Getting back into Marvel

[Vartha]

Yeah I figure it's something to do with the Continum crud. I'm just TIRED of mainline heroes getting killed every time you turn around, not to mention my fave heroes.

 

[Watchman]

Fraction/Brubaker Iron Fist and Warren Ellis Nextwave are my personal favorite Marvel titles over the years. Runner ups is Jason Aaron's grindhouse version of Ghost Rider. Now that was really underrated run. Oh and Cornell's Captain Britain and the M-13. All sadly not with us anymore.

Other stuff that I've enjoyed

Fraction's Iron Man
Bendis's Daredevil- I don't enjoy any of his Avenger stuff at all but this was brilliant. Brubaker's run and pretty much all Daredevil after that bored me.
Brubaker's Captain America- My interested declined after issue 25 but I'm in the extremely small minority there.
Ellis's Thunderbolts
DnA's Guardians of the Galaxy- Also, Annihilation. Conquest was meh but it did give a classic Avengers bad guy his balls back, literally.
JMS's and Gillen's Thor
Hickman's Fantastic Four and Secret Warriors
Van Lente and Pak's Incredible Herc

I would say skip all Avengers and big events from Marvel. Look what happened up on wikipedia. Oddly, I'm looking forward to the Avengers reboot.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah I figure it's something to do with the Continum crud. I'm just TIRED of mainline heroes getting killed every time you turn around, not to mention my fave heroes.

Eh, you get used to it.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Okay, so I've spent I'd say the last four or five years pretty much reading only DC and indie comics, and really haven't given Marvel a fair shake in quite a while.

I say stick with the indies

 

[venom892]

I loved Aaron's run on Ghost Rider.I feel it's underrated.Really he picked up the pieces of what Way did and turned into something way greater then it could have been.I also really loved his 4 issue "Get Mystique" arc in Wolverine.Best Wovie story I read in years.I would read Weapon X or his Punisher series if they weren't 3.99.

 

[Max J Power]

For me two of the most constantly great reads have been Daredevil and Captain America.Both have been pretty free of Crossovers.I also highly recommend Immortal Iron Fist.

Agreed on these.

Along with Iron Fist, Fraction's Invincible Iron Man, Straczynski's Thor, and Hickman's Fantastic Four are the best books to debut after Civil War.

 

[Manic]

Captain Britain & MI:13 was pretty good, though short lived.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Okay, as far as the mainstream stories of Marvel... it's sadly mostly Avengerific. I suggest these for a quick catcheruper (in this order):

Civil War 1-7
Mighty Avengers 1-6
Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America 1-5
New Avengers 27-39
Thunderbolts 110-122 (Warren Ellis's Run)
New Avengers: Illuminati 1 and 5 (skip the middle)
New Avengers 40
Secret Invasion 1-8
Dark Avengers 1-current
New Avengers 48-current
Siege 1-2 (current)

And that puts you up to date. Now, that's the center of the Marvel Universe. To branch out from there, it's up to your personal tastes.

I suggest anything cosmic starting at Annihilation and on from there (continuing into Nova, then Annihilation Conquest, then Guardians of the Galaxy, and on).