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[Prophet 451]

33. New 52 is ugh

I picked up most of the New 52 books when they were released and frankly, most of them were pretty bad. The ones I did like ("Demon Knights", "Animal Man", a few others) have mostly been cancelled or will be in the near future. There's a few gems in there (which I'll get to in a second) but it's mostly just bad.

Marvel's "Marvel NOW" initiative is really just making an effort to allow for new readers via the .1 issues (special "bring you up to speed" issues). Marvel organises it's titles into "families". Of those, the Avengers titles are really incestuous and often dumb; the X titles vary wildly, the Spidey titles are generally pretty good and the MArvel Max titles (Marvel's version of Vertigo) are often very good.

That said, don't worry too much about backstory. For teh most part, it'll either be explained as you go or, in Marvel's case, every title now has a recap page to allow you to dive in.

Series that I think are worth reading: Constantine (morally ambiguous magical con-man, continuation of the long-running "Hellblazer&quot ; Justice League Dark (JLA for the magical and morally complex characters); Swamp Thing; Suicide Squad (super-criminals pressed into government service); Batgirl (Gail Simone's writing is fantastic); Uncanny X-Men (Cyclops is now a mutant terrorist/freedom fighter); New Avengers (deals with the Illuminati, a group of Marvel's power players, dealing with stuff behind the scenes); All New X-Men (the original five, brought into the present day); Uncanny Avengers (a mixing of X-Men and Avengers squads) and Wolverine & The X-men (Wolverine is now running the school, it's often hilarious). The Batman books are often also worth the time but writer Grant Morrison likes to do really long arcs so make sure you're not jumping in the middle of one.

I haven't seen the movie yet for the simple reason that LoveFilm (British version of NetFlix, sort-of) doesn't have it yet.