Comics question.

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Hi everyone! I'm a relative newbie to this fandom, and I want to get into the comics as well as the films, starting with the Marvel Adventures: Avengers arc where everything is sunshine and rainbows and then getting into the main continuity (Ults sounds like it may be too depressing for my taste). What's a good place for me to start? I was thinking I'd begin with paperbacks rather than issue by issue. Also, if anyone knows the breakdown on what's in what paperback in MA:A that would be enormously helpful, because everything I've found is horribly vague.

TL;DR Can anyone help the new kid?