Days of Future Present Reading Order List

Days of Future Present (Fantastic Four/X-Men Crossover Sequel) Reading Order List

Days of Future Present is the 1990 followup to the groundbreaking 1981 two issue side story arc “Days of Future Past” from Uncanny X-Men 141 and 142 (although technically the name change of the book to “Uncanny X-Men” happened in 142). I call it a side story arc because there is another arc ongoing through the issues, the story of an assassination attempt by the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants being led by Mystique with classic X-Men foe Blob, and new characters Destiny, Pyro, and Avalanche rounding out the group.

The Brotherhood wanted to kill Senator Robert Kelly (Wikia - first appearance X-Men #133 - MU link). His death would’ve brought about a future where Sentinels ran most of the world, controlling both mutants and human sympathizers alike.

In this sequel, the Fantastic Four return home to Four Freedoms Plaza and it is replaced by their previous headquarters, the Baxter Building. There is an alternate timeline version of the FF in the HQ and … (Read synopsis here)…

These issues are NOT available digitally, please contact Marvel and request they be made so!

1. Fantastic Four Annual #23
2. X-Factor Annual #5 (this is chronologically part 3, and part 3 is part 2)
3. New Mutants Annual #6
4. Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
   • While it’s not a “fifth” story, pages 10-11 of this book tell a backup story called “The Fundamental Things” which is commonly thought of as part 4.1

You can buy the collected issues on Amazon, Days of Future Present.

 

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

X-23 in NYX - Marvel Unlimited Links

Welcome,

If you’re a fan of X-23, you aren’t alone. For a character used in a cartoon, she’s grown into a beloved part of Marvel’s continuity. The story in Nyx is interesting, and well worth checking out. NYX stands for District X, New York City, also known as “Mutant Town.”

X-23 was created for the X-Men: Evolution animated television series before being brought into comics. X-23 first appears in episode #41 (season 3, episode 11) of the program titled "X-23."

X-23 Wikipedia Dump

A top-secret program is tasked to replicate the original Weapon X experiment that bonded adamantium to the skeleton of Wolverine. The project is taken in a new direction: Doctor Martin Sutter recruits renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney to develop a clone of Wolverine.

Since the only genetic sample from Weapon X is damaged, Kinney is unable to salvage the Y chromosome. Kinney proposes the creation of a female genetic twin; her request is denied. Sutter's protege Doctor Zander Rice, whom he has raised after Rice's father was killed by the original Weapon X, is opposed to the idea. After 22 failed attempts at reconstituting the DNA using a duplicate X chromosome, the 23rd sample yields a viable sample to combine with an embryo. Although Kinney is allowed to proceed, Rice exacts revenge for her insubordination by forcing her to act as the surrogate mother of the specimen. For nine months, Kinney's every move is monitored; finally, she gives birth to "X-23".

Read more at Wikipedia's X-23 article.

Her first appearance is in issue #3 below, you can click the hyperlink text or the issue cover. Below you’ll find links to the collected editions on Amazon.

Nyx #1

Nyx #2

Nyx #3

Nyx #4

Nyx #5

Nyx #6

Nyx #7

 

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

 

Nyx - Original Series Collected on Amazon

Death of Captain America - Marvel Unlimited

Dig it. Captain America, one of the all-time great comic book heroes and an iconic symbol for the United States, Marvel Comics and fandom is back to all-time levels of popularity thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. With Marvel Unlimited, you can read many of the greatest stories about Cap, including the Winter Soldier arcs. Check out my friend Dave’s page at Comic Book Herald featuring a large reading order list of Captain America-related titles.

This story has it all: the end of a hero, the Red Skull, Winter Soldier, the Falcon, Black Widow, Sharon Carter and chaos gripping the American people! Mass insanity and even the “new” Captain America struggling to live up to the legacy of our fallen hero. Indeed, true believers, this set of issues will lead you through the excitement of this gripping story that will have you binge reading!

Captain America (2004) #25
Captain America (2004) #26
Captain America (2004) #27
Captain America (2004) #28
Captain America (2004) #29
Captain America (2004) #30
Captain America (2004) #31
Captain America (2004) #32
Captain America (2004) #33
Captain America (2004) #34
Captain America (2004) #35
Captain America (2004) #36
Captain America (2004) #37
Captain America (2004) #38
Captain America (2004) #39
Captain America (2004) #40
Captain America (2004) #41
Captain America (2004) #42

It was a classic within a couple of years of publishing, and only gets better with age. Enjoy!

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

 

 

Avengers Disassembled - Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited Clickable Reading List

Special thanks to Dave at Comic Book Herald. His reading order is the best on the web, I’ve only added hyperlinks to the Marvel Unlimited issues.

By the way, this blog post is actually a GREAT example of why this blog is necessary. If you go to Marvel Unlimited online and start with Avengers #500, clicking “Next Issue” gives you Avengers #84. This is like Netflix streaming in the early days only worse. Think HBOGO’s or Amazon Prime’s queuing systems six months ago, then imagine something that sucks a whole lot more.

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Note: you should really check out his blog. There’s more comic book goodness there than I can describe. I’ve made a couple of changes to his list and I hope he doesn’t mind.

You can buy Avengers Disassembled at Amazon.com or at your local shop. I highly recommend Excalibur in Shreveport, La and Lone Star Comics in Dallas/Ft Worth. Please tell them you heard about them from the blog - I get nothing but the satisfaction of helping our local shops stay in business!

Click any of the issues below to open the issue in Marvel Unlimited on the web.

Laying the groundwork for Avengers #500 and the main event, we start out with Avengers Disassembled: Prologue.

Thor #80

Iron Man #84 “Turf War” Part 1

Spectacular Spider-Man #15

Thor #81

Iron Man #85 “Turf War” Part 2

Spectacular Spider-Man #16

Tie-Ins and the Main Event

Thor #82 Ragnarok - the cyborg clone of Thor

Captain America & The Falcon #5

Iron Man #86 “The Singularity” Part 1

Captain America #29

Spectacular Spider-Man #17

The official beginning - Avengers Disassembled Part 1

Avengers #500

Thor #83 "Ragnarok" Part 3 of 6

Captain America & The Falcon #6

Iron Man #87 “The Singularity” Part 2

Captain America #30

Spectacular Spider-Man #18

Fantastic Four #517 “Fortitude” Part 1 of 3

Avengers Disassembled Part 2

Avengers #501

Thor #84 “Ragnarok” Part 4 of 6

Iron Man #88 “The Singularity” Part 3

Captain America #31

Spectacular Spider-Man #19 “Changes” Part 3 of 4

Fantastic Four #518 “Fortitude” Part 2 of 3

Avengers Disassembled Part 3

Avengers #502

Thor #85 "Ragnarok" Part 6 of 6

Iron Man #89 “The Singularity” Part 4

Avengers Disassembled Part 4

Captain America #32

Fantastic Four #519 “Fortitude” Part 3 of 3

Spectacular Spider-Man #20 “Changes” Part 4 of 4

Captain America & The Falcon #7

Avengers #503

Epilogue

Avengers Finale #1

Next?

Excalibur #8

Reminder, if you want to buy from My Comic Shop online, click this link. If you want the coolest blog on the web about comics (sorry, it’s not me, I only wish to be close to his level one day), visit Dave’s blog here.

I’ll be making more of these posts, but make sure you give proper ups and cred to Dave if you link to me or like the reading list. Without Dave’s rundown, this would’ve been a much greater task than the already painful ordeal it was to begin with -- Dave is a superstar who has made enjoying Marvel Unlimited so much easier!

 

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

A Great Source of Reading Lists

The Comic Book Herald is an awesome blog, filled with great Marvel reading order content. The site lists trade paperbacks and individual issues for many popular crossover events. The trade paperbacks are usually linked to an online source like Amazon, but the individual issues aren’t linked to MDCU. That’s where this blog comes in -- soon I’ll have links up to help comic fans quickly find the next issue to read in all of the best big Marvel crossovers.

Check out the Comic Book Herald here.

I wasn’t following comics since I was a kid, so it was great to get back into them and be able to catch up on so many great stories like the House of M. Check out CBH’s great reading order guide for the House of M here.

If you are looking for a great comic book store, buy comic books at mycomicshop.com

We also use Amazon for many of our store purchases - comics, vintage comics, shipping boxes and more!

Note: as usual, whenever you see an asterisk (*), you can look at the bottom of the post for links to that item on Amazon or eBay.

Until next time,

 

Excelsior!!!

What SUCKS about Marvel Comics Unlimited

Dear readers,

There are some drawbacks to the MDCU platform at this point. It reminds me quite a bit of HBOGO and Amazon Prime videos when they came online. First, you can’t “subscribe” to a comic book series. You can add individual comics to your “library” and you can even have up to six comic books offline if you are using an iOS device, but this is not something that is really helpful.

Surely there needs to be a better way to organize comic books in libraries for users of the service. Marvel doesn’t want to discourage people from buying paper comics (or digital ones) monthly, so they delay digitizing of new issues. That makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is how sometimes a single issue will be missing from a long line of old issues. I noticed some in Uncanny X-Men that were missing, so you lose parts of story arcs. That sucks.

Another big drawback is one of the reasons for this blog: searching for comic books sucks. The web-based interface is better than the iOS app, but it’s still a real bitch to use.

As you can see, searching for “uncanny x-men 266” gives you a lot of results. Luckily for this particular search, the first one is the correct link. If you click it, you’ll get the following screen.

With many other searches, the results aren’t quite as useful. When searching for age of apocalypse, you get this:

As you can see, it’s not exactly easy to find the comic book issues you want to read. The only way to improve the search is to click the Comics option under the By Category heading on the left.

Although you will still have trade paperbacks and other content (like variant cover editions) that are not available on the online service.

Marvel - please consider adding a U symbol to the listings as shown below where the link contains any MDCU content.

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited - The Reading List Blog!

Dear readers,

Marvel Comics Unlimited is really a cool feature for people into comic books, whether you were a fan in the 80s as a kid (like me) or a more recent fan, this service allows you to read comic books from the silver age on through to recent books from as recently as 2012.

There are some gaps in issues, sometimes the sequence is out of order (especially on mini series) so you’ll click next and see two issues out and think the next issue is missing, only to discover that clicking next again gets you that missing issue.

The service is available on iOS and looks great on the iPad and iPad mini -- but you might be surprised to learn that the iPhone is great thanks to the “smart panels” feature of the app. This link will open iTunes to the Marvel Unlimited app that is designed for both iPhone and iPad.

Android fans need not worry, Marvel loves you too and they offer access via your web browser too, with an app coming to Google play soon. I love the browsing experience on Chrome and use Chrome on my 27” iMac for most of my reading.

There are some downsides to the service, and I’ll cover those in another blog post, but first, let me explain the purpose of this blog. There are tons of great reading lists that help you navigate the complex order required to follow along on major crossover events in the Marvel Universe, like House of M, for example. This blog will feature posts that list the individual issues for crossovers, notable major stories in the Marvel canon like the Death of The Phoenix, the first appearance of Gambit and more, all with hyperlinks to the Marvel Unlimited browser-based version of the comic book.




Speaking of Gambit, nerd friends, did you see this? AND yes, I know the actual first appearance of Gambit was a cameo in X-Men Annual #14, which unfortunately is not on the new digital service yet.
So, welcome to my blog, your comments and suggestions for issues and events to highlight are welcome!

Excelsior!!!