up: Cheers to you for picking up this horrible addiction. It's all downhill from here. :( Soon you'll be doing sexual favors for old men in parking lots for comics money.

[Doc Destruction]

Get Frank Miller's original Wolverine TPB.

That will set the bar higher for you when you're ready.

AMEN. Best mini of all time.

[Darthphere]

Awesome, Rellings, youre an example for all new readers. Boy did his research, asked questions and got all the info he needed. He didnt go in with an OMG cover looks roxxorz mindset. Good for you.

[Elijya]

gotta agree with Frank Miller's Wolverine

though personally I am so sick of the character, especially all the ridiculous crap they've done with him lately, like the regenerating in minutes from a skeleton.

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Don't blame the character, blame the crappy writers they give him too. I miss the days when he was drawn/written like Clint Eastwood with claws.

[hippie_hunter]

Well, I just made my first big purchase since picking up Wolverine: Origins 1-3, and Wolverine #1. I ordered the first 3 Wolverine TPB's titled, Brotherhood, Coyote Crossing, and Return Of The Native.

I ordered from Amazon.ca and saved some money on the Free Shipping, coming in at $52. Which is actually good compared to buying them at my LCS for 20 odd dollars apiece.

After I save up a bit more cash, I'll order the remaining 4 Arcs and be all caught up.

So this is my first "real" leap into Marvel, and comics in general. After I'm caught up on Wolverine, Im gunna dive into Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk, and look forward to contributing to the forum.

CHEERS.

I recommend Daredevil. That book has constantly been amazing.

[Kool-Aid]

gotta agree with Frank Miller's Wolverine

though personally I am so sick of the character, especially all the ridiculous crap they've done with him lately, like the regenerating in minutes from a skeleton.


What sucks though is that Wolverine was starting to get real good up till that new writer went on. The issue right before his start was a great single issue.

[Corporal]

Good stuff Rellings, I aswell am also going into comics again, but more of a prolonged leap for me. This forum definetely has helped and I thank everyone aswell:)

Good to know you're here rellings.

[hippy fascist]

While It's not marvel I STRONGLY recomend you get your hands on the Preacher TPB's some of the best writing you will ever encounter and one of the most well thought analysis' of the nature of religion I have ever seen. It's what got me into comics and if you like Wolverine you'll get a kick out of Cassidy(similar sense of humour/honour)

Look forward to a life of no money :(, but some of the most interesting debate the world has to offer, such wonders as why doesn't spidey shoot his webs out of his ass etc, :D. Welcome!

[Savage]

Daredevil. Loooots of Daredevil. Very good stuff. As for newer material, I'd recommend Astonishing X-men and The Ultimates.

Oh, and The Punisher books ever since Welcome Back Frank has consistently been good. The Punisher and Daredevil seem to be Marvel's most stable characters in their roster. You can spin around with your eyes closed and pick up something with them in it and find gold.

[Elijya]

While It's not marvel I STRONGLY recomend you get your hands on the Preacher TPB's some of the best writing you will ever encounter and one of the most well thought analysis' of the nature of religion I have ever seen. It's what got me into comics and if you like Wolverine you'll get a kick out of Cassidy(similar sense of humour/honour)

What if he's a religious conervative?

[hippy fascist]

What if he's a religious conervative?

Then I would argue that someone with strong faith wouldn't have it shaken by an alternative viewpoint. I believe in god, I just don't believe in religion, however I regularly debate with atheists because in order to fully understand an argument you have to see it from all sides. It's an interesting disection of religion in general not just christianity.

The whole point is that god is not god in the book. God is a representation of religion and how far it has strayed from the path. Jesse upholds the true christian ideals and is demanding that it return to being about faith, honesty and goodness of spirit rather than people being like children. That's the focus of the book that sometimes even the most sinful people (remember the bill hicks scene) are doing something to make the world a better place, while the "good christians" who go to church every sunday but spend the rest of the week lying and cheating are bringing us down. I gave that book to an irish friend (he totally dug cassidy) and he pointed this out to me. He said that it's like the protestant vs catholic debate, protestant's believe in morality and denying themselves pleasure, catholics can do all sorts of nasty crap and then say sorry once a week (a little hard line but if you've been over there you'd understand how serious an issue this is with the irish, not just what you see about the troubles but in everyday life). Neither one is right

Either way you don't have to take the book as read but you'd be depriving yourself of a great work of art if you didn't.

[Tropico]

Rellings, would I be wrong by assuming that you're picking up comics that have had movies about them (I know Spidey isn't there and X-Men as a whole, but rather Wolverine). If it's so and you're looking for well written comics you don't have to restrain yourself to Marvel. You could go to Dark Horse and get the Hellboy comics, they're way beter than the movie. If you saw Constantine, you should check out DC's Hellblazer, the comic that inspired it.

[hippy fascist]

Hellblazer is much better than the film, takes a wider view rather than just christian dogma you have every religion represented, it's like a huge course in theology across the globe, albeit with acid wit

[Harlekin]

Awesome, Rellings, youre an example for all new readers. Boy did his research, asked questions and got all the info he needed. He didnt go in with an OMG cover looks roxxorz mindset. Good for you.
Meh, nothing wrong with the 'OMG cover looks roxxorz' mindset. It's pretty much the way I think about 80% here got started in comics. They saw something they thought they would enjoy.

[Doc Destruction]

Good point. I bought X-Men #133 because of the cover. Hooked ever since :)

[Rellings]

While It's not marvel I STRONGLY recomend you get your hands on the Preacher TPB's some of the best writing you will ever encounter and one of the most well thought analysis' of the nature of religion I have ever seen. It's what got me into comics and if you like Wolverine you'll get a kick out of Cassidy(similar sense of humour/honour)

Look forward to a life of no money :(, but some of the most interesting debate the world has to offer, such wonders as why doesn't spidey shoot his webs out of his ass etc, :D. Welcome!
Someone had recommended that to me when I first joined the forum and it
has me very interested. The characters all seem unique, and the wild west theme is pretty cool.

Rellings, would I be wrong by assuming that you're picking up comics that have had movies about them (I know Spidey isn't there and X-Men as a whole, but rather Wolverine). If it's so and you're looking for well written comics you don't have to restrain yourself to Marvel. You could go to Dark Horse and get the Hellboy comics, they're way beter than the movie. If you saw Constantine, you should check out DC's Hellblazer, the comic that inspired it.
The movie thing is just a coincidence, there are alot of Comic-based movies.....especially Marvel.

[Harlekin]

Same here. Bought Uncanny X-Men #365 because of it.

[Darthphere]

Meh, nothing wrong with the 'OMG cover looks roxxorz' mindset. It's pretty much the way I think about 80% here got started in comics. They saw something they thought they would enjoy.


Maybe, still people tend to buy crappy books with cool covers on them. You guys got lucky.

[SpideyInATree]

Well, I just made my first big purchase since picking up Wolverine: Origins 1-3, and Wolverine #1. I ordered the first 3 Wolverine TPB's titled, Brotherhood, Coyote Crossing, and Return Of The Native.

I ordered from Amazon.ca and saved some money on the Free Shipping, coming in at $52. Which is actually good compared to buying them at my LCS for 20 odd dollars apiece.

After I save up a bit more cash, I'll order the remaining 4 Arcs and be all caught up.

So this is my first "real" leap into Marvel, and comics in general. After I'm caught up on Wolverine, Im gunna dive into Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk, and look forward to contributing to the forum.

CHEERS.

The current issues of Daredevil are awesome. If you want to start with Daredevil start with Guardian Devil, it started the rebooted Daredevil series, and then go from there into Brian Michael Bendis' run with artist Alex Maleev, just a really classic Daredevil run, and then that run goes into the current Ed Brubaker/Michael Lark run.

You will DEFINITELY enjoy yourself. :up:

And if you want to get into Spider-Man, pick up Kraven's Last Hunt and Essential Spider-man Volume 1. :up:

Or if that doesn't fit your taste, try Ultimate Spider-Man, a modern retelling of Spider-Man for a new era.

[Rellings]

The current issues of Daredevil are awesome. If you want to start with Daredevil start with Guardian Devil, it started the rebooted Daredevil series, and then go from there into Brian Michael Bendis' run with artist Alex Maleev, just a really classic Daredevil run, and then that run goes into the current Ed Brubaker/Michael Lark run.

You will DEFINITELY enjoy yourself. :up:

And if you want to get into Spider-Man, pick up Kraven's Last Hunt and Essential Spider-man Volume 1. :up:

Or if that doesn't fit your taste, try Ultimate Spider-Man, a modern retelling of Spider-Man for a new era.

Once I have the cash, I am going to buy the Daredevil TPB's starting with Gaurdian Devil to the current issues. For Spiderman I probably do the same with Amazing Spider-man.

On a totally unrelated note: I, for the life of me cannot figure out how get an Avatar. Is there some post requirement?

[LouFerignoDemon]

I think 500 posts? And since nobody else has recommended it, Runaways.

[hippy fascist]

300 posts

[Rellings]

I think 500 posts? And since nobody else has recommended it, Runaways.

I see this in basically everybody's pull list, personally the story doesn't really appeal to me, but I'll give er a try. There has to be something to it if it's so popular.

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Now that a relaunch has been basically confirmed, you HAVE to pick up Spider-Girl. Best Spidey title yer gonna read these days.

[Rellings]

Now that a relaunch has been basically confirmed, you HAVE to pick up Spider-Girl. Best Spidey title yer gonna read these days.

Where does Spider-Girl fit into Amazing Spider-Man? Was it a branching story starting at a certain issue that spun into its own series, or does it belong with one of the other Spider-Man titles?

[Doc Destruction]

It takes the Clone Saga, which is basically ignored in 616 continuity and expounds on it in the future.

baby May and Kaine are still around, and May is now Spider-Girl because Peter lost a leg. It's by FAR the best Spidey title out right now.

[Elijya]

basicly it's set in an alternate future with Spider-Man's daughter

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Basically it branches off from PPSM #75 and takes place 15 years in th' future (although a retroactive timeline has their future as our present, so no flyin' cars). It got it's fateful start in What If? vol. 2 #105 which could be called "What If Baby May Had Lived?" And from that one issue we got a whole new universe that gives fans a taste of simplistic oldschool style between all th' Crisises of Infinite House of M Wars Disassembled crap.

[hippy fascist]

I thought spier-girl was mc2 rather than 616, well I gues you learn something new everyday :O

[Elijya]

it is MC2, MC2 is an ALTERNATIVE future that split off from a specific moment of Marvel History, which is the birth of baby May. Everything before that moment that happened in the 616 also happened in MC2

[hippy fascist]

:o :o :o :o

[SpideyInATree]

For Spiderman I probably do the same with Amazing Spider-man.

I'd tread lightly with the newer Amazing Spider-Man trades. There are a couple handfuls of storylines that aren't very good. But really it's up to you. But I'd suggest staying away from Sins Past and The Other. Those are two recent Spider-Man storylines that pretty much all Spider-Man fans collectively agree aren't very well done.

But as I said, it's up to your whether you want to give them a shot and see for yourself. You might like them, as some posters on here have, which there is nothing wrong with that.

[Rellings]

I'd tread lightly with the newer Amazing Spider-Man trades. There are a couple handfuls of storylines that aren't very good. But really it's up to you. But I'd suggest staying away from Sins Past and The Other. Those are two recent Spider-Man storylines that pretty much all Spider-Man fans collectively agree aren't very well done.

But as I said, it's up to your whether you want to give them a shot and see for yourself. You might like them, as some posters on here have, which there is nothing wrong with that.

With all the books, games, and movies I get, I always feel that I'm missing out if I'm not a completionist and get the first and end with the last. With comics that's pretty hard with my current income, that's why I found it so hard to get into them. So most likely I'll grab em just because they are part of the story, and if It was ever mentioned in a later issue and I never read it, It would drive me absolutely friggin crazy! It's a personal weakness I've always had for a story with any sort of continuity.

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I hear ya, I'm a completionist too, that's why I haven't dropped any titles. Yet. I intend to change that soon and just fish fer backissues later.

As fer references, no worries. Stories are now self-contained in 6 issues. Barely ANY references anymore. Shame, really.

[Elijya]

With all the books, games, and movies I get, I always feel that I'm missing out if I'm not a completionist and get the first and end with the last.Personal weakness I've always had for a story with any sort of continuity.
That's a good and bad habit. Good, because there's lots of series out there that that is essential for, but bad because it's more than a wee bit ridiculous to read 900 Spider-Man comics just to get caught up, especially when some of them may not be very good or almost completely unnotable

[Rellings]

That's a good and bad habit. Good, because there's lots of series out there that that is essential for, but bad because it's more than a wee bit ridiculous to read 900 Spider-Man comics just to get caught up, especially when some of them may not be very good or almost completely unnotable

I think I am going to buy the 40 years of Amazing-Spider Man DVD and then I will only have to catch up 30 issues! As long as I have read them I am fine.

[Elijya]

well, the only problem with that, is that that CD doesn't include the annuals or his other series like Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man, nor the issues that crossover with other series like Secret Wars ;)

but yes, for someone knew like yourself it'd be a great resource. They have ones for I believe the Fantastic Four and Avengers as well. I have one that has the first 10-15 issues of ALL the old Marvel titles

personally I just can't read comics on the computer, though

[SpideyInATree]

personally I just can't read comics on the computer, though

Me either. It doesn't really feel the same as having the book right there in front of you. And, of course, after a while my eyes start to hurt.