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Post by james on Aug 31, 2024 19:11:56 GMT -5
11years later and I am explaining to my wife Avengers MCU VS Marvel Comics Avengers. And I love it.
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 31, 2024 19:22:12 GMT -5
I'd say just read The Avengers #1 - 170 or so, but you could stop the explanation with #60 and come away with one of the greatest team book runs ever published, which puts those cartoony MCU Avengers movies to shame.
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Post by james on Aug 31, 2024 19:30:47 GMT -5
Id say just read The Avengers #1 - 170 or so, but you could stop the explanation with #60 and come away with one of the greatest team book runs ever published, which puts those cartoony MCU Avengers movies to shame. 1-200 for me but I think 1-100 would give greatest Avengers team book. Also she’ll never read an issue. Kills me to say but its true |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 31, 2024 19:50:45 GMT -5
1-300. Nothing much to add after that. Just great stories.
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Post by berkley on Aug 31, 2024 20:23:14 GMT -5
Id say just read The Avengers #1 - 170 or so, but you could stop the explanation with #60 and come away with one of the greatest team book runs ever published, which puts those cartoony MCU Avengers movies to shame. 1-200 for me but I think 1-100 would give greatest Avengers team book. Also she’ll never read an issue. Kills me to say but its true Right now I'd agree with Tarkintino and go with #1 to #170, if that's the end of the Korvac story, since that's when I stopped following the Avengers. But I can see myself changing to #200 if I ever get around to reading George Perez's return to the series. I like his artwork enough that even if the stories are only average those issues could still become favourites. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2024 20:55:31 GMT -5
I can’t imagine not having my Monica Rambeau CM issues of Avengers in the 80’s. And Busiek’s run (including Avengers Forever) would be on my list as well.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 1, 2024 4:36:13 GMT -5
My wife knows the MCU much better than I do -- I'm really not a fan of superhero movies, as a rule of thumb. So, on the rare occasions that we talk about comics, we'll usually be comparing notes on differences between the comics and the films.
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Post by riv86672 on Sept 1, 2024 6:03:14 GMT -5
My spouse got into comics after we were married. She’d come w. me on my weekly trips to the shop and just look around, all bored as I did my thing. Then one day she rushed up to me and said she wanted this one book because it looked cute as Hell. It was an issue of Jeff Smith’s Bone. After that she was hooked, and I knew the marriage would last.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 1, 2024 6:18:20 GMT -5
1-200 for me but I think 1-100 would give greatest Avengers team book. Also she’ll never read an issue. Kills me to say but its true Right now I'd agree with Tarkintino and go with #1 to #170, if that's the end of the Korvac story, since that's when I stopped following the Avengers. But I can see myself changing to #200 if I ever get around to reading George Perez's return to the series. I like his artwork enough that even if the stories are only average those issues could still become favourites. For the classic Avengers , I defer to 1-300. Of course the Busiek stuff and the Ultimates were fun. 300 is my cut off point because that's John Buscema's last regular issue on the run. I consider him the ultimate Avengers artist. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 1, 2024 6:28:31 GMT -5
I was impressed that my wife could name the members of the Fantastic Four: "Captain America, Concrete Man, Mr. Stretchy Man, and Mr. Swims-Real-Fast."
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 1, 2024 6:32:09 GMT -5
1-300. Nothing much to add after that. Just great stories. Are you saying the 301st issue is really bad?  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 1, 2024 6:50:38 GMT -5
1-300. Nothing much to add after that. Just great stories. Are you saying the 301st issue is really bad? Just an arbitrary number. Some decent stuff happens until the crossing. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 1, 2024 7:44:41 GMT -5
My cut-off point for the original Avengers run is #285, the last issue scripted by Roger Stern. Then I jump forward to the Busiek/Perez stuff. I've read everything in between but have no desire to revisit any of it.
Cei-U!
I summon the big ol' gap!
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2024 10:30:55 GMT -5
I tend to side with 1-200, though there is still some good stories for a bit after; I've just read far more of that bloc than later.
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Post by james on Sept 1, 2024 10:46:05 GMT -5
Are you saying the 301st issue is really bad? Just an arbitrary number. Some decent stuff happens until the crossing. All I know is after 300 I can’t tell you a single storyline. |
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