Take your favorite character(s), and make an essential reading list of books/stories that involve them. Contribute to someone else's if they miss anything.
- Triumph & Torment- Emperor Doom- Books of Doom- DoomWar- Doom(: The Emperor Returns)- Fantastic Four: Unthinkable, 1 2 3 4 and The Master of Doom- Iron Man: DoomQuest and Legacy of Doom- Thor: The Latverian Prometheus
The Jack & Stan stuff (i.e. 'Tales of Asgard")The Walt Simonson runBlood OathLokiThor: DisassembledAges of ThunderSiege: LokiJMS -> Gillen -> FractionThor: The Mighty AvengerThor & the Warriors Four
Anything DC: List must include Year One if applicable.
>>79404>Look up Triumph and Torment.>Mike Mignolaffffffffffffffffffffff
His entire solo run.
Wonder Woman ChroniclesMishkin's runPerez's runRucka's runSimone's run (not including AA, obviously)The New FrontierJLA: League of One
Nothin' But MiseryHeaps of RuinationWicked InclinationsChinatown and the Mystery of Mr. WickerThose That Is DamnedCalamity of Conscience
The first six trade paperbacks of Teen Titans. DO NOT read further.
>>79735I thought The Goon was one of those characters where the best recommendation is "start at the beginning", like Usagi Yojimbo or Frank Einstein.
>>79826I dunno why he mad a recommended list, you really don't need one.Chinatown is a prequeal though and if I was gonna read over, I'd start there.But yes, the Goon is a start at the beginning character, it is all EXTREMELY good.
>>79843nnnooo don't start with China Town.Never start with China Town.That ruins the surprise.Read it right before issue 20 and you're golden.
>>79843Chinatown isn't a prequel, it just has a lot of flashbacks. If you started with that you'd be lost with everything going on in the "present" timeline and like Max said, it ruins the surprise.Telling someone to start with Chinatown is the worst piece of advice man what is that I don't even.
>>79962>>79896Wow, I must have taken another head injury, I don't know what I was thinking there.
http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/search/?q=batman&s=na&f=10933Do what I did. Start reading. Never Stop.
But seriously:Jack Kirby's 4th World Omnibus vol. 1-4The Great Darkness SagaWalt Simonson's OrionFinal CrisisThe Superman The Animated Series episode Apokalipse Now! is also good.