Marvel Trade Recommendations anyone?

[coolghoul]

I am a meat and potatoes kinda guy - generally stick to Marvel and DC comics and it's usually the Trades that my library gets (and I occasionally recommend to the friendly neighborhood library too)- so I'm typically a year behind the current storylines.

For DC reading material, I am situated pretty - there's various Final Crisis related items, Batman related items and also Green Lantern (I'm having to go all the way back to Rebirth and begin anew) and stuff that will feed into Blackest Night related items that I'm in the process of reading or requesting.

What do I do for Marvel? I just recently read Secret Invasion (along with a fairly enjoyable Thor trade tie-in, a superb Herc tie-in and a meh Captain Marvel tie-in ) but I am very very confused by all the different Avenger storylines that are resulting. I do plan to read as much of Incredible Hercules as possible (I really like Herc and Cho (now without pup in tow) ) but that's pretty much it. Spidey is going thru a down phase. Not sure what's happening on the X-men front (tho' I did read a very enjoyable Cable Messiah War trade). So I'm kinda stuck for Marvel.

Please help by suggesting trades (it would be great if you could assign a reading order) of the recent good storylines from Marvel.

And any other things that you're stoked about re Marvel.

TIA!!

 

[Davros]

Elektra Assasin is a great read with outstanding art.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Nextwave will make y'laugh so hard you'll puke.

Captain Fuck is just so cool.

At least i assumed his name was Captain Fuck?

The Censors blacked out his name every time.

It might have been Captain Cunt?

Anyone know for sure what Warren was thinking?

Captain Shit?

 

[Gojirob]

I just got through reading Essential Avengers Volume 4, which intro'd the Vision and also had two pivotal time travel stories, including one in which Cap goes back to the end of WW2, and tries to save you-know-who, which causes a paradox that leads into Annual 2. Great stories, but that 60's Roy Thomas dialogue had me LOL. The time travel WW2 story even features a possible loophole that Brubaker may or may not have picked up on, when he created Winter Soldier.

 

[Mr Light]

I really enjoy the entirety of the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers storyline. I liked Civil War and read a lot of the tie-ins. Of the new Spider-Man I've only read "New Ways to Die" which was very good. Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were a good bit of mindless smashing. Secret Invasion was cool. Mark Millar's Fantastic Four is great. The new Hulk series is interesting with A Plus art. The new Deadpool series is hilarious. I've been sampling recent X-Men stuff and I just can't get into it like the old Claremont days, it's just too dark and serious. Oh but Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run (4 trades) was CLASSIC X-Men. And Wolverine Enemy of the State (Mark Millar again) was excellent.

 

[DarthPipes]

The Winter Soldier trade paperbacks, dealing with Bucky's return, are great.

 

[Captain Craig]

I've been reading the New Avengers in TPB only. I'm through vol.7 and they have 9 currently out. I'm also reading Mighty Avengers in TPB. I'm two volumes into that and they have 4 out.
I'm reading the Brubaker Captain America and recommend those. I just read the 'death of CA' and I'm looking forward to diving into the Bucky Cap material.
I've also just read in the last couple of months Essential Incredible Hulk vol.1&2.

I'm waiting for Dark Avengers to have its first trade but I liked those above and think you'd enjoy them.

 

[Chrisisall]

Master Of Kung Fu was AWESOME. Gullacy & Moench together again!

 

[LutherSloan]

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, which is collected in I believe 5 TPBs.

 

[Brikar99]

Bendis and Maleev's run on "Daredevil" was excellent, as was Brubaker and Faction's work on "The Immortal Iron Fist". They sort of exist in their own little pockets of the Marvel universe, which is pretty cool because the stories are more self-contained.

I'd highly recommend either of those.

 

[Stevil2001]

Only the first two volumes (Secret Invasion and Hell Comes to Birmingham) are out so far, but Paul Cornell's run on Captain Britain and MI13 is fantastic.

 

[coolghoul]

Elektra Assasin is a great read with outstanding art.

Is that the one by Frank Miller? It's dated from 2000. Nothing against reading an olden goldie but I was asking about recent trades (since secret invasions). Sorry if my post didn't make it clearer. My typing is slower than my thinking (which is slow enough ) and sometimes I confuse myself when I read my own post.

I just got through reading Essential Avengers Volume 4, which intro'd the Vision and also had two pivotal time travel stories, including one in which Cap goes back to the end of WW2, and tries to save you-know-who, which causes a paradox that leads into Annual 2. Great stories, but that 60's Roy Thomas dialogue had me LOL. The time travel WW2 story even features a possible loophole that Brubaker may or may not have picked up on, when he created Winter Soldier.

I just got a bunch of Essential Avengers from my neighborhood library - Vol 2 thru 6. I think that's gonna be a lot of great reading material for me. Talking about Essentials - generally I am a little negative on them due to their Black-and-White-ness. However let me recommend Essential Silver Surfer - all that surfboard, Shalla Bal, Galactus artwork looks great in B&W!! Very moody and goes really well with the Silver Surfer's angst.

I really enjoy the entirety of the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers storyline. I liked Civil War and read a lot of the tie-ins. Of the new Spider-Man I've only read "New Ways to Die" which was very good. Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were a good bit of mindless smashing. Secret Invasion was cool. Mark Millar's Fantastic Four is great. The new Hulk series is interesting with A Plus art. The new Deadpool series is hilarious. I've been sampling recent X-Men stuff and I just can't get into it like the old Claremont days, it's just too dark and serious. Oh but Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run (4 trades) was CLASSIC X-Men. And Wolverine Enemy of the State (Mark Millar again) was excellent.

Civil War had way too many tie-ins. I don't know which I still have to read. While WWH might be just a tad mindless, I thought Planet Hulk was just fantastic. I haven't really followed either Skaar or Red Hulk too much but hoping that when Skaar takes over the Hulk title it will be fun. Secret Invasion was fun. But I guess, I didn't enjoy it more based on everybody's raving about it. Sometimes I think that Trades miss the fun that comes from waiting for the next issue of the mag. I have read the Astonishing X-men - it was fun tho' I hate Beast's Cat-like incarnation. He just looks too much of a fat tabby Thanks for the Fantastic Four recommendation. I had forgotten about the FF.

I've been reading the New Avengers in TPB only. I'm through vol.7 and they have 9 currently out. I'm also reading Mighty Avengers in TPB. I'm two volumes into that and they have 4 out.
I'm reading the Brubaker Captain America and recommend those. I just read the 'death of CA' and I'm looking forward to diving into the Bucky Cap material.
I've also just read in the last couple of months Essential Incredible Hulk vol.1&2.

I'm waiting for Dark Avengers to have its first trade but I liked those above and think you'd enjoy them.

Thanks very much for the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers info. That's more of what I needed. (vol 9 is the most recent and v4 is the most recent and so on). I read one of the Death of CA trades - lovely art (dark, glossy) but all that darkness can get a little ho-hum. I had read one of the Winter Soldier trades earlier but haven't quite gotten to like Bucky as yet. I don't have too much of a history with Bucky from the early Cap comics either.

Edit - Talking again about Essentials - I got vol 5 of the Rampaging Hulk - that was also something that appear awesome in B&W format. Very moody artwork with lots of b&w shading and shadow-play.

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, which is collected in I believe 5 TPBs.

I have read one book which was labeled The Complete Age of Apocalypse but I think I didn't get the right book - it had weird one-off stories set in the future (and I think after Apocalypse' defeat) and I didn't like it. The art was also the jagged-y kind that I don't like that much.

Thanks all for the recommendations.

So now I know - FF, Mighty Avengers and New Avengers (and Dark Avengers haven't come out with a trade yet) are the things that I need to find the most recent trades for.

 

[Mr Light]

I started reading Annihilation, the Marvel cosmic war epic starring a bunch of D list characters. It's actually pretty cool! I just finished book 1 and look forward to the rest (there's 5 trades in total).

I have read one book which was labeled The Complete Age of Apocalypse but I think I didn't get the right book - it had weird one-off stories set in the future (and I think after Apocalypse' defeat) and I didn't like it. The art was also the jagged-y kind that I don't like that much.

I just read this too! This is actually part 2 of "Apocalypse The Twelve" a storyline that ran around 2000. It has nothing to do with "Age of Apocalypse" they just recycled the title. I agree it was pretty crappy.