Marvel Nerds, HELP!

Hi folks, I'm enjoying reading some of the marvel comics at the moment and I'm looking at getting the trade paperback collections of some of the bigger arcs to give me plenty of reading but I'm struggling with which volumes exactly to get and the timelines of how things fit in.

Here is what I have established so far;

House of M >>> Decimation >>> Deadly Genesis >>> Endangered Species >>> Messiah Complex >>> Divided We Stand >>> Manifest Destiny >>> X-Infernus >>> Messiah War >>> Utopia >>> Nation X >>> Necrosha >>> Second Coming >>> Curse of Mutants >>> Age of X >>> Schism >>> Regenesis >>> Avengers vs Xmen.

This is about 10 years worth of stuff and tells a largely continous story (from what I can gather)

However there are a few titles that I know are key that I want to get but I cannot fit in. They are Civil War, Siege, Secret Invasion, Dark War and Avengers Disassembled.


So my question to any marvel geeks who know this stuff, or to people with more powerful google skills than me. Where do the above titles fit in to the timeline I have managed to establish and are there any other main titles that I have missed out? Those I have flagged mainly tag Xmen/Avengers but any large scale Spidey/FF/Deadpool or any other stuff that has large scale implications on the timeline I would like to include.

So yeah, I doubt I will find anyone who can manage what I ask but any help is appreciated!

I started with Civil War (OMG SO GOOD!!) and have just worked my way chronologically through everything.

Spidey arcs tend to stay out of other lines, and X-Men has so much going on across all the titles it can get messy, but here is how I read stuff:

Civil War/Planet Hulk
The Initiative/World War Hulk
Secret Invasion
Dark Reign
Fall of the Hulks/Siege
World War Hulks
Wolverine Goes to Hell/Chaos War
Fear Itself

These tend to be larger cross-overs compared to the X-series and Spidey, so just try and slot the appropriate X/Spidey arc in based on the timelines.

Civil War and Dark Reign have been my favourites overall as they are huge story arcs.

This is pretty handy.

Also interested, slowly getting back into reading Marvel comics

krooton said:

I started with Civil War (OMG SO GOOD!!) and have just worked my way chronologically through everything.

Spidey arcs tend to stay out of other lines, and X-Men has so much going on across all the titles it can get messy, but here is how I read stuff:

Civil War/Planet Hulk
The Initiative/World War Hulk
Secret Invasion
Dark Reign
Fall of the Hulks/Siege
World War Hulks
Wolverine Goes to Hell/Chaos War
Fear Itself

These tend to be larger cross-overs compared to the X-series and Spidey, so just try and slot the appropriate X/Spidey arc in based on the timelines.

Civil War and Dark Reign have been my favourites overall as they are huge story arcs.

This is pretty handy.

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Cheers bud.

Well based on your link and a lot of digging around this is pretty much a comprehensive list of what you could read to have a pretty much continious ten years worth of story, I've even dropped Amazon prices next to them in case you are interested.

Avengers Dissasembled - 8.27
Pulse v1
Secret War
Pulse v2
New Avengers v1 - 7.58
New Avnegers v2 - 7.58
New Avengers v3 - 7.58
House of M - 12.15
Planet Hulk Prelude - 8.27
Planet Hulk - 9.59
Decimation - 14.64
New Avengers v4 - 16.96
Pulse v3
Deadly Genesis - 9.59
Endangered Species - 9.59
Road to Civil War - 7.58
Civil War - 7.58
Civil War Front Line 1 - 7.58
Civil War Front Line 2 - 7.58
Civil War New Avengers - 7.58
Civil War Iron Man - 6.74
Civil War Cap America - 6.74
New Avengers v6 - 7.58
New Avengers v7 - 9.59
World War Hulk - 9.59
Secret Invasion New Avengers v8 - 7.58
Secret Invasion New Avengers v9 - 9.59
Secret Invasion Deadpool - 7.58
Secret Invasion Xmen - 7.58
Dark Reign - 12.15
New Avengers v10 (Dark Reign) - 8.27
Dark Reign Deadpool 6.89 (a full Deadpool series runs from this which I will collect but I wont put it in here as Deadpool is ******* weird and I know not everyone likes his stuff)
Dark Reign Sinister Spiderman - 8.96
New Avengers v11 - 7.58
New Avengers v12 - 9.59
Messiah Complex - 14.40
XForce v1 - 8.27
Xforce v2 - 7.58
Xforce v3 - 7.59
Messiah War - 16.63
Utopia - 14.36
Nation X - 14.40
Xforce Necrosha - 9.59
Necrosha - 11.75
Xforce Sex and Violence - 7.58
Fall of the Hulks prelude - 16.79
Fall of the Hulks v1 - 9.59
Fall of the Hulks v2 - 12.26
Siege Prelude - 12.15
Siege - 8.96
Siege Thor 8.27
New Avengers v13 Siege - 12.15
Siege Aftermath Thor - 8.27
Second Coming - 16.63
World War Hulks - 24.31
Curse of the Mutants - 8.96
Chaos War - 9.59
Chaos War Incredible Hulks - 9.59
Chaos War Xmen - 10.42
Chaos War Avengers - 9.59
Fear Itself - 10.65
Schism - 10.23

Regenesis
Avengers vs Xmen - These two are a bit weird and broke down into multiple parts with volumes (seemingly missing) hopefully this will be out some day.

A lot of the Chaos War, Civil War, Dark Reign and Secret Incasion stuff happens around the same time so could be pretty confusing but thats about as good as I can get it

All comes in at a whiopping £576.68 for the lot!! it will probably be comfortably over the £600 mark if you want the Deadpool stuff, or if I have missed anything!

RIZZEE said:

Also interested, slowly getting back into reading Marvel comics

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See above mate

Go for, chronilogically

Disassembled,
House of M,
Decimation,
Planet Hulk,
Civil War,
The Initiative,
Endangered Species,
World War Hulk,
Messiah Complex,
Divided We Stand,
Secret Invasion,
Manifest Destiny,
Dark Reign,
Messiah War,
Utopia,
Nation X,
Necrosha,
Siege.

Thread necro!

Slight change of the list order, had planet hulk in the wrong place, it comes after House of M. Apparently Mighty Avengers needed inserted around Civil War time too as that carries a seperate story thread through to Siege, so much to read (and buy )

I've just ordered the first two and getting two more for fathers day Let the epic comic journey commence!

Edited some new stuff in (in bold) in case others are interested.

Just finished (a few hours after recieving them) both Avengers Dissasembled and New Avengers v1. NAv1 was good, AD was one of the best comics I have ever read, fantastic story line with great pace and a real page turner. It is so perfectly followed up in NAv1 as well.

After reading them so fast ordered NAv2 and 3, House of M and Secret War (saving the Pulse comics until later) and really looking forward to them! So glad I've decided to start reading into this all

So yeah, if anyone is tempted the whole arc starts great

I have just ordered Avengers Disassembled from Amazon. I've been looking for a good place to start reading some Avengers GNs so I thank you for your work on the list!

LeopoldScotch said:

I have just ordered Avengers Disassembled from Amazon. I've been looking for a good place to start reading some Avengers GNs so I thank you for your work on the list!

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Glad someone else is finding some use of it.

I've added more updates but didn't edit the thread because I thought there was no interest. I'll edit it late this week when I'm home, it includes Mighty/Dark Avengers which are on the same universe but different threads of the continuing theme (teams split due to leadership and government backing). If your only interested in Avengers let me know though and I can specially flag them times excluding others as a lot of my stuff relates to the xmen (though they do effect the Avengers titles with the ongoing story)

Wow, that is one mighty reading list you got there. I have to say, I lost interest in the big crossovers a while ago - given that they hardly ever live up to the hype. Of the books you listed, World War Hulk/Planet Hulk/Fall of the Hulks and maybe Civil War, were the best imo.

If you want (imo) excellent Stories in Marvel 616, I would recommend Rick Remender's recent arc Uncanny X-Force, Peter David's entire X-Factor run, Grant Morisson's X-Men/Uncanny X-Men run, and Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run.

Random Guy said:

Wow, that is one mighty reading list you got there. I have to say, I lost interest in the big crossovers a while ago - given that they hardly ever live up to the hype. Of the books you listed, World War Hulk/Planet Hulk/Fall of the Hulks and maybe Civil War, were the best imo.

If you want (imo) excellent Stories in Marvel 616, I would recommend Rick Remender's recent arc Uncanny X-Force, Peter David's entire X-Factor run, Grant Morisson's X-Men/Uncanny X-Men run, and Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run.

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I have heard some of the crossovers fail to deliver.

In my other list I've expanded into the series that run up to and around the crossovers. Got (or will get) Uncanny Xmen, Mighty/New and Dark Avengers, Thunderbolts (excitement!!!) Deadpool (more excitement!!!!!!!!) and X Force (most excitements!!!!!!) to fill everything out and give a whole story.

I'm aiming to pick up 3-4 a month plus a few on birthday/Xmas, aiming for about 3 years to clear it all I've had my next order shipped and will arrive tomorrow, annoyingly I'm away until Friday will be a test of my patience!

No1newts said:

Glad someone else is finding some use of it.

I've added more updates but didn't edit the thread because I thought there was no interest. I'll edit it late this week when I'm home, it includes Mighty/Dark Avengers which are on the same universe but different threads of the continuing theme (teams split due to leadership and government backing). If your only interested in Avengers let me know though and I can specially flag them times excluding others as a lot of my stuff relates to the xmen (though they do effect the Avengers titles with the ongoing story)

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My main interest is in the Avengers but I'm quite new to the whole thing so I might find myself branching off If I find a good story elsewhere.

I'd be very grateful if you could keep your list updated though, it'll definitely be useful!

LeopoldScotch said:

My main interest is in the Avengers but I'm quite new to the whole thing so I might find myself branching off If I find a good story elsewhere.

I'd be very grateful if you could keep your list updated though, it'll definitely be useful!

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No worries.

I'll drop an update end of the week. Just need to add Deadpool, Uncanny Xmen and Thunderbolts.

What I'll do is I'll bold out the main arc (and Avengers) so you can follow the main arc and take the rest as optional.

I recently got into reading Marvel comics/graphic novels myself. To date I've read:

Planet Hulk/World War Hulk
Marvel Masterworks - The Amazing Spiderman, volumes 1 - 4 (volume 5 ordered)
Marvel Masterworks - The Fantastic 4 volume 1
Marvel Masterworks - The X-Men volume 1
Marvel Zombies 1 and 2
Marvel Universe vs The Punisher (and its 2 prequals, Marvel Universe vs Wolverine and Marvel Universe vs The Avengers)
Avengers Arena volume 1
Spider-Men issues 1 - 5 (crossover between main universe Peter Parker Spiderman and the new Miles Morales spiderman from the Ultimate marvel universe)

Some of the really early 60s stuff is incredibly dated and cheesy by todays standards, but I would highly recommend the early spiderman stuff.

I actually quite enjoyed reading the early Avengers stuff. It's so dated and corny I found it funny. Not sure I could read it all from the start though!

No1newts said:

No worries.

I'll drop an update end of the week. Just need to add Deadpool, Uncanny Xmen and Thunderbolts.

What I'll do is I'll bold out the main arc (and Avengers) so you can follow the main arc and take the rest as optional.

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I'd appreciate that mate, thanks

LeopoldScotch said:

I'd appreciate that mate, thanks

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Well I'm done and it has grown into a 137 book monster list (actually 147 if you count the Deadpool books )

I'll post it up over the weekend, too brain dead after puzzling it all out

Got my second delivery of NAv2,v3, Secret War and House of M. Polished off NAv2, it's decent, but I get the feeling it is building toward something as opposed to a stand alone. Though finding out the history of Sentry was fascinating!

where you getting your comics from? I'm trying to get into it aswell, mostly just reading the arrow ones atm until season 2 of the show releases, and smallville/injustice. Want to read more though.

Tune said:

where you getting your comics from? I'm trying to get into it aswell, mostly just reading the arrow ones atm until season 2 of the show releases, and smallville/injustice. Want to read more though.

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I tend to just pick them up from Amazon, they are reasonably priced and straightforward as opposed to trawling smaller and less reputable sites.

There are some volumes in there though that are rarer than the norm and very prcey so may try the bay or comic shop webbies (not sure where I would start with them though)

Ah okay, I was going to buy mine digitally, will probably just get a few through comixology or something.

Finished House of M, really good book, really good storyline and nice finish. It didn't really tie things up as my has I was expecting regarding the no more mutants but in guessing some more will be covered in Decimation.

NA is ticking over nicely, not living up to disassembled but it seems to be building up a good story. Nice team build as well and Sentry is interesting.

Reading Secret War now, that happens prior to the NA and is really good so far

Might order another few not sure if I have the money though as I'm going away next month.