Now that Marvel is set to relaunch with Marvel NOW!, I thought it'd be interesting to see from what generation you sprang, when you started reading Marvel Comics and what you are currently reading. I'll start:
Age: 44
Started Reading: 1974
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Marvel Double Feature (Tales of Suspense reprints featuring Captain America and Iron Man)
Favorite Character: The Incredible Hulk
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : No (Not a fan of Jason Aaron).
Currently Read:
Avengers
New Avengers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Winter Soldier
Captain America
Thor
Iron Man
Fantastic Four
Daredevil
Age: 37
Started Reading: 1983
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Secret Wars 10
Favorite Character: Captain America
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes.
Currently Read:
Avengers
New Avengers
Secret Avengers
Winter Soldier
Captain America
Captain America and (other guy)
Thor
Iron Man
Fantastic Four
FF
Daredevil
Amazing Spider-Man
Avenging Spider-Man
Uncanny X-Men
New Mutants
X-Men Legacy
X-Men
X-Force
X-Factor
AvX
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : I'll give it a shot but the early info is not encouraging.
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Age: 40
Started Reading: maybe around 1978 - 79
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Not sure to be honest
Favorite Character: Daredevil I guess. I really like allot of characters
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes, DD is one of my favs right now
Currently Read:
Daredevil
Avengers
New Avengers
Winter Soldierr
Iron Man
Fantastic Four
X-men books (most of them)
X-Factor
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Yes I am. Aside from X-Factor the X titles have been annoying me lately, so I am in the mood for a shake up.
I hope IM gets a new team or something as Fraction has lost his touch there.
Age: 28
Started Reading: 1990
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Amazing Spider-man #350
Favorite Character: Wolverine
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : yes only because I am wondering what's with all the Sabretooth clones
Currently Read:
Uncanny X- Force (loved this series and my most wanted Bowen display)
Avengers vs X-men (I'm a sucker and need to see if it will get better)
Wolverine and the X-men
Wolverine
Spider-man
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : No the only titles I honestly look toward to lately are Snyders Batman. Yes I am aware it's DC
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Age: 37
Started Reading: 1979 (was exposed to comics at a very young age)
Title of 1st Marvel Comic read: don't recall, possibly Fantastic Four # 207
Favorite character: None
Do you currently read your favorite character's book? N/A
Currently reading:
Amazing Spider-Man
Incredible Hulk
Invincible Iron Man
Thor
Captain America
Avengers
New Avengers
Secret Avengers
Ultimate Avengers
Fantastic Four
FF
Marvel NOW!? Looking forward to it is the wrong phrase but not running from it. Will see what it is first
Age: 19
Started Reading: 2000 (Didn't read any comic for a long time after that)
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: The Invincible IRON MAN #29
Favorite Character: IRON MAN
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes
Currently Read:
IRON MAN
Deadpool
Avengers Vs X-Men
Amazing Spider-Man
Wolverine
Uncanny X-Men
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Sort of...currently reading up on past Marvel comics/events. Only started reading comics again recently thanks to a friend, did not touch them for about 9 years :/
Age: 35
Started Reading: 1990
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Uncanny X-men
Favorite Character: Gambit
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Indeed
Currently Read:
Uncanny X- Force
Avengers vs X-men
Wolverine and the X-men
X-men vol3
Xmen Legacy
Ultimate X-men
X-factor
Uncanny X-men
Buffy Season 9
Angel and Faith
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Sort of... it depends on how AvX wraps up
Age: 37
Started Reading: flipped through a few in early 80's, started reading regularly in 1988
Title of First Comic: Punisher (vol.2) (as on-going) had read some Spidey, Batman, Loonie Toons, other obscure stuff before that)
Favorite Character: Punisher, Gambit, Wolverine
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? Yes
Currently Read:
Punisher (any/all)
Deadpool (any/all)
X-books (all main titles, AVX)
X-Factor (started picking it up again recently)
Ultimate X-men, Ultimates, Ult Avengers
Venom
Wolverine (all)
Non-Marvel:
Batman/Detective/Nightwing
Fathom
Darkness
Transformers (all)
GI Joe (all)
Voltron
varioius independant mini-series if they perk my interest
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? "looking forward to" might be a bit of a stretch, but I will give it a shot and see what shakes out.
Age: 34
Started Reading: 1984
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Secret Wars #1
Favorite Character: Ben Grimm, aka The Thing
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes, Fantastic Four
Currently Read:
Fantastic Four
FF
Thor
Iron Man
Amazing Spiderman
Batman
Detective Comics
Nightwing
Age: 38
Started Reading: 1976...Since I can remember
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Spidey Super Stories..Iron Man.?
Favorite Character: Iron Man
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes...barely. Tony Stark on his knees calling The Mandarin master?
Currently Read:
Iron Man
Captain America
All Avengers
Hulk
FF and Fantastic Four
All Spidey
Just about every Marvel title with the exception of the mutant titles - 40-50 titles per month?
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Long sigh.....No. I'm tired of endless crossovers, gimmicks, and what have you. It feels like what has made all of these characters great has been forgotten. I have somewhere around 11,000 comics, 99.999% of them Marvel. This "its not a reboot its a relaunch (I'm not sure what the difference is) is prob my jump off point. Cant believe I'm feeling like this after all these years. Thanks Marvel.
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Age: 30
Started Reading: 1990
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Amazing Spider-man
Favorite Character: Read is Spider-man, all in all is Captain America
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? :yes on both
Currently Read:
Amazing Spider-man
Avenging Spider-man
Ultimate Spider-Man
Scarlet Spider
Winter Soldier
Captain America
Captain America and.....( Whoever the flavor of the month is)
The Mighty Thor
Journey into Mystery
Daredevil
Uncanny Xforce
Avengers vs Xmen
Vs
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Not Really. If it affects books Im not reading then I dont care but if it changes the stories I have been following for a while.....the I might just walk from those stories.
Age: 37
Started Reading: 1982
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Amazing Spiderman
Favorite Character: Spiderman
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes
Currently Read:
Deadpool
Avengers
Punisher
New Avengers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Wolverine
Captain America
Thor
Iron Man
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Not really, will give it a try.
Age: 42
Started Reading: 1976
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: The Incredible Hulk
Favorite Character: The Incredible Hulk
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : No
Currently Read:
Avengers Assemble (I'm a fan of Mark Bagley's art)
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : No. (Too many crossovers, mega-events and lack of continuity.
Age: 39 (40 in 24 hours)
Started Reading: 1980
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Uncanny X-Men
Favorite Character: Cyclops / Cloak & Dagger
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes
Currently Read:
Uncanny X-Men (Read is a big word, I have a subscription, but when it runs out, so will I)
(From DC:
Batman
Batman and Robin
Animal Man
Super Girl - just to show that I do read comics)
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Not really, no. But I'll give it a read.
Age: 49
Started Reading: 1972
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: The Mighty World of Marvel #1 (Weekly British B&W reprints)
Favorite Character: Jean Grey
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : When available
Currently Read:
Avengers
New Avengers
Spider-Man
Captain America
Iron Man
Fantastic Four
Daredevil
X-Men
Marvel masterworks and omnibii
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : Not so much. Might get the omnibii when they appear.
28
1st comic ever bought was Alpha Flight, 2 young to remember which one...
Favorite Character: Spiderman or Wolverine or Gambit or Magneto or a Sentinel or or or or...
Currently Reading:
The Avengers
New Avengers
Xmen VS Avengers Fight side comics
& Avengers vs Xmen regular.
Age: 36
Started Reading: 1985
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Can't remember exactly but still have GI Joe and Web of Spider-man comics from that era.
Favorite Characters: Fantastic Four
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes. Hickman is brilliant.
Currently Read:
Avengers (trades)
Secret Avengers (trades)
Winter Soldier
Captain America (trades)
Fantastic Four
Daredevil (trades)
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : What choice do I have? It's either that or giving up my favorite comic company. I've lived through some bad company-wide stories. I'll live through this one. And hey, there's always classic trades and back issues!
Age: 40
Started reading comics: 1987
Title of first comic book read: Web of Spiderman #31
Favorite characters: Spiderman, Ironman, Hulk, Green Lantern
Do you currently read your favorite characters book? Spiderman, Ironman, Green Lantern but not Hulk ( Do not like what they have done with the character and his book.)
Current reads:
Amazing Spiderman
Ironman
All 4 Green Lantern titles
Avengers
New Avengers
Xforce
Batman
Are you looking forward to MARVELNOW! ?
Not really excited or looking forward to it as to me it will probably not mean anything great for us older MARVEL followers. Not really much choice for us now is there? Change is not always for the better but only time will tell.
Age: 34
Started Reading: When I was very young cos my folks bought comics and showed them to me. I have artwork I drew when I was 5 years old of Spider-man, Superman and Batman
Title of First Marvel Comic Read: Probably a Spider-man comic. Not sure which.
Favorite Character: I have a lot, but for purposes of this, I'll narrow it down to Spider-man, Daredevil, Hawkeye and Cyclops.
Do You Currently Read Your Favorite Character's Book? : Yes, yes, yes and yes
Currently Read (I'm just listing my Marvel titles as I'm guessing this mostly pertains to Marvel):
Are You Looking Forward to Marvel NOW!? : HELL YES!!! So excited, love a lot of the creative team switches and the premise of some of the stories. Of the Marvel Now books, I'll be adding:
All New X-men
Avengers
Thor
Iron Man
Uncanny Avengers
and Fantastic Four
... to my list.
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