Marvel Secret Wars/Marvel Universe Reset

From what I understand, yes, Secret Wars will be a story arc setting up the reset.

What Star Wars comics are you collecting? The new Marvel ones or the old Dark Horse?

Awesome! One of my favorite stories is Crimson Empire. If you haven't snagged those I suggest you do. I've only read the first one and read the synopsis of the last two, but it involves one of the Crimson Guards of The Emperor. The first one tells some of the origins of where those guys some from.

I also suggest any of the Tales of the Jedi. Especially, Dark Lord of the Sith, which explains the rule of two and how it came to be. It also shows how mystical the Force really is and that it's not the only thing out there that can give people power.

(Not that any of that stuff matters now, but those comics are still good reads.)

As far as XMen goes, you can try starting on the original team, but I found the writing to be a bit stiff for my tastes.

A good option is to start with Giant-Size X-Men #1



then pick up X-Men #94



Follow the Claremont years all the way through to issue #279 (you could probably stop just before the Muir Island saga though). This will give you a very solid XMen foundation (and the more of the BEST XMen stories).

This is a good time to jump in. Read the Secret Wars for the reset and then just decide what characters you like. Then, start collecting their book if we're doing a true reset.

As for the History, I think the question is: what characters do you like? It's a huge universe, and you're just not going to catch up to everything. Marvel Unlimited is great for back issues as you can read online pretty much everything for one flat fee (but it doesn't include more recent issues).


To play catch up on the universe, I know this will rile a lot of Marvel purists off because its "whats wrong with Marvel" (and the criticism isn't wrong), but... read the crossover events. It's a great starting point:


*Avengers Disassembled
Secret War
*House of M
*Civil War
Illuminati
Secret Invasion
Dark Reign
*Siege
Dark Avengers/X-Men:Utopia
Fear Itself
Avengers v. X-Men

(whew)
(the starred ones are the abbreviated list of must reads)

But the best thing is, once you find a character you like, read their book. Find a writer you like? Read their stuff, whatever it is. There's a lot of stuff on the edge of continuity which is great (Moon Knight, Hawkeye, She-Hulk. Ms. Marvel). So there's no reason to be obsessed with the Big Events if you don't wanna.


If you like the X-Men... boy, are you in for some difficulties. I love Claremont, but you know what? I'm not gonna send someone 30 years in the past. Read the Grant Morrison run (New X-Men), follow it up with Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, and then read Carey's X-Men: Legacy.


Oh, and here's a good resource:

LINK

Thanks for the advice guys. Mainly looking to collect 4-5 lines of my favorite characters but I've always been scared away at the monumental task of collecting all the back issues. Now that my star wars collection is nearly complete I'm looking to branch out and figured if they were all starting back at #1 it'd be a good starting point. Never even considered Craigslist. But the challenge of the getting the back issues is intriguing.

I've read a few crossover events: Secret wars (original), Civil War, Infinity War.

Skip the 1980's Secret Wars. Make sure you get Secret War from the 00s. The original Secret Wars was designed solely to sell toys.

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If you like the X-Men... boy, are you in for some difficulties. I love Claremont, but you know what? I'm not gonna send someone 30 years in the past. Read the Grant Morrison run (New X-Men), follow it up with Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, and then read Carey's X-Men: Legacy.

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It'll be worse than that for Xmen fans when...

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after the current Secret Wars, mutants leave Earth for another planet because the terragenesis mist that is now all over the planet, evidently is lethal to mutants.

Conveniently causing the Xmen to have to be separated from the rest of the Marvel Universe.

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I don't really like that Marvel is letting the studio properties drive creative in the comics.

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Me either but that's how it is now and it won't change anytime soon.

The movies make billions and are making more every year and comics are selling less and less. It makes sense that they would try to do what they can to have the comics ride as much of that movie momentum as possible. It just sucks.

If you're a DC fan, pray that WB shits the bed with Batman vs Superman or they'll do the exact same thing.


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I'm not saying there aren't good titles out there with the big 2. I'm an older fan and don't mind change at all but the film motivated changes often fall very flat because of their lack of inspiration.