(Part 2) Best science fiction graphic novels according to redditors
We found 4,821 Reddit comments discussing the best science fiction graphic novels. We ranked the 921 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
I say start with Deadpool, Vol. 1: Secret Invasion. I was in a similar boat, and started here. Not really an origin story, but a great intro to the character. You can get it off Amazon
Based on "The Star Wars" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258) comic which is based on the original screenplay, Han was a big monster. They wanted him more relatable but also still needed the brute force in areas of the story (my reasoning) so he was split into Han and Chewbacca. They're one character.
Here ya go. Han is a lizard man and Luke Starkiller is a grizzled war veteran.
Deadpool Volume 1. Comes in a big red book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadpool-Volume-Secret-Invasion-Graphic/dp/0785132732
The Amory Wars! I'd recommend just skipping Second Stage Turbine Blade and starting with In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. The SSTB story is kind of all over the place and Claudio was writing it alone, and that comic series suffers from that. IKS is a great jump up in quality, and a fine starting point for the rest of the series. It's a great companion piece to the album too. Follow that up with Good Apollo, which is even better - they just finished publishing that series a few months ago, and it's absolutely bonkers in the best possible way.
There’s the Transformers idw collections you can get on amazon but there’s like 18 that span both phase 1 and phase 2 and each cost $40-$50. They have everything but it’s still ALOT
heres the first but it looks like it’s now only available from third party sellers
The current run, by Brian Posehn, is supposed to be good. It starts with this book: http://www.amazon.com/Deadpool-Vol-1-Dead-Presidents/dp/0785166807
There's also the run by Daniel Way, which is the one /u/p_norm is talking about, which a lot of people dislike because it is too wacky. This is the chimichanga loving, 2 inner voices having, odd-ball. A lot of people find this run to be too wacky, and that it gets Deadpool wrong, but if you're new you won't care about that. Most Deadpool fragments you see on reddit are from this run. The writer also wrote the Deadpool game. It starts here: http://www.amazon.com/Deadpool-Vol-1-Secret-Invasion/dp/0785132732/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413815446&sr=1-1&keywords=deadpool+secret+invasion
Then there's the older run by Joe Kelly. This one is often seen as the Deadpool run. The problem is with how Marvel collected it. Issue #1 is collected in Deadpool Classic Vol. 1, together with his older mini-series, which I personally didn't like, and all the rest is in Vol. 2 onwards.
Currently, Marvel is on somewhat of a Deadpool spree, and has published a billion mini-series, most of which are good. Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe, Deadpool Killustrated, Deadpool Kills Deadpool, Night of the Living Deadpool, Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, ...
Second Stage Turbine Blade
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
Well, if you want to be detailed then you can follow his full journey here, here, and here.
But if you want to go with trades (which will be a ton easier), then here's a list of trades in chronological order you can check out:
Then from here it can get confusing because multiple Green Lantern titles went into publication, but for this list it's only following Kyle Rayner's journey
> can be read alongside Green Lantern Corps: Blackest Night (2009) (GLC 39-47) by Peter Tomasi
> see here for reading order
Now is the New 52, same as before, there are multiple crossovers throughout the Green Lantern Line, so i will do my best to present Kyle's story the best i can
> contains events from the Light's Out trade which collects issue 24 of each Lantern title as well as issue 23 of New Guardians Light's Out event (2014) by Robert Venditti
And now is Rebirth
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.
Bone
Akira
Mouse guard
Persepolis
Scott Pilgrim
Swamp thing by Alan Moore
Judge Dredd: The cursed earth uncensored
Nemesis the warlock
The league of extra ordinary gentlemen
Hellboy
Zot! by Scott McCloud
V for vendetta
Nimona
The sandman
Maus
American Flagg
Bean world
Dan Dare by Garth Ennis
Flintstones by Mark Russell
Giant days
Groo
The incal
Jonah Hex
The nam
Queen and Country
Rork
Usagi yojimbo
Nausicaa
Ignore IDW completely.
This is where to start
http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-01/dp/1906735875
The main thing that new Flash readers often learn is that Barry Allen in the comics is barely anything like his portrayals in any other media. A lot of what makes the Flash interesting was created for the Wally West era, so my essential Flash reading list tries to balance both Flashes:
That's the best injection of Flash stuff I can think of off the top of my head.
The Star Wars. Do yourself a favor though and try to get it from a library, or even a torrent. It's terrible, and the dissonance makes it even worse.
Did anyone else actually read the article? 'Telos', 'Night Force' or 'Blue and Gold' would not count.
>Before fans get too excited about finally pitching their untold stories about Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, they should know that DC Universe is NOT asking for narratives. It appears that they are not looking for fans to redefine a character’s origins, à la Batman: Year One, or for fans to provide alternate takes on a character, à la Superman: Red Son. Instead, they are looking for “non-narrative ideas inspired by the world of DC.” This could range from reality shows, game shows, travel shows, documentaries, or any other non-narrative category fans can think of.
A new edition of Red Son will be out on April 8, 2014 for $11.91 and collects all 3 parts. I'm definitely picking that up!
http://www.amazon.com/Superman-Red-Son-Mark-Millar/dp/1401247113/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393967964&sr=1-2&keywords=Red+Son
It depends on what you want to read.
If you want to read the 80's Marvel comics, pick up the Classics trade paperbacks.
If you want to read the new IDW comics, I would advise you to start with the IDW Collection Phase Two. It collects the first few issues of the More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise (now just "Transformers") comics. These are the current ongoing books, and the ones everyone talks about today, so it's a good place to start if you want to catch up with the current storyline.
If you want to start at the beginning of the IDW comics, you can pick up the Phase One collection. It's good, but the story is a bit of a slow burn.
If you're a G1 cartoon fan, you could start right in the middle with All Hail Megatron. The art is mostly spot on for the cartoon, and it's easy to pick up for a new reader, but the story overall is a bit...meh.
There are other collections besides the ones I linked to if you don't want to splurge on a hardback. Those collections are just a good start if you're interested in the comics.
Check these out:
Y is so damn good. Pick up all 5 of the Deluxe Editions of Y The Last Man. I'll post a link to vol 1 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Book-Deluxe-Edition/dp/1401219217/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Fables has Deluxe Editions as well, but they're slow to come out. You may want to just go with the regular trade paper backs. Start at volume 1.
I'd also recommend picking up the regular paperbacks of Preacher. A buddy of mine got the hardcovers and wasn't too impressed.
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:
For Marvel Comics
How to Get Into Comic Books (13:40) | Patrick Willems
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.
Where to buy (US):
Modern Marvel characters/teams:
/r/Marvel sidebar for more info.
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.
Suggestions to improve this guide are welcome.
EDIT: Formatting
If you don't want to go through the monumental task of getting all of the comics, you can buy "Ultimate editions" of each series that has all of the comics from that story arc neatly packaged into one book. I went ahead and tracked them down on amazon for you.
Now, here's where it gets tricky. The Year of the Black Rainbow novel appears to be out of print, since I've only been able to locate ebook versions. The Good Apollo graphic novel is also incredibly hard to find, and if you do manage to find a copy you'll pay a pretty penny. That being said, it isn't even canon anymore so I wouldn't worry too much about it. I'm sure you can find pdf versions of both online though.
Finally, for The Afterman, check smoo's post. That has everything you need. Happy hunting, and welcome to the Fence!
First: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Second-Stage-Turbine/dp/1684151120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511326258&sr=8-1&keywords=second+stage+turbine+blade+comic
Second: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Keeping-Secrets-Silent/dp/1684151570/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511326283&sr=1-4&keywords=amory+wars
Third (Part 1 of three out so far): https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Good-Apollo-Burning/dp/168415068X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511326283&sr=1-1&keywords=amory+wars
The artist for Saga, Fiona Staples, has an online store with some cool prints.
Both Saga and Y are written by Brian K Vaughan. He has a new series, Paper Girls, which has been well received. He also has nice hardcover of his webcomic Private Eye.
World of Edena
The Incal
Astounding stuff.
Do these fit your bill IDW Collection
Here's the book it came from. Really good art and characters and it really impacted the all the Thor stories to follow it.
For more really awesome Thor try[ this one.] (http://www.amazon.com/Thor-Thunder-Volume-Butcher-Graphic/dp/0785166971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414265207&sr=8-1&keywords=thor+god+of+thunder) Thor has to fight a serial killer who hunts Gods with beautiful watercolory art. Here's some really touching screencap from that series.
Oh and stop by /r/comicbooks sometime, we love getting people into comics.
That's awesome you want to get into comics for him. Good on you. For protection you should get bags and boards. Basically the bags are well, bags, and the boards and a cardboard like backer you put behind the comic inside the bag.
You can pick them up online (they usually go for around the Amazon price on any site) or your local comic shop should have them. You'll want to put the comics inside what's called a longbox. My local comic shop sells them for $5 a piece.
As far as Deadpool, I'd highly suggest reading the Deadpool Classic trades. You'll learn his origin and it has literally classic stories. They're hilarious. Here's the first volume. I believe there's six in total. Then there's the current series which I'm sure he's reading. If you like those pick up other Deadpool trades. I'm pretty sure you'll like him, he's not your average super "hero".
For "essential comic basics" check out the FAQ. Has everything you need to know including reading suggestions on all types of books. Find something you might be interested in and/or what he's into and get reading.
The ultimate editions are the same as the standard but harder to come by and more expensive. OP probably just wants the standard hardcovers.
A heads-up to those of you who have never read a Judge Dredd book before: stay well away from the Americanised take on the character that was released by DC comics during the mid-90s, it's bloody terrible. Stick with the original British stuff.
In fact, the 'Judge Dredd Case File' books (similar to Marvel's Essential editions and the DC Showcase books) are your best bet if you want to read the past stories in their published order.
Oh, also, 'America' is the finest Dredd story ever written.
First read one.
Then read the other.
Order doesn't matter since both series are complete, however, I would recommend reading Y: The Last Man first if you're actually interested in owning nice collections.
You can get the deluxe hardcover copies of Y for a very reasonable $20 if you're in the states and make use of Amazon.
As far as I am aware, there is no equivalent quality collection for Transmetropolitan and that is a shame.
Translation errors can be pretty funny sometimes. I chuckled at "corpse"
So, there are a few Green Lantern books out now, but it sounds like you want "Green Lantern." Also, season=volume.
What you want to do is buy Green Lantern Vol. 1: Sinestro, Green Lantern Vol. 2: The Revenge of Black Hand , and Green Lantern Vol. 3: The End
That covers almost all of the currently released Green Lantern comics.
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I'm reading through the current comics and you at one point said you want all five volumes, which you don't.
Superman: Red Son, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, Flashpoint (and the world of, especially Batman ) are three obvious and good ones
edit: also, Batman: Year 100
edit 2: I can't believe I forgot one of the most important examples! Definitely check out DC:The New Frontier
The Star Wars. It came out this last year.
Edit: Now that I am back at my comp. Here is a link to the trade. It's a pretty terrible read so at least I am warning you before hand.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Vol-Remission-Simon-Roy/dp/1607066114
Is that what you meant?
https://www.amazon.com/Planetoid-1-Ken-Garing/dp/1607068133
they did, and it's fantastic!
the trade recently came out
Comic book suggestion: Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn
As a girl with a burgeoning comic collection featuring a lot of female leads, I would HIGHLY recommend the Wonder Woman run by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang (starting here).
Also if she's looking for something with more of an indie vibe, I'd recommend Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, and if she likes the Stranger Things trend in pop culture nowadays absolutely Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan.
If she's a YA fan, I'd reccomend Spera by Josh Tierney. And if she really wants a taste of Marvel, and likes YA fiction, I'd also recommend Ms. Marvel.
I've read Fables, and it's pretty good, but I gotta say there is SO much that it might be intimidating for a first-time comic reader. I also love Saga, but again there is just SO much, it might be better to start with a shorter run or a one-off.
Good Tuesday!
I've been absent from the community for awhile, and I've missed you guys!
As for geeky stuff, the biggest thing for me right now is my new Oculus Rift. After hoarding AMEX points for several years, I decided it was time to cash-out and snag the device I built my rig for 2 years ago! OMG, this is the best purchase I think I've ever made! Been playing Robo Recall, Echo Arena, and Superhot VR and I can't express how I feel about this thing. My wife FINALLY tried it out last night, and I should have recorded it on video...the gasps she made as she turned around and realized there was more environment behind her was...magical. My reward tonight will be jacking into Elite: Dangerous with my cousin-in-law (hopefully) and tearing through the cosmos in search of bounty and something to shoot at!
The rest of my gaming time is now spent with either Horizon: Zero Dawn or PUBG. Haven't really had much time for anything else due to family stuff as my youngest prepares to enter kindergarten!
Also...I turn 40 this coming Sunday...part of me is excited...part of me is depressed...not sure why. Its just a number, right?
Also, if you've never seen them, there are two Ghostbusters graphic novels that I HIGHLY recommend!
Ghostbusters: Total Containment
Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria
Lots of fun, great art style and I wonderful way to expand on the universe of the ORIGINAL team.
Have a great week, ya'll!
For all of the Amory Wars, the order goes
-The Afterman: Ascension and Descension coffee table book, comes with the Afterman Amory Award edition box set but is pretty expensive if you happen to find one on eBay. I think I paid $125 for the entire box set.
-The Year of the Black Rainbow novel by Sanchez and Peter David. Included in the YOTBR box set and is also quite expensive, but you can buy an eBook of it for like $10.
-The Second Stage Turbine Blade collection. You can find it here for about $30.
-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 collection. Also here for about $30.
-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness comics. No deluxe collection exists yet but they just finished the chapter with issue #12.
-Pre Production has started for the comics for Good Apollo Vol 2: No World For Tomorrow but no comics have been released of course
-Vaxis Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures novella released with the box set.
Of course if you just want to read the comics, start with SSTB and go from there.
Second Stage in full: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151120/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_EQ.Czb9VKTK3N
In Keeping Secrets in full: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1R.Czb80GS3QT
Good Apollo is still being published now. I'm personally waiting for the Ultimate Edition to come out to get into this one.
There's no Blackest Night omnibus yet. I'd suggest picking up Absolute Blackest Night if you want to check out the main events of the story arc. There're also torrents of the entire run which include some of the more obscure issues.
Blackest Night is the arc that got me into comic books. I highly recommend it.
Read this:
I am a big superman fan (so much so that my golf towel is a superman logo), and the way I got into him wasn't much like everyone did on here from what I can see. Normally before then I batted an eye at things superman since he seemed like a very generic character to me at the time, muscle bound men with capes who wear tights is a tad generic to the casual observer but then I found that Supes was more complex than that. I never really picked up a superman book, let alone read one, until I finished reading Superman: The High-Flying history of America's most enduring hero. Although not a graphic novel liker someone who wanted to get into the comics initially would do, it's basically a character bio depicting the events of what happened to the character, how DC comics was formed, and the lives of those that created him (Jerry Seigal and Joe Schuster). After finishing this book I was hooked, I wanted to know more about superman. I know it's not cannon but I got hooked on smallville, believing that it was canon for a short time given it's consistency starting out with the entire superman mythos in other media (grew up on farm, wasn't told he was an alien until well into his childhood etc). Now without further ado, I am going to run through some of the best superman stories and some of the worst (or comically amusing if you're looking for a laugh).
The Good
The Bad
Fellow fan of series here! Let me see...
Young Adult
Percy Jackson series is fun (and finished, too, I think).
Artemis Fowl series isn't quite as good as Percy Jackson IMHO, but it's got a following.
Fantasy
Harry Dresden series This is one of my favorites. Harry is Chicago's only professional wizard. There are a ton of these books and they are still going strong.
Game of Thrones These are great...but unfinished. If you watch the show, reading the books does help you get even more out of the story, I think.
Wheel of Time Another good series. There is a LOT of this series and it's finished. (Thank you, Brandon Sanderson!)
Mistborn Speaking of Brandon Sanderson... This one is very good. I highly recommend reading the Mistborn books before trying the Stormlight Archive, but only because as good as Mistborn is, Stormlight Archive is even better.
Stormlight Archive Amazing. Man, these are good. The series isn't finished, but the two books that are available are some of my favorites ever.
Kingkiller Chronicles I loved the first book. I could not freakin' believe I enjoyed the second one even more. The third one is still pending.
Temeraire Dragons in Napoleonic times. Super cool premise! This one is not finished (I don't think, anyway).
Gentlemen Bastards Con men in a fantasy realm. It's pretty light on the fantasy elements. Very light, I'd say. I'd also say that it has some of the very best swearing that I've ever come across. :D
Scifi
Old Man's War I'm almost finished this one--it's amazing!
Horror/Thriller
Passage Trilogy I've heard these described as vampire books...maybe zombie books... It's apocalyptic for sure. Great books!
Mysteries
Amelia Peabody Egyptology + murder mysteries. Super fun, but trust me...go with the audiobooks for these. They are best when they are performed.
Stephanie Plum Total popcorn reads. If that's your thing, shut off your brain and just enjoy.
Walt Longmire These get particularly good as it goes along. The main character is a sheriff in modern day Wyoming. (Side note: The TV show is also great--just don't expect them to stick to the books.)
Graphic Novels (Everything recommended can be gotten in a "book" format instead of only in comic form, in case that matters. I've gotten most of these from my local library.)
Locke & Key Eerie as crap. Love the art! This one is on-going.
Y: The Last Man All the men on the planet drop dead in a day...except for Yorrick. REALLY good. This is the series that got me reading graphic novels. Plus, it's finished!
Walking Dead I am not a zombie fan...but I like these. They're not done, but I've read up through volume 22 and am still enjoying them.
Other
OutlanderI have no idea how to categorize these or even give a description that does them justice. I refused to pick it up for AGES because it sounded like a bodice-ripper romance and that's not my bag. But these are good!
I hope there's something in there that'll do for you. Have fun and read on!
Edit: Apparently, I need to practice formatting. :/
Edit 2: I forgot to add the Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentlemen Bastards #1).
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.
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.
Vol. 1 and Vol.2 of Mark Millar's the Ultimates are straight up classic Avengers stories. Just don't read Vol. 3, it is terrible.
Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men is easily one of my favorite X-Men stories and one I recommend to everyone.
I haven't read too much Hulk, buy Planet Hulk by Greg Pak is AWESOME. It really cast a whole new light on the character for me. Before I always thought of him as this gigantic, dumb monster, but this book really changed that. The follow up World War Hulk is decent, just not as good at PLANET, but you will probably want to read it anyways to see how the plot wraps up.
Other classics like Secret Wars, Infinity Gauntlet, Age of Apocalypse and many more are always great to read.
as far as on goings, I am currently reading X-MEN (the all girl team, only 2 issues in, easy to catch up) and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (4 issues in) but I have been hearing great things about the 2 Daredevil series, Hawkeye and X-Force.
Well, that's a pretty tall order, as you're talking about approximately 8 years worth of major Marvel crossovers. These involve at least 6-plus core book issues, with possibly 30+ "tie in" issues for each storyline (sometimes even more with major events like Civil War). That being said, from Secret War onward, a lot of the major Marvel Universe storylines usually set the stage for, or led into, the next major storyline - providing a slight linear narrative.
However, to add to your friend's upcoming reading juggernaut, Avengers vs. X-Men is more the culmination of several years of X-Men stories and crossovers spinning out of House of M - almost completely diverged from the major Marvel plots. But to help you out, I'll give you as complete a list as possible (up until Avengers vs X-Men), including links to the core storyline trade paperbacks. Do be aware that there are many MANY tie-in TPBs as well.
MARVEL STORYLINES & CROSSOVERS (IN ORDER)
I'll continue in a response post with a list of X-Men storylines that led directly to Avengers vs. X-Men.
Hope this helps!
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.
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.
This is the uncensored one
It’s part of a series that famed French comic artist Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius, did for Hermes back in 2011. It was one of the last major projects he did before he died in 2012. Check out more info on theses particular drawings Here! and if you want to get a good feel for his work read The Incal. Jodorowsky did the writing for incal and it’s pretty out there but I firmly believe it’s the pinnacle of comic/graphic novel genre.
*I totally lied to you! I have a piece from the Hermes campaign on the opposite wall. This one is actually a piece of concept art he did of Tatooine for Star Wars. Full image is Here!. I’m gonna leave the rest up bc I’m a huge Moebius fan boy and it’s vaguely fashion related.
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn is pretty interesting!
A while back, there was a Humble Bundle that included almost everything in the IDW Ghostbusters series. Because I deeply care about reading things in the right order, I looked up the publication dates of each of the books included, which didn't waste as much time as the length of the list would make it look.
My original post is here.
I made that list before I read the series, but after reading the series, I'll add this: The order I listed is accurate, but you don't need to read all the stuff before Series 1. It's all technically canon, but it's not really important, and doesn't come up often at all. But the 2009 video game is pretty important, so I suggest you also familiarize yourself with that plot if you haven't already.
So I suggest you either start with Total Containment, the hardcover containing the entire first series; or just the first paperback volume.
On a related note, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters" is also canon, and I think it's pretty alright, but it's not essential if you don't want to spend that money. "Get Real" is important, though.
The Ghostbusters Wika is a great place to start. Here is the IDW Publishing Ghostbusters ongoing issue #1 page. Highly recommend picking up the hardcover editions. Total Containment and Mass Hysteria are both amazing and beyond worth it. Collecting the single issues is also great, especially when you collect variant covers.
It's just called The Star Wars. Great artwork, really recommend picking it up.
Yup, you found the first half! Here's Descension.
Oh, and the hardcover books on Amazon:
The Second Stage Turbine Blade: Ultimate Edition
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3: Ultimate Edition
And here's a trailer for the IKSoSE3 book on youtube :3.
I can't vouch for how good of a story the books are, but I got both and they look very cool. I just started SSTB a while ago, so I don't have much to judge yet.
Here's the Ultimate Editions of both Second Stage and In Keeping Secrets. Hope that helps!
Read the Amory Wars!
r/idwtransformers would be able to go into things in more detail and would be the more on-topic location for this.
Basically, though, there are three 'eras' of IDW. If you're looking to start from the very beginning, that's what the IDW TF collections are for. They collect all the stuff in order. Furman's IDW run of Spotlight issues and miniseries, All Hail Megatron and the ongoing that span out of that, and then the More Than Meets The Eye era of IDW (this is all the post-war stuff, the adventures of the Lost Light, Starscream as a political figure, Windblade, Autobot Megatron, and so on).
I call them three eras because Furman's stuff feels different than AHM onwards (which is designed as a jumping on point), and this in turn feels different from MTMTE and Robots In Disguise, which are also designed as jumping on points for the third 'era' (these two ran at the same time).
If you want all the things, pick up the collections starting at volume one of Phase One. (amazon link to make it easy to tell which book I mean)
All Hail Megatron starts with volume 5 of the 'Phase One' collections (amazon link). Aside from being a soft reboot, the main variation is that Furman's line focused more on the 'in disguise' content and presented Earth as just one front among many, with an overplot involving the 'Dead Universe'. All Hail Megatron has the Decepticons conquer Earth and kind of brings things back to an Earth-centric focus.
If what you're looking for is the post-war stuff, the content most people talk about when they say IDW, that's helpfully noted in the collections as Phase Two. Pick up volume one of that (amazon link) and start from there.
It's worth noting that the read order with these collections can be a little jumpy, especially in Phase Two where the intended chronological read order means it has to juggle two largely unconnected ongoings and also the various miniseries. It's still perfectly readable and everything and is far from a major issue, you'll just go from the adventures of these guys to those guys to these other guys and back again a lot.
This is a glow-in-the-dark screen print we made for comic artist Farel Dalrymple, who co-founded meathaus, created pop gun war, drew Marvel’s Omega the Unknown and contributed to Prophet. He’s currently writing and drawing the webcomic IT WILL ALL HURT for studygroupcomics and working on a 300-page comic, The Wrenchies, for First Second Books. He’s going to be at Locust Moon Comic Festival in Philadelphia, and at the Locust Moon booth at NYCC so say hello if you go! He’s really nice and we had a great time making this print for him.
Moebius also created another Incal-like fantasy series that is not as well known: The Edena cycle, originally published in five volumes, and today available in a single volume in English as The World of Edena. It's the only epic series that he wrote himself without any collaborators, but it's about as crazy and imaginative as anything he did together with Jodorowsky. The style is quite close to The Incal, but a little cleaner and less "dirty".
Simon Roy's Prophet series (still ongoing) is fantastic and very Moebius/Jodorowsky at times.
I'd also recommend Benoit Peeters' Obscure Cities series.
http://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Volume-1-Remission-TP/dp/1607066114/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346343705&sr=8-1&keywords=prophet+remission
Just do it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1600106676/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1421690015&sr=8-1
This one.
For a majority of the time, you can read just Amazing and be totally fine. When you get to the 90's (and especially during the Clone Saga, which starts around #390 and goes till around #420), you need to read the ancillary books (Spectacular, Web Of, Sensational, etc), as the story is told in all of them (part 1 being in Amazing, part 2 in Spectacular, part 3 in Web Of, etc). You won't have any idea what is happening without reading those.
This goes till about #450-ish. After which, you can go back to just reading Amazing.
Also make sure you read the original Secret Wars story before reading Amazing Spider-Man #252.
> I remember my cousins telling me about Dr Doom. He always seemed really cool, what do you know about him?
hahah EVERYTHING. Here is my recommendations for Doom
Starting point:
Must Reads:
Suggested Readings:
"In bulk" is kind of a funny criterion. Do you ever hear someone asking for a really long book? I think you'll find that the GNs on the sidebar are all amazing, even though they don't come in a large collection.
That being said, I think the complete Bone collection is decently priced ($22 !!). The paperback version of the complete Calvin & Hobbes looks to be priced insanely cheaply ($62) for the quality. It also looks like you can get the entire Y: The Last Man collection for $100.
I've built my collection (relatively) cheaply as follows:
edit: formatting
Absolute Blackest Night is the best edition.
Available on Amazon.
Thanks for all the recommendations. I'll look into those, see if they sound interesting.
Y: The Last Man is on my Amazon wish list; I've heard great things and am considering getting the Deluxe Edition books.
I bought Absolute Blackest Night and that summed it up pretty well. If you really want the pre-stories then yeah start with Green Lantern: Rebirth, but for me personally the Absolute version had everything I was looking for. It's a little pricey but the oversized artwork is great.
Here's a link to it on amazon if you wanna check it out
My bad, I thought you meant Vol 1 like this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1401234550/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473897787&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=green+lantern+vol+1
I didn't realise you meant Omnibus 1
Yeah the one you got is the perfect starting place, you are in for one hell of an adventure, I envy you for being able to experience this for the first time, I read all of Johns run in about 6 days, I'm normally quite a quick reader, but I was on vacation for 3 weeks and figured they would last me until after I got back, I didn't expect to make it through 1 while I was there, but I was so drawn into the story I couldn't put it down, I ended up reading until like 2-3 in the morning because it was so amazing
You want to read
Sinestro Corps War which is GL #21-25 and GLC #14-19
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-Sinestro-Corps-War/dp/1401233015/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409177379&sr=1-1&keywords=green+lantern+sinestro+corps+war
Rage of the Red Lanterns which is GL #26-28 #36-38 and misc
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-Rage-Red-Lanterns/dp/1401223028/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0H9NBEHYRPHYVQFQNZK4
Agent Orange which is #39-42
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-Orange-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401224202/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
Blackest Night Blackest night #0-8
http://www.amazon.com/Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401229530/ref=pd_sim_b_11?ie=UTF8&refRID=1APX9NW9JBA4FB73WEDV
and Green Lantern: Blackest Night which has 43-52
Honestly just read all of Geoff Johns gl run, but that s the bare skeleton for your rainbow lanterns
edit: 29-35 is just an origin story for hal jordan. read it or not. doesnt matter too much
Hal Jordan
Emerald Dawn
Emerald Dawn II
Emerald Twilight
As Parallax
Zero Hour
The Final Night
As The Spectre
Green Lantern: Power of Ion
Green Lantern: Brother's Keeper
Rebirth
Green Lantern: Rebirth
Green Lantern: No Fear
Revenge of the Green Lanterns
Wanted: Hal Jordan
Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War
Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern: Agent Orange
Blackest Night
Green Lantern: Blackest Night
Brightest Day
Green Lantern: Brightest Day
War of the Green Lanterns
War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath
This is what I've got for Hal Jordan so far.. up until the new 52.
For prior reading, if you have the money get all of Geoff Johns' Green Lantern run up to Blackest Night (you can do this through issues, trades, or omnibuses, whatever you like).
For the main story I suggest following this issue by issue reading order (if you want to get those issues in trades it's Blackest Night, Blackest Night: Green Lantern, Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps, and Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps). There are other stuff but those are just tie ins showing other characters during the event. After the even just continue with the rest of Johns' GL run (reading order here).
For Sinestro Corps War just get this paperback and if you want, this trade of tie in one shots, you can probably find the order to read them somewhere online.
Start with the Judge Dredd complete case files 01, and go up from there. Cheap phone books so a great value. It gets really good when you get from 4 to 5 if you feel like skipping ahead.
http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-01/dp/1906735875/
this is a fun way to start it's where everyone else (who has followed ol' stony face since the beginning) started, the first years worth of weekly stories from his initial appearance onwards. Massive (320 pages) chunk of undiluted thrillpower (black and white, as the originals were). Dive in!
I love him too. They printed the stories in complete and chronological in beautiful trades. I started there. They pick up pretty quick and its entertaining to read all the classics.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1906735875/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=61t%2BQOXC07L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL100_SR100%2C100_&refRID=0N74WGEMY41HVN0RRMNK
Indeed it is
Edit: also, if you have the DC comics app on a tablet or phone, you can search crisis and it will list all the main crisis series and tie ins for you.
Introduction to Comics
How to Get Into Comic Books (13:40) | Patrick Willems
Consider your intent/commitment. Think about your favorite shows, movies, books, etc. Reading primarily for enjoyment or encyclopedic knowledge? Collecting? Have the time/resources to read 50 or 500 comics per character?
Don’t try to read everything at once. There’s too much. Forget about catching up, continuity, universes, etc. for now. Older comics can be an acquired taste for modern audiences, so they aren’t necessarily ideal starting points. Writers change often, characters get re-worked, and origins are re-told. Remember, there are many great characters, creators, publishers, etc. to explore.
Pick an interesting character/team and seek their most popular/acclaimed stories. Focus on self-contained, complete stories in one corner of the universe. There will be unexplained references/characters, just persevere or Wiki. Don’t let the tangled web of shared-universe comics overwhelm you. Think of it like solving a jigsaw puzzle one small piece at a time until you finally see the big picture.
Discover your preferences and let them guide you. Don’t get stuck preparing/over-analyzing, just start reading. Do you like/dislike old/new comics? Specific writers/genres? Cartoony/realistic art? Familiar/weird concepts? References/self-contained? All-ages/mature content? Follow these instincts. Didn’t understand a reference? Maybe read that next.
Acquire/Buy comics:
Marvel
DC
You can skip to the 2016 re-launch with DC Universe: Rebirth and then any Rebirth series #1.
Other
It was mainly contained in it's own series called Crisis on Infinite Earths. I picked it up a while back from my local library. Magical place, they let me grab any book that's over a year old. Ask the librarian about that.
I'm gonna give you an example of something I read through. One of the more recent and big events was Batman: Death of the Family, which is all about Joker coming back and raising hell for the Batfamily. There's like 30 issues total involved with this story. You have the main Batman series, there's Batman and Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Catwoman, Detective Comics, Teen Titans, Batman: The Dark Knight, Suicide Squad... and most of everything was just not worth it. There were only 5 essential issues you had to read for this, which was Batman 13-17
Here was my personal reading list for this event:
And I don't feel like a missed a damn thing. If you want another place to start, I say go for what I listed right there. It's 2 full story lines that advance a plot with some branching paths you can choose to check out on your own.
Since you've already read New 52 there isn't really a defined order to follow... but there is some recommended reading on the sidebar. Of all those definitely, definitely read Flashpoint, not just the Flash main story but Project Superman and Knight of Vengeance are great one-offs for those characters too. I also really like Born to Run And if you read Flashpoint and liked Flash interacting with other big namers read Crisis on Infinite Earths it's one of the biggest DC events and features some epic Flash action
I’m assuming you probably heard or read a lot of these already but their worth repeating on the chance that you haven’t.
It's on the [DC Universe] (https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/crisis-on-infinite-earths/9652d451-a531-41d6-bcbb-b66399a15ee7) service, so the cheapest legal digital option would be to start a free trial and read it.
If you prefer physical comics, it's on Amazon for $20, but I'd check your local libraries for it before buying it.
There is actually a recent (this year, I believe?) comic book adaptation of the first draft of the script, entitled The Star Wars, with the original Annikin Starkiller protagonist and all of that:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413591253&sr=8-1&keywords=the+star+wars+comic
>The universe of The Star Wars features the Jedi-Bendu as having been the personal bodyguards of a generally benevolent Emperor for 100,000 years, before the rise of the villainous Knights of Sith. At its core, the story features a young Annikin Starkiller, son of former Jedi Bendu Kane Starkiller, leaving their homeworld Utapau in the Kessil system for Aquilae, a planet which is still independent of the New Galactic Empire. Whereas the finished Episode IV featured Obi-Wan Kenobi in the role of the wise elder, The Star Wars has an older Luke Skywalker in the role of teacher to young protagonist Annikin Starkiller.
>http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Star_Wars
Man, he really reminds me of Luke Skywalker from "The Star Wars" comics book. He just needs the weird head thing.
I'm just going to mention one thing: Prophet, by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy. It's among the best SF comics I've ever read.
If I might go of topic a bit, you might want to look at some of the Tradebacks for the comic Prophet they're fantastic and draw quite heavily on fantasy elements as well as sci-fi.
The Complete Collections.
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-IDW-Collection-Simon-Furman/dp/1600106676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419370797&sr=8-1&keywords=transformers+idw
Or here
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-IDW-Collection-Phase-Volume/dp/1631400401/ref=pd_sim_b_8?ie=UTF8&refRID=1RZ86J3726T4SD8DVF5M
I just checked on amazon what people had them listed at and cant help but laugh. Its gonna be a swift kick in the nuts to anyone who buys that shit if they ever reprint it or release a digital copy for like $30-50.
Start here and work through all the volumes. There are 24 volumes.
Around volume 3 when Judge Death pops on the scene is when it gets reaaaal good.
This is so sweet of you !!
this comic book its Paper Girls. I’ve been wanting to read it for quite a while 🙈 I have it on my books list.
These days, I would recommend buying the "Complete Case Files" albums, which each contain one year's worth of Judge Dredd comics.
There are currently 20+ of them released and they are constantly releasing more.
This one contains all the comics from 1977 -
http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-01/dp/1906735875/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415690277&sr=1-1&keywords=judge+dredd
It's quite important to read them chronologically, so I wouldn't recommend starting from the middle or somewhere else on the timeline.
SSTB has 10 issues that were put into the ultimate edition you have linked there
IKS has 12 issues that were also put into an ultimate edition, here, it looks like they might be having a reprint?
GA 1 has 12 issues (that I don't think have quite all release yet, but I might be wrong). Will likely be getting an ultimate edition too, as there is a collected version for the first 6 issues. Shitty thing for these was that I ordered the first six, and went to order 7-12 when they were available, but Merchnow decided it wasn't shipping to Canada anymore for some reason. Gotta hope for that ultimate edition
YOTBR has an actual novel. Not large amount of them printed though, but it's available as an e-book, which is how I read it. It's not bad
Everything else is from his previous attempt to make the comics come to life. The original two issues for SSTB are actually in the bonus pages of the ultimate edition, so that's cool. The original GA graphic novel is super confusing, hence them redoing it
The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6EtJBbV80VAYW
I couldn't really find anything on your list so I will suggest that if you like video games Mirror's Edge Catalyst your strong female woman in the future who the Free Runner I think it should be on everyone list (This can be found on my most wanted list)
I'm suggesting this for you. you should definitely read this since you're huge Once Upon a Time fan I will suggest a comic fables It takes place after all of the fairy tales have been exiled from their homeworld only to be thrust into the city of new york
Also while I'm suggesting things you might like here's another book [paper girls](https://smile.amazon.com/Paper-Girls-1-Brian-Vaughan/dp/1632156741/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1632156741&pd_rd_r=MAPPK6XEG1AY0H60G7YE&pd_rd_w=QQ0gA&pd_rd_wg=omwOK&psc=1&refRID=MAPPK6XEG1AY0H60G7YE
) Just take my word for it me just giving you a synopsis for it would just ruin it
Balloons are fun
I hope this coming year will bring every success you deserve. Happy birthday.
There's also Superman: Red Son where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of Kansas.
Just read it recently - quite a good story.
Here you go.
Mark Millar(the guy who wrote kickass) has several series running right now, MPH with Duncan Fegredo, Jupiter's Legacy with Frank Quietly and Starlight with Goran Parlov. None of these have been collected in paperback or Hardback format yet.
Millar is a very criticized author, lots of people hate his work, but one series that usually gets recommended is his Supercrooks series.
Millar also did an out-of-continuity Superman mini-series called Superman: Red Son, which was good, not spectacular, but good.
Bryan Lee O'Malley has another Graphic Novel(an actual Graphic Novel) called Lost at Sea, haven't read it so I can't comment on it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785158685/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Is this what you're talking about?
If you get that, you can read it and you will have "Blackest Night" - you'll get the story, and it will be pretty coherent. There was also a few Green Lantern Corps issues that "tie in" which means that they lend some extra context to what's happening in the big book, but you could just read that big book without them and be fine. They're extra, but unnecessary.
Of course, Blackest Night was the culmination of a lot of things that had been going on in the Green Lantern Corps. You'll enjoy BN much more if you have read Agent Orange, Rage of the Red Laterns, and all the other stuff since 2005. But that stuff isn't neccessary - you can follow the story of BN well enough without it.
>Is blackest night not included in the main green lantern comics?
If this was 2009 (?) and you were just buying the Green Lantern title, you'd miss out on some of Blackest Night. There were 8 or 9 issues that were titled "Blackest Night #1, #2, etc." I think Black Hand's origins are told in the backups for the Blackest Night Title. Not sure if they're present in that book I linked, but they probably are.
Yes, I just don't have them. I don't know if the Brightest Day Omnibus has the GL issues included or just the 24 main ones (it's not even out yet). But either way, you don't need to read GL: BD and BD at the same time because there's only one moment that they actually overlap. GL: BD mostly sets up the next trade.
Blackest Night
Brightest Day
https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401240739
Blackest Night spans multiple trades. This is the collection of the entire arc, but does not include Tales of the Black Lantern Corps or Green Lanter Corps: Blackest Night. This contains all of the Brightest Day arc itself, but does not include Green Lantern: Brightest Day, which sets up the next major Green Lantern arc, War of the Green Lanterns
Brightest Day
Absolute Blackest Night
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The deluxe hardcover book set.
Geoff Johns' run started in 2005 and ran into the first few years of the New 52 (the first 3 volumes iirc). The best way to read it would be through the 3 omnibus' since the normal trades are hard to come by, but if you don't want to dive into a long run without knowing anything about it I'd recommend picking up the Sinestro Corps War. It's the first major arc from his run and it does have some lead up to it, but I think it stands on it's own fairly well.
Probably either Aquaman for reasons stated above or Resurrection Man...Who can't seem to carry a book whenever he gets it for some reason. What is it about a hero who revives himself and gets new powers whenever he does that drives people away? Anyway, I'd like this, though anything from [my comic wishlist would be great] (http://amzn.com/w/EB4LKC2LAB3H)
House of M has some of my favorite Spider-Man pages in comics. I definitely liked it. It was kind of like a What If... maxi-series and I dig stuff like that. It did have huge changes for the marvel universe, mostly for the X-Men. None of the tie-ins are worth it though.
Other Events:
If you're an X-Fan, Decimation is a good place to start Post-House of M.
Civil War (Digital) is obviously a big one, but The Road To Civil War (Digital) is worth picking up first. As for tie-ins, I was reading Spider-Man at the time and liked it, but haven't read any of the others.
If you think you'll like that, Civil War: Frontline also gets praise, but I'm lukewarm on it.
After that Planet Hulk(Digital) and World War Hulk (Digital) were both a lot of fun.
Finally, going back to pre-House of M even. Secret War (Digital).Covert-ops story with Spider-Man, Daredevil, Wolverine, Cap, and Widow, some of the most beautiful painted art in recent comics.
I think Deadpool is probably a character where you won't really be missing out by not getting his full history.
The X-men as a whole almost demand someone going back through classic stories or at least massive Wikipedia entries to understand the twists and turns and continuity that led to this spot, but since Deadpool is mostly a 4th wall breaking, wacky character, you should be able to start just about anywhere.
If you do want to start with the earliest Deadpools, Marvel released some Deadpool Classic trade paperbacks a while ago, but you really should be able to jump into any of the more recent series, like when the Deadpool craze really reached its peak beginning of Daniel Way's run, or the most recent Marvel Now! series.
scavenger hunts are my favorite I can't wait to start
wade wilsons war
cable and deadpool
secret invasion
My total is $18.27
$6.00 for this ebook
$12.27 for this comic book
I recommend reading Secret Invasion prior to reading Vol. 2: World's Most Wanted. It is essential to understanding the story.
I really enjoyed JMS's run on Thor. The art by Olivier Coipel is great. It leads into the Siege event which is pretty cool too.
If you haven't already, you should read J. Michael Straczynski's run of Thor and Thor's tie in to Siege (which is the best part considering it is the Siege of Asgard). Doom is a bit extreme in those. At least in the Siege part.
Thor Vol. 1
Thor Vol. 2
Thor Vol. 3
Thor by Kieron Gillen
Siege
Also The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 by Jason Aaron has a pretty cool appearance by Doom.
So, the Ragnarok storyline and what leads up to it is generally not very well received. I personally haven't read it, but don't hear great things.
However, all of the work on Thor since then has been fairly outstanding.
The story that brought Thor back to comics was done by JMS. The writing is fairly good, but the artwork is some of the best Marvel has ever done and it makes it almost a must read. Kieron Gillen then continues these story arcs for a bit up until the "Siege" crossover event which features Norman Osborn's HAMMER going up against the Avengers at Asgard. I personally like Gillen's writing more but the artwork isn't quite as strong. It's still good, put Olivier Copiel's artwork is close to flawless so it's hard to compare.
After this, Matt Fraction came in for a bit. Honestly? The arc is underwhelming. It's very possible to skip this.
After this, Jason Aaron came in and is still working on this title right now. I think his first arc is a must read for any Thor fan.
So if you're really looking to dive into Thor, I would probably start with the JMS arc that is immediately post Ragnarok. If you want to get into the current Thor story and skip some of the other material, you can jump to Jason Aaron's run. Here are the links for amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Thor-Vol-J-Michael-Straczynski/dp/0785117229
http://www.amazon.com/Thor-God-Thunder-Vol-Butcher/dp/0785168427
The hardest ones to get into are the X-Men books, because their stories are so twisting and turning and there's a god damned crossover every six issues. So the following TPBs are listed from most recent to furthest back. If you pick up all of them, you will be sufficiently abreast of the current details in the X-Men's lives, but you can probably get a general idea if you just pick up the latest one or two.
X-Men Trade Paperbacks:
Also, if you want just GOOD X-Men stories that aren't particularly tied down by tie-ins and crossovers, pick up any of the "Astonishing X-Men" trades.
To know what's going on in the rest of the Marvel Universe (with the Avengers and whatnot) read some of these, again, listed most recent to further back:
Marvel Big Event Books:
There are, of course, nine million spinoff books, but if you pick up the main books, they're generally able to tell the whole story.
Other Great, Non-Crossover-Gold-Foil-Craziness Books from Marvel:
Creator-Owned Stuff That's Amazing:
NOW! That's like... $500 worth of trade paperbacks right there, if not more. Please don't try to buy all of those tomorrow.
But, those are some ideas of books that will be a good read. If I had to give you a top three list of TPBs to go out and buy tomorrow:
Here's the recommended reading for Bruce Banner Hulk from our reading guide (it contains the issue numbers, the release year and the writer/artist):
I also enjoyed the Totally Awesome Hulk that followed this with Amadeus Cho as the Hulk, but that's about to end, and Bruce Banner has a new series starting next month called The Immortal Hulk that I'm definitely getting.
Though I havent read it personally, Hawkeye has been recomendeded numerous times.
World War Hulk
Deadpool kils the marvel Universe was different.
Punk Rock Jesus is my friends all time favorite. And hes very comic minded.
I loved the Fables series. A bit long imo, but was an awesome story.
and
Y the last Man
Yeah sorry about that it is this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785132732/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?qid=1375806873&sr=8-8&pi=SL75
Secret invasion
This:
Deadpool: Secret Invasion
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Alias (Jessica Jones)
Avengers
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Here is Volume 1 and here is vol. The difference is the bigger Volume 1 has both vol.1 (issues 1-5) and vol.2. It also has the Thunderbolts issues.
I started with Straczynski's run, which picks up after the events of Ragnorok and the Civil War.
I have been reading comic books since about 2006 and here is my take.
Movie Tie-in Comics:
Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week
Iron Man 3 The Movie Prelude
Marvel's the Avengers: Black Widow Strikes
Avengers: Road to Marvel's The Avengers
There is also a Thor 2: The Dark World prelude comic currently being released.
Main Stream(616) Comics:
Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction is amazing and Matt Fraction is currently write this so it is ongoing.
Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 1: The Five Nightmares by Matt Fraction
Iron Man: Extremis by Warren Ellis is used parts of IM3.
Captain America Vol. 1: Winter Soldier, Book One by Ed Brukaber This will get you started on Brukaber's run with writing Captain America, his whole run is amazing.
For Thor check out this IGN Article
Planet Hulk and World War Hulk are good crossover events.
"Ultimate Universe" Comics:
The Ultimate Universe was created by Marvel to show what would happen if the heroes began poping up today and puts modern twist on heroes. For example image your grandfathers WWII GI Joe mindset in the body of a 26 year old for Captain America.
Ultimates Vol. 1, Ultimates Vol. 2, and The Ultimates 2: Ultimate Collection by Mark Millar are fantastic.
Edit: I should add that you should go and find your local comic book store.
Sentry is pretty instable mentally, so he's not very reliable. Osbourne manages to get him on the dark Avengers though. If you read Siege event, Sentry and Ares fight. Ot does not end well for one of them in a very wtf moment that caught me by surprise.
The Thor run vol 1-3 starting with 1 linked below is a great read. This shows Thor coming back after being gone for a while from Ragnorok (Thor disassembled). Definitely good to read this before Siege. I read those and dark Avengers Siege prelude and was very satisfied.
https://www.amazon.com/Thor-Vol-J-Michael-Straczynski/dp/0785117229
I'm quite partial to the J.M.S. run of Thor which is a few years old!
Thor J.M.S. Omnibus
or start here if you want to go the easiest route!
Thor Vol 1
Thor Vol 2
Thor Vol 3
My favorite superhero ever is Multiple Man (aka Jamie Madrox). If you don't know how his power works, he's able to create duplicates of himself every time his body is hit with some kind of impact (a punch, for instance). These duplicates have recently started having personalities of their own, and kind of represent different sides of his personality. He absorbs the memories of those duplicates he's sent out on missions, and is very intelligent. He's also a detective.
Anyway, my gift wish is Y: The Last Man Volume 1. I used to own the paperback versions of these, but lost them in a move. I've since decided that I should own the hardcovers, and this would start me off nicely. It's one of my favorite series.
Get The New version of Sinestro Corps War it's a combo of one and two that is why two is so rare, they should really phase out volume one so readers don't get confused. I know you already bought vol. 1 but this would probably be the cheapest option.
This happened in Green Lantern Vol 4 #25, Part 11 of the Sinestro Corps War. Here is a link for the trade paperback that collects this issue: Amazon or InStockTrades
You can start here for all the stuff you mentioned.
I would say that if you have read the Blackest Night trade and are happy with how the story is,(ie. you want to start reading from that point, there is a lot of story before that, but the wiki is your friend if you dont want to break the bank) then it is easy enough to get into the new 52.
Assuming for a minute you want the green lantern corps stories as well. You are looking at:
That leads you all the way up to the new 52 ( and tbh you could get away with just blackest night, brightest day and war) where you have to first volume of the 4 new series all out so far:
So overall, starting at blackest night, you are looking at about $150 or so, and thats not including 2nd hand, sales if you can find em, etc.
I would say you would be paying about the same, or a little more towards 200 dollars to collect the stories from the start of Johns' run (rebirth) up to blackest night. If youre not looking to spend a lot of money, what I would recommend is just read blackest night and then dive straight into the new 52. It will take some googling, but sometimes you just need to jump into a story and get your hands dirty so that you can enjoy it going forward. Sometimes its just too much effort, time and moveywise, to amass the entire story run.
Hope that helps!
if you buy and ship me one of the following items from amazon or instocktrades. The price on this book is crazy, plenty of $20+ and a bunch under <$10. in the past 30 days, 1 sold for 1.47 and two sold for $38. I don't get it. So I really don't know the best way to price this and I thought - "I just really want this gone so I can read something I do want to read". Here we are...
Trying something new, bare with me. I'm valuing the completion of my certain runs more heavily than paypal so let's work something out.
I'm going to be updating the list later with more. Thanks happy thanksgiving.
HARDCOVER Batman &amp; Robin vol 4 (dick bats, not new 52)
HARDCOVER Wonder Woman vol1 new 52
HARDCOVER Superman/WonderWoman Vol 1
HARDCOVER The Wake
HARDCOVER DELUXE Y the last man - I really need this one and would sweeten the deal because I've got Vol 2,3 but I cant read them until I read 1...
I wasn't a big fan of Supes but I grew to like him after reading Superman: Red Son and All Star Superman
Thanks for reminding me to add Hawkguy to my Marvel/DC list lol I only read the first few.
Do you know of any good solo Gambit stories?
There you go.
See, there's two Secret Wars, right? I found this one that has no author listed (at least easily) and then when I was in Barnes & Noble there was a different Secret Wars that looked more up to date, and I'm guessing is the 2015 version.
It'd be silly for it not to be.
From the amazon page.
> This volume collects: Blackest Night #0-8, select pages from DC Universe #0 and Green Lantern #44-48, 50-52.
And just for clarity: Issue #49 was a Green Lantern Corps tie in following John Stewart.
I just put this one on my wish list confident that Jim Lee's artwork will be enough for me to enjoy the book, however, the plot sounds pretty intriguing as well. I really like that dynamic about comic books - obviously the ideal is great art and a great story, but sometimes one leans on the other and that's OK too as long as neither is totally absent.
Edit for next week vote: Since I don't suppose you guys and girls will wanna discuss this one again after I've read it, Ill vote Superman: Red Son as the new edition comes out on the 8th.
Superman: Red Son
All Star Superman
Superman: American Alien
Batman and Superman Number One
Throne of Atlantis from Justice League and Aquaman
If you haven't yet Watchmen is a must for any reader, comics or not
Anything Geoff Johns wrote for Green Lantern (Frankly anything he's written for DC). He has 3 Omnibuses (Very Large Collections with MANY stories). Particularly look for:
Green Lantern Rebirth
Flash Rebirth
Flashpoint
Blackest Night
In Brightest Day
Geoff Johns Omnibuses
Or always Peruse other Trades/Omnibuses to see what piques your interest
Also, I know it's a DC sub, but if you're okay with adult themes: Saga
Make sure if you DO buy the trades, you find a decent reading list online. If you read them book after book you're going to be confused.
This might help: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?322514-Blackest-Night-TPB-Reading-Order (DC compiled Blackest Night pretty poorly in TPB form).
Also, be on the lookout for Absolute Blackest Night, coming out fairly soon! http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401240739
Oh, and here's a bonus from IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/11/the-absolute-blackest-night-guide
ME TOO!! It is one of the most beautiful comics I have seen. All the color is mesmerizing...so awesome.
You need this my friend!
Well there are two types of volumes now: the comic volume and the trade volume. The comic volume starts at issue one and goes until the series ends and when they start the series up again they start at 1 again and is considered the next volume. Each of these volumes can go on for hundreds of issues. A trade volume is they do books that collect 5 to 7 issues, however long that arc is, so volume one will be issues 1 through 6 and volume 2 will be issues 7 through 12 and so on. So the current comic volume is 5 and the first trade volume is this and the second trade volume is this one. After those you get more choices because the Lantern books started having events that involved all 4 books so you can buy the vol 3 trade or the cross over book that will collect Green lantern; as well as the other Lantern books that tie into the event. If you want to go the floppy route and buy individual issues though then you are talking about probably spending quite a bit more money.
)Ah; okay Volumes. Not to be confused with Trade Volumes; Series Volumes are (usually not collected entirely) the series in years. So for example Volume 4 Went from 2005-2011. And in 2011- Present is Volume 5; which is also considered, New 52 Green Lantern.
If they mean they want to start here, I'm assuming that means they've read previous entries, as this starts in the middle of something. This series currently has 24 issues, a 0 issue, and an Annual Issue. There are multiple ways of getting them to your friend. Volumes 1 and 2 of this series is actually out now on Paperback, and both contain issues 1-12. And I believe Volume 3 is in HC now.
As pointed out by another user; you can also hunt down the individual issues; but they may cost more, especially issue 1. You can also go digital; if that's an option. Green Lantern also crosses over with 3 other GL related books, GL: New Guardians, GL Corps and Red Lanterns. GL: New Guardians and GL Corps are both EXCELLENT books, while Red Lanterns starts off slow, but REALLY picks up; currently a fan favorite. Although its not nessesary to read all of them to continue reading Green Lantern it certainly helps.
I mean, you listed 3 DC characters with some pretty good series in the New 52, DC's reboot starting in 2011. Personally, I would just start with the following volumes (volume 2 for all of them are out now).
[Green Lantern] (http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-Vol-Sinestro-The/dp/1401234550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373966825&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=green+lantern+vol+1)
[The Flash] (http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Vol-Move-Forward-New/dp/1401235530/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373966892&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+flash+vol+1)
[Batman] (http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Vol-Court-Owls-New/dp/1401235425/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373966919&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Batman+vol+1)
Additionally, I would recommend [Animal Man] (http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Man-Vol-Hunt-New/dp/1401235077/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373966984&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Animal+Man) or [All-Star Western] (http://www.amazon.com/All-Star-Western-Vol-Gotham/dp/1401237096/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373967018&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=all-star+western) for something different. All of these series are very new-reader friendly, with no continuity bogging them down. Batman's by far the most popular, and for pretty good reason. Hope this helps!
Any idea if this edition found on Amazon has the original colouring and offers the full story? There's not much info on the product page.
Ah jeez...that is a though one. Sadly "Art of Moebius" (and i have it) is not very good. I mean its very good book, but it covers so little of his immense work that its kind of pointless.
The Fifth Element book has works from different artists, so its not great choice for all Moebius book.
Its quite though to find a good artbook by him - but this one is considered to be quite encompassing
http://cdn.halcyonrealms.com/illustration/moebius-oeuvres-art-book-review/
However I would rather go with his comics for more artwork and considerably lower price :
https://www.amazon.com/Moebius-Airtight-Garage-Graphic-novel/dp/087135280X/ref=sr_1_27?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1474276543&amp;sr=1-27&amp;keywords=moebius
https://www.amazon.com/Incal-Alexandro-Jodorowsky/dp/1594650934/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=5W6C6VC79MHES49ZNNTX
I'm basically in the same boat as you.
You can actually just buy the collected Crisis on Infinite Earths and you'll be fine in terms of what's happening. At least, I had no problem with following the story.
I'm actually really surprised to see all of these other comics associated with it, I had no idea. I mean, i sort of had a sense that there should be because it was a huge event, but I've never seen this list before.
Haven’t seen Arzach in English anywhere but the Incal is on Amazon for a good price.
The Incal
Yeah I’m aware, but is this one one or the other?
The Incal https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594650934/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_SCT6BbBE9WQKM
Check these out too: SSTB, IKSSE:3.
YOTBR ebook on amazon too but as an ebook.
Currently in stock at amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Keeping-Secrets-Silent/dp/1684151570
there is hardcover and then there is ultimate edition. UE is cool with all the extras. Amazon has most of them. however i had to hit ebay for one of the UE. but verify in photos! one was sent to me and it was listed as hardcover but wasn’t. so check with the seller
The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Ultimate Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684155142/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_n68LDbBMM1T2B
The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Z68LDb4SX94C7
(hardcover, not UE)
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F274002995720
(says UE on listing but the cover doesn’t show that, so verify with seller)
It's available pre-order at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1684151570/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497567669&amp;sr=8-3&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&amp;keywords=in+keeping+secrets
Case files would be a good start. On Amazon they are around 10 bucks.
I would start with a collection of works like: Case Files
Jumping into an arc might be a bit much. But whatever.
I used to work at a comic book store and love comics! Here are my recommendations:
For Marvel:
New Silver Surfer Comics (Although I might be partial because he is my favorite superhero.)
New Ms. Marvel They do a great job of making the comic very relevant for today. No idea why it is this much on Amazon, but you can find it for cheap elsewhere.
Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. Supposed to be hilarious because Joss Whedon.
Great if you like Post-Apocalyptic Stuff:
Saga is great for beginners. My housemate had no interest in graphic novels and now she is hooked because she started with Saga.
Y: the Last Man has such a compelling storyline, can't stop reading the series!
Rover Red Charlie because I love animals and apocalypses! I always can't wait for the next one! (Also find it cheaper elsewhere)
We3 Your heart will die, but you will wish you had more to read!
Two I haven't read yet but are supposed to be Apocalyptic:
Sweet Tooth Look weird but cool.
Prophet Looks intense but worth the read.
For myself Blacksad because he is a cat detective. Need I say more?
And check out the Humble Bundle Image comic sale because you can buy some for one cent or the others for way cheap if you want some digital copies to interest you.
Edit: Added missing links and comments below for one super comment!
Prophet. Everybody read Prophet now.
http://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Vol-Remission-Simon-Roy/dp/1607066114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458587589&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Prophet
The newest run of Prophet headed up by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy.
So obviously the dude is biased. Watch everything for what they are. I recommend to start from the start: G1 Seasons 1 and 2 then 1986 movie. And then move on from there chronologically. If you’re not liking something, then skip to the next. On comics, you can also start with the Marvel G1, or you can go ahead and start reading the IDW Collections .
Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600106676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_OLASAb280Y5XA
Couple of third party sellers have it.
There was an post a few weeks back about that, I just picked up the hardcover IDW Vol1, and I'm about half way through that. There's 9 volumes right now, and each run $30-40. It's going to make my wallet cry, but I can't find the CW figures right now anyway, so... there's that.
It's the perfect place to start. Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 (Transformers Idw Collection Hc) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600106676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_qigRybZA436QZ
I definitely agree with the posters above...if you have the ability then you should definitely support the franchise and buy them when you can...you should check out the collected editions
My real first name is Blaze, The word Silver is in my last name, I love Sherlock Holmes (there is a case with a horse name Silverblaze), and I was born in 92. Nothing too special.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1607066114/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=21I2TT3IVMZP5&amp;coliid=I2MUI3AI9C3YBQ
Edit: Also, congrats on the job! I just started something new myself.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1613779194?pc_redir=1397872803&amp;robot_redir=1
Depending on what your into, I have an extra copy of Prophet Volume 1 (strangely enough, I accidentally ordered 2 from Amazon and didn't return one in time either). It's not equal value, but the offer is there.
yes! they put out the amory wars based off of their records
Second Stage Turbine Blade
http://www.amazon.com/AMORY-WARS-ULTIMATE-Amory-Wars/dp/1608860353
In keeping secrets
http://www.amazon.com/AMORY-SECRETS-SILENT-EARTH-Amory/dp/1608861023
And yes, Frank Miller is awesome, I have read Watchmen a few times over along with his Dark Knight returns
Were you happy with the Watchmen movie?
And were you disappointed when you hear there would be a Superman Vs Batman that WASN'T The Dark Knight Returns!?
If anyone is interested in comics, there was an adaptation of Lucas's original script, The Star Wars, the art is often inspired by McQuarrie's work.
I highly suggest tracking down The Star Wars comicbook. It is based on Lucas' original version of the script. It has Han Solo as a big Green alien, and a bunch of the names are switched around. But in it stuff like "The Wills" "Padawan" and Sith are used. The Jedi are are called the Jedi-bendu, which is where the name for that character in Rebels comes from. Its pretty interesting to see how much it changed. And indeed prequels-eque political stuff was much more a part of the story. It does have a more Flash Gordon-y kind of vibe to it, but every Star Wars fan should read it IMO. To me it shows how Lucas' ideas became much more honed over various drafts of his script.
I'd also recommend tracking down Leigh Bright's draft of Star Wars 2 to see how much stuff changed there. In that version of the script Vader was not Luke's father. That will also show you how much Kasdan brought to that script.
https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Second-Turbine-Ultimate/dp/1608860353
https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Second-Turbine-Ultimate/dp/1608860353
I love the IDW comics myself. The 2011 series ran for sixteen issues and was then relaunched in 2013. The series follows the two movies and the video game as canon (with minor differences). You can pick up the 2011 series in paperbacks or a very nice Total Containment hardcover that collects all sixteen issues.
Then by all means buy it!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1408633416&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+Star+Wars
Is this different from Ghostbusters: Total Containment and Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria? As in, if there is more past those two collections....I may need to acquire these....This cover looks like something that happened in the Mass Hysteria book. I have both of them and they are great! Although, I'd consider both books to be Ghostbusters 4 with Ghostbusters 3 being the video game (since Rookie is introduced in the game and appears in the comics).
Okay, I'm going to sort this out for you because i fucking HATED the IDW comic series when it first launched. You need the Ghostbusters: Total Containment
https://www.amazon.com/Ghostbusters-Total-Containment-Deluxe-Collections/dp/1613779194
It has the IDW comics, including stuff that links to the movie. It picks up a little slow, but gets much better eventually. The first run of IDW comics where the guys all get killed and have to come back from the dead was absolutely stupid and terrible, and left a bad taste in my mouth, so i held out for years. Additionally, you should try to get your hands on the 88mph comics. there are only 4. you have to collect them in single issues, but it is above and beyond better than anything IDW has done. it really feels like an extension of the movies and is a joy to read. Unfortunately 88mph went out of business. so you need to hop on ebay to collect them all. WELL worth it though.
If you liked the game and want even more Ghostbusters check out the IDW Ghostbusters comic. It's an excellent continuation of the 2 movies and the game storyline. There are 2 main collections, Total Containment: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613779194 and Mass Hysteria: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631403362
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Infinite-Earths-Marv-Wolfman/dp/1563897504
https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Crisis-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401210600/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2/144-9893369-2487939?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=1401210600&amp;pd_rd_r=V38DZTYNDARAN7WD547K&amp;pd_rd_w=lNQwb&amp;pd_rd_wg=etAot&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=V38DZTYNDARAN7WD547K
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Crisis-New-Grant-Morrison/dp/140124517X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3/144-9893369-2487939?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=140124517X&amp;pd_rd_r=V38DZTYNDARAN7WD547K&amp;pd_rd_w=lNQwb&amp;pd_rd_wg=etAot&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=V38DZTYNDARAN7WD547K
There ya go! It's $45.93 for all three of them
So I did a little digging and saw that there was a old secret wars and then secret wars II and then your list when ends with the recent secret wars. So I ordered the first secret wars
If nothing else, get this Punisher TPB. It's not a superhero type comic, but it's excellent work.
If you enjoy the superhero type stuff, take heed of the other suggestions here and pick up stuff on the big crossover events. I'd suggest even going as far back as Secret Wars, but the newer stuff gives you more immediate insight into the current events. The crossovers show lots of different characters and can help you find specific titles to check out in case the characters intrigue you.
Even so, check out stuff from other publishers. My first suggestion would be Transmetropolitan.
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Wars-Jim-Shooter/dp/0785158685
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Wars-II-Jim-Shooter/dp/0785158308/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1398752734&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=secret+wars+2
Secret Wars https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785158685/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0l-jDb37GJXGY
Research ?
I mean Jesus fuck..This ain't some science presentation.
They could make Batman into an anti communist vigilante in Soviet Russia trying to take down a communist Superman and Wonder Woman and as long as it's good, I'll like it....
Oh wait...They did do that. It's called Red Son and it's fucking great.
Second Stage Turbine Blade comic.
In Keeping Secrets comic.
But my advice is don't read them. They are pretty bad and it's better to just listen to the albums and imagine what's going on yourself. I kind of wish I never read them.