Recommend Convergence Titles for New Readers

[Starchild]

Or read it because it looks like it may appeal to you, not to fulfill someone else's agenda.

[Hatut Zeraze]

Or read it because it looks like it may appeal to you, not to fulfill someone else's agenda.

Cheers to that. Read good stuff. It still surprises me how many people do otherwise, even by their own reckoning.

[Master X]

So it's wrong to know the history of a character, You're so misguided. Knowledge is power not lack there of. Read as much as you can not discourage them from doing so.

Just terrible. I don't know how you call yourself a comic book fan discouraging someone from reading and discovering for themselves what they like and don't like about a character.

Lexrules is at least some right here. Just read some of those synopsis of Post-Crisis Convergence stories. Some of those stories clearly carry on straight after the runs ended just before September. At least some of those require knowledge of what happened. I don't care how "new-reader friendly" they're supposed to be, a little foreknowledge of what went down would be best...though obviously not essential (I jumped straight into post-crisis early 2000s during several major arcs and still found my way about). Of course, that doesn't exactly narrow down what to read much.

[PyroSikTh]

As someone who's more familiar with the New52 than any other DC age, I'd recommend largely avoiding the tie-ins. I'll be buying the Convergence mini-series as that's what promises to be relevant, and the odd tie-in of the odd character that really interests me. Even then I'm still hesitant about buying any tie-ins. Like you I'm not really familiar with the references and importance of various things, so a lot of it will likely get lost on me.

[Prisoner 6655321]

At this point I'm planning on getting half of them.
Week 1
1. SUPERMAN
2. THE ATOM
3. SPEED FORCE
4. JUSTICE LEAGUE
5. QUESTION
Week 2
6. GREEN ARROW
7. SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL
8. JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL
9. SUPERGIRL: MATRIX
10. AQUAMAN
Week 3
11. SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
12. SWAMP THING
13. JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA
14. NEW TEEN TITANS
15. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
Week 4
16. JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
17. INFINITY INC.
18. WORLD’S FINEST COMICS
19. PLASTIC MAN AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS
20. BOOSTER GOLD