Please help

Please help.
As someone who nothing of comics beyond the average person, what are some god-tier stories to read and how should I even get into comics? It all seems so convoluted like you have to have been following it for a while.

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what characters are you looking to get into?

Well I always liked Spiderman growing up. Especially since I watched that 90s cartoon 24/7. Aside from that, just about anything is good as long as it's not Green Lantern.

I'd even read outside of Marvel/DC.

I'd recommend reading spider-man from the beginning just because when you get into the 70s that's when the story gets deeper. But if you can't handle 60s camp than read the ultimate books it gets you to some modern feel but its just a reinterpretation of those older stories. Honestly though your best bet is to just go to barns and nobel and browse through the big books read what you find interesting, if you like it buy it. Then try to find a local comic book shop in your area there you should be able to find someone who can work with you face to face on finding something you like. Or at least ust dig through their long boxes full of single issue comics, most comic shops sell old floppies for around a buck a pop buy what looks cool and go form there

Sure thing user.

Read the original Ditko Spider-Man run which has been collected a bunch of different ways. One of the best comic book runs of all time.

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If you want to get into comics, i would advise against going into super-heroes. Even with a character you live, the quality/quantity ratio is abyssimal. My advice would be to check out self-contained indie stories, the likes of which you can find at Vertigo or Image. search for "top 10/50/100/whatever Vertigo/Image comics" and pick whatever seems to be in your alley.

You get the advantage to see stories where the creators own their characters and plotlines and bring all of that to a close when they finished what they wanted to tell. Also you get to see stories more original than your average super-hero storyline.

TL;DR don't bother with super-heroes, go for the creator-owned indie shit, it's where the real talent is.

Hell yeah I love a good story.

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All request and recommendation threads belong on Shame on you for spoonfeeding. By not encouraging the OP to use Google for easily answerable requests and recommendations, you're giving him and other like minded retards the impression that making shitty, rule breaking threads like this one is acceptable, thereby reducing this board's quality.

I'd argue that it's not exactly a request thread, more of a recommendation thread. he didn't make a post asking "anyone have a link for that shrek/gravity falls crossover", he asked for good comics to read.

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Ah man, you're right. Sorry about that.

Well that and I asked how to get into comics, which seems like it'd be a lot more appropriate here than on wsr.

Anyone who is here to discuss comics and not capeshit or social media screencaps is fine with me, even if it's their first time discussing comics.

If you want a cool blend of Super-Hero and creator owned stuff, you can check out Sleeper, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Guy who fells no pain and regenerates is sent by the CIA equivalent to infiltrate a super-powered terrorist organisation. He finds himself questionning his loyalties and the good he's making. Blend of espionnage/neo noir, pretty top notch shit.

If you liked it, check out the rest of the duo's work, their quality/quantity ratio is off the charts.

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I would much rather encourage people to read comics so they can discuss them, and help dispel the perception that comics are too convoluted to get into, than have more political shitstorm threads populated only by people who pretend to read.

Yea Forums used to be considered one of the most chill boards simply because it was newcomer friendly and encouraged people to become savvy fans. Even though it gets tiring having the same "how do I get into Spider-Man?" topic eight times a week, I'll take a thousand people who want to try reading over one industry drama thread, even if only one of those people sticks with it and becomes a fan.

If you're looking to get into capeshit I'd say just pick one character and dive in, a lot of these characters have decades of books so if you get over zealous you can bury yourself in a mile of books. In terms of non marvel dc stuff, I liked black science its a nice combination of goofy and spooky

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Go suck a hot pocket

Mah man. Rick Remender is a best, I just love Fear Agent and Deadly Class.

Looked it up and I like the art. I'll believe I'll get into it thank you sir.

Despite how many people think of comics as this never ending series of superheroes, there are in fact MANY stories that begin and end by the same writer/artist so many things you can just pick up and read as needed.

As for the ones that actually DO continuously go on like many popular Marvel/DC ongoings, it's often best to treat reading like high fantasy stories.
You're not gonna start reading Tolkien books with Simarilian. You'll read The Hobbit or LOTR and pickup on context clues that these Eagles or this Balrog are big deals.
Similar to that you often will just go by the context clues to figure that this Bane guy is a huge threat to Batman or that this alien entity that Silver Surfer acts shocked at is a important/formidable being.

But YES there are some decent starting off points for certain writer runs or characters. If you have some specifics.

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Black Science is amazing. If you liked it, you can check out the rest of Remender's stuff, especially Fear Agent.

Eat a dick. You’re killing this board, you fake janitor. I’ll talk and recommend comics all I fucking want

In any case I appreciate you taking time out of your day to speak to a lowly pleb like this OP.

Nigga this board has Twitter outrage screencaps every day and recently some kinda monkey thread spam.
And you think us getting a chance to talk about things we like is a BAD THING?

OP I recommend you worry about canon later, and dive right in to characters that intrigue you. You’ll start absorbing information, piece it together, and know how to navigate the material. Events are mostly crap, but they introduce you to a lot of characters and concepts. Since you like Spider-Man, read The Gauntlet

In addition, most comics before the rise of dedicated single runs were largely self-contained issues, with Marvel pioneering multi-issue arcs. And all issues have plenty of footnotes and expository dialog so you always know what's going on.

You can start with basically any issue of ASM before the 80's and get a complete story or at the very least a part of a two or three issue story, though ASM is a weird example since it's one of the few comics that builds on itself exponentially and is generally worth reading in its entirety for the first 300 issues.

>Even though it gets tiring having the same "how do I get into Spider-Man?" topic eight times a week,
I miss those days. I actually like talking comics. Thank you for the thread OP.

>Shame on you for spoonfeeding. By not encouraging the OP to use Google for easily answerable requests and recommendations
Some of those sites are wrong and are only shilling by recommending to read modern crap the big two companies are pumping out and claiming it to be the best thing under the sun. I much prefer talking to actual fans on a Mongolian basket weaving image board about old comics.

Good post. I would recommend reading Spider Marvel Adventures. They're for a younger audience but they're great and fun and aren't bored down by heavy continuity. The only continuity is knowing the character names. There's also the Spidey series.

Marvel adventures is based, cute book that is written where each issue is a self contained story but with a nice layering of plot going throughout the book. Its a shame that got canceled but ultimate kept going

Since we've got several people in the thread complaining that it's difficult to talk about comics on this board, it seems as good a place as any to ask a question that's been bothering me for a while:

Why do comics and cartoons share the same board? It's not like Yea Forums, where anime is adapted from a manga 80% of the time, it's not like Yea Forums, where shows can be considered movies divided in parts (and even the film snobs bitch about being lumped with the TV shows IIRC)... How come the comics and the cartoons are fused on this board, despite them being really different mediums and rarely having an adaptation relation?

Don't waste your time with continuity. DC constantly reboots and Marvel anytime after the mid-2000s just flat out ignores their own continuity.