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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Ultimate Grant Morrison Reading Order

At last, after eons of mental monotony and soul-killing stagnation of today's venomous zeitgeist, the cure has arrived! Grant Morrison is the vaccine, unleashing the power of the story virus to inoculate 21st Century culture against the horrors of Universe-B! The Keeper of the Super-Context's Skeleton key, Master of Mutants and Scribe of Supergods, Grant Morrison's extensive bibliography will keep you sane in times both comforting and trying alike!

Theatrics aside, Grant's work has truly changed my life for the better, and I thought to myself what better way to honor them than to craft the perfect reading order so everyone can jump into their mind just as I have.

This bibliography is organized chronologically and includes issue-by-issue sequences for each story they've written, divided into sections based on the area of work. Enjoy!

ZENITH

[Phase I : Tygers]

2000AD #535 - "Prologue : Ground Zero"
2000AD #536 - "Dropping In"
2000AD #537 - "Blow Up"
2000AD #538 - "Shock Treatment"
2000AD #539 - "History Lessons"
2000AD #540 - "Corridors Of Power"
2000AD #541 - "Patterns"
2000AD #542 - "Fear Of Flying"
2000AD #543 - "Enter The Dragon!"
2000AD #544 - "Storm Warnings"
2000AD #545 - "Burn Baby, Burn!"
2000AD #546 - "London's Burning"
2000AD #547 - "Mind Games"
2000AD #548 - "Into The Absolute Elsewhere"
2000AD #549 - "Famous Last Words"
2000AD #550 - "Epilogue : Late Results"
Zenith: A Midsummer Night's Scene
2000AD #558 - "Interlude 1 : Whitlock"
2000AD #559 - "Interlude 2: Peyne"

[Phase II : The Hollow Land]

2000AD #589 -"Prologue : Down Under"
2000AD #590 - "Many Happy Returns"
2000AD #591- "Visitors"
2000AD #592 - "Take The High Road"
2000AD #593 - "Deep Trouble"
2000AD #594 - "Fire In The Sky"
2000AD #595 - "Familiar Spirits"
2000AD #596 - "Into The Underworld"
2000AD #597 - "Knocking On Heaven's Door"
2000AD #598 - "Waiting For The Big Bang"
2000AD #599 - "Home Truths"
2000AD #600 - "A Family Affair"
2000AD #601 - "The Parent Trap"
2000AD #602 - "Riddle Of the Sphinx"
2000AD #603 - "Zero Hour"
2000AD #604 - "Home To Roost"
2000AD #605 - "Chimera Unbound"
2000AD #606 - "Epilogue : Rumours Of War"
2000AD Winter Special- Interlude 3 : "Maximan"

[Phase III : War In Heaven]

2000AD #626 - "Prologue : Message In A Bottle"
2000AD #627 - "Nadir"
2000AD #628 - "Friendly Persuasion"
2000AD #629 - "A Separate Reality"
2000AD #630 - "Facts & Figures"
2000AD #631 - "Letter From The Underworld"
2000AD #632 - "Born Again"
2000AD #633 - "Marching As To War"
2000AD #634 - "Adventure Playground"
2000AD #650 - "All The Fun Of The Fair"
2000AD #651 - "City Of Woe"
2000AD #652 - "Killing Time"
2000AD #653 - "The Best Laid Plans"
2000AD #654 - "Children's Hour"
2000AD #655 - "Fire & Brimstone"
2000AD #656 - "Seeing The Light"
2000AD #657 - "Judgement Day"
2000AD #658 - "News from Nowhere"
2000AD #659 - "Wolf In The Fold"
2000AD #660 - "Shaming The Devil"
2000AD #661 - "Cold Blood"
2000AD #662 - "Eve Of Destruction"
2000AD #667 - "Stairway To Heaven"
2000AD #668 - "Head To Head"
2000AD #669 - "World's End"
2000AD #670 - "Epilogue : After The Crash"

[Phase IV : Jerusalem]

2000AD Annual 1990 - "Mandala: Shadows & Reflections"
2000AD #791 - "Prologue : Golgonooza"
2000AD #792 - "Starting Over"
2000AD #793 - "Eleventh Hour Talks"
2000AD #794 - "Executive Action"
2000AD #795 - "Blind Justice"
2000AD #796 - "State Of The Union"
2000AD #797 - "High Noon"
2000AD #798 - "Waking Up In The Sun"
2000AD #799 - "Deja Vu"
2000AD #800 - "Plots & Plans"
2000AD #801 - "Angel's Egg"
2000AD #802 - "Bonfire Night"
2000AD #803 - "Kids Stuff"
2000AD #804 - "Walking Backwards"
2000AD #805 - "World Without End"
2000AD #806 - "Epilogue"

2000AD Prog 2001 - "Zzzzenith.com"

Animal Man

[MAN WITH ANIMAL POWERS]

AM #1 - "The Human Zoo"
AM #2 - "Life in the Concrete Jungle"
AM #3 - "The Nature of the Beast"
AM #4 - "When We All Lived in the Forest"
AM #5 - "The Coyote Gospel"
AM #6 - "Birds of Prey"
AM #7 - "The Death of the Red Mask"
AM #8 - "Mirror Moves"
AM #9 - "Home Improvements"

[ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES]

Secret Origins #39 - "The Myth of Creation"
AM #10 - "Fox on the Run"
AM #11 - "Out of Africa"
AM #12 - "Secret Origins"
AM #13 - "Hour of the Beast"
AM #14 - "Spooks"
AM #15 - "The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea"
AM #16 - "The Clockwork Crimes of the Time Commander"
AM #17 - "Consequences"

[DEUS EX MACHINA]

AM #18 - "At Play in the Fields of the Lord"
AM #19 - "A New Science of Life"
AM #20 - "The Last Enemy"
AM #21 - "Tooth & Claw"
AM #22 - "Time in a Bottle"
AM #23 - "Crisis"
AM #24 - "Purification Day"
AM #25 - "Monkey Puzzles"
AM #26 - "Deus Ex Machina"

DOOM PATROL

[CRAWLING FROM THE WRECKAGE]

DP #19 - "Crawling From The Wreckage"
DP #20 - "Cautionary Tales"
DP #21 - "Worlds In Collision"
DP #22 - "The Ossuary"
DP #23 - "The Butterfly Collector"
DP #24 - "The House That Jack Built"
DP #25 - "Imaginary Friends"

[THE PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS]

DP #26 - "Nowhere Man"
DP #27 - "The Painting That Ate Paris"
DP #28 - "Labyrinths"
DP #29 - "The Kingdom Of No"
DP #30 - "Going Underground"
DP #31 - "The Word Made Flesh"
DP #32 - "Decreator"
DP #33 - "Puppet Theater"
DP #34 - "The Soul of a Machine"

[DOWN PARADISE WAY]

DP #35 - "Down Paradise Way"
DP #36 - "Box Of Delights"
DP #37 - "Persephone"
DP #38 - "Lost In Space"
DP #39 - "Bell, Book, & Candle"
DP #40 - "Battlefield of Dreams"
DP #41 - "Fallen Angel"

[MUSCLEBOUND]

DP #42 - "Musclebound"
DP #43 - "Anyhow Stories"
DP #44 - "Voices"
DP #45 - "The Beard Hunter"
DP #46 - "Aftermath"
DP #47 - "The World, Flesh, & The Devil"
DP #48 - "Entertainment Mr. Evans"
DP #49 - "Death In Venice"
DP #50 - "Tales of Hofmann"

[MAGIC BUS]

DP #51 - "Magic Bus"
DP #52 - "After The Cabaret"
DP #53 - "And Men Shall Call Him - Hero!"
DP #54 - "Aenigma Regis"
DP #55 - "The Blood of the Lamb"
DP #56 - "Down In The Well"
DP #57 - "The Nature of the Catastrophe"

[PLANET LOVE]

DP #58 - "In The Wonderful Land of Clockwork"
DP #59 - "Dying Inside"
DP #60 - "Brief Candle"
DP #61 - "..."
DP #62 - "Planet Love"
DP #63 - "The Empire of Chairs"

LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

[Gothic: A Romance]

LotDK #6 - "Man Without A Shadow"
LotDK #7 - "The Death Ship"
LotDK #8 - "The Burning Nun"
LotDK #9 - "The Hangman's Tale"
LotDK #10 - "Walpurgisnacht"

Who's Who In The DC Universe?

[Secret Origins]

SO #46 - "Ghosts of Stone"
SO #50 - "Flash of Two Worlds"

[Hellblazer]

HB #25 - "Early Warning"
HB #26 - "How I Learned To Love The Bomb"

[Kid Eternity]

KE #1 - "Canto I; Canto II"
KE #2 - "Canto III; Canto IV"
KE #3 - "Canto V; Canto VI"

[Swamp Thing]

ST #140 - "Vegetable Man"
ST #141 - "Bad Gumbo"
ST #142 - "Soul Train"
ST #143 - "Desert Hearts"

THE INVISIBLES

[VOL 1 #1-8 : Say You Want A Revolution]

#1 - "Dead Beatle$"
#2 - "Down & Out In Heaven & Hell, Part I"
#3 - "Down & Out In Heaven & Hell, Part II"
#4 - "Down & Out In Heaven & Hell, Part III"
#5 - Arcadia Part I : "Bloody Poetry"
#6 - Arcadia Part II : "Mysteries of the Guillotine"
#7 - Arcadia Part III : "120 Days of Sod All"
#8 - Arcadia Part IV : "H.E.A.D."

[VOL 1 #9-16 : Apocalipstick]

#9 - "23: Things Fall Apart"
#10 - "Season of Ghouls"
#11 - "Royal Monsters"
#12 - "Best Man Fall"
#13 - Sheman, Part I : "Venus As A Boy"
#14 - Sheman, Part II : "Day of Nine Dogs"
#15 - Sheman, Part III : "Apocalipstick"
#16 - "London"

[VOL 1 #17-25 : Entropy in the U.K.]

#17 - Entropy in the U.K. Part I - "Dandy"
#18 - Entropy in the U.K. Part II - "Messiah"
#19 - Entropy in the U.K. Part III - "Assassin"
#20 - "How I Became Invisible"
#21 - "Liverpool"
#22 - "House of Fun"
#23 - "The Last Temptation of Jack"
#24 - "Good-Bye Baby Rabbits"
#25 - "6 & A Half Dozen Of The Other"

[VOL 2 #1-4 : Bloody Hell In America]

#1 - Black Science Part I - "Bangin"
#2 - Black Science Part II - "Kickin"
#3 - Black Science Part III - "Sorted"
#4 - Black Science Part IV - "Safe"

[VOL 2 #5-13 : Counting To None]

#5 - "Time Machine Go"
#6 - "The Girl Most Likely To"
#7 - "The Sound of the Atom Splitting"
#8 - Sensitive Criminals Part I - "Poor Little Rich Girl"
#9 - Sensitive Criminals Part II - "Mad Dogs & Englishmen"
#10 - Sensitive Criminals Part III - "Parisian Pierrot"
#11 - American Death Camp Part I - "Counting To None"
#12 - American Death Camp Part II - "Counting To Five"
#13 - American Death Camp Part III - "Counting To Ten"

[VOL 2 #14-22 : Kissing Mister Quimper]

#14 - "Only Lovers Left Alive"
#15 - "The Philadelphia Experiment"
#16 - "Scorpio Rising"
#17 - Black Science 2 Part I - "Newton's Sleep"
#18 - Black Science 2 Part II - "Einstein's Monsters"
#19 - Black Science 2 Part III - "Pavlov's Dogs"
#20 - Black Science 2 Part IV - "Schrodinger's Cats"
#21 - "All Tomorrow's Parties"
#22 - "The Tower"

[VOL 3 #12-1 : Invisible Kingdom]

#12 - Satanstorm Part I - "Common People"
#11 - Satanstorm Part II - "Cold Britannia"
#10 - Satanstorm Part III - "The 'it' Girls"
#9 - Satanstorm Part IV - "Digging Up Beryl"
#8 - Karmageddon Part I - "Tantrika"
#7 - Karmageddon Part II - "Type Omega"
#6 - Karmageddon Part III - "Six Minus Six"
#5 - Karmageddon Part IV - "Smile"
#4 - Invisible Kingdom Part I - "Planet Stepford"
#3 - Invisible Kingdom Part II - "Goodbye Rag"
#2 - Invisible Kingdom Part III - "The Moment of the Blitz"
#1 - "Glitterdammerung!"

VERTIGO I

Sebastian O

The Mystery Play

Kill Your Boyfriend

[Flex Mentallo]

FM #1 - After the Fact, Part I : "Flowery Atomic Heart"
FM #3 - After the Fact, Part II : "My Beautiful Head"
FM #3 - After the Fact, Part III : "Dig The Vacuum"
FM #4 - After the Fact, Part IV : "We Are All UFOs"

Weird War Tales #3 - "New Toys"

Aztek: The Ultimate Man

#1 - "A Town Called Vanity"
#2 - "Too Many Crooks"
#3 - "The Girl Who Was Death"
#4 - "The Lizard King"
#5 - "Deathtrap"
#6 - "A Child's Garden of Sinister Capers?"
#7 - "Hey Diddle Diddle the Japed & the Japer"
#8 - "The Invisible Hand"
#9 - "The Power & The Glory"
#10 - "A League of Their Own"

JLA + DC ONE MILLION

Flash

[Emergency Stop]

Flash #130 - "Emergency Stop"

"The Fastest Man Dead?"
"The Tailor & The Haunted Costume"
"How To Beat The Clock"

Flash #131 - "Threads"
Flash #132 - "Fashion Victims"

[A Day In The Life of The Flash]

Flash #133 - "Through the Looking Glass"
Flash #134 - "Still Life in the Fast Lane"
Flash #135 - "Death at the Top of the World"

[The Human Race]

Flash #136 - "Radio Days"
Flash #137 - "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
Flash #138 - "Home Run"

MARVEL

Skrull Kill Krew

SKK #1 - "Skrull Meat"
SKK #2 - "Goin' Krazy!"
SKK #3 - "Gotcha!"
SKK #4 - "Four"
SKK #5 - "Skrullsville!"

Marvel Boy

MB #1 - "Hello Cruel World"
MB #2 - "Boy Vs World"
MB #3 - "Digital Koncentration Kamp X One"
MB #4 - "Exterminatrix!"
MB #5 - "Zero Zero: Year of Love"
MB #6 - "Mindless: The End"

Fantastic Four: 1234

#1 - "Once Upon A Time... On Yancy Street..."
#2 - "Staring At The Fish Tank"
#3 - "Darkness & The Mole Man"
#4 - "Prime Mover"

Marvel Knights: Double Shot #2 - "Nick's World"

New X-Men

[E IS FOR EXTINCTION]

NXM #114 - "E Is For Extinction, Part I"
NXM #115 - "E Is For Extinction, Part II"
NXM #116 - "E Is For Extinction, Part III"
NXM Annual #2001 - "The Man From Room X"
NXM #117 - "Danger Rooms"

[IMPERIAL]

NXM #118 - "Germ Free Generation, Part I"
NXM #119 - "Germ Free Generation, Part II"
NXM #120 - "Germ Free Generation, Part III"
NXM #121 - "Silence: Psychic Rescue In Progress"
NXM #122 - "Imperial"
NXM #123 - "Testament"
NXM #124 - "Superdestroyer"
NXM #125 - "Losers"
NXM #126 - "All Hell"

[NEW WORLDS]

NXM #127 - "Of Living & Dying"
NXM #128 - "New Worlds"
NXM #129 - "Fantomex"
NXM #130 - "Weapon Twelve"
NXM #131 - "Some Angels Falling"
NXM #132 - "Ambient Magnetic Fields"
NXM #133 - "Dust"

[RIOT AT XAVIER'S]

NXM #134 - "Kid Ω"
NXM #135 - "Teaching Children About Fractals"
NXM #136 - "When X Is Not X"
NXM #137 - "Riot at Xavier's"
NXM #138 - "The Prime of Miss Emma Frost"

[ASSAULT ON WEAPON PLUS]

NXM #139 - "Shattered"
NXM #140 - "Murder At The Mansion"
NXM #141 - "Whodunit?"
NXM #142 - "Brimstone & Whiskey"
NXM #143 - "The World"
NXM #144 - "The Flesh"
NXM #145 - "The Devil"

[PLANET X]

NXM #146 - "Planet X"
NXM #147 - "Magneto Superior"
NXM #148 - "Survivor Type"
NXM #149 - "Phoenix In Darkness"
NXM #150 - "Phoenix Invictus"

[HERE COMES TOMORROW]

NXM #151 - "Here Comes Tomorrow: Part I"
NXM #152 - "Surrender The Starlit City"
NXM #153 - "We All Have To Die Sometime"
NXM #154 - "Rescue & Emergency"

VERTIGO II

The Filth

TF #1 - "Us vs. Them"
TF #2 - "Perfect Victim"
TF #3 - "Structures & Ultrastructures"
TF #4 - "S**t Happens"
TF #5 - "Pornomancer"
TF #6 - "The World of Anders Klimakks"
TF #7 - "Zero Democracy "
TF #8 - "Y*%$ Police"
TF #9 - "Inside The Hand"
TF #10 - "Man Made God"
TF #11 - "A Very English Nervous Breakdown"
TF #12 - "Schizotype"
TF #13 - "THEM vs. US"

Seaguy

SG #1 - "Run, Xoo! Run!"
SG #2 - "The Wasps of Atlantis"
SG #3 - "Mummy on the Moon"

Mystery In Space - "Two Worlds"

WE3

WE3 #1 - "Bandit"
WE3 #2 - "Tinker"
WE3 #3 - "Pirate"

Vimanarama

VR #1 - "Act One"
VR #2 - "Act Two"
VR #3 - "Act Three"

Seven Soldiers

JLA Classified

JLAC #1 - "Island Of The Mighty"
JLAC #2 - "Master of Light"
JLAC #3 - "Seconds To Go"

[Mystery String]

Seven Soldiers of Victory #0 - "Weird Adventures"
Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #1 - "The Last of Camelot"
Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian #1 - "Pirates of Manhattan"
Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1 - "Talking Backwards"
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #1 - "From This World to That Which is to Come"
Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #2 - "Mood 7 Mind Destroyer"
Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian #2 - "Homeless Superior"
Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #2 - "A Book in the Beginning"
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #2 - "Badde"
Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #3 - "The Perfect Knight Returns"
Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian #3 - "Siege at Century Hollow"
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #3 - "The Deviant Ones"
Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #4 - "The Last Stand of Don Vincenzo"
Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #3 - "Three Days of The Dead"
Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian #4 - "Sex Secrets of the Newsboy Army!"

[Strike Soldiers Seven!]

Seven Soldiers: Klarion #4 - "Burn, Witchboy! Burn!"
Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #1 - "New Godz"
Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #4 - "Zor!"
Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #1 - "Ballistic: How the Bulleteer Began"
Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #1 - "Uglyhead"
Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #2 - "Drive By Derby"
Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #2 - "Who Killed Seven Soldiers?"
Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #2 - "Red Zombies"
Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #3 - "Radio Bedlam"
Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #3 - "21st Century Schizoid Supermen"
Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #3 - "The Water"
Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #4 "The Life Trap"
Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #4 - "Bad Girls"
Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #4 - "Frankenstein in Fairyland"
Seven Soldiers of Victory #1 - "The Miser's Coat"

52

[Summer]

52 #1 - "Golden Lads & Lasses Must..."
52 #2 - "Looking Back At Tomorrow"
52 #3 - "New World Order"
52 #4 - "Dances With Monsters"
52 #5 - "Stars In Their Courses"
52 #6 - "China Syndrome"
52 #7 - "Going Down"
52 #8 - "Thief"
52 #9 - "Dream of America"
52 #10 - "Stop The Press"
52 #11 - "Batwoman Begins!"
52 #12 - "Mighty"
52 #13 - "Haystack"

[Fall]

52 #14 - "Sand & Rust"
52 #15 - "Outshined"
52 #16 - "Uhebbuki"
52 #17 - "Last of the Czarnians"
52 #18 - "Dismantled"
52 #19 - "History Repeats"
52 #20 - "God is Fragged"
52 #21 - "Teambuilding Exercises"
52 #22 - "Burial Ground"
52 #23 - "The Island of Professor Morrow"
52 #24 - "Just Imagine"
52 #25 - "Liminal Times"
52 #26 - "Halfway House"

[Winter]

52 #27 - "The Past Best Hope"
52 #28 - "Beyond the Black Stump"
52 #29 - "Name Calling"
52 #30 - "Dark Knight Down"
52 #31 - "Human Resources"
52 #32 - "Seven Days in Nanda Parbat"
52 #33 - "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
52 #34 - "Suicidal Tendencies"
52 #35 - "Rain of the Supermen"
52 #36 - "How To Win A War In Space"
52 #37 - "Secret Identities"
52 #38 - "Breathless"
52 #39 - "Powers & Abilities"

[Spring]

52 #40 - "Man Ain't Nothing But A Man"
52 #41 - "Miracles & Wonders"
52 #42 - "Trigger Effect"
52 #43 - "Family Matters"
52 #44 - "Deaths in the Family"
52 #45 - "Every Hour Wounds, The Last Kills"
52 #46 - "Mad Science"
52 #47 - "Revelations"
52 #48 - "Asked & Answered"
52 #49 - "Eve of Destruction"
52 #50 - "World War III"
52 #51 - "Homecoming"
52 #52 - "A Year In The Life"

BATMAN

Final Crisis

VERTIGO III (and others...)

Joe The Barbarian

JTB #1 - "Hypo"
JTB #2 - "Cloud Quay to Feather Forest Falls"
JTB #3 - "The Dying Boy"
JTB #4 - "Inventoria"
JTB #5 - "From Never To Always"
JTB #6 - "Our Lady In Mourning"
JTB #7 - "Labyrinth of the Lost"
JTB #8 - "Tomb of the Iron Knight"

Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye

SG2 #1 - "Half an Animal on a Stick"
SG2 #2- "Viva El Macho!"
SG2 #3- "Burn, Mickey! Burn!"

Happy!

Annihilator

AL #1 - "Deal with the Devil"
AL #2 - "God Hates You"
AL #3 - "Angel Exterminator"
AL #4 - "None More Dark"
AL #5 - "Superheavy Fallen Star"
AL #6 - "Womanoid"

Nameless

NL #1 - "Shit Rains Down"
NL #2 - "The Double Headed Horror At The Door"
NL #3 - "Into The Burrows"
NL #4 - "Dark House"
NL #5 - "Star of Fear"
NL #6 - "Wormwood Palace"

Klaus

"How Santa Claus Began"
"Klaus and the Witch of Winter"
"Klaus and the Crisis in Christmasville"
"Klaus and the Crying Snowman"
"Klaus: The Life and Times of Joe Christmas"

Action Comics

[SUPERMAN & THE MEN OF STEEL]

AC #1 - "Superman Versus the City of Tomorrow"
AC #2 - "Superman in Chains"
AC #3 - "World Against Superman"
AC #4 - "Superman & The Men of Steel"

"Hearts of Steel"

AC #5 - "Rocket Song"

"Baby Steps"

AC #6 - "When Superman Learned to Fly"

"Last Day"

AC #7 - "Superman's Doomsday Decision"

"Meanwhile..."

AC #8 - "The Collector of Worlds"

[BULLETPROOF]

AC #9 - "The Curse of Superman"

"Executive Power"

AC #10 - "Bulletproof"

"Absent Friends"

AC #11 - "Superman's New Secret Identity"

"Clothes Encounter"

AC #12 - "Return of the Forgotten Superman"
AC #0 - "The Boy Who Stole Superman's Cape"

"Origin Of The Species"

[AT THE END OF DAYS]

AC #13 - "The Ghost in the Fortress of Solitude"

"A Boy & His Dog"

AC #14 - "Superman's Mission to Mars"

"Star Light, Star Bright..."

AC #15 - "Superman at the End of Days"

"For My Next Trick..."

AC #16 - "The Second Death of Superman"

"Future Tense"

AC #17 - "Superman & The Fiend From Dimension 5"

"Goodbye"

AC #18 - "Superman's Last Stand"

"Never-Ending Battle"

Multiversity

{The Multiversity #1} - "House of Heroes"
{The Society of Super-Heroes} - "Conquerors of Counter World"
{The Just} - "#earthme"
{Pax Americana} - "In Which We Burn"
{Thunderworld Adventures} - "The Day That Never Was"
{Multiversity Guidebook} - "Maps & Legends"
{Mastermen} - "Splendour Falls"
{Ultra Comics} - "Ultra Comics Lives!"
{The Multiversity #2} - "Superjudge"

CURTAIN CALL

Wonder Woman Earth One

Vol I - "Pilgrim"
Vol II - "Psycho"
Vol III - "Paradise"

One Shots

Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt - "Riders on the Razor"
Detective Comics #1027 - "Detective #26"

The Green Lantern

Superman & The Authority

SA #1 - "All Our Tomorrows"
SA #2 - "One Soul at a Time"
SA #3 - "Grimdark!"
SA #4 - "Widescreen"

DC Pride 2023 - "Love's Lightning Heart: A Multiversity Story"

Thursday, January 20, 2022

HAWKMAN by Robert Vendetti

My Thoughts

Off the top of my head, I can only think of one true comics-killer besides Fredric Wertham: continuity. Above all the various publishers in the comic book industry, continuity is especially seen as the Achilles Heel, the Kryptonite if you must, of DC Comics. Now, out of all the super-heroes in the DC Universe, continuity is the Kryptonite of our one and only winged warrior, Hawkman.

However, Robert Vendetti proves to comic readers and DC fans that while continuity does plague the eternal aviator, it simultaneously acts as his own yellow sun: his greatest strength.

Vendetti's Hawkman is a triumph for DC, an unrecognized masterpiece, and easily the greatest run of the character to this day. Spinning out of 2017's Dark Nights: Metal, Hawkman embarks on a journey to seek revelation in his past lives, as a primordial threat from his forgotten genesis emerges to reap vengeance. At the same time, Robert Vendetti begins an odyssey to coalesce decades of continuity dementia regarding the history of Carter Hall into one consolidated prism of reincarnation.

Spoiler alert: he does just that.

You do not need to read anything before this book. Normally, I am a proponent of prior understanding and consumption of ancillary material to enhance a reading, but this run fills in the gaps for an aligned comprehension void of unnecessary fallout from other events. During the second half of Hawkman, Scott Snyder and his cronies laid the foundations for their Metal sequel spinning out of the event-fatigued Justice League run. 2019's Year of the Villain crossover incorporated Hawkman as a member of The Batman Who Laughs' Secret Six; a group of heroes gone rogue after infection via laced batarangs. This is completely irrelevant to the Hawkman run, but Vendetti uses the mandate to allow for a fascinating segue into the climax of the narrative. I don't believe anything from Year of the Villain is required to understand the second half, and Vendetti fills in the blanks pretty well with some well-integrated exposition.

This run is a celebration of Hawkman, bringing together all four corners of his history and meeting the ends to provide a worthwhile and well-deserved rebirth for the Forever Champion of the skies.

Reading Order

[VOL I - Awakening]

Hawkman #1 - "What's Past Is Prologue"
Hawkman #2 - "River of Time"
Hawkman #3 - "Right of Passage"
Hawkman #4 - "Reunions"
Hawkman #5 - The Fury & The Titan, Part I : "Half-Lives"
Hawkman #6 - The Fury & The Titan, Part II : "Earth Shattering"

[VOL II - Deathbringer]

Hawkman #7 - "Origin"
Hawkman #8 - Cataclysm, Part I : "Requiem"
Hawkman #9 - Cataclysm, Part II : "Descent"
Hawkman #10 - Cataclysm, Part III : "London Falling"
Hawkman #11 - Cataclysm, Part IV : "A Cast of Hawks"
Hawkman #12 - Cataclysm, Part V : "Out of Many, One"

[VOL III - Darkness Within]

Hawkman #13 - "On Common Ground"
Hawkman #14 - "Shadowed"
Hawkman #15 - "Shades of Former Selves"
Hawkman #16 - "Old Ghosts"
Hawkman #17 - "Black Mantle"
Hawkman #18 - Tyrant Reborn, Part I : "Dual"
Hawkman #19 - Tyrant Reborn, Part II : "Better Half"

[VOL IV - Hawks Eternal]

Hawkman #20 - Death's Doorway, Part I : "Passengers"
Hawkman #21 - Death's Doorway, Part II : "The Key"
Hawkman #22 - Death's Doorway, Part III : "From End to Beginning"
Hawkman #23 - "Miasma of Fear"
Hawkman #24 - "Side by Side"
Hawkman #25 - "Taking Lives"
Hawkman #26 - "Death of A Thousand Hawks"
Hawkman #27 - Final Justice, Part I : "Seems Like Old Times"
Hawkman #28 - Final Justice, Part II : "The Nth Degree"
Hawkman #29 - Final Justice, Part III : "In The End"

Favorite Moments - [SPOILERS]

Hawkman #7 - "Origin"

"I choose to live again."

Hawkman #8 - Cataclysm, Part I : "Requiem"

"Impossibly, amidst all this ruination, you've given me hope."

Hawkman #13 - "On Common Ground"

"But we found a better way instead."

Hawkman #19 - Tyrant Reborn, Part II : "Better Half"

"We would've been so bad for each other."

Hawkman #26 - "Death of A Thousand Hawks"

"Here it comes. Everything."

Hawkman #29 - Final Justice, Part III : "In The End"

"After all the time and space, every millennium and world, these are the legacies that matter."

Friday, November 26, 2021

FAVORITE MOMENTS IN NEW X-MEN BY MORRISON

New X-Men #114 - E is For Extinction Part I

"Get out of my head or I'll fire."

New X-Men #115 - E is For Extinction Part II

"All those lights… going out… no one saw…"

New X-Men #116 - E is For Extinction Part III

Body-Snatcher

New X-Men #127 - "Of Living & Dying"

"And while the rain falls, we talk of living and dying below the lake of heaven."

New X-Men #128 - "New Worlds"

"Jean … can I talk to the Phoenix?"

New X-Men #141 - "Whodunit?"

Scenes From The Nativity

New X-Men #143 - "The World"

"...Wolverine? Oh god, guide my aim..."

New X-Men #148 - "Survivor Type"

"You and me, Jeannie. You and me in a blaze of glory."

New X-Men #150 - "Phoenix Invictus"

"I will not be judged by children. Give me death. Make me immortal."

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

DEATHSTROKE BY CHRISTOPHER PRIEST READING ORDER

[BOOK ONE : "The Professional"]

DS Rebirth - The Professional, Prologue : "Wheelons"
DS #1 - The Professional, Part I : "Among Thieves"
DS #2 - The Professional, Part II : "Band of Brothers"
DS #3 - The Professional, Part III : "By Any Other Name"
DS #4 - The Professional, Part IV : "American Gothic"
DS #5 - The Professional, Part V : "Mirrors"

[BOOK TWO : "The Gospel of Slade"]

DS #6 - The Professional, Part VI : "Love & War"
DS #7 - The Professional, Conclusion I : "Something Super This Way Comes..."
DS #8 - The Professional, Conclusion II : "Sword & Steel"
DS #9 - Four Rooms, Part I : "Prisoner Of War"
DS #10 - Four Rooms, Part II : "War Of Prisoners"
DS #11 - "Chicago"

[BOOK THREE : "Twilight"]

DS #12 - Twilight, Part I : "What Do You Believe?"
DS #13 - Twilight, Part II : "Prey Of Birds"
DS #14 - Twilight, Part III : "Blinded, Beaten, Broken"
DS #15 - Twilight, Part IV : "Let Slip The Dogs Of War!"
DS #16 - Twilight, Part V : "Angel Of Death"
DS #17 - Twilight, Part VI : "Reflection"
DS #18 - Twilight, Part VII : "Consequences"

[INTERLUDE : "The Lazarus Contract"]

Titans #11 - The Lazarus Contract, Part I : "Save One Life"
Teen Titans #8 - The Lazarus Contract, Part II : "Speed Kills"
DS #19 - The Lazarus Contract, Part III : "Whatever Happened, Happened"
Lazarus Special - The Lazarus Contract, Part IV : "Contract Terminated"
DS #20 - The Lazarus Contract, Epilogue : "Monster"

[BOOK FOUR : "Defiance"]

DS #21 - Defiance, Part I : "The Dark Titans"
DS #22 - Defiance, Part II : "The Absence of Light"
DS #23 - Defiance, Part III : "Like Father, Like Daughter!"
DS #24 - Defiance, Part IV : "Kid Flash Incognito"
DS #25 - Defiance, Part V : "The Society"

[BOOK FIVE : "The Fall Of Slade"]

DS #26 - Defiance, Part VI : "Ikonic"
DS #27 - Defiance, Part VII : "Terra Nullius"
DS Annual #1 - Defiance, Conclusion : "An Innocent Man"
DS #28 - Chinatown, Part I : "American Super-Villain"
DS #29 - Chinatown, Part II : "Sword & Steel (Reprise)"

[BOOK SIX : "Deathstroke vs Batman"]

DS #30 - "The Burning Wall"
DS #31 - "The Falling Stars"
DS #32 - "The Seven Waynes"
DS #33 - "The Good Son"
DS #34 - "The Stormy Present"
DS #35 - "The Defiant Ones"

[BOOK SEVEN : "Arkham"]

DS #36 - "The Republic"
DS #37 - "Twenty-Three"
DS #38 - "Community"
DS #39 - "Simple Man"
DS #40 - "Reality"

[INTERLUDE ii : "The Terminus Agenda"]

DS #41 - Prologue : "Presumed Innocent"
Teen Titans #28 -Part I : "Old Wounds"
DS #42 - Part II : "Our Gang"
Teen Titans #29 - Part III : "Who Are You"
DS #43 - Conclusion : "Black Hat"
Teen Titans #30 - Epilogue : "How Could You?"

[BOOK EIGHT : "Deathstroke RIP"]

DS #44 - "Elegy"
DS #45 - "Children of a Lesser God"
DS #46 - "The Seven Doors"
DS #47 - "Born Again"
DS #48 - "Summerville"
DS #49 - "The God-Man Syndrome"
DS #50 - "Terminator"

[Justice League]

Justice League #34 - "Three Rooms"
Justice League #35 - "Swarm"
Justice League #36 - "The People vs. The Justice League"
Justice League #37 - "The Fan"
Justice League #38 - "Entropy"
Justice League #39 - "The Race"
Justice League #40 - "Selection"
Justice League #41 - "Saigon"
Justice League #42 - "A Strange Place of Dying"
Justice League #43 - "Justice Lost"

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

"IMMORTAL HULK" Appreciation Post!

[Irradiated Revenant]

IH #1 - "Or Is He Both"
IH #2 - "The Walking Ghost"
IH #3 - "Point Of View"
IH #4 - "Time Of Death"
IH #5 - "In Every Mirror"

[The Green Door]

IH #6 - "Action/Reaction"
IH #7 - "The Avengers"
IH #8 - "His Hideous Heart"
IH #9 - "The Sinners"
IH #10 - "Thaumiel"

[Hulk In Hell]

IH #11 - "This World Our Hell"
IH #12 - "ALL On That Day"
IH #13 - "A Booth in the Midwest"

[Incredible Introspection]

IH #14 - "We Only Meet At Funerals"
IH #15 - "The Holy or the Broken"
IH #16 - "It's Joe"
IH #17 - "Abomination"
IH #18 - "Necessary"
IH #19 - "Butterfly"
IH #20 - "Metatron"

[Shadow Of The Hulk]

IH #21 - "A Secret Order"
IH #22 - "Who's There"
IH Absolute Carnage - "We Are Hulk"
IH #23 - "The Face of the Enemy"
IH #24 - "The Steel Throne"
IH #25 - "Breaker of Worlds"

[We Believe In Bruce Banner]

IH #26 - "Status Quo Ante"
IH #27 - "This is the Day"
IH #28 - "The New World"
IH #29 - "Eat or be Eaten"
IH #30 - "Cometh The Hour"

[The Hulk That Was]

IH #31 - "Remember?"
IH #32 - "Hulk is Hulk"
IH #33 - "The Thoughtful Man"
IH #34 - "The Apotheosis of Samuel Sterns"
IH #35 - "A Certain Amount of Light"

[Follow The Leader]

IH #36 - "The Thing In The Tube"
IH #0 - {"At Ground Zero"}
IH #37 - "The Keeper of the Door"
IH: She-Hulk - {"The Three Deaths of Jennifer Walters"}
IH #38 - "Not Just, Not God"
IH #39 - "The Stars Move Still"
IH #40 - "So Here's The Thing"

[The Weakest One There Is]

IH #41 - "The Man Downstairs"
IH King In Black - {"Black Christmas / ...and to all a Good Night."}
IH #42 - "A Game of Consequences"
IH #43 - "We're The Good Guys"
IH #44 - "To Rule In Hell"
IH #45 - "Ready Or Not"

[Hulk At The End Of Days]

IH #46 - "You & Me Against The World"
IH Time of Monsters - "Time of Monsters"
IH #47 - "Chaotic Terrain"
IH #48 - "Hiding Places"
IH #49 - "All Ye Who Enter Here"
IH #50 - "Of Hell & Of Death"

[Gamma Flight]

(GF1) - "Someone Bigger"
(GF2) - "Without Mercy"
(GF3) - "New Territory"
(GF4) - "Unfinished Business"
(GF5) - "We Were Transformed"

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

JLA by Morrison Reading Order

[BOOK I : New World Order]

JLA #1 - "Them!"
JLA #2 - "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
JLA #3 - "War of the Worlds"
JLA #4 - "Invaders From Mars"
JLA #5 - "Woman of Tomorrow"
JLA Secret Files & Origins #1- "Star Seed"

[BOOK II : American Dreams]

JLA #6 - "Fire in the Sky"
JLA #7 - "Heaven on Earth"
JLA #8 - "Imaginary Stories"
JLA #9 - "Elseworlds"
JLA/WildCATS - "Crime Machine"

[BOOK III : Rock of Ages]

JLA #10 - "Genesis & Revelations"
JLA #11 - "Hostile Takeover"
JLA #12 - "Wonderworld"
JLA #13 - "Wasteland"
JLA #14 - "Twilight of the Gods"
JLA #15 - "Stone of Destiny"

[BOOK IV : Strength In Numbers]

JLA Secret Files #2 - "Heroes"
New Year’s Evil: Prometheus #1 - "There Was A Crooked Man"
JLA #16 - "Camelot"
JLA #17 - "Prometheus Unbound"
New Gods Secret Files & Origins - "Orion & Big Barda Join The JLA"
JLA #22 - "It"
JLA #23 - "Conquerors"

DC One Million

DC One Million #1 - "Riders on the Storm"

"On The Third Day"
"On The First Day"
"On The Second Day"

Action Comics #1,000,000 - "Brave New Hero"
Shadow of the Bat #1,000,000 - "A Never-Ending Story"
Nightwing #1,000,000 - "The Anachronism"
Green Lantern #1,000,000 - "Star Crossed"
Power of Shazam! #1,000,000 - "Between the Rock & A Hot Place"

DC One Million #2 - "The Day After Tomorrow"

Batman #1,000,000 - "Peril Within the Prison Planet"
Superman: Man of Steel #1,000,000 - "Fear & Loathing"
Starman #1,000,000 - "All The Starlight Shining"
Impulse #1,000,000 - "Desperate Times - A Million"
Green Arrow #1,000,000 - "All Down The Years"
Superman #1,000,000 - "Down To Earth"
Detective Comics #1,000,000 - "The Bug That Ate Tomorrow"
JLA #1,000,000 - "Prisoners of the Twentieth Century"
Aquaman #1,000,000 - "The Banks & Shoals of Time"
Chase #1,000,000 - "Don't Believe It!"

DC One Million #3 - "Solaris Rising"

Martian Manhunter #1,000,000 - "The Abyss of Time"
The Adventures of Superman #1,000,000 - "Keepers of Solitude"
Resurrection Man #1,000,000 - "A Handful of Dust"
Catwoman #1,000,000 - "Nine Million Lives"
Robin #1,000,000 - "Dark Planet"
Flash #1,000,000 - "Fast Forward"
Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1,000,000 - "Future Story"
Chronos #1,000,000 - "Time on My Hands"

DC One Million #4 - "Death Star"

Young Heroes In Love #1,000,000 - "Happiness Is A Warm Nanite"
Hitman #1,000,000 - "To Hell With The Future"
JLA In Crisis Secret Files

"The Flash's Infinite Crises"
"A Tour Through the One Million Universe!"

DC One Million 80 Page Giant

"System's Finest"
"Tales of the Legion of Executive Familiars"
"The Divided Self"
"Head Games"
"Deep Cover"
"Day in the Lives"
"Crisis One Million"

JLA 80pg Giant #2 - "Tour of Duty"
JLA Secret Files & Origins #3 - "Things To Come"
Legionnaires #1,000,000 - "Come Together"
Legion of Superheroes #1,000,000 - "1,000 Years Later..."

[BOOK V : Justice For All]

JLA #24 - "Executive Action"
JLA #25 - "Scorched Earth"
JLA #26 - "Our Army at War"

"Washington D.C."
"City In The Sky"
"J.J.'s Big Secret"

JLA #28

"The Wise Men of Bahdnisia"
"Mile High Graffiti"
"J.J.'s Big Secret II"
"Bad Luck Billy Mac"

JLA #29 - "World Turned Upside Down"
JLA #30 - "Worlds Beyond"
JLA #31 - "Gods & Masters"

[BOOK VI : World War III]

JLA #34 - "The Ant & the Avalanche"
JLA #36 - "Goodbye JLA"
JLA #37 - "Injustice Strikes"
JLA #38 - "I Know You"
JLA #39 - "Apocalypse Architect"
JLA #40 - "The Abyss Gazes Also"
JLA #41 - "Maggedon!"

JLA Earth 2

Green Lantern by Grant Morrison Reading Order

SEASON ONE

[Knight of Light]

The Green Lantern #1 - "Intergalactic Lawman"
The Green Lantern #2 - "Darkness Visible"
The Green Lantern #3 - "Slave Lords of the Stars"

[Queen of Night]

The Green Lantern #4 - "Cosmic Vampire's Beautiful Daughter"
The Green Lantern #5 - "Blackstar at Zenith"
The Green Lantern #6 - "Under Strange Skies"

[Hard Traveling Hero]

The Green Lantern #7 - "Emerald Sands"
The Green Lantern #8 - "Space Junkies"
The Green Lantern Annual #1 - "The Wireless Ones"

[Cosmic Cataclysm]

The Green Lantern #9 - "Day the Stars Fell Down"
The Green Lantern #10 - "Guardians of the Multiverse"
The Green Lantern #11 - "Quest for the Cosmic Grail" {"Unknown Worlds"}
The Green Lantern #12 - "Return of the Qwa-Man"

BLACKSTARS

[Bane of the Blackstars]

Blackstars #1 - "Under the Sun at Midnight" {"Hands Up-Who Wants to Party?"}
Blackstars #2 - "A Hole in the Sky" {"Hands Up-Who Wants to Rule the Universe?"}
Blackstars #3 - "Heart of Emptiness" {"Hands Up-Who Wants to Die?"}

SEASON TWO

[New Order of the Infant Oans]

The Green Lantern: S2 #1 - "Young Guardians"
The Green Lantern: S2 #2 - "The Cosmidor Conspiracy"
The Green Lantern: S2 #3 - "Thunder on Wonder Mountain"

[Light's Out for Hal Jordan]

The Green Lantern: S2 #4 - "Golden Giants of Neo-Pangea"
The Green Lantern: S2 #5 - "Hyperman: Wanted Dead or Alive"
The Green Lantern: S2 #6 - "Assault on Sector General!"

[Lanterns In Limbo]

The Green Lantern: S2 #7 - "Ultrawarrior" {"Megamortals!"}
The Green Lantern: S2 #8 - "War with the Anti-World"
The Green Lantern: S2 #9 - "The Wedding of the Trillenium!"
The Green Lantern: S2 #10 - "Multi-Crisis on Intimate Earths!"

[Beware My Power]

The Green Lantern: S2 #11 - "Contest of Crowns"
The Green Lantern: S2 #12 - "The Intelligence Engine"

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