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The place to read everything about DC and Marvel Comics
5/31/2015
Petition for saving Arrow:
Two weeks ago was the season finale of the TV show Arrow and i'm going to be honest I'm extremely disappointed. The episode was one of the worse episodes i saw, specially because Oliver leave Starlight city with Felicity and that happened because the director want to satisfy the fans of Olicity. I don't know how the show is going to recover from that episode, but I know something, i want Olicity destroy and i'm not the only one. In the link is a petition for killing Olicity and editing the character of Felicity is you want to sing it please do it to save the show.
https://www.change.org/p/cw-s-arrow-writers-marc-guggenheim-kill-olicity-and-edit-felicity-smoak-s-character?tk=wD5tDnolOXztVcV3OyIoZ4pQKXCxxSbIWilnquCxItY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt&utm_campaign=new_signature
4/18/2015
Civil War - The Complete Story
Marvel a few moths ago annouce that his next movie will be Captain America: Civil War, so i decide to show you guys a video of a friend about this amazing story line that in 2016 will be on the big screen.
4/07/2015
Curious Facts about Marvel Characters:
Curious facts about DC Characters:
How to get started in Superhero comics? Part #2.
Read Crossover between the character you choose and other you like:
A crossover is the team up between 2 characters in the same comic book. A crossover between characters is maybe one of my favourite types of comic book, i like it so much because it give you a two point of views, the point of view of each character, that normally are opposite to each other. What you have to do is just buy any comic book in which you see that your character is working with other, this will help you to know what is history of the other characters. Like The Brave and the Bold #1.
Read comics in which your Character is part of a group or team:
This is very important because when groups like Avengers, Justice league, Sucide Squad and the Defenders team up something important is happening and when something like that is happening is that the world is in danger and probably is going to be destroy or invade, and that event is going to change the multiverse or the curse of the history.
Start getting inform of important events that have happend in the multiverse of the editorial you choose:
The history of DC and Marvel is constant chage and many events had happend that have chage or overight the multiverse of each editorial, in this moment when you are in this step you can read any comic you want to get inform about the event that have chage the multiverse, like:
- Flashpoint
- Crisis in Earth
- Secrets Wars
- Marvel Zombies
- Blackest night
- House of M
This is all for the guide the next step is up to you. I will see you next week to about talk all things comics.
4/06/2015
How to read Comic Books Panels?
It not easy to explain the order in words but it actually is like reading a book, the panels are always going to be read from left to right and from the top to the end of the page.
In this image you can see how do you read in order the panels:
How to get started in Superhero comics? Part #1.
You need to choose what type of Comic Book editorial you want to read:
The only editorials that are able to distribute Superheroes comics are Marvel and DC, you have to choose one of those for start, I am no saying that you have to choose one of this two and never read the other one but is better that you only read one at first. It's important that you began to distinguish what characters are from DC and what characters are from Marvel and which one you like the most. Ones you do this you have to began thinking which editorial attract you the most, you can use movies or web pages to make a decision but i recommend that you base your decisions in the characters that you like the most.
Pick a character:
This is maybe the more important part, you have to choose one of the billions of characters that exist, i recommend you to choose a Superhero or and Anti Hero because you will be able to have more material to read but if you choose a Supervillain is okay (make sure to choose a famous one like The Joker). Why can i only one choose character? Well, this is the part when i explain that, choosing one will make you able to focus all your attention to that character and develop a time line that give you the possibility to know we're you are. In my case I was to young to know that when I start reading Marvel but with DC was different and because of that I choose Batman, the history of Batman is one of the best historys to start reading DC comics because it gives you a clear time line and the origin of amazing characters like Red Robin, Red Hood, Batgirl, Nightwing. I am able to ubicate in any part of the history of DC universe because of this amazing character.
Always start from the first issue:
Like i say before you can't just buy any comic book, you need to start from the first issues otherwise you will not understand completely the story. Superhero comic book have a particular characteristics and that is they after a few years or decades they restart their universe and tell again the origins of each of their characters with a few modifications in his history. This give you and advantages and is that you can read easily the most recent origin of the character and the rest of his history. Marvel recently restart his universe with the event of Secret War and DC a few years ago restart his universe after the Flashpoint.
This is all for today and i will see you next time with the other part of the guide.
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