{"id":49100,"date":"2014-12-31T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-recommendations-marvel.html"},"modified":"2014-12-31T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:58:55","slug":"dave-does-the-comics-2014-recommendations-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-recommendations-marvel.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Does the Comics &#8211; 2014 Recommendations (Marvel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m listing out comic series I&#39;m currently reading that I&#39;d recommend people give a try. <\/p>\n<p>Marvel was, for many years, my &quot;go to&quot; company, especially once DC went with their New 52 &quot;Let&#39;s Make All Our Heroes Unheroic and Stories Grim &#39;n&#39; Gritty&quot; direction. Various editorial decisions and more-often-than-not misguided cross-over events have tarnished that Marvel primacy in my eyes &#8212; though I have to give Marvel some credit that, after their recent generally awful Axis event (Heroes turn evil! Villains turn good!) they are shaking things up by having some of those involved (Sabretooth and Iron Man, at least) retain their shifted alignments, and some others dance around the edges.<\/p>\n<p>I still buy a lot more Marvel comics than this, but they&#39;re sort of popcorn &#8212; stuff I read and moderately enjoy without wanting to necessarily recommend to others.<\/p>\n<p>Notes are attached to the images.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23comics\">#comics<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23comicbooks\">#comicbooks<\/a>    <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23marvelcomics\">#marvelcomics<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099135215825949714'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-pxrXEEVbFNo\/VKR7KghhlBI\/AAAAAAAC8pw\/b_f9ccBTvuI\/4268422-0%252Bbwidow2014013_dc11-0%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099134717103500818' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-lzsRi-iqHxU\/VKR6teo07hI\/AAAAAAAC8ig\/-c-NKxy0wEU\/portrait_incredible%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099135906514585938' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-jBFpCm2syLo\/VKR7ytihyVI\/AAAAAAAC8jA\/3B4R8rKrtmI\/detail%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099136425485632322' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--f_KNnA6rdA\/VKR8Q623g0I\/AAAAAAAC8jQ\/vGa2n1PfmX8\/detail%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099137088146962002' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-xv8YZGMRZ4I\/VKR83fdo9lI\/AAAAAAAC8jY\/B5eINlXOwtc\/4282327-nova2013025_dc21-0%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099136170136476114' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-_LLZjiQeey8\/VKR8CDm4mdI\/AAAAAAAC8jI\/Jfoug2JQ7-A\/detail%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825\/6099137261928207426' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-chVNq2snnmQ\/VKR9Bm2UVEI\/AAAAAAAC8jg\/uB-VtFJEWmM\/detail%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6099134706070837825'>In Album Dave Does the Comics &#8211; Recommendations 2014 (Marvel)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cVBjEH7BU7e'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m listing out comic series I&#39;m currently reading that I&#39;d recommend people give a try. Marvel was, for many years, my &quot;go to&quot; company, especially once DC went with their New 52 &quot;Let&#39;s Make All Our Heroes Unheroic and Stories Grim &#39;n&#39; Gritty&quot; direction. Various editorial decisions and more-often-than-not misguided cross-over events have tarnished that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-recommendations-marvel.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dave Does the Comics &#8211; 2014 Recommendations (Marvel)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[517,326,789],"class_list":["post-49100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-comicbooks","tag-comics","tag-marvelcomics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4268422-02Bbwidow2014013_dc11-05B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/marvel-universes-collide.html","url_meta":{"origin":49100,"position":0},"title":"When Marvel Universes Collide!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Dec-17 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"This article gets a little breathlessly geeky in places, but there's no doubt that the folk running Marvel Pictures right now are salivating over finally getting their hands on the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises -- heroes and villains alike. 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