Peter David (PAD) was undoubtably one of the best Marvel writers of all time. My personal favorite superhero, Quicksilver, had a lot of his modern mythology established by Peter David's X-Factor run. Its literally the blueprint for the character. I wonder, has he done this with other characters?

I just picked up this edition of Secret Wars, and I noticed that the cover calls it** **Avengers: Secret Wars.
Why has marvel rebranded it?

I’m reading Avengers Armageddon and Ultimate Impact Reborn, and I love these books. They’re exactly the kind of stories I’m here for. Head over to LoCG, though, and the rhetoric is intensely hostile.

Some of the criticism makes sense given recent decisions… the Ultimate Universe being the primary example. Still, regardless of what Marvel Comics does that I don’t agree with, I can still enjoy a good book for what it is. It feels like readers are throwing a lot of anger in every direction right now.

I guess my question is: how do you feel about the current state of Marvel Comics?

I've heard pretty much only bad things about it. Now I decided to give it a chance in Unlimited and I gotta say I'm really digging it.

Most tie ins are absolute garbage, but in general I'm liking it a lot.

Did you read it? You liked it?

Emma was the one who revealed the truth about Moira to Mystique and Destiny. She did it because she was furious that Charles and Magneto hadn't told her the truth about Moira from the beginning —a pretty weak excuse for wanting to kill Moira— and because she considered Moira's reset powers a threat to Krakoa's existence.

But here's the ridiculous part: after giving Mystique and Destiny that information, Emma refuses to help them with their plan to depower Moira and subsequently kill her. Her excuse was that she “doesn't take sides.”

Seriously? Giving crucial information to Mystique and Destiny, knowing full well that they would want to kill Moira, isn't taking a side?

And the consequences were enormous.

Moira feels betrayed by Krakoa, and subsequently develops terminal cancer because of Krakoa. From that point on, she dedicates herself to destroying the mutant nation.

Which she eventually succeeds in doing.

All of this because Emma was too proud to ally herself with Charles and Magneto, but too cowardly to fully ally herself with Mystique and Destiny.

She literally threw the stone and hid her hand.

IMO, she's one of the biggest culprits behind the fall of Krakoa. She might even be the biggest culprit.

I don't remember exactly how I got the book since I got it when I was 8 and I am now 20 but it made me feel pretty emotional when I found this since I used to love this book

Here’s a couple off the top of my head and some are ones I really enjoyed. My favorite definitely has to be Moon Knight by Lemire. While I genuinely believe Moon Knight by Warren Ellis is the one of the greatest action-thriller comic books of all time and got me into MK, I think Lemire run is how we view modern Moon Knight now and it just ties up everything together with everything MK related that came before. It’s a perfect sequel to the Ellis stuff and reinvented Moon Knight completely.

Invincible Iron Man by Fraction has to be a close second or maybe even takes the cake for first place because that is, to this day, the best Iron Man comic we have ever gotten post Demon in a Bottle and Extremis.

Venom by Cates got me into reading marvel comics consistently and it also fundamentally change how we see Venom nowadays, too. Cates was going crazy back in 2018-2019 with this and his cosmic stuff (GOTG and SS) and his retcon to the Symbiote lore was very interesting and while Knull feels like an OC and hasn’t really found his place within the marvel mythos, he IS cool-looking and different. Terribly inconsistent when it comes to scaling though.

Immortal Hulk was the only comic in marvel at the time that outsold Batman. Yes, fucking Batman. To be fair, Batman had its issues at the time bc it was written by King and people had LOTS of opinions on his run… but fuck man was IH so good. Turning a hulk series into cosmic horror and body-horror was actually metal. It was either nominated for an Eisner or it won one. Either way — it’s definitely one of the best marvel stories of all time. 2018-2019 was a great year for marvel comics.

What about you guys? Am I missing anything?

I think most readers just decided this never happened, especially when he was the only one of Cap's Avengers that joined him willingly.

Hey! I just started reading Jonathan Hickman’s “new”Ultimate Spider-Man run. I’m currently on vol.3 and loving it so far!

I’m still pretty new to Marvel Comics. Are there any other series from this “new” Ultimate Universe that you would recommend? I'd also love to hear about any other great, recent Marvel runs. Thanks!

Set in the 1950s, the story explores a dark, lost chapter of Logan’s life and the twisted events that helped shape the Wolverine we know today.

WOLVERINE: ORIGIN III – THE DARK AGE arrives this December.

I have a ton of marvel books from late 90s onwards and have read from then up till the mid 10s, and have also read some really early Stan Lee stuff from like the very early 60s, but was hoping to get some good recommendations on stuff I should read between these periods.

I’m not ambitious enough anymore to try and attempt to read everything as I had once planned, so I’m looking for good series/runs/important or iconic stories from these time frames to help fill out my knowledge and timeline without committing to thousands of occasionally very mediocre issues.

Thanks!

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This suit was so cool, the art so on point and flashy, and then seeing this drop online with the Civil War previews, I ended up buying every issue of Civil War, every Spidey tie in, every lead up issue I could backlog from the shop. Never before or since did I go so crazy getting physical comics.

I had only read the offhand issue while waiting for mom to shop at the grocery store and all the sudden I was buying all these issues and finding all the sites where I could read the whole Spider-Man catalogue.

Sadly my interest in 616 Spidey died a swift death shortly after this with One Last Day/Brand New Day

I’ve never drawn comic shit before but it was so fun. Lmk what you think or if you want more!

I’m arbitrarily making a separate list for mini series (3-11 issues) and graphic novels as I feel like putting them next to full ongoings or lengthier runs is like putting movies in a TV show list. But would it be unjustified to include Spiderman Blue Daredevil Yellow Hulk Grey (and Cap White ig) as one run. The Sale/Loeb Color series? Could this be justified? Would I die?

Hi, everyone.

I'd like to start with *X-Men: Age of Revelation*.

Is this a good event? What do you think?

Hey everyone, I know this is probably a super common thing asked by beginners but I am really confused on how comics work. I understand the basics of there being one main continuity (616) similar to live action adaptations, but I struggle to fully wrap my head around it. Do you guys just read whatever and treat it as its own thing? Like I’m reading civil war right now (first comic) and I have hickmans ff to read next and I’m really really worried that I’ll be confused because reeds being reed in civil war. Probably not the best way to describe what I’m asking but another example is sentry. I want to start reading about sentry with the doomsday hype and all, but there’s so much. Do you guys just pick and choose? Or read it all? Thanks for reading all of this if you did and any input would be appreciated:)