Comments | aopt: still got that kick

aopt

still got that kick

Jul 22, 2009 04:07

Just reread Identity Crisis, and hey, it still makes me cry.

A little bit of history: Identity Crisis was the first comic I ever picked up and read. Before that, I knew who certain characters were - Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-man, and the X-Men, mainly - but I'd never actually read the comics. I picked up Identity Crisis in the library ( Read more... )

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iambickilometer July 26 2009, 07:16:00 UTC

Well, you don't actually have to go back and read the old canon. God knows some of the writers don't. If you're into X-Men, I'd recommend Astonishing X-Men (the started-by-Joss-Whedon run) to start. X-Factor (the recent run) is amazing, but it does help to have some knowledge of The New Mutants and X-Force (80s and 90s, respectively) to get some of what they're saying. Excalibur is great for some old-school fun, and New Excalibur is also pretty darned awesome, and once you've read some of one of those series (to the point where you know who's who) I highly recommend Captain Britain & MI-13, which is (regrettably) quite short.

Outside of mutants! Check out Fraction's Immortal Iron Fist, which is made of utter win, and both Brubaker's and Bendis' runs on Daredevil. (The Devil, Inside and Out is amazing, but you really shouldn't read it until you're familiar with who the Daredevil characters are ( ... )

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iambickilometer July 28 2009, 00:53:48 UTC

No problem at all! :D And yeah, Whedon wrote X-Men for a while - then he switched over to Runaways. Which is another great title, actually. The first part's a single, stand-alone book, so you could give that a shot.

Also, Sandman! How could I forget that? That's Neil Gaiman writing comics, by the way.

But yeah. Avengers are great, but... anything after Disassembled starts getting too involved with the main plotline. I mean, M-Day, Civil War, Secret Invasion, the list keeps growing.

Although at some point, if you're feeling more confident, I would advise checking out that backstory. There is some great stuff there.

xturncoatxiii July 26 2009, 06:09:48 UTC

Avalanche=/=Rictor

=D

Now Evolution is pure WIN. 8D

iambickilometer July 26 2009, 07:03:58 UTC

I did actually know that by now. I went and looked it up ages ago because I was so horrified it might be so.

But it isn't! So yay! oh god but we watched the episode "Spikes and Speed" and oh dear god what have they done with poor Pietro? Also, why does Storm have relatives? In America? Um.