I have never read comic books until the last month in which I read the Invincible Series(by Robert Kirkman) because I wasn’t patient enough to wait for the show lol. After that, I’ve read a few more Graphic Novels, and now I’ll try venturing in the marvel comics, but there are so many, and I don’t know how to start, what to read, what not to read, order of reading, idk, I just really need some help. I’m in the final stretch of the The Walking Dead Series, and would love to, after finishing it, dive right the way into the marvel comics.
The stories I’m interested are for adults and more serious. Don’t really care for the gender, race of the character or anything like that, what I seek is well developed, complex characters. The scale of the usually don’t matter, but I tend to gravitate towards bigger threats and longer plots. Some friends of mine have recommended me civil war and old man logan, but the lack of a bigger picture plot discouraged me, given the magnitude of the marvel universe.
Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll check them out.
You definitely get complex characters in the Civil War storyline, because the characters there are struggling about what it means to be “good”. But, I wouldn’t jump right in with Civil War, because it’s a story that has a lot more impact if you really know the characters well.
IMO, a lot of the X-Men stories are better if you want complex characters. The Avengers are often fighting things that threaten the entire world. But, the X-Men are often fighting anti-mutant discrimination. That leads to complexity because their opponents aren’t evil, they’re often humans who (when well written) also have their own complex motivations. There are also a lot of characters in the X-Men who are sometimes villains, sometimes heroes.
Having said that, some of the stand-alone Avengers also have great complexity. Like, there are good Iron Man stories where Tony Stark is dealing with his alcoholism. Hawkeye also has some really good writing. His struggles are mostly smaller scale, family life, etc. Daredevil also often has some really good character development. Oh, and Moon Knight is really good for interesting storytelling. Another good one is Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch). She’s at the heart of some of the biggest, craziest Marvel events. But, because of that, it’s hard to just jump in with her stuff.
Btw, what really got me into comics was the invincible series, tried reading the walking dead series, by the same author, attempting to fill the void left by the invincible series, but I didn’t enjoy it as much.