Newcomers Winner

Secret Warriors and New Thunderbolts are excellent recommendations.

If they are interest in something really mainstream like JLA, however I wouldn't recommend the latest run. I'd probably direct them to Morrison's run ✅

Well the friend I got into comics just had his birthday and had already told me he was starting to get into Green Lantern. So I bought him Secret Origins and at some later stage I'll lend him a couple of other stories from Geoff John's run, like the Sinestro Corps War.

He loved Secret Origins and like me, thinks Ivan Reiss is a genius.

Absolutely NOTHING...let them explore on their own. When I got in to comics I didn't have a road map. When a person is really interested in something they begin practially anywhere. When you give the books you like they may not like them. So it's better for them to do their findings and tastes.

No offence but that is IMO the worst advice you could give someone starting out in comics. IMO you should ask them what sort of genres they like and go from there.

i'd recommend "all-star superman" mainly because in order to understand what's going on, someone wouldn't need to have previously known anything about superman [or his associating characters] - morrison paints a wonderful *new* picture.

....plus it's one of the best 12 issue series' i have ever read. 👆

That's a good recommendation. If I'd read that series before I'd read many other Superman stories, I'd be a much bigger fan of the character than I am today.

i say start with good ol' spider-man.

just avoid anything with clones.

Secret Wars, the original

Indy comics work best.

Y: The Last Man, Fables, Watchmen

Then some good mainstream stuff, then everything else.

Yeah, he loved Y and Watchmen. As do I ✅

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Secret Wars, the original

That was the first trade I ever bought. I even remember picking it up from the shop, pouring over the pages as I casually flipped through the book and having to teach myself to pace out what I read and not devour it all at once........

...good times.....