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fandomsecrets2015-01-14 06:42 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2933 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2933 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Lovely Complex]
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[Giada De Laurentiis/John Mayer]
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[Dragon Age 2]
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[John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme]
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[Robert Smith of The Cure]
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[WWE]
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(Agents of Shield)
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[Rookie Blue]
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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
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[Dragon Age Inquisition]
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[Sailor Moon]
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[Stargate: Atlantis]
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[Pern]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #419.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
(this list is for other people too if you're interested)
Here's the first part of my recommended reading list for DC (by which I mean this is the fast way to go through 35 years of comic books.) There's a lot to read here and it took me a while to whip this list up, so I'm splitting the list up into separate posts across several days so I have more time to do research and recall my own long, strange trip through this shit.
As per your request I've tried to fold as much Green Arrow into this list as possible, but that's difficult for me as I strongly dislike pre-New 52 Ollie and tended to avoid GA as a result. Nightwing I enjoy much more, so you're lucky there!
Part 1: Pre-Crisis
A lot of people might suggest you start with Crisis on Infinite Earths, but there are so many characters and elements involved in that I feel it's better to tackle some of the "Early Years" stories first so you can get introduced to these characters. Most of the origin stories here were written after CoIE but the major elements have not significantly changed from their inception in the 30s/40s/50s. A bunch of these are going to date back to the 80s or even earlier, so bear with me. There's also going to be a lot of Batman because that's what I focused on when I first started reading DC.
Flash: Life Story of the Flash (graphic novel -- this is essentially a summation of several Silver and Bronze age stories starring Barry Allen and Wally West, culminating in Barry's involvement in Crisis on Infinite Earths. It's a major spoiler for Crisis, but one that's 30 years old... You can read it now, or you can read it after Crisis, your choice)
Batman: Year One
Superman: Man of Steel (6-issue miniseries by John Byrne -- do not confuse with the 1991-2003 ongoing)
Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn I and II
Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals
Aquaman: Time and Tide
Green Arrow: The Wonder Year
JLA: Year One
Batman: The Man Who Laughs
Batman: Daughter of the Demon
Legends of the Dark Knight: Gothic/Venom/Freakout (Gothic is a seminal work, Venom lays some groundwork for a later storyline, and Freakout is just a personal favourite)
Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: Dark Victory (serves as an origin for Dick Grayson, though there are others)
Robin: Year One
Batgirl: Year One
Batman Chronicles #9, first story (Dick and Babs meet for the first time)
Superman/Batman v1 Annual #1
Teen Titans: Year One
New Teen Titans v1 #1-40 (this is the seminal Teen Titans run that Marv Wolfman made famous and that DC has tried to emulate for years to no success)
Tales of the Teen Titans #41-60 (this is what NTT was re-titled to when NTT v2 started, and is set before NTT v2)
Nightwing: Year One
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Traveling Heroes (silly and outdated now, but an important story when it first ran)
Guy Gardner: Year One (technically set in post-Crisis continuity but serves as a flashback to Guy Gardner's origin -- Guy being my favourite GL, I had to include it)
Crisis On Infinite Earths (This is the big one, the first major reboot DC did 30 years ago. Most of the preceding stories save Teen Titans were written after this story was published, but most of the stuff written before remains largely in continuity. To put it really plainly, up to this point DC, chafing under Comics Code Authority censorship, had to get really inventive to make creative storylines, and things got a little... haywire, with dozens of alternate universes and whatnot. What this story does is destroy most of these universes as part of the narrative and fold the remainder into one. It's actually very meta in that 1940s versions of characters work alongside their 1980s counterparts, most notably Golden Age Superman. With this story, part one of my reading list concludes.)
Re: (this list is for other people too if you're interested)
Re: (this list is for other people too if you're interested)
I'm looking at it now and I'm already thinking there's probably a few things I could have added, like the Golden Age superheroes that didn't get retained through the 50s and 60s, like the original Green Lantern or Flash (they were replaced in the late 50s by the Green Lantern and Flash we know now.) They were actually folded back into continuity sometime after Crisis...
Oh shit, I know what I forgot! Jack Kirby's New Gods saga -- that is absolutely recommended reading. I'll include it in part 2 because it's really important for later stories.
Just realized I forgot one more addition to the list -- Superman/Batman Annual #2. It should be placed where #1 is now, and #1 could best be moved to perhaps before JLA Year One.
Man I'm gonna be editing this list nonstop until I finish it, aren't I?
GREEN ARROW
(Anonymous) 2015-01-15 03:38 am (UTC)(link)"The Longbow Hunters" is first. Then there's the "mature readers" (as in, references to sex, drugs, and blood) series. I love that version.
Sarah Byam's Black Canary spins off of those. "New Wings" is the first part, then twelve regular issues. I don't think these were ever collected. :( They were treated as non-continuity once Birds of Prey started.
Re: GREEN ARROW
Re: GREEN ARROW
(Anonymous) 2015-01-15 05:58 am (UTC)(link)