Marvel Comics Recommendations
New to Marvel? Just getting into a character or team and want to read back over their best back issues? Need to know where to start or what collections to pick up?
Well here is the best place to ask for MARVEL recommendations and also give your input on comics you dig and think other fans will too.
Proceed with the requests and recommendations!
Comic recommendations for a particular taste
I had a topic up yesterday, but it seems the site has been redone and all the posts are gone! So I'll try to summarize what I said then, here. Here are things that I'm looking for:
-I need a comic that, while it doesn't need to be FULL of violence, I need it to not be too cartoonish. If people are fighting, there needs to be blood, if someone's about to win, I'd prefer they not get tossed in jail or fly off into out space and preferably get pulverized or killed brutally (READ: it is not necessary, I'm only saying final battles are always more epic. I'll read any comic). These are superpowered or weaponized people, it needs to be realistic.
-I'm a big fan of Batman comics, and of course particularly love the joker. Due to Arkham City, I also like szaz. Disturbed bad guys are a plus. I also randomly read X-Force and loved it.
- realistic art is more preferable. I read All-Star Superman, and while the story was very good, the art style was a little too cartoony for me. Again I enjoyed the read, and as another example I also read "killing joke", which the art was leaning towards the "outdated" (IMO, doesn't mean it's bad) style, but the story was so good that it didn't matter.
- story matters most. Anything I've said can be reduced if it is a good story, I'm just trying to narrow it down.
-not too much outer space please. I can handle things going on near earth, but if a comic is mostly way out there and generally always there, it's going to need a very interesting story or it's going to lose me.
- I love the x-men, avengers, batman, Nightwing, wolverine, his son dakken (I NEED to find those comics, especially where they fight), magneto, cyborg, death stroke, Teen Titans (liked the CN show a lot, comics are probably different). They are all great, I've seen them in so many forms of games and movies, I want to read the best of the source material, the comics. IMPORTANT!!: I have read pretty much none of the comics of anyone I mentioned above, so recommendations for them are very welcome.
I'm open to all recommendations, these are only what I prefer. As I said, I enjoyed AS-Superman, but disturbing enemies and heroes with personal problems are more interesting. Punisher and Batman more than Superman and Wonderwoman. I WILL read supes if it's good, not crossing anything out. Any ideas?
Completely fallen behind on Marvel books, recs?
Was reading a fair few books (mostly X-Men stuff, Punisher and some of Daredevil & Hawkeye but I lost interest) last year but a while back I stopped reading comics for months and have only just been focusing on catching up on DC/indie/manga stuff till now. Any recs? From what I hear all the buzz is about Ms Marvel and Ghost Rider at the moment, though I don't know anything about the books other than seeing a few scanned panels here and there.
Last thing I really enjoyed from Marvel was Gillen's Journey Into Mystery, though Young Avengers didn't look that interesting to me so I never bothered. Favourite DC books at the moment are Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, Action Comics and Batman if that helps (would throw in a few more but I'm behind on Green Arrow and Red Lanterns too and Eternal and 'tec have only just gotten going).