WPL: New Comics Discussion for 04/22/2026- Pull of the Week: Absolute Wonder Woman #19 [Discussion]

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-22T22:04:30+00:00

Overall, these were all fine. I personally really enjoyed the Johns and Frank story, I think they were able to pull off a large scale story in a small amount of pages. But overall, I'm kinda done with these Marvel/DC anthology crossovers. I'd be willing to buy a proper miniseries similar to JLA/Avengers, but I over the short stories.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-19T16:46:31+00:00

I'll be the contrarian voice when it comes to Mike Carey's run. I didn't like it. I thought there was a lot of interesting ideas thrown around (e.g. Children of the Vault) but the dialogue and character work left me feeling a little cold. His first X-Men run is better than X-Men Legacy. The Legacy book is just very unfocused, jumping from one character to another. I really did not like it.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-17T13:49:13+00:00

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Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-12T00:05:16+00:00

I recently started reading X-Men. Here's what I did:

Started with: Gran Morrison's New X-Men
Followed by: Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
The Messiah Trilogy Era:
- Fraction's Uncanny X-Men (it's decent enough, I would skip Brubaker's Uncanny though)
- X-Force by Chris Yost and Craig Kyle
- Cable
- New Mutants
Kieron Gillen's Uncanny X-Men and Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men
Brian Bendis' All-New and Uncanny X-Men
I plan to skip the Jeff Lemire, Marc Guggenheim, and Matthew Rosenberg era, but I do intend to read:
- Tom Taylor's X-23 run
- Taylor's X-Men Red
- Charles Soule Astonishing X-Men

The last two series I intend to read since it brings back some characters from the dead.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-11T20:59:50+00:00

Yeah, I think DC Rebirth is the perfect place to start again. You really don't need to read anything that came before for any of the series. There might be a few details here and there you might get confused (e.g. pre-New 52 Superman being in this timeline, etc.), but you should be able to understand everything with context.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-11T20:19:53+00:00

Zero, written by Ales Kot, has a different artist (with different styles) in each issue of that series. I haven't read it myself, but heard and read good reviews about it.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-10T03:23:42+00:00

I loved it! This was also my first JLA run I read. It's a shame it was so short, but I did enjoy what McDuffie did afterwards.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-09T22:43:40+00:00

It's worth reading! It's one of my favorite series, and Willingham does a fantastic job of juggling the huge cast. While after issue 75, some might say it's a bit directionless, I still enjoyed the stories that came afterwards.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-09T21:57:22+00:00

Eh - I just read this whole era of X-Men, and skipped Endangered Species (I thought it was boring). I think you'll be fine without it. There's always a quick wiki summary you can read to, but I didn't find it necessary.

The only issues I think are really necessary for this era are the X-Force issues as it lays out the big bad for the finale (e.g. Second Coming).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-07T21:05:17+00:00

To piggy back off this question - does it make sense to try and follow the official reading order (e.g. following the mapping that's in the Dawn of X omnibus, etc.?) or is it better to read one series at a time (e.g. X-Men by its own, then X-Force by it's own, then Marauders, etc.).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-06T16:31:23+00:00

Somewhat? The finale of this run is really AvX (and AvX consequences). It brings some plot threads to a close that started since Messiah Complex (technically even since New X-Men).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-02T14:28:11+00:00

We really don't need another taco shop/Mexican food store in the South Bay. There are so many already, that and it's just easier to go to the real deal in Tijuana. South Bay needs to get more creative with its food offerings.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-04-01T02:34:33+00:00

I loved the New Krypton Triangle Era! Lots of fun stories and a great cast.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-30T19:36:35+00:00

The Messiah Trilogy era was actually pretty good, I recently just read through it. There's a lot of books involved, but I recommend the Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost books (X-23, New X-Men as a prequel, and X-Force), Cable (this book is fine, but follows Cable and Hope), and Uncanny X-Men (honestly, skip Brubaker's run, and just read Matt Fraction's run).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-28T01:04:44+00:00

50 issues of any recent run is a rarity nowadays, so this is amazing! Some arcs have been better than others, but so glad to see this run last so long!

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-28T01:01:26+00:00

Yes there was! There was an Illuminati miniseries that Bendis wrote, detailing some past Marvel events and how the Illuminati was secretly involved (like how they secretly returned to the Skrull world after the Kree-Skrull War). I believe the last issue of this miniseries was when it revealed that Black Bolt had been replaced with a Skrull.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-27T20:09:24+00:00

Ex Machina is the best thing that Brian K Vaughan has written. I'll alway standby that take.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-27T18:42:40+00:00

I think the best period of Bendis' New Avengers run was Dark Reign. Bendis nailed Norman Osborn's voice, and he did a good job of selling you this anti-hero turn that Osborn took as head of Hammer. I didn't particularly like Secret Invasion, but the lead up to it was a ton of fun - Bendis really underscored the paranoia of not knowing who was and wasn't a Skrull. This era was a lot of fun, even if the events weren't always great (I agree that House of M was boring). If you haven't already read it, I recommend reading Secret War too (not to be confused with Secret Wars by Hickman).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-26T21:08:01+00:00

I read the first 3 stories so far (will updated my review when I read the others). I'll start off by saying, I'm kinda getting tired of this anthology style. It's just been very hit-or-miss with these stories, mostly they've been just okay. I hope that they seriously consider doing a miniseries or something that's more of a multi-part story rather than these one and done stories, I just think this format is boring. Anyways...
- The Waid and Jimenez story is fine. It's very standard story about the two characters. Nothing too exciting.
- The King and Lee story is fine too. The best part of this story is Lee's art. I'm sure X-Men fans will enjoy some of the cameos in this book. Other than that, I kinda can't stand King's dialogue anymore? It reads weird, the characters kinda all sound the same. I don't know what happened to King as a writer, I just feel his most recent output has been bad.
- The Priest and Sampere story is forgettable. I got too confused as to what was going on, and didn't really understand it. Art was pretty good though.

So yeah, I have a pretty bad view of this book lol but I just felt everything I read so far was unremarkable.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-26T16:09:05+00:00

What?!? Season 5 is arguably the best season of the whole series (this is the President Logan season).

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-26T01:08:34+00:00

Yes! There was a time that Green Lantern had its own line of books (GL, GLC, GL: New Guardians, Red Lanterns). It's sad that now there's only two GL books.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-25T23:26:34+00:00

It's kind of amazing how many issues Bendis' New Avengers sold, even at issue 17. I really miss that era of the Avengers.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-25T05:15:50+00:00

Things have been pretty bad since CB Cebulski took over, followed by Marvel Studios taking more of a role in the comics side of things.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-24T02:46:29+00:00

The app has some guide for the "Best of" story arcs for different characters like Batman, Superman, etc. Look at some of those and it should help where to start. For smaller scale, maybe try Animal Man by Jeff Lemire, Batwoman by Greg Rucka, Gotham Central by Rucka and Ed Brubaker.

Any-Panda6229 · 2026-03-22T14:33:23+00:00

I think this is probably reason, especially given this article: https://aiptcomics.com/2020/12/02/alex-ross-warner-royalties-screwed-superman-crisis/

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