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petrerpkr · 1 month
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marvel comics I recommend for beginners
X-men
X men(2010- 2024)
Uncanny x men (2012-2024)
X men blue (2017-2018)
Generation X
All-New Wolverine(2016-2018)
(laura as wolverine)
Wolverine and the x men (2011-2014)
All-New X-Men(2013-2017)
X-Men Red (2018-2024)
Uncanny X-Force(2010-2014)
Wolverine and Jubilee (2011)
X-Men Origins - Wolverine(2009)
X-Men Origins - Jean Grey(2008)
X-Men Origins - Emma Frost(2010)
X-Men Origins - Cyclops(2010)
Wolverine the Origin(2001)
Spider-Man & other spidey's
Amazing Spider-Man Or start here
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2012-2013)
Miles Morales spider-man (2014-2015)
Miles Morales spider-man (2019-2024)
Silk
Spider-Men(2012)
Spider-gwen (2015-2018)
Ghost-spider (2019-2020)
Spider-Man/Deadpool
Avengers and friends
Young Avengers Vol. 2 #1 (2013)
Avengers (2012-2024)
Uncanny Avengers(2012-2014)
Westcoast Avengers (2018-2019)
Captain America: Sam Wilson(2015-2017)
Black Widow(2010-2022)
Invincible Iron Man(2015-2017)
Ironheart (2019-2020)
Hawkeye(2012-2015)
Hawkeye freefall(2020)
Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver (2012)
Scarlet Witch (2016-2024)
Ect
The Unbelievable Gwenpool (2016-2018)
The Unworthy Thor(2016)
Totally Awesome Hulk(2016-2017)
Ms. Marvel(2014-2018)
Moon Knight(2014-2024)
Runaways(2017-2021)
Reading order here for more In depth list
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doomrichards · 2 months
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Victor von Doom’s confessions of Reed Richards during the Infamous Iron Man era: Infamous Iron Man (2017) #7 // Marvel 2-In-One (2017) #1 // Invincible Iron Man (2016) #597
Reeling from the loss of his nemesis and struggling with the realization that godlike power hadn’t fulfilled him, Doom became THE INFAMOUS IRON MAN, and took his first faltering steps down a path to heroism… — Marvel 2-In-One (2017) Annual
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blackhillverse · 1 year
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maria hill’s character backstory is so devastating, i will never forgive mcu for never exploring it.
first of all, maria hill was born in chicago on a bitterly cold night. as maria entered the world, her mother died while giving birth to her, leaving maria to grow up with an abusive father who blamed her for his wife’s death. because of that, maria grew up to be a self-sufficient, self-preserved and independent woman who later joined the army. she was later recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. due to her exceptional skillset.
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during one of maria’s first S.H.I.E.L.D. missions she inadvertently caused the death to a fellow angent which overwhelmed her to the point of arranging her own assassination. nick fury recognized the internal struggle and resolved to help her by erasing maria’s memories of the mission, granting her a fresh start. ever since then, maria ascended the ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D very quickly, earning the title of commander and ultimately of the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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jessica jones (2017)
i know we wouldn’t get the exact comic backstory in the mcu but there was so much potential… maria hill, you’ll always be famous!
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meruz · 1 year
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I just got marvel unlimited and am lost on what to read. Do you have any recs?
I really believe the best way to get into cape comics is to follow your heart and just consume content abt whatever character/concept interests you regardless of whether its good or right or canon. THAT being said if you have a particular character/(s) youre interested in I can probably point u in the right direction? lmk! More generally tho these are recs I kind of just hand out to everyone if they show even vague interest in comics LOL:
New Mutants (1983)
Alias (2001)
New X-Men (2001)
Ms.Marvel (2014)
Hawkeye (2012)
Thor: God of Thunder (2012)
Spider-man and the X-Men (2014)
Daredevil (2014)
Vision (2015)
The Unbelievable Gwenpool (2016)
The Immortal Iron Fists (2017)
House of X/Powers of X (2019)
Can you tell I became a marvel reader in the 2010s LOLL. a lot of these are kind of easy intro and/or self-contained reads there's older runs I don't feel as connected to but still remember positively also. Bendis and Brubaker's Daredevil, the OG Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont, Immortal Iron Fist and The Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four and Avengers. I also really like Bendis' New Avengers and Uncanny X-Men (vol 3) + All New X-Men even though they have their issues.
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agentxthirteen · 1 year
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On this day (May 17) in Sharon Carter history, Sharon appeared in:
New Mangaverse #5 (2006)
Invincible Iron Man V4 #7 (2017)
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty V2 #13 (2023)
Marvel Heroes Flip Magazine #12 (Reprint Captain America V5 #13) (2006)
Captain America: Winter Soldier Vol. 2 HC (Reprint Captain America V5 #8-#9, #12-#14) (2006)
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tincanmans · 2 years
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Riri Williams aka Ironheart Reading Order
This is just a list of her relatively major appearances. For an overview of all of them, look here.
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First appearance: Invincible Iron Man (2015) #7
Invincible Iron Man (2015) #9-12
First solo: Invincible Iron Man (2016)
Infamous Iron Man (2016) #6, #8-9
First team: Champions (2016)
Marvel Legacy (2017)
Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017)
Secret Empire: Uprising (2017)
Ironheart (2018)
Champions (2019)
2020 Ironheart (2020)
Outlawed (2020)
Champions (2020)
Upcoming
Avengers Unlimited (2022) #7-?
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wingheadshellhead · 7 years
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honestly idk what it is but im Alive and here, i updated the Theme, im planning new gifs and comic updates, ive made 5 new edits in the past 48 hrs and i just ??? wo W??? THIS SHIP!!!!!
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Invincible Iron Man 1 (2017) by Brian Michael Bendis & Stefano Caselli 
Cover: Jeff Dekal (variant)
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williamsriri · 3 years
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INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2017) #1 variant cover by Artgerm 
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sineala · 3 years
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I don’t need anon to pick at your brain! I’ve been into comics on and off for ten years but I still know and understand frighteningly little about the medium, and I want to change that. Between military and other life stuff, I’ve done less reading and research into comics than I’d like. For example, I’ve seen you say in another post that the Marvel wiki volume numbering for Iron Man is EXTREMELY WRONG (to quote you 🤣). And it just so happens that I recently made a spreadsheet of all the comics I own, which I referenced the wiki to help me make. But now I’m worried I got some stuff on my sheet wrong. 😭
As long as the scheme you use makes sense to you, that's the important thing. But I just checked, and the wiki is still disastrously wrong about mid-2000s Iron Man. They used to be right! And then a couple of years ago, they got it wrong, and it is still wrong.
Big nerdy list under the Read More.
I haven't double-checked all the volume years, but this is the way I refer to them:
Tales of Suspense vol 1 (1959), #39-99. ToS itself started in 1959, which is why it has that year, but Tony doesn't appear until #39. He starts splitting the book with Steve at #58, and after #99 we get separate Cap and IM books. Cap keeps the numbering; IM renumbers and we have...
Iron Man vol 1 (1968), #1-332. Like volume 1 of most of the rest of Marvel's classic titles, this goes all the way until the mid-90s. Whether or not the cover says "Iron Man" or "The Invincible Iron Man," it's all just called Iron Man.
Iron Man vol 2 (1996), #1-13. Shh. We do not speak of this.
Iron Man vol 3 (1998), #1-89. Definitely the best Iron Man run. Starting with #41, the book is dual-numbered with legacy numbers, like many Marvel comics of this time. That means #41 is also listed as #386, and so on for the rest of the run. Basically that means that if they hadn't renumbered anything at all this would be the 386th issue. Marvel often likes to return to legacy numbers when they have a big milestone issue (like #500 or #600) coming up.
Iron Man vol 4 (2005), #1-35. This is the run that was going on through the entire Civil War and post-CW era. At Iron Man #15, the book changes names to Iron Man: Director of SHIELD and keeps the numbering going; some people would class Director of SHIELD as a separate run based on this, but, let's be real, you're gonna sort this with the rest of v4 here. At #33 the book actually changes names to War Machine: Weapon of SHIELD but weirdly no one seems to be arguing that that one should be a separate book.
Invincible Iron Man vol 1 (2008), #1-33, #500-527. This is Fraction's run, and Marvel has now decided to start treating "Invincible" as part of the actual title for some reason, so this is a brand new volume 1 of Invincible Iron Man. Halfway through it renumbers for the milestone #500 issue even though they would like me to believe it has a different name from the comic it's getting renumbered to match.
Iron Man vol 5 (2013), #1-28. Now we're back to "Iron Man" and this is Gillen's run.
Superior Iron Man vol 1 (2015,) #1-9. Tony is a bad, bad man.
Invincible Iron Man vol 2 (2015), #1-14. This is the beginning of Bendis' IM run, once again getting "Invincible" in the title, so by my count we're at volume 2 of Invincible.
International Iron Man vol 1 (2016), #1-7. This is a series that ran at the same time as Bendis' IIM v2, and is about Tony's quest for his biological parents.
Infamous Iron Man vol 1 (2016), #1-12. Okay, so at the end of Civil War II, Tony ends up in a coma and this run is actually about Doctor Doom who is now Iron Man, more or less.
Invincible Iron Man vol 3 (2017), #1-11, #593-600. This was running at approximately the same time as Infamous and is now about Riri Williams who is ALSO now Iron Man, more or less. Halfway through it renumbers with legacy numbering which is a thing a lot of Marvel books were doing at that time, conveniently just in time to reach that milestone #600. Which is when Tony comes back to life.
Tony Stark: Iron Man vol 1 (2019), #1-19. This is Slott's run. Yeah, sure, give it a completely different name. That's cool. I don't need things to be simple or anything.
Iron Man 2020 (2020), #1-6. This is the miniseries/event that closes out Slott's IM run. It's got some tie-ins.
Iron Man vol 6 (2020-present), ongoing. Cantwell's current run. #15 is out this week, as I write this. We are finally back to a run that is just called Iron Man, which we last got, uh, eight volumes ago? Geez. I would like to point out that this run is Iron Man (2020) and the previous run was Iron Man 2020 (2020). Comics are so accessible and easy to understand.
Okay, so that seems like it basically makes sense, right? As much as comics ever make sense?
Great! But that's not what the Marvel Wiki currently does.
This is what we get, starting with volume 4, where the weirdness starts:
Iron Man vol 4 (2005), #1-16. You might think that the wiki has decided to split out vol 4 and Director of SHIELD into separate runs. That would make sense. That's not what this is. #16 is actually two issues into DoS. It's in the middle of a story arc. It doesn't change creative teams or anything. There is no conceivable reason to end it here. Now you might think, okay, that's a small error, but surely the next run is DoS? *laughs bitterly* No.
Invincible Iron Man vol 1 (2007), #17-28. This is actually most of the Director of SHIELD run. It says "Iron Man: Director of SHIELD" right on the cover. The Marvel Wiki has decided that doesn't count, I guess. You can buy a big trade paperback of the entire Director of SHIELD run. It's called Iron Man: Director of SHIELD. I guess that doesn't mean anything to anyone.
Iron Man: Director of SHIELD vol 1 (2008), #29-35. Congratulations, Marvel Wiki! You have correctly identified 7 out of 35 issues of this run! That's a failing grade!
Invincible Iron Man vol 2 (2008), #1-33. This is the first half of Fraction's run, before the renumbering at #500. We are now up to IIM vol 2 because the Wiki decided that the middle of DoS was a great thing to call IIM vol 1. You might wonder where the rest of this run is getting numbered. You're going to be sorry you asked.
Invincible Iron Man vol 1 (2011), #500-527. Look, we've... found volume 1 again? We're numbering volumes in reverse? Oh God. I mean, I know this is what legacy numbering means, but it's kind of a mess.
IM v5 (Gillen) and Superior are both unaffected by this.
Invincible Iron Man vol 3 (2015), #1-14. Bendis starts here. I had this down as IIM vol 2 but that's not how the wiki sees it.
International and Infamous are not affected.
Invincible Iron Man vol 4 (2017), #1-11. This is the first half of Bendis' Riri run, also one number higher than I had it. Then it renumbers to legacy, and I bet you know what's coming.
Invincible Iron Man vol 1 (2017), #593-600. Yep. I love legacy numbers.
Everything after this is fine in terms of numbering.
So, yeah, legacy numbering makes it a little weird, but legacy numbers are like that. When I talk about them I usually wedge them in with the Invincible runs they're part of. The thing that really throws it off is the part where Director of SHIELD is listed under three different runs because that's just... wrong. And throws off a lot of the numbers after it.
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brodorokihousuke · 2 years
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June 2022 Ace Attorney Events
Can't believe we're already halfway through the year. awful. At least it's warm out now, though!
Anyways, as always, this post will contain SPOILERS. This one contains them for:
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice
The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve
Also note that this post concerns only titles with an English release, so GK2 dates will not be present.  All information is taken from the Ace Attorney Wiki’s timeline. I will also assume DGS takes place around 1900 and will use that year as a benchmark.
Heeeere we go
1890 (~130-Year Anniversary of):
June ???: Iris Wilson is born.
June 17th: A pretend execution of Genshin Asougi is carried out before he ironically dies for real.
June 18: Subsequently, a newspaper article is published in The Daily Circus regarding the murder in the cemetery.
1900 (~120-Year Anniversary of):
June ???: Susato Mikotoba briefly returns to Japan.
2002 (20-Year Anniversary of):
June ???: Manfred returns from his "vacation".
2005 (16 Year Anniversary of):
June 14th: The incredibly idiotic law that is the defense culpability act is enacted in Khura'in.
2017 (5-Year Anniversary of):
June ???: Someone seasons a neckerchief, eventually causing Leon the lion to attack Acro and Bat, causing the former to lose use of his legs and the latter to go into a coma. Leon is promptly put down. June 19: Turner Grey is killed by Mimi Miney, guilty of both harboring a giant grudge and having one of the worst names in the series. June 21-22: Reunion, and Turnabout occurs. Maya is accused of murder for the second time, and sadly not the last.
2026 (In 4 Years):
June 14: Paul Meraktis is killed by Alita Tiala and unceremoniously stuck on the front of a noodle cart. June 15: Apollo joins the WAA after finding himself without a job via accidentally and successfully proving his previous boss was a murderer. June 16-17: Turnabout Corner occurs. Phoenix gets hit by a car and not only walks away, but is only afflicted with a mere sprained ankle. Clearly, this man is invincible.
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doomrichards · 2 years
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Doom’s confessions regarding Reed: Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil (2009) #4 // Fantastic Four (1961) #552 // Invincible Iron Man (2016) #597 // Doctor Doom (2019) #10 Reed’s confessions regarding Doom: Fantastic Four (1961) #507 // Doomwar (2010) #3 // Marvel Two-In-One (2017) Annual // Marvel Two-In-One (2017) #11
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god-hunter · 7 years
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Invincible Iron Man #11
This issue was whatever.  Totally skippable.  But I guess you could say it transitions the shift in direction from Riri back to Tony.  So maybe that’s a good thing?  I don’t know.  You be the judge.
[Spoilers]
It starts with Iron Man facing a random bad guy.  Mary Jane and Amanda Armstrong are talking about Tony, in which Amanda finds it nice to be able to watch old footage of her son as a way to sort of.. get to know him.
Then Mary Jane talks about how she first met Iron Man at a modeling gig.  This was an interesting flashback.  It was kind of neat to see Tony attempt to hit on MJ after saving the club and get shut down by her, only for him to get real with her.  However, in truth it also felt very forced.
A lot of this issue was downtime.  Perhaps that was necessary, but I dunno.  A lot of it feels like it’s killing time before the big “Search for Tony Stark” begins.  But that’s what exposition issues are for, right?  It’s all about the set up for the next big thing.
So Riri ends up joining the ladies, and she fills them in that she is now the “Retired Queen of Latvia.”  Through conversation, we only find that she handled it pretty great, and that’s about it.  So good.  So much for that.
Riri then tells them about how she first met Iron Man as a kid during the Skrull Invasion.  [Ah the Skrulls.  Bendis brought back that era.  This was neat, but.. I dunno.]
Lastly, Amanda, Riri and MJ visit Friday in a transition that’s so seamless, I feel like we actually skipped something.  [Because we probably did.]
Friday brings up out of nowhere that “Tony Stark has some secrets.  ...Secrets I’m not allowed to reveal unless there is...an emergency.”
When Amanda gives her the go ahead, Friday reveals that Tony secretly pays for Criminal Rehab, funds orphanages all around the world...
And she tells us all of this... because...???
“He’s gone.”
That’s the emergency.  Tony Stark is missing.
-End Issue 11-
Well that was a waste of time...
I have a feeling this entire issue was forced.  There is a major shift in direction, pulling the spotlight away from Riri, who JUST became Ruler of Latveria, only to get that resolved off-screen.
I’m not necessarily, disappointed, but..  it’s just glaringly obvious that the execs said, CHANGE it, and Bendis said ‘Okay.  And now This!’.
Um...  I’m curious to know about where Tony is.  And I’ll be very happy to see him come back, for reals.  But I really would’ve liked an issue following up on what the Hell happened with Secret Empire.  But perhaps that is what ‘The Search for Tony Stark’ is all about.  Somehow, I doubt it though.
Until Invincible Iron Man #12, excuse me Invincible Iron Man #593!
That’s right.  We’re going back to the original numbering boys, and Marvel isn’t even being clever about it and waiting for an Issue 600 or anything.
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Wednesday Roundup 4.10.2017
This week ended up being a relatively light reading week for yours truly, but that doesn’t lessen the quality of my enjoyment whatsoever. In fact, I had enough love to share that I wanted to go over all of the available Marvel Legacy Primers for this week as well, even if they’re just short blurbs!
So without further ado let’s jump into it.
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Marvel’s America, Marvel’s Black Panther, Marvel’s Incredible Hulk, Marvel’s Invincible Iron Man, Marvel’s Jean Grey, Marvel’s Monsters Unleashed, Dark Horse’s Usagi Yojimbo, Lion Forge’s Voltron Legendary Defender, Viz’s Yona of the Dawn
Marvel’s America - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2017-present) Robbie Thompson, David Lopez
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As interested as I am in America, I haven’t had the opportunity to really follow her outside of the Young Avengers run she is in. So I think, oddly enough, for me this is one of the most necessary “Primers” of any of the ones I’ve read so far, and the information was very good to have. It really helped to frame her history, her relationship with her mothers, and her confidence in herself in a new light that is really appreciated. And the art from David Lopez is as beautiful as any of his issues on All-New Wolverine.
Marvel’s Black Panther - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2016-present)  Robbie Thompson, Wilfredo Torres
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There’s honestly not going to be that much more to say on most of these Primer pages. They’re fun, quick run throughs of relevant histories of the characters and teams that they showcase and depending on your interest and engagement may influence whether or not you want to hop in on the next storyline that they’re promoting. 
I do like the sense of unity and legacy that is built into the Black Panther title already, having it be a responsibility tied to kingship that T’Challa knows and the all-important bond it has between him and the memory of his father. 
It really puts a spin on the importance of Legacy that this event seems intent on hammering home.
Marvel’s Captain Marvel - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2016-present)  Robbie Thompson, Brent Schoonover
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Carol Danvers is one of those characters I desperately want to lie on every feasible surface level, but whose books have never quite got me on board and whose guest appearances always leave me a bit more confused about her than I had been before her said appearance. And yet there was still not a whole lot added here. I appreciate it, and young Carol is adorable, but there was nothing here that didn’t make me feel like... well, like she’s Hal Jordan. And ‘m not a fan of Hal Jordan.
Marvel’s Incredible Hulk - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2017-present) Robbie Thompson, Joe Bennett
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Everything I have read so far with Amadeus Cho, both in Totally Awesome Hulk and in his guest appearances or team-ups in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur to Champions has  really connected to me on a level that Bruce Banner hadn’t exactly managed over the years. So it was nice to see a little blurb that went over their mutual histories and explored what was there.
It almost makes people forget that Marvel unnecessarily killed Bruce Banner for... no reason. Almost. Not quite. Though he might be alive by now. I am obviously not current.
Marvel’s Invincible Iron Man - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2016-present) Robbie Thompson, Valerio Schiti
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Gah, reading this overview of Tony and Riri’s history really reminded me how much I really loved reading Invincible Iron Man when it first came out and just how much I positively adored Riri’s character and her banter with Tony. You know. Before they completely undid the relationship within the first storyline and then Bendis went all Bendis on us and it became obvious that Tony was coming back sooner than later and then Secret Empire destroyed the world... somewhat literally. 
I’d love to read a Riri-centric book in better circumstances. Or at least once the next trade is out. We’ll see.
Marvel’s Jean Grey - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2017-present) Robbie Thompson, Mark Bagley
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I was actually just recently talking to my good friend @shobogan about how much more interested I would be in Young Jean Grey if only Marvel had the guts to either give us a romantic relationship with her and Laura (or her, Laura, and Scott OT3 hullo) or have Older Jean Grey return to mentor her younger self and others at the school since she’s the only X-Man kept dead for this long who was considered a Top Tier X-Man. And since we’re finally getting the latter, it seems, now I have to look at what we know of Young Jean and consider my feelings all over again. And this primer gave me the opportunity to do just that!
While I’m not following Jean’s book at the moment, I’m obviously a pretty big X-fan so I have a general sense of where all the moving pieces are at the moment. And I have to say, with Older Jean returning it’s going to be a pretty awesome time for comparing and contrasting their characters and relationships. After all, this younger Jean is far, far less experienced than her counterpart, but has a peripheral knowledge of her own fate, and as much as she tries to not be defined by it, it’s been defining her in the opposite direction in a sense. And more than that, she’s a Jean who sees the Phoenix Force not as an asset or a tool, but sees it as an honest to god enemy, which I’m not sure how that will work. And I’m even more interested in Jean’s return now because of the possibilities of their interactions with the Force together. 
Guess we’ll wait and see!
Marvel’s Monsters Unleashed - Marvel Legacy Primer Pages (2017-present)  Robbie Thompson, David Baldeón
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I have actually been planning for a little while now to pick up the trade of Monsters Unleashed because I had fun with the miniseries earlier this year and I have been craving more Elsa Bloodstone (as well as the entirety of the Nextwave crew) and this seems like one of the more interesting powers to come from the Inhuman collision.
.... Actually it’s completely stolen from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic and later adapted TV episode dedicated to Jack Kirby who had the power of creativity to draw and create anything he drew and also had a a penchant for creating monsters and different worlds and so on. So I mean. There’s that unavoidable fact. But Kei’s cute so I’d be willing to overlook it for the sake of seeing what Marvel plans on doing with this very wild and unruly power. 
Dark Horse’s Usagi Yojimbo (1984-present) #162 Stan Sakai, Tom Luth
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The conclusion of Usagi and Inspector Ishida’s investigation about the doctors’ murders has come and the hilarity of Kitsune and Kiyoko bumbling along with them and incidentally becoming crucial to the entire investigation does not lose its edge either.
Story: The conclusion of this particular caper is interesting mostly in how the framing by coincidence is not ultimately a linchpin to the story, having been solved almost immediately in the story’s first issue. The inventiveness of Sakai’s work, overall, is simple subterfuge which continues to make each new adventure feel unique and uncertain. In this instance, it would be in the assistance that Kitsune and Kiyoko end up providing by revealing the true murderer almost by accident. 
That being said, as simple as individual stories are for Usagi Yojimbo, the complexity really rests in the margins for long time fans, and that shows most clearly in the way a quiet buildup of several arcs seem to flow together for coming to a head. Perhaps the most famous and arguably best all around example of this would be in “Grasscutter” and how years of storytelling and slow vignettes linking together culminated in one of the greatest comic storylines of all time. We seem to be getting something similar in the backgrounds of more recent adventures with this guild of assassins which Usagi has unknowingly crossed the path of and caused ire to several times at this point. 
I’m excited to see where that story is taking us, and likewise interested in how little details, like Kiyoko successfully pickpocketing Inspector Ishida, will pay off down the road. 
Lion Forge’s Voltron Legendary Defender Vol. 2 (2017) #1 Tim Hendrick, Mitch Iverson, Jung Gwan Yoo, Ji-in Choi
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Egghhhhh. Are you ever really rooting for something against your own common sense and get bit in the butt regardless? I feel like that happens to me on an inconceivably high average and almost all of it can be blamed on the fact that for some reason I am still expecting comics to play fairly with me. If anything my standards should be lower by now. But, well, let’s see if I’m being a bit too harsh on Lion Forge’s second effort in making a Voltron comic. 
Story: I would argue that one of the reasons that I had unreasonably high expectations for this comic is in part because the first comic produced by Lion Forge had actuallymanaged to not only be a fairly solid effort as a comic but managed to capture the spirit of the current Dreamworks Netflix series in a wa that was welcoming to fans new and old, and importantly of all ages. So I was hoping for more of the same with this comic project.
In more or less words... I did not exactly receive that. Where there was a solid read of the characterizations in the last comic, this issue showed a severely flattened to the point of parody version of the paladins, especially poor Hunk here who had the already obnoxious and unnecessary fat jokes and food jokes from the series amped up to the point of being his only characteristic in this comic. To the point that at one point he doesn’t even form a full sentence, just grabs a pie successfully from a training maze and says “Hunk win”. Which... I guess is somewhat better faring than the other paladins who didn’t even have dialogue that really fit them. Save for Pidge who was likewise flattened to “the smart one.” 
The storyline itself of a new planet where Voltron is needed but the species they end up helping... they actually fail initially, I won’t lie, is a pretty solid premise for Voltron overall, and would be something I’d love to see the show tackle similarly, but the fairly generic wolf-furry aliens didn’t receive a whole lot of depth in this first issue. 
Depth trended on being the biggest problem for this issue overall. There wasn’t an examination of the characters and their interactions, how they treated each other and how they tackled problems differently. The sort of things you’d want from an ensemble cast like Voltron. Which is surprising since again the first series by Lion Forge managed all that and was written on a much younger reading level at the same time. Each issue tackled exactly those very things -- individual characters, how they functioned in the group, and how they tackled obstacles differently to find a solution together. I would expect the same here but it didn’t seem to be on the menu. 
Hopefully all of this will be addressed and fixed as the comic progresses, but as for now I’m apprehensively putting this series on my three issue trial run. 
Art: The art was not a great improvement on the previous comic but it also wasn’t bad in the least. In fact I think the art popped very well, adjusting colors and textures about as well as you’d expect from a television show adaptation for kids. I do wish that the face models for the paladins would keep more consistent and overall there was a rushed feeling to the comic that seemed fairly unnecessary considering it’s the first issue. 
Viz’s Yona of the Dawn (2009-present) Vol. 8 Mizuho Kusanagi
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You know, I keep hearing over and over again from friends and trusted sources that Yona of the Dawn is a series that will continuously subvert my every expectation and make me continue guessing and yet every volume I really do manage to be caught off guard by something which the story chooses to do which is shockingly poignant and new even to its fairy tale epic adventure structure. 
Story: So the Yellow Dragon joining the group was hilariously and purposefully anti-climactic but what we got as a result of that choice is the new direction for the series that ties directly into Yona’s own self-realization. She doesn’t simply want to rule and she doesn’t simply want to conquer. What she wants is to know her people and to save them from the crises that were overlooked by her father before her and by Su-Won now. She wants to take up arms to protect the entire country not just with the power of the loyal followers she has gained but with her own hands. She is something that neither of the kings -- her father or her cousin -- could have ever dreamed of being.
And then my expectations were really taken for a loop by us then in turn following Su-Won as he travels to the Earth Tribe and earns the respect and allegiance of the chieftan general there through a series of manipulations, tactical conceits, and ultimately quiet and subtle intimidation mostly by the fleeting moments in which he dropped his ditzy and well-meaning act to show his true intentions. But as fascinating as it was and as surprising as it was, for me at least, that this complete shift of POV for a few chapters actually managed to keep me on board when I’m not one to often fully appreciate the “villain’s side of things”, probably the most interesting part of any and all of this is actually how much tension is underlying Su-Won’s leadership. HIs appeal to the Fire and Earth Tribes is less in the leadership that he promotes and more in this current of possible warmongering that appeases the more warlike fractions of Kohka. 
It’s all fascinating and offers a sense of danger in Yona’s new quest to help the people of fher country feel a new sense of danger, knowing that our group is ultimately pretty unprepared for helping parts of the country which would not be as receptive to their quest or the offer of Yona’s leadership.
That being said... the final chapter driving home Yona’s relationship with Hak and everyone’s strange obsession with protecting Yona but rejecting her attempts to grow her own strength and independence. Lik eI guess we’re just all going to overlook the way she killed the slave trader mob boss in teh previous volume. But beyond all of that, my real concern is just... I cannot stand the way Hak’s character is portrayed in his “over protectiveness” of Yona. It’s far from romantic to me to continuously have a character obsess over someone to the point of “jokingly” considering locking them away for the world to see. 
It’s not the best issue of the series by far, but it has some great moments, especially for Yona.
Art: I actually do think that the further we’ve come in this comic, the more consistent and confident the at has gotten. There are still lots of soft tones and all the markings of a usual shoujo, but the real stand out this time around is that we’re beginning to see more and more the variation in ethnicities in the people of the country, which is honestly relieving even if for now the Earth Tribe, which drives that point home, consists mostly of Su-Won’s supporters and may carry with them some more unfortunate stereotypes being fed that I might not be aware of as a non-native to Japan.
So far as single issues this week are concerned there’s really no competition for Usagi Yojimbo in a regular week but especially not in a fairly light week. Yona is still a fantastic book and if there were other trades to compare it to I’d probably lavish on it more, but since we’re on singles I have to give this one to the unending quality that is Stan Sakai’s anthromorphic feudal epic.
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On this day (December 20) in Sharon Carter history, Sharon appeared in:
Captain America V3 #38 (2000)
Universe X: Cap #1 (2001)
Universe X: Cap #1 [Variant A] (2001)
Universe X: Cap #1 [Variant B] (2001)
Captain America Special Edition #2 (Reprint Captain America #113) (1983)
Invincible Iron Man: Choices HC (Reprint Invincible Iron Man V4 #7-#10) (2017)
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Golden Age
Captain America Comics (1941) #1-78
All-Winners Comics (1941) #1-21
Young Allies Comics (1941) #1-20
USA Comics (1941) #6-17
Kid Komics (1943) #2-10
All-Select (1943) #1-10
Complete Comics (1944) #2
Mystic Comics (1944) #4
Young Men (1950) #24
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Silver Age
The Avengers (1963) #4, #56, #106-107, #277, #387, Annual #16
Sgt. Fury (1963) #13
Tales of Suspense (1964) #63-71, #75, #82, #95
Captain America v1 (1968) #105, #107, #109, #112, #121, #128, #131-132, #139, #162, #176, #215, #219-220, #227, #253, #255-157, #261, #264, #281, #294, #297-299, #326, #349-350, #372, #383-384, #423, #437, #441, #445, #447-448
Captain America Annual (1970) #1, #6, #9, #13
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Bronze Age
The Invaders (1975) #1-31, #38-39, Annual #1
Captain America's Bicentennial Battles (1976)
Marvel Premiere (1972) #29-30
What If..? (1977) #1, #4, #5
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Modern Age
What If..? v2 (1989) #28, #105, #200
Adventures of Captain America (1991) #1-4
Captain America: Medusa Effect (1994)
War Machine (1994) #15-17
Batman/Captain America (1996)
Deadpool v1 (1997) #0, #61
Captain America/Citizen V (1998)
Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (1998) #7, #12
Fantastic Four (1998) #569, #584, #588
Domination Factor: Avengers (1999) #2.4, #3.6
Earth X (1999) #0-1, #4, #10
Universe X (2000) #9, #X
Universe X Special: Cap (2001) #1
Paradise X (2002) #0-1
Captain America v3 (1998) #1, #12, #25, #32, #39, #48, #50, Annual 2001
Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (2001)
The Ultimates v1 (2002) #1, #3, #7
The Ultimates v2 (2005) #1, #8
Ultimate Avengers (2009) #2, #6
The New Invaders (2004) #2
Captain America v4 (2002) #10, #17, #19-20, #26
Captain America: 65th Anniversary Special (2006) #1
Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) #1
Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2011) #1
Cable & Deadpool (2004) #45
Captain America v5 (2005) #1-50
Winter Soldier: Winter Kills (2007)
Young Avengers Presents (2008) #1
Punisher War Journal (2007) #11
Fallen Son: Wolverine (2007)
Wolverine: Origins (2006) #15-20, #23, #25, #30
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007) #1
Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War (2007) #1
Secret Invasion (2008) #4, #6-8
What If? Secret Invasion (2010) #1
Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12
House of M: Civil War (2008) #3-4
What If? House Of M (2009) #1
Mythos: Captain America (2008) #1
Invincible Iron Man v1 (2008) #17, #20-22, #501
Incredible Hulk v2 (2009) #601, #607, #609
Nomad: Girl Without a World (2009) #1, #4
Ms. Marvel v2 (2006) #41-42
Ms. Marvel: War of the Marvels (2009) #1
Agents of Atlas (2009) #3-5
New Avengers (2009) #48-64, Finale
The Amazing Spider-Man v1 (2009) #600-601, #637, #648, #661
Wolverine (2003) #38-40, #72-74
Young Allies: 70th Anniversary Special (2009)
The Marvels Project (2009) #7-8
Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #19, #34-35
Dark Reign: The List - Avengers (2009) #1
Captain America v1 (2009) #600-619
Captain America: Reborn (2009) #1-6
Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield? (2010)
Siege (2010) #2-4
Siege: Captain America (2010) #1
Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) #1
Dark Wolverine (2009) #84
Avengers v4 (2010) #1-7, #10, #12.1, #16
Avengers vs. Pet Avengers (2010) #1-4
I am An Avenger (2010) #2, #4-5
Free Comic Book Day: Avengers (2009) #1
AAFES 7th Edition (2009) #7
AAFES 9th Edition (2010) #9
Wolverine: Weapon X (2010) #12-15
Avengers vs. Atlas (2010) #1, #4
Dark Avengers Annual (2010) #1
Hawkeye & Mockingbird (2010) #1
Age of Heroes (2010) #1
Invaders Now! (2010) #1-5
World War Hulks (2010) #1
World War Hulks: Captain America vs Wolverine (2010) #1-2
Captain America The 1940s Newspaper Strip (2010) #1-3
Captain America: Forever Allies (2010) #1-4
Black Panther/Captain America: Flags of Our Fathers (2010) #4
Black Widow: Deadly Origin (2010) #1-4
Black Widow v4 (2010) #1-6
Chaos War (2010) #1, #5
Chaos War: Dead Avengers (2011) #1, #3
Heroes for Hire v3 (2011) #9-10
Fear Itself (2011) #3-4
Fear Itself: Captain America (2011) #7.1
Fear Itself: The Worthy (2011) #1
All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (2011) #1-5
Captain America and Falcon (2011) #1
Captain America: A Little Help (2011) #1
Captain America Corps (2011) #1-5
Captain America and Bucky (2011) #620-624
Captain America: Hail Hydra (2011) #1-2, #5
Captain America v6 (2011) #1-2, #19
The Winter Soldier (2012) #1-19
Marvel Zombies Destroy (2012) #1-5
Secret Avengers v1 (2010) #15
Secret Avengers v2 (2013) #9, #16
Captain America v7 (2013) #6, #13, #20
Winter Soldier: The Bitter March (2014) #1-5
Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration (2014) #1
All-New Marvel Now! Point One (2014) #1
All-New Invaders (2014) #1-15
Original Sin (2014) #1-8
Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier (2014) #1-11
Black Widow v5 (2014) #8, #12, #15, #17-18
Planet Hulk (2015) #1-5
Runaways v4 (2015) #1-4
1602 Witch Hunter Angela (2015) #1
1872 (2015) #1-2
Red Skull (2015) #1-2
Civil War (2015) #1-4
Captain America: White (2008) #0-5
Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #7-8
Loki: Agent of Asgard (2014) #12
A-Force v1 (2015) #5
POP Secret Avengers: A Tussle in Time (2016)
Thunderbolts (2016) #1-12
Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #1-2, #4, #11-13, #16, #18
All-New, All-Different Avengers (2015) #8-9
Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill (2016) #1
Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Alpha (2016) #1
Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Omega (2016) #1
Black Widow v6 (2016) #9-10
Captain Marvel v6 (2016) #8
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016) #8
A Year of Marvels: July Infinite Comic (2016) #1
Generations: Sam Wilson: Captain America & Steve Rogers: Captain America (2017) #1
Secret Empire (2017) #0, #2, #4-5, #8-10
Secret Empire: Brave New World (2017) #1-2, #4-5
Secret Empire Omega (2017) #1
Tales of Suspense v2 (2017) #100-104
Captain America v8 (2017) #25, #695, #701
Captain America v9 (2018) #1, #5-7, #12, #19-21
The Punisher v8 (2016) #227-228
The Punisher v9 (2018) #5
Old Man Hawkeye (2018) #6, #8
The Unstoppable Wasp (2018) #7-10
Rise of the Black Panther (2018) #3
Captain America Annual (2018) #1
Winter Soldier (2018) #1-5
Invaders (2019) #1-12
War of the Realms (2019) #3-5
War of the Realms - Strikeforce: The War Avengers (2019) #1
Strikeforce (2019) #1-9
Web of Black Widow (2019) #2, #5
Deadpool v5 (2018) #13
Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019) #3
Captain Marvel v8 (2019) #6
Uncanny X-Men (2019) #11
Marvel Comics (2019) #1000-1001
Marvel Comics Presents (2019) #7
History of the Marvel Universe (2019) #2, #5
Avengers: Save Like A Hero (2019) #1
Captain America & The Invaders: Bahamas Triangle (2019) #1
Spider-Woman v6 (2020) #1
Amazing Spider-Man (2020) #38
Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (2020) #1
Hawkeye: Freefall (2020) #1, #4
Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1-5
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Other Bucky reading guides *work in progress*
BuckyCap | Kid!Bucky | Steve/Bucky | Bucky/Nat | Falcon/Bucky | Bucky/Daredevil | Bucky/Hawkeye
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updated 12/08/20
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