Hey Yea Forums, I want to try to get into comics, where do I start?

What genre do you like?
Are you looking specifically for superheroes or anything?
Are you looking for runs, single issues, stand-alone stories?

We don't know your tastes since you didn't elaborate on it, so it's hard to recommend anything for you specifically. But here's a method I've used: go to your library, look at the comics section, compare comic covers, flip through some pages, and pick something that looks interesting to you. Then you'll just branch out from there. If you liked some particular comic, look up information on what other works the writer/artist have created, or which characters have crossovers with their comic, or which comics are famous for having similar themes, or whatever.

>pick a character that you like
>find a comic with said character that is also a #1
>read said issue
>if you enjoyed it, check the creative team (writer/artist) and look for more stuff by them
>if you did not, find another comic with said character in it
>don’t like the current Amazing Spider-Man? You can check out Friendly Neighborhood or SM/DP
>don’t like the current Batman? You have other Batman centric titles to pick from

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Pick a character that you really like, read their first issues, and then look up some of the higher rated runs for that character.

don't bother with any of the big DC/Marvel capeshit.

knowing what to recommend is impossible without more detail as to your tastes.

Spider-Man: One More Day and the Clone saga are a good place to start for Spidey : )

Original Wolverine 4-issue series
80's X-Men written by Claremont
Oldschool Superman
Oldschool Batman

I'm reading these paperback collections. There's 4, with 2 short story collections. Which order do the short stories fit in?

A lot of publishers outside DC and Marvel are a good place to start as they generally have self contained stories that are only several issues long. So there's no reading 42 issues of something to get back story on multiple characters.

It's not that hard and there's plenty of good capeshit from the last 50+ years. OP just needs to give some pointers

>42 issues of something to get back story on multiple characters
This isn't an issue with the big 2. If a run is 40 issues long, that's the run. Not backstory

Yea Forumsmraderecs has some good (albeit old) rec images.

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You know fine well what i meant ya daftie.

me: here user read this moon knight comic.
user: thanks. wait. this is #199. Do i have to read anything else before this?
me: *looks at 106359405*

Ah, I see more of what you meant. They've made measures to mitigate that since the 60s.
>Captions catching up the story
>In story flashbacks
>In-dialogue recapping
You could pick up something like the middle of the Gang War arc in Miller's DD and get the gist because of the recapping I mentioned above (partly because "any issue could be someone's first" was editorial mandate for years). Capeshitters like me know the flaws but also how they try to deal with them. Not really any other way I can explain it

sorry for calling you a daftie

but aye. It has got better but it can still be daunting for a lot of people.

No need to apologise. I wish it was simpler for newcomers, but there's no way to change it. I just know firsthand how to sift through all the info, and wish more outlets and Twitterpeople gave newcomers tips on how to find runs instead of saying "no, just buy One Piece volume 1 all the way up to where it is now for hundreds of dollars".

sometimes when i recommend stuff to people i suggest they check out the character on comic vine if they want to know their background. Comic vine is generally better than wikipedia as it's usually written by more knowledgeable people

Now why would you do that to him, user? Don't you want him to like Spidey?

Ah, that's fair. I generally wouldn't bother because of the reasons I mentioned. Most issues or trades'll have some kind of exposition to clue the reader in, so if I'd just tell them something quickly and say "the book'll give more".

Spider-Man: Death in the Family would like to disagree.

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Spider-Man and the X-Men is evidence that you’re a liar user

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Nope, spider-man is my boy and my boy alone. Newcomers are not welcome to my franchise.

Evolve or die was pretty good

Check out Bedlam and East of West if you're doing it right and avoiding the majority of status-quo-loving capeshit. If you aren't avoiding it for some reason, check out Red Hood & the Outlaws.