All-New All-Different Marvel Reading Order

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• Where does Avengers No Surrender fit between?? These lists help SO much. YOU ROCK!!

• Just getting to see your all-encompassing site and it is QUITE impressive. I've been reading Marvel comics off and on for 50 years - primarily 60's and 70's stuff. I'm familiar with the existence of most of the ensuing story arcs, etc but have only dabbled (House of M, Secret Wars, etc)...

  My question: aside from My Marvelous Year, how might I get a solid re-entry into the reading of all of the great books / story lines? I see you have Reading Orders - does that necessarily mean that all of the comics cited in the Reading Orders are worth reading on some level? Or are Reading Orders meant just to be completist lists of every issue published?

  I ask because very often I don't notice any issues being excluded for reading in these Reading Orders.

  Or is it just me?

  • I started reading Avengers Disassembled from 2004 and worked through the major events but found myself reading all the major and some minor issues chronologically in between. Before I got to Secret Wars I realized I also needed to read the Ultimate universe stuff and found that to be really good as well. Bendis is a beast.

• You have Guardians of Infinity 1-6 mentioned here... and then never again. There's 2 more books in that series.

  • Oh, and I can't find any reference to Moon Knight 6-9. Is that here somewhere and I can't find it?

• You also have A-Force 5-10 before Civil War II, and then also include some of those same comics during Civil War II...

• So.. in the All New, All Different reading order, you have the Spider Clone event before Civil War II. But when you click on the Spider Clone event, it says Civil War II happened previously...

  So.... which is it?

• Is there a lightweight reading guide for this era like there was for the previous 2? I loved that approach since it allowed me to read the things that really impacted the Marvel universe and then follow up on must reads and personal favorites.

• Where does Death of X fall into the reading order?
  Is there a specific Marvel Unlimted reading order starting after Secret Wars?

• Hi, firstly thanks for the work you're putting in.
  I was just wondering if the reading order was more about publication date rather than the stories chronological order?
  I can only really comment on the X-Men section as i am reading both team comics and solos (I'm only reading team comics for avengers) but All New Wolverine (#1-6) should be read before the story arc of All New X-Men (#1-6) and Old Man Logan (#1-4) should be read before Extraordinary X-Men (#1-6).

  Are you planning on being more detailed with it or are you just going to leave them as 'Trade Reading Order'?
  Don't mean to sound ungrateful just got used to being spoon fed the correct reading order from your other pages.

• Youre missing illuminati 1

• Hi! You have A-Force vol. 1 as #1-#5, but I think it's just supposed to be through #4. Along with that, the series is never brought up again in the list, so I'm not sure when I would be supposed to read them. Just letting you know in hopes of fixing it!

  • The series is not brought up again 'cause...
    First: There is only one Collected Volume, which is #1-#6(not 1-5).
    Second: #8 is already a Civil War II Tie-In.

    • I was wrong. Checked out again and you're right... It's #1-#4. I guess you could just read #1-#7.

• Hey Dave,

  Great guide and all, as usual, your guides really got me into comics. I was just wondering, I know this era is a good jumping point, and since it's currently being released I thought I'd read a few issues. The only thing is, I expect to read some marvel NOW stuff eventually, escpecially hickman's run and secret wars. What I wanted to know is if this aproach would be too spoiler heavy

• How much of this new series/relaunches are actually relevant to the new Marvel U as a whole? The Mockingbird, Carnage, Hellcat and Squirrel Girl series don't feel like they're part of a bigger whole. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

  • Although Hellcat isn't relevant, it's one of the best series ongoing atm.

• Hi, I didn't know where to ask this but... When does the free comic book day dead no more Spider-Man prelude and the civil.war 2 Spider-Man miniseries take place chronology in the amazing Spider-Man comics? Thanks!

  • To be clear, I haven't read anything yet of this period of Marvel comics. I'm waiting for a definitive reading order before doing so. However all that I have written above is from wiki searches and a couple of hours in the nearest comic book store flicking through some comics. But back to your question.

    Dave might disagree on it, and if so we'll be hearing it, but I think the answer to your question is as follows. Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 and 2 (#1-18) are before Civil War II and there for before the Spider-Man Civil War II miniseries. Also before CWII but maybe during ASM #1-18 he is running around with Deadpool in Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol. 1 (#1-6) and has a quest spot in All-New Inhumans, Vol. 2 (#5-9). ASM #19 might be the first after Civil War II. But lets wait for Dave's blessing on this.
    The FCBD issue Captain America: Steve Rogers/Amazing Spider-Man is a continuity knot. The Cap part is set before Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 and before Civil War II. The Spidey story, though, is a prelude to the upcoming Marvel event Dead No More, which will launch after Civil War II in the latter part of 2016. So that story isn't connected to anything yet, and just like FCBD 2015's Avengers #1 is a look ahead into the future of Marvel comics. Meaning Spidey will survive Civil War! Who knew? Right?
    Message for Dave: Any idea where Avengers #1 is to be read in conjunction with All-New, All-Different Avengers? Thanks in advance.

    Hopefully this is an answer to your question, Trevor!

    • Ok, thanks!!!

• I assume this list is still very much under construction. So here are a few things from me you might look into some more. But I guess you are already doing that.
  - Gwenpool's first appearance is in Howard the Duck #1, so shouldn't she be grouped after Howard the Duck, Vol. 1? Also, Doctor Strange pops up in one of her comics, so maybe that gives us a hint on if it is set before or after Doctor Strange, Vol. 2.
  - In the Amazing Spider-Man & Silk: Spider(Fly) Effect Infinite Comic, which isn't listed anywhere yet, Silk is already in Black Cat's gang. Meanwhile Spider-Man doesn't seem to use his "glowing" suit yet, so this might indicate that this is before Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 and after Silk, Vol. 1?
  - Doctor Strange, Deadpool, and Power Man and Iron Fist have a bit of a continuity knot.
  > Deadpool: Last Days Of Magic takes place after Doctor Strange #7, Deadpool #12 takes place after Doctor Strange #8.
  > Deadpool #13 is a crossover issues, including: Deadpool #13, Daredevil #7.1, Power Man and Iron Fist #4.1, Deadpool #13.1. So this splits up Daredevil, Vol. 2 and Power Man and Iron Fist, Vol. 1.
  - Uncanny Inhumans, Vol. 1 features Spider-Man, so this may be after Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1?
  - Scarlet Witch, Vol. 1 apparently adds Uncanny Avengers Annual #1, does this make sense?
  - The original graphic novel Rage Of Ultron is set in the eight months between Secret Wars and All-New, All-Different, correct?

• What story line is created by New Avengers 7? I don't see it listed here and am so confused by it, 1-6 is a story than 7 starts a fun thing w the maker then boom into Standoff? I hope you can explain thanks.

  • New Avengers #7 leads into the Avengers Standoff event - link included for 'Next' steps after ANAD.

    • ANAD? What's that? I can't seem to see it on the reading list...

      • All-New All-Different... ANAD.