Reddit reviews Secret Invasion
We found 12 Reddit comments about Secret Invasion. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews Secret InvasionWe found 12 Reddit comments about Secret Invasion. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Forget about continuity, universes, timelines, etc; it's all very confusing, even to creators/fans. The best way to jump in is to just start reading.
How much time do you have for comics? The answer determines how expansive recommendations are. Regardless, don’t try to read everything. First appearances & early origins are not always good starting points—older comics can be an acquired taste for modern audiences. Remember, there are so many other great characters/stories/publishers to explore (and not all comics are about superheroes).
Think about your favorite stories from other media. What you might like to read in a comic? Are you more interested in good storytelling or becoming a Marvel knowledge nerd?
Creative teams change often and characters get re-worked e.g. I never cared for Hawkeye until Matt Fraction’s run. Focus on well-received and relatively self-contained stories. Pick an interesting character/team and seek their “greatest hits”. You may encounter the occasional unexplained reference/character/event—just ride along (Wiki if necessary).
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Title | Writer | Note
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Alias (Jessica Jones) | Bendis
Ultimates 1 & 2 (Avengers) | Mark Millar | Ultimate
Avengers / New Avengers | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 2
Captain America | Ed Brubaker
Captain Marvel | Kelly Sue DeConnick
Daredevil (1979) | Frank Miller | Daredevil 1
Daredevil | Bendis | Daredevil 2
Doctor Strange: The Oath | Brian K. Vaughn
Fantastic Four / FF | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 1
Hawkeye | Matt Fraction
Immortal Iron Fist | Brubaker & Fraction
Inhumans | Paul Jenkins
Iron Man: Extremis | Warren Ellis | Iron Man 1
Invincible Iron Man | Matt Fraction | Iron Man 2
Marvels (Marvel History) | Kurt Busiek
Moon Knight | Warren Ellis
Ms. Marvel | G. Willow Wilson
Planet Hulk | Greg Pack | Hulk 1
Punisher Max | Garth Ennis
Thor | Jason Aaron
Ultimate Spider-man | Bendis | Ultimate
Vision | Tom King
New X-Men | Grant Morrison | X-Men 1
Astonishing X-Men | Joss Whedon | X-Men 2
Uncanny X-Force | Rick Remender | X-Men 6
Events/crossovers can be fun and/or tedious. They are most appreciated by readers well-versed in relevant continuity. Generally, the best non-event comics integrate these seamlessly or avoid them entirely (notwithstanding editorial/executive mandates). Regardless, you may want to familiarize with major plot points.
Modern Marvel events/crossovers:
Title | Writer | Note
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Avengers Disassembled | Bendis |
Secret War | Bendis |
House of M | Bendis | X-Men 2.5
Annihilation | Abnett, Lanning, Giffen | Cosmic
Civil War | Mark Millar |
World War Hulk | Greg Pak | Hulk 2
Annihilation: Conquest | Abnett, Lanning, Giffen | Cosmic
Messiah Complex | Brubaker, Kyle, Yost, et al. | X-Men 3
Secret Invasion | Bendis | Dark Reign
War of Kings | Abnett, Lanning, et al. | Cosmic
Messiah War | Kyle, Yost, Swierczynski | X-Men 4
Dark Avengers / Utopia | Bendis, Fraction, et al. | Dark Reign
Siege | Bendis | Dark Reign
Realm of Kings | Abnett, Lanning, Reed | Cosmic
Second Coming | Kyle, Yost, Fraction, et al. | X-Men 5
Fear Itself | Matt Fraction |
Schism | Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen | X-Men 7
Avengers vs. X-Men | Bendis, Brubaker, et al. | X-Men 8
Infinity | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 2.5
Secret Wars | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 3
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TPBs are nice since they compile several single issues in one place. Sometimes the issues compiled are sequential issues of a title (e.g. Iron Man #1-6), and sometimes they are more event- or theme-focused (e.g. a TPB might contain Iron Man #15 + Thor #12 + Daredevil #24).
If you see a book titled "Avengers Vol. 2", then there is definitely an "Avengers Vol. 1". In most cases, Vol. 2 is a direct continuation of the story.
If you're new to comics though, you should understand that titles like Avengers, X-Men, etc. have been around for more than 50 years, with issues generally coming out monthly since then. This means there are many hundreds of comics (most of which have been collected into different TPBs). However, sometimes comics restart their numbering (for various reasons). For example, there have been five volumes of the comic titled "The Avengers". But in this instance, don't confuse the word "volume" to mean the numbering of a TPB title. For example, look at this page which contains a list of Avengers titles. You'll notice Avengers #1 - 402 were printed from 1963 - 1996. This was considered Vol. 1. Then Avengers Vol. 2 #1-13 were printed from 1996-1997. Avengers Vol. 3 #1-84 were printed from 1998 - 2004. And so on.
Now, these books are collected in TPBs. Here's a list of the collected editions for the Avengers series. You can find a list like this for most popular comics series on Wikipedia and other places on the internet. If you scroll down to the "Avengers Vol. 5 (2013)" section, you'll see many different TPB collections for the issues of that series. It starts with a TPB called "Avengers Vol. 1: Avengers World" which collects Avengers Vol. 5 #1-6. So again, the word "Volume" here means two different things. Just look at the list and you'll get a better understanding.
It's also important to understand that comics like "The Avengers" have many spin-off titles, like "Uncanny Avengers", "New Avengers", "Secret Avengers", or "All-New All-Different Avengers". All of these are also collected into various TPBs.
You mentioned the Secret Invasion event. That event spanned across several different Marvel comics titles for several months. However, there was a main series where most of the story took place ("Secret Invasion #1-8"). You can buy a TPB of those eight issues here. However, there are many other side stories going on in other comic titles while that main event is happening. These are the other books you are seeing, such as "Black Panther: Secret Invasion" which collects "Black Panther #39-41" which shows what Black Panther was doing during this event. However, most of these side story books aren't essential to understanding the plot of the main book. You'd be fine just reading the main Secret Invasion TPB. But if you're interested in reading more stories from the event, then you can delve into those side story TPBs. Check out the Wikipedia page on Secret Invasion for more info.
For the overall story of the Marvel Universe, post-Civil War:
Then we lead into Secret Invasion:
Which leads into the new status quo--Dark Reign:
The new era is called The Heroic Age. Most books did their own thing for a while, and then:
The next major event spun out of events going on in the X-Men books from about 2005 forward. As a huge X-Nerd, I'm in no position to judge how readable it is for anyone not very familiar with the X-Books at the time. If you want, I can give you an essential reading list.
Similar to AvX, the next event comes out of the stuff going on in the Avengers books by Jonathan Hickman.
Again, an event comes out of another book--Remender's UNCANNY AVENGERS:
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Consider your intent/commitment. Think about your favorite stories/characters from TV, movies, games, books, etc. Do you seek quality storytelling or encyclopedic Marvel knowledge? Plan to collect? What time/resources are available i.e. how many comics could/should be read before burning out?
Don’t try to read everything—there’s too much. Forget about “catching up”, continuity, universes, and timelines; it's all very confusing, even to creators/fans. Older comics can be an acquired taste for modern audiences, so first appearances/early origins may not be the best starting points. Creative teams change often, characters get re-worked, and origins are re-told (e.g. I never cared for Hawkeye until Matt Fractions’ run).
Pick an interesting character/team and seek their “greatest hits”. Don’t get stuck “preparing”, just start reading. Focus on well-received, relatively self-contained, and complete stories. You may encounter the occasional unexplained reference/character/event—just ride along (Wiki if necessary). Remember, there are so many other great characters and publishers to explore, and not all comics are about superheroes.
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Modern Marvel characters/teams:
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Events/crossovers can be fun and/or tedious. They are most appreciated by readers well-versed in relevant continuity. Generally, the best non-event comics integrate these seamlessly or avoid them entirely (notwithstanding editorial/executive mandates). Regardless, you may want to familiarize with major plot points.
Modern Marvel events/crossovers:
Discover your preferences and let them guide you. Do you like: old/new comics? Specific genres? Literary/natural narratives? Cartoony/realistic art? Familiar/weird concepts? References/self-contained? Social/political commentary? Family-friendly/explicit content? Optimism/pessimism? Have you noticed that a specific artist/writer consistently makes comics you like? Follow these instincts.
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This is the main trade, it's currently sold out on Amazon but that's what it looks like.
Avengers: the Initiative is another series that ran around the same time and probably has tie-ins issues.
The event was called Secret Invasion and basically Matt Fraction didn't want to write an unnecessary tie in story for Secret Invasion in Iron Man, so he just skipped to after the event was over.
Dark Avengers was the core book to the entire Marvel-wide "Dark Reign" event. Pretty much all of the Avengers-titles (and many others) had some sort of tie-in to the event (which focused on Norman Osborn taking power of superhuman security in the US from Tony Stark). But you don't need to read them all. If you like the characters from the Dark Avengers, a lot of them had their own mini-series at the same time.
Secret Invasion was the crossover that directly led into Dark Avengers - but to really get the crux of who the Dark Avengers were before that - I'd check out Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts run. That's where Norman Osborn goes "legit" in the aftermath of Civil War, and forms his own government-approved team of super villains to hunt down unregistered superhumans:
Besides the main event, Brian Michael Bendis wrote New Avengers as a prelude to the story. I'd personally recommend both; the New Avengers isn't necessary but it helps build excitement and context for the event.
You can read any of the many tie-ins if you're interested in that. After Civil War ends the story moves on to The Initiative.
The next major events after that are Planet Hulk and World War Hulk followed by Secret Invasion.
In order:
Civil War
Secret Invasion Optional since it doesn't really involve Cap, but it sets up the fall of Shield and how Osborne forms Hammer
Siege
And if you need to fill in the gaps for Siege, you should totally read the JMS run of Thor too 'cause it was pretty awesome. That's what I love about comics, all the interconnecting stories.
I recommend reading Secret Invasion prior to reading Vol. 2: World's Most Wanted. It is essential to understanding the story.
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