Oh trust me, these things just keep getting bigger, on the bright side, you’ll get some great reading out of em!

Same here!

I read his work all the way up to before Ultimatum. It’s pretty entertaining and one of Marvel’s best runs of the modern era.

Not liking what I saw from either of those titles. Ta Nehisi Coates' Marvel work has been mostly disappointing for me. Slott's on the other hand, feels really preachy. The fact that he's also dealing with a ton of elements that I hated from Iron Man the last few years (Tony Stark's weird parentage and Arno) and well didn't bother continuing.

Personally I hate the Earth One books, feels like they missed the core points of Superman and Batman (both of which I read)

Ive been following the Boom MMPR Shattered Grid storyline, pretty good. I only read the earlier volumes of Hellboy and yes those are pretty good as well. I haven’t read Spawn in years though.

That’s good to know, what titles are you reading?

Reading order can be a pain sometimes. Technically Metal did take place before the end because they did a crossover with the main League title and other DCU titles. I purposely try to block continuity from my head sometimes when I know a story is meant to have murky connection to the current continuity, Metal being one of them and stuff like Whedon's Astonishing X-Men is another.

True, but that likely stems from the fact that it took so long to finish.

Just with all the post Metal labeling with the new Justice League comics makes it easy to place it. Not to mention the other comics such Wonder Woman and all the new hero stuff as well.

On the mention of X-Men, I think I’m going to utilize Comicbook Herald for figuring out a reading order. Once I have everything that is.

While that was alright, I felt the issue was a bit lacking and spent too much time on the set-up. For a better Avengers launch issue, I would recommend checking out Kurt Busiek and George Perez's Avengers #1 from 1998. It's collected under the storyline Avengers: The Morgan Conquest if I'm not mistaken.

It’s more then likely to pick up steam. This is Jason Aaron after all.

And believe me, I intend to read that, it’s the start of the modern era. All I have to do is get it. Not to mention the classic essentials.

That’s true, I still believe in Aaron so I’ll definitely be waiting for what he has to show.

Yep, not blown away, but I'm interested in what Aaron has to offer. It feels like it's been a while since the Avengers assembled to face such a great threat.

Nice! Hope you like Op Rebirth! I personally like Waid’s take on Cap. That opening issue in particular is a great story about Cap without him actually being involved. As for the IM books - Good choices!

Honestly I'm not sure it really matters, if I'm not mistaken, they'll collect the same things (later prints of Operation Rebirth included the Man Without A Country arc as well). This particular arc of Captain America ended the series, so I don't think there's anything the Epic Collection can really add to it since I doubt they'll put in the previous story arc - Fighting Chance.

In that case try the Waid/Wieringo/Porter FF run

Good to know, the Kirby/Lee run is a must read, I would also recommend the John Byrne run during the 80s. If you want you can also see if the New Fantastic Four arc by Simonson and Adams is on sale. It’s from 347-349 I think.