Then I went back in time, and decided to finally do what 2015-me never thought I would do: read the entire Secret Wars run-up, starting with Hickman’s Fantastic Four: Dark Reign.
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Or maybe it was the high concept combined with the amazing artwork combined with the simple weekly progression of the “two series are that one.” But that proved to be the spark that started the fire, a legend that grew in the telling.
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Maybe it was the nostalgia for the animated series and the first two movies. It was all too much for me and so I gave up.įast forward another four years, when I randomly stumbled across an article about Hickman’s relaunch of the X-Men line with House of X and Powers of X. Except, it’s still not that simple, because to really get Secret Wars, you need to also read Hickman’s Fantastic Four/FF run and his Ultimates run. You need to read them in the correct order, because both series occur at the same time. You can’t just read Avengers and then read New Avengers and then read Secret Wars. At the time I wasn’t sure why there were two sets of Avengers books, but fine, I’ll check out New Avengers too.īut wait. According to Comic Book Herald, I should read Hickman’s New Avengers as well. And, Hickman’s Avengers run started in 2012, so it wasn’t like I had to read 50 years worth of comics to understand what has happened so far.Įxcept then I fell down a rabbit hole. I liked The Avengers and the other MCU movies, so I thought it wouldn’t be so bad. So I Googled “what should I read before Secret Wars ” and Comic Book Herald suggested Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers run as a good jumping off point. “The perfect time to jump into comics in earnest for the first time. “Ooh, a big line-wide event!” I remember thinking. Of course I ate up the Spider-Man and X-Men movies from the early 2000’s, but still I remained uninterested in actually picking up a proper comic.įinally, during the heyday of Phase II of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I happened upon an article about the start of Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars. My actual comic reading as a kid was limited to Bongo’s Simpson comics, but my first real exposure to superhero stories was through X-Men: The Animated Series and Superman: The Adventures of Lois and Clark. I repeated the same plan by buying X-Men 2099 #1 and Chris Claremont & Jim Lee’s X-Men #1, with similar results. Annoyed that I was late to the party, I decided to buy the various Reign of the Supermen titles that followed in the hopes that one day they would be worth something.
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Then one day in fourth grade my friends started talking about the just-released Death of Superman that had already sold out.