I've found holes in digital unlimited, but it's usually the recent stuff or a couple issues smack in the middle of something old (like, from the '70s) for no good reason. I just checked, and they definitely have all of New Avengers (the issues were added between 2007 and 2011), all of Avengers Prime, all of Disassembled, most/all of Civil War. (Know they have the main event and series tie-ins, and I've tracked down some kind of obscure CW related stuff there too.)
Part of the problem is that the trades seem to be collected under the name of the story arc, if there is one (Disassembled; Red Zone). Outside the TPB, Red Zone ran in Avengers volume 3 #65-70. MCDU's search engine is so terrible that it's almost always easiest to search for by individual issue number. Like, searching for Red Zone doesn't bring up the issues, searching for "Avengers v3 65" brings up a freaking reference to the issues but not the issues themselves. I found it under "Avengers 65" and then Avengers (1998 - 2004). And then, #67 shows up as unavailable from the actual page, but if you click the read button from the overall listing it does load.
I guess MCDU's slogan should be We probably have it, how hard are you willing to work to find it, sucker?
Team type recs are probably the way to go, since you'll get interaction between Steve and Tony (not all that common in their solo stuff) and a bunch of others.
New Avengers #1 is the logical jump in point for modern Avengery goodness. It picks up after Disassembled.
I don't agree with all of these (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/02/the-25-greatest-avengers-stories?page=1), but there are definitely good ones in there. Anything catch your interest?
The current run of Avengers (it's up to #9) and Avengers Assemble (up to #14) are the ongoing team + Steve and Tony books to look at. Avengers is all worlds-being-destroyed cosmic-entities-in-tight-shiny-outfits, while Assemble is more banter-over-breakfast lizard-people-in-the-sewers speed.
For Steve, you'll hear people mention Brubaker's Captain America. That's volume 5, which covers a lot of ground (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_%28vol._5%29). Consider it background for the CA2 movie.
If you want to go old school, Tales of Suspense is the title where Iron Man (and Pepper, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Agent 13, a lot of villains) were introduced. Starting at #58, each book was split between an Iron Man story and a Cap story, with appearances by other Avengers too. A lot of the stuff has since been retconned, but modern writers keep returning to these old stories for inspiration.
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Part of the problem is that the trades seem to be collected under the name of the story arc, if there is one (Disassembled; Red Zone). Outside the TPB, Red Zone ran in Avengers volume 3 #65-70. MCDU's search engine is so terrible that it's almost always easiest to search for by individual issue number. Like, searching for Red Zone doesn't bring up the issues, searching for "Avengers v3 65" brings up a freaking reference to the issues but not the issues themselves. I found it under "Avengers 65" and then Avengers (1998 - 2004). And then, #67 shows up as unavailable from the actual page, but if you click the read button from the overall listing it does load.
I guess MCDU's slogan should be We probably have it, how hard are you willing to work to find it, sucker?
Team type recs are probably the way to go, since you'll get interaction between Steve and Tony (not all that common in their solo stuff) and a bunch of others.
New Avengers #1 is the logical jump in point for modern Avengery goodness. It picks up after Disassembled.
I don't agree with all of these (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/02/the-25-greatest-avengers-stories?page=1), but there are definitely good ones in there. Anything catch your interest?
The current run of Avengers (it's up to #9) and Avengers Assemble (up to #14) are the ongoing team + Steve and Tony books to look at. Avengers is all worlds-being-destroyed cosmic-entities-in-tight-shiny-outfits, while Assemble is more banter-over-breakfast lizard-people-in-the-sewers speed.
For Steve, you'll hear people mention Brubaker's Captain America. That's volume 5, which covers a lot of ground (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_%28vol._5%29). Consider it background for the CA2 movie.
If you want to go old school, Tales of Suspense is the title where Iron Man (and Pepper, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Agent 13, a lot of villains) were introduced. Starting at #58, each book was split between an Iron Man story and a Cap story, with appearances by other Avengers too. A lot of the stuff has since been retconned, but modern writers keep returning to these old stories for inspiration.