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cap_ironman2012-07-03 11:17 am
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A trade paperback chronology
So, I don't know how useful this will be to anyone but me, but on the off chance that someone else has been looking for this information, I wanted to post it here. I figure I'm not the only person to be either drawn back into the fold of comics-reading by the recent films, or to want to dive in for the first time. And I think we all know that the Marvel continuity is *complicated*. There's nearly a dozen different books ongoing at any given moment about the Avengers alone, and they change the titles of them frequently.
When I went looking for a good starting point to recent events, I couldn't really find any resources that told me what went where in relation to what for current 616 continuity, so I decided to make my own. (To clarify: I was able to find lists of what order to read individual issues in, but nothing for the trade paperbacks, which was what I needed.)
So I made a giant chart listing marvel titles (currently, X-men and Avengers related, to expand to other titles in the future) so that I could see not only what order to read, say, Captain America in, but also how they related chronologically to, hypothetically, Invincible Iron Man and Avengers. (Or Secret Avengers. Or New Avengers. There's a lot of Avengers books out now.) Chart starts in 2009, with Siege, because that is where Steve and Tony finally kiss and make up after the whole Civil War/Secret Invasion/death and rebirth and brain deletion mess, and I have Needs.
Fake Cut to more detailed explanation and actual chart
Hope this is useful to someone else, and any thoughts for improvement welcomed!
When I went looking for a good starting point to recent events, I couldn't really find any resources that told me what went where in relation to what for current 616 continuity, so I decided to make my own. (To clarify: I was able to find lists of what order to read individual issues in, but nothing for the trade paperbacks, which was what I needed.)
So I made a giant chart listing marvel titles (currently, X-men and Avengers related, to expand to other titles in the future) so that I could see not only what order to read, say, Captain America in, but also how they related chronologically to, hypothetically, Invincible Iron Man and Avengers. (Or Secret Avengers. Or New Avengers. There's a lot of Avengers books out now.) Chart starts in 2009, with Siege, because that is where Steve and Tony finally kiss and make up after the whole Civil War/Secret Invasion/death and rebirth and brain deletion mess, and I have Needs.
Fake Cut to more detailed explanation and actual chart
Hope this is useful to someone else, and any thoughts for improvement welcomed!