(Once a month, I invite Sean to take over the blog and write a little note to our kids. I love that he is willing to leave little nuggets of wisdom for them to look back on when they are older! While many of the posts on this blog are written to share our lives with you, the reader, Sean's "Letters from Dad" series is truly written to our kids. You are welcome to peek in and see what he wants them to know!)
Dearest Children,
This is the moment that you have been waiting for (and Mommy
and her readers have been dreading). Which comics you should read first?
First, let’s discuss authors. Here are Daddy’s favorites, and the
particular runs that he loves:
·
Peter David
o
Incredible
Hulk
o
X-Factor
o
Supergirl
o
Young
Justice
o
Spider-Man
o
Spider-Man
2099
·
Kurt Busiek
o
Avengers
o
Iron Man
o
Spider-Man
o
Thunderbolts
·
Roger
Stern
o
Avengers
o
Spider-Man
o
Captain
America
o
Iron Man
o
Incredible
Hulk
·
Mark Gruenwald
o
Captain
America
o
Hawkeye
·
Steve Engelhart
o
Captain
America
o
Avengers
o
West Coast
Avengers
·
Ed Brubaker
o
Captain
America
o
Batman
o
X-Men
·
John Ostrander
o
Star Wars
o
Heroes for
Hire
o
Quicksilver
So now you know what authors and their runs I like, so where
should you start? If you are looking for comedy (and let’s face it, you’re my
children), you’ll want to start with Peter David. Warning, his early run on
Spider-Man was more tragic than comedic. I’d start with Young Justice (or as Impulse says “Young Just Us”). It’s geared at
a younger audience with the teenage superheroes of Robin, the Secret, Superboy,
Impulse, and Wondergirl.
So let’s see what next… you all like Spider-Man so I would
then do Kurt Busiek’s Untold Tales of
Spider-Man before moving over to Roger Stern’s Spider-Man.
Next, you also love Captain America, so I would just read
Daddy’s entire collection.
Other complete runs you should try out are Incredible Hulk, read it up until Peter
David leaves, then skip all of the issues until Peter David comes back. The
Greg Pak run afterwards is completely solid and so is the Mark Waid run.
Avengers is another
title you can’t go wrong with. West Coast
Avengers/Avengers West Coast is completely solid. There are a couple
fill-in issues but they aren’t smacked in the middle of the story so they don’t
take away. It might help if you weave the Avengers
and West Coast Avengers in together.
Also, when you get to Busiek’s run (skip the heroes reborn action) you’ll want
to mix in Iron Man, Thunderbolts,
Quicksilver, and Heroes for Hire.
All those books are rather enjoyable.
So here is the thing, the authors that I listed have long
lengthy runs for their titles. They were dedicated to their characters. Comics
aren’t made like that these days. Everything is all limited series, and they
want to limit the input that the creators have on the titles. It seems that
these days, Marvel plans on relaunching their titles every year, so there isn’t
as much cohesiveness.
Nowadays, I get my comics from the library, which means that
I’m limited to individual stories instead of runs. That’s okay because comics
are mostly written that way nowadays. You just have to realize the shift in how
comic books are written over the years.
Maybe you’ll want to read the comics that I love or maybe
you won’t. If you do want to read them, we’ll read them and enjoy the stories
together. The same way, we snuggle up to watch our cartoons.
I’m glad that we can enjoy life together!
Love,
Daddy
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