The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 1

[JewishHobbit]

Here's the read order that I bound my hardback volumes in. I read through them a dozen times to get every little mention placed just right so I know it's accurate. I don't know how the trades are laid out but here's my recommendation:

First thing... you should read Legion Quest (X-Men 40-41 & Uncanny X-Men 320-321)

Then, there's some backstory in the Age of Apocalypse (stuff you posted) but most of it is ignorable... I think these are all in vol. 1 of the trades. I recommend at LEAST reading X-Chronicles 1, as it's referenced quite a bit later. X-Chronicles 2 is also good, as are the Tales from the Age of Apocalypse oneshots. Anything else, skip.

Here's the chronological leading into the official AoA:

Uncanny X-Men 320 (Legion Quest 1)
X-Men 40 (Legion Quest 2)
Uncanny X-Men 321 (Legion Quest 3)
X-Men 41 (Legion Quest 4)
X-Men Chronicles 1
X-Men Chronicles 2 (Optional but good)
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Factor X (Optional but good)
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: X-Men (Optional but good)

From there it gets into the real Age of Apocalypse story. The read order I prefer (for chronological, appearances, and story flow purposes) is:

X-Men Alpha
Astonishing X-Men 1
Gambit & the X-Ternals 1
X-Calibre 1
Generation Next 1
Weapon X 1
Factor X 1
X-Man 1
Astonishing X-Men 2
Amazing X-Men 1
Amazing X-Men 2
Weapon X 2
Generation Next 2
Generation Next 3
Generation Next 4
Gambit & the X-Ternals 2
Gambit & the X-Ternals 3
X-Calibre 2
X-Calibre 3
Factor X 2
Factor X 3
Weapon X 3
X-Man 2
X-Man 3
Astonishing X-Men 3
Amazing X-Men 3
X-Calibre 4
Astonishing X-Men 4
Gambit & the X-Ternals 4
Amazing X-Men 4
X-Man 4
Factor X 4
X-Universe 1 (optional but good)
Weapon X 4
X-Universe 2 (optional but good)
X-Men Omega

 

[JewishHobbit]

Here's the read order that I bound my hardback volumes in. I read through them a dozen times to get every little mention placed just right so I know it's accurate. I don't know how the trades are laid out but here's my recommendation:

First thing... you should read Legion Quest (X-Men 40-41 & Uncanny X-Men 320-321)

Then, there's some backstory in the Age of Apocalypse (stuff you posted) but most of it is ignorable... I think these are all in vol. 1 of the trades. I recommend at LEAST reading X-Chronicles 1, as it's referenced quite a bit later. X-Chronicles 2 is also good, as are the Tales from the Age of Apocalypse oneshots. Anything else, skip.

Here's the chronological leading into the official AoA:

Uncanny X-Men 320 (Legion Quest 1)
X-Men 40 (Legion Quest 2)
Uncanny X-Men 321 (Legion Quest 3)
X-Men 41 (Legion Quest 4)
X-Men Chronicles 1
X-Men Chronicles 2 (Optional but good)
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Factor X (Optional but good)
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: X-Men (Optional but good)

From there it gets into the real Age of Apocalypse story. The read order I prefer (for chronological, appearances, and story flow purposes) is:

X-Men Alpha
Astonishing X-Men 1
Gambit & the X-Ternals 1
X-Calibre 1
Generation Next 1
Weapon X 1
Factor X 1
X-Man 1
Astonishing X-Men 2
Amazing X-Men 1
Amazing X-Men 2
Weapon X 2
Generation Next 2
Generation Next 3
Generation Next 4
Gambit & the X-Ternals 2
Gambit & the X-Ternals 3
X-Calibre 2
X-Calibre 3
Factor X 2
Factor X 3
Weapon X 3
X-Man 2
X-Man 3
Astonishing X-Men 3
Amazing X-Men 3
X-Calibre 4
Astonishing X-Men 4
Gambit & the X-Ternals 4
Amazing X-Men 4
X-Man 4
Factor X 4
X-Universe 1 (optional but good)
Weapon X 4
X-Universe 2 (optional but good)
X-Men Omega

 

[WolfCypher]

Did anyone have a problem with Captain America having an eagle crest on his forehead instead of the A in the Heroes Reborn universe?

 

[Anubis]

I don't know. I think most were more bothered by the whole being drawn by Lefield thing than the Eagle emblem.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I rather liked the eagle, actually. Makes more sense to me than just a big letter plastered across his forehead.

 

[Panthro]

Can Hercules drink Iron Man under the table?

Love the new avatar BTW Corp.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Thanks. Chewy made it.

Hercules could totally drink Iron Man under the table. He's been drinking to excess for like 3000 years now, and he never once claimed alcoholism like a wussy little girly-man.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I rather liked the eagle, actually. Makes more sense to me than just a big letter plastered across his forehead.

That was the theory, and I sort of liked the idea too. But sometimes you just can't mess with the classics.

Has there ever been an issue somwhere that featured both a Doombot and one of Nick Fury's LMDs?

 

[Anubis]

No. There's a reason why they've never been seen in the same place at the same time.

 

[WolfCypher]

Watched Incredible Hulk and I just noticed something.

At the end of the movie where Ross is drinking his sorrows, Stark comes into the bar and propses somethig to Ross. Stark says "we're" putting together a little team (obviously hinting at the Avengers). He says "we". But at the end of Iron Man 2, Fury decides to NOT include Stark in on the Avengers Intitative. Stark isn't getting any say in the Avengers project, but he talks to Ross and suggests this project has Stark included in it. Now, IH came out beofre IM2 did, so is this an error in the movieverse continuity, or am I to believe that even though one movie came out before the other, the former takes place after the latter...?

 

[Manic]

I think it's just a continuity error.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Nah. Iron Man then Iron Man 2 then Incredible Hulk. No reason they can't take place in that order and it solves the continuity issue.

 

[Anubis]

Like comics, everything is not happening at the same time.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Nah. Iron Man then Iron Man 2 then Incredible Hulk. No reason they can't take place in that order and it solves the continuity issue.

Yeah, that's the general consensus.

 

[javi1024]

and i think theyre saying/speculating that Thor takes place before Incredible Hulk as well.

 

[JewishHobbit]

It'd have to take place after Iron Man 2 since the agent goes to investigate it.... but it can easily fit between that and Hulk.

 

[steintym]

I think Iron Man 2 and TIH are taking place at roughly the same time, or at least they are overlapping. In the end scene of IM 2, there is video footage being played that shows the Hulk fight on the university campus.

 

[Panthro]

What are the most essential pre-Civil War Iron Man books to own?

 

[Anubis]

Demon in a bottle, Man behind the Iron Mask I guess. I guess that stuff where he ran around like a *****e beating up his friends trying to take all his tech back.

 

[JewishHobbit]

What are the most essential pre-Civil War Iron Man books to own?

Are you talking about all of Iron Man history or in the months/years leading into Civil War?

I'm not into Iron Man or have read much of his stuff but the Extremis Project is pretty important for the pre-Civil War era.

 

[Panthro]

Are you talking about all of Iron Man history or in the months/years leading into Civil War?

Hmm... a little bit of both would be nice actually.

I'm not into Iron Man or have read much of his stuff but the Extremis Project is pretty important for the pre-Civil War era.

I actually did read Extremis, that was pretty good.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Demon in a bottle, Man behind the Iron Mask I guess. I guess that stuff where he ran around like a *****e beating up his friends trying to take all his tech back.

Armor Wars. Or Civil War. Or both!

 

[JewishHobbit]

There was only one arc between Extremis and Civil War and it was decent. It's referenced in the Civil War issues of Iron Man that follow it, so it's something decent to try. The actual Civil War tie-in issues are good, too.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all the Iron Man I think I've ever read.

 

[Anubis]

It's during and after Civil War, but I would highly recommend the Knaufs run on IM. The best IM has been written.......ever in my opinion.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'll second that. I could see Tony's CW point of view under the Knaufs and, while I still couldn't really sympathize, I could at least appreciate his earnest belief that he was doing the right thing.