Comic jumping on points from 6/20/12
Posted by Dan H. | Posted in Comics | Posted on 26-06-2012
Tags: Avengers, Comic book, Comic Book Resources, Daredevil, Greg Rucka, IFanboy, Marvel Comics, Punisher
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It’s another Tuesday and this is another jumping on points from the previous weeks comics. It’s hard to know when it’s a good time to start in on a new comic so to help you out I have listed some jumping on points I have found from personal reads and around the internet. This isn’t an exhaustive list so if you know of something I missed hit me up in the comments and I will add it to the list. Previous weeks lists are also posted at the bottom. If you are looking to add a little flavor this week but don’t want to heavily invest in trades consider picking one of these up.
Daredevil #14
It has been pretty well established that this run of Daredevil has been new reader friendly from the start. Off the top of my head only #11 and #13 were bad places to start this book. That said I am a little reluctant to recommend #14. Technically speaking this issue stands perfectly well on its own but the problem lies with it being chock full of minor spoilers. If that isn’t a problem then by all means pick this issue up. Daredevil is hands down my favorite comic right now and I would recommend it to anyone.
Reviews: Comic Book Resources, Comic Vine
Nightwing #10
This is another one of my personal pulls. I started pulling Nightwing since being impressed with it during Night of the Owls. Unfortunately I have been unable to track down #4 so I haven’t read the past issues of this other than the crossover ones. I basically came at this issue fresh. While issue #10 is the start of a new arc it’s only so-so as far as new reader friendliness goes. There were a couple points I had to turn to the internet to understand what was going on and spoiled a bit of the back issues because of it. I have no problem with that but you may be different.
Reviews: Multiversity Comics, iFanboy
Punisher #12
One issue after the Omega Effect crossover with Spiderman and Daredevil we have a good starting point for new Punisher readers. After Omega Effect, Punisher is tracking down his Punishette in training, Rachel Cole-Alves, and is doing something he hasn’t done much in this run of Punisher; talk. Heard a lot of good things about Greg Rucka’s run on Punisher so maybe I’ll check this one out myself.
Reviews: Comic Book Resources, Talking Comicbooks
Avengers vs X-Men #6
This is officially the half way mark for Marvel’s summer event and Act One writer and artists have tagged out and a fresh new team has tagged in for Act Two. If you had problems with the previous writing and/or artist now may be the time to jump back in. I’m just hoping that this whole event shakes up the Avengers and X-Men books to where a newly returned to comics reader like myself won’t feel completely lost with at least one of these books. Seriously, Colossus is alive AND has Juggernaut’s powers? WTF?!?!
Reviews: Comic Vine, IGN
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I picked up Punisher and Nightwing and I’m probably going to get Daredevil soon! thanks a lot these are really helpful!
Glad to help! I just started getting back into comics in the past 6 months and unless you read a ton of blogs it’s hard to know when to start a series. I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face; read Daredevil. The first two volumes are out and cover up to issue 11 (including the crossover with amazing spiderman 677 that was a pain for me to track down after the fact) I think I love it so much is that it feels like a modern silver age comic if that makes any sense…
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