Marvel reading material reccomendations

[Glen Compton]

FoolKiller by steve gerber was amazing and not something most people mention.
http://www.comicvine.com/foolkiller/4050-4395/

 

[Somekindofgold]

You mentioned you read the Annihilation story, I suggest you keep going into DnA's GotG run all the way to the Thanos Imperative and then STOP.
Seriously, stop. You will probably not like what Bendis did to them when he got his hands on the Guardians and the Thanos Imperative provides a very good ending to the team (and Nova actually). I know there are a few that do like Bendis' run, but the majority of responses I've gotten from Guardians fans ranged from 'meh' to 'I'd rather drink petrol and urinate on a fire'. If you still want to see, pick up a couple of issues but theres a good chance you wont like it.

I'd also suggest Sub-Mariner: the depths. Its a mini series that reimagines Namor (yes, speedo wearing, wings on feet Namor)as a horror antagonist set during the 1950's on a submarine. Its Alien, but underwater, and its the best thing I've read that had Namor in it. Its a bit different to the usual Marvel stuff, but its a very tense horror experience, and if we ever get a Namor movie I want it based on Sub-Mariner.

Finally, if you're open to non Marvel stuff as well I'd throw my two cents towards the Hellblazer series. Its 300 issues long but its extremely good, even when it starts to lose a bit of steam towards the end.

 

[That1Guy]

You mentioned you read the Annihilation story, I suggest you keep going into DnA's GotG run all the way to the Thanos Imperative and then STOP.
Seriously, stop. You will probably not like what Bendis did to them when he got his hands on the Guardians and the Thanos Imperative provides a very good ending to the team (and Nova actually). I know there are a few that do like Bendis' run, but the majority of responses I've gotten from Guardians fans ranged from 'meh' to 'I'd rather drink petrol and urinate on a fire'. If you still want to see, pick up a couple of issues but theres a good chance you wont like it.

I'd also suggest Sub-Mariner: the depths. Its a mini series that reimagines Namor (yes, speedo wearing, wings on feet Namor)as a horror antagonist set during the 1950's on a submarine. Its Alien, but underwater, and its the best thing I've read that had Namor in it. Its a bit different to the usual Marvel stuff, but its a very tense horror experience, and if we ever get a Namor movie I want it based on Sub-Mariner.

Finally, if you're open to non Marvel stuff as well I'd throw my two cents towards the Hellblazer series. Its 300 issues long but its extremely good, even when it starts to lose a bit of steam towards the end.

I completely forgot that the Thanos Imperative was even a thing. That's definitely going on my list.

Namor as a horror character sounds positively fantastic. I'll have to check that out.

Also, I've actually read quite a bit of Hellblazer, it's one of my favorite comics. What company my comics come from generally doesn't matter, I just made this thread so I could learn about some good stuff from Marvel because I've mostly read non-Marvel stuff like Watchmen, Hellblazer, Injustice, Batman, etc.

 

[WarpedLord]

Matt Fraction's Hawkeye is one of the best comic series I've read in the past 30 years. Seriously, if you're going to read anything by Marvel, start there.

Other great (fairly recent) runs are Rucka's Punisher and Waid's Daredevil runs.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

You mentioned you read the Annihilation story, I suggest you keep going into DnA's GotG run all the way to the Thanos Imperative and then STOP.
Seriously, stop. You will probably not like what Bendis did to them when he got his hands on the Guardians and the Thanos Imperative provides a very good ending to the team (and Nova actually). I know there are a few that do like Bendis' run, but the majority of responses I've gotten from Guardians fans ranged from 'meh' to 'I'd rather drink petrol and urinate on a fire'. If you still want to see, pick up a couple of issues but theres a good chance you wont like it.

I actually prefer Bendis over the 2008 run. GoTG 2008 was bogged down by all the cosmic events going on and it never really seemed like it got the chance to tell the story it wanted to. There are like four issues that don't directly tie into the King and Thanos Imperative events. Its still a decent series but it just has too many events. Now Guardians 3000, there is a good series.

Is the current iteration of the former Ms. Marvel/ current Captain Marvel any good? I've heard some vague comments from people but never anything actually mentioning the series's quality.

Both Captain Marvel and Mrs. Marvel are really good series. Captain Marvel is a high flying adventure series with great characters. Mrs. Marvel is a teen adventure not unlike early Spiderman, only funnier and more interesting. Kamala Khan is a really great character.

The current Daredevil and Hawkeye runs are amazing. Really fun adventure and storytelling. Lastly I am going to add Jason Aarron's Thos: God of Thunder and the current Thor run. Great series with great art work and really good story.

 

[ExDeath730]

Let me see...

From the Avengers side:

- Dark Avengers (An Avenger team comprised of Norman Osborn, Venom, Bullseye and othe psychos? It's awesome)
- Captain America ( The Brubaker Run, read it all, it's very, very good)
- Iron Man: Extremis, Director of SHIELD, World's Most Wanted, The Five Nightmares, Doomquest and Demon in the Bottle
- Ms. Marvel: The New One, and the old one too, specially in Dark Reign, where we had both Captain Marvel and Moonstone as leads.
- Hawkeye (The Matt Fraction run, it's just that good)
- Black Widow (Marjorie Liu's run)
- Hulk ( Planet Hulk and World War Hulk)
- Young Avengers (EVERYTHING!!!)
- Secret Avengers

Thunderbolts (Really, every run is entertaining to say the least, but both the New Thunderbolts run, the Warren Ellis one. The classic Thunderbolts 1-75 is really good as well. The only run i didn't like was the last one, where instead of villains the team is a bunch of anti-heroes.)

Street Heroes:

- Alias
- Spider-Man (Spider Island is very good, The Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1, Spider-Man: Blue)
- Daredevil (Daredevil: Yellow, and Daredevil V2, all of it, really, very good writers in an amazing run)
- Punisher (Punisher Max, all of it, and...Anything Punisher written by Garth Ennis is awesome)
- Runaways (EVERYTHING!!1!11!)

X-Men
- Uncanny X-Men( The V2 is really good, Kieron Gillen was one of the reasons that even when Cyclops was the villain of AvX, the readers where rooting for him, the Utopia arc is very good as well, but to follow it, you have to read both UXM and Dark Avengers, Messiah Complex, we can go classic here as well with the Phoenix Saga, Mutant Massacre, Inferno, etc...)
- Astonishing X-Men (All of it)
- X-Men (v3 is really good)
- Cable ( Both Cable & Deadpool and the Cable solo are good runs)
- X-Force (Start with the Kyle & Yost run, them the Remender run and then the Hopeless run named Cable and the X-Force, all are good)
- X-Factor (If you got the time, all of it, really, if not, the last run is very good)
- Wolverine (Old Man Logan, Weapon X, Origin, Enemy of the State, both Greg Rucka and Jason Aaron's runs are very good as well)
- Storm (World's Apart is awesome)
- Cyclops (The minis are very good, i would also say that if you like sci-fi, his ongoing solo is a very good read)
- Magneto (His ongoing solo is really good)
- First Class (One of my favorities, it's just adventures of the first X-Men team, i liked a lot)
- New X-Men (Morrison was awesome in this run)

Cosmic
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Everything after Annihilation and ending at the Thanos Imperative)
- Nova (The same as above)
- Actually, just read every cosmic thing set afther Annihilation and ending at TI, everything in that era is awesome.

That's all...I bet i may have forgotten something...But these should keep you entertained for a while.

 

[Korenith]

My own exploration of Marvel has only recently begun but what I'd recommend so far:

New X-men: Grant Morrison's run.
Iron Man: Extremis
Avengers Disassembled plus the Thor tie-in (other tie ins are fairly good but not necessary)
Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 & 2 (don't go further as it takes a nosedive in quality)
Thor by JM Straczynki, plus Kieron Gillen's run that leads into Siege
Siege
Dark Avengers + Dark Avengers/X-men: Utopia (get these trades together as well as Siege for a full picture of Osborn's run as top dog in the marvel universe)

 

[SidheKnight]

I recommend:

Moon Knight Vol. 7 (currently ongoing)

Anything by Jonathan Hickman, but specially his "S.H.I.E.L.D." published in 2010

It's an 11 issue self-contained story, but with larger implications to the Marvel Universe.

 

[That1Guy]

Let me see...

From the Avengers side:

- Dark Avengers (An Avenger team comprised of Norman Osborn, Venom, Bullseye and othe psychos? It's awesome)
- Captain America ( The Brubaker Run, read it all, it's very, very good)
- Iron Man: Extremis, Director of SHIELD, World's Most Wanted, The Five Nightmares, Doomquest and Demon in the Bottle
- Ms. Marvel: The New One, and the old one too, specially in Dark Reign, where we had both Captain Marvel and Moonstone as leads.
- Hawkeye (The Matt Fraction run, it's just that good)
- Black Widow (Marjorie Liu's run)
- Hulk ( Planet Hulk and World War Hulk)
- Young Avengers (EVERYTHING!!!)
- Secret Avengers

Thunderbolts (Really, every run is entertaining to say the least, but both the New Thunderbolts run, the Warren Ellis one. The classic Thunderbolts 1-75 is really good as well. The only run i didn't like was the last one, where instead of villains the team is a bunch of anti-heroes.)

Street Heroes:

- Alias
- Spider-Man (Spider Island is very good, The Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1, Spider-Man: Blue)
- Daredevil (Daredevil: Yellow, and Daredevil V2, all of it, really, very good writers in an amazing run)
- Punisher (Punisher Max, all of it, and...Anything Punisher written by Garth Ennis is awesome)
- Runaways (EVERYTHING!!1!11!)

X-Men
- Uncanny X-Men( The V2 is really good, Kieron Gillen was one of the reasons that even when Cyclops was the villain of AvX, the readers where rooting for him, the Utopia arc is very good as well, but to follow it, you have to read both UXM and Dark Avengers, Messiah Complex, we can go classic here as well with the Phoenix Saga, Mutant Massacre, Inferno, etc...)
- Astonishing X-Men (All of it)
- X-Men (v3 is really good)
- Cable ( Both Cable & Deadpool and the Cable solo are good runs)
- X-Force (Start with the Kyle & Yost run, them the Remender run and then the Hopeless run named Cable and the X-Force, all are good)
- X-Factor (If you got the time, all of it, really, if not, the last run is very good)
- Wolverine (Old Man Logan, Weapon X, Origin, Enemy of the State, both Greg Rucka and Jason Aaron's runs are very good as well)
- Storm (World's Apart is awesome)
- Cyclops (The minis are very good, i would also say that if you like sci-fi, his ongoing solo is a very good read)
- Magneto (His ongoing solo is really good)
- First Class (One of my favorities, it's just adventures of the first X-Men team, i liked a lot)
- New X-Men (Morrison was awesome in this run)

Cosmic
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Everything after Annihilation and ending at the Thanos Imperative)
- Nova (The same as above)
- Actually, just read every cosmic thing set afther Annihilation and ending at TI, everything in that era is awesome.

That's all...I bet i may have forgotten something...But these should keep you entertained for a while.

That's an awful lot of recommendations, thank you.I actually really like Nova alot here's a question: is the new Nova (Sam Alexander, black helmet) worth a look? I like his design but IDK if it's any good.

 

[Somekindofgold]

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I actually prefer Bendis over the 2008 run. GoTG 2008 was bogged down by all the cosmic events going on and it never really seemed like it got the chance to tell the story it wanted to. There are like four issues that don't directly tie into the King and Thanos Imperative events. Its still a decent series but it just has too many events. Now Guardians 3000, there is a good series.

Well we all have our opinions, but even with its myriad of tie ins 2008 GotG was much better written in my view. For an example just look at what he did to Star-Lord.He threw an incredibly good character arc that started during Annihilation down the drain to turn him into han solo with daddy issues, and I'm not even going to start with what he did when the movie came out and he insisted on shoving movie jokes into the comic. (e.g. 'Legendary Star-Lord' as a title).

I'd rather read 2008's Guardians for the 50th time than have to endure Bendis again.

 

[ExDeath730]

Snippi'n myself.

That's an awful lot of recommendations, thank you.I actually really like Nova alot here's a question: is the new Nova (Sam Alexander, black helmet) worth a look? I like his design but IDK if it's any good.

So, it's...Loeb without Tim Sale, so it's bad. It's not as bad as most of the stuff that Loeb use to put out, but since you're a fan, you're not gonna like it, probably a lot. People hated it so much, that when Nova was released in the Marvel Heroes MMO, it was Richard Rider, because of the fanbase response to Sam Alexander when it was first unveiled.

Oh, and remember when i said that i forgot something?
Iron Fist by Matt Fraction, the entire run is awesome. See? I knew there was another thing awesome that ia forgot!

Edit: If you like Nova, you like the Cosmic stuff, and Bendis Guardians of The Galaxy, it's not that bad, it's passable, you can give it a try to see if you like it. But, the best comic in the Cosmic part of Marvel nowadays is Cyclops. It's his young self having space adventures with his father, who is a space pirate. It's funny, have some great action and a lot of heart, so, give it a try.