#idk i bet if i looked at the wiki idk get a comprehensive list. but I am lacking information and also willingless to sit down and sort it

[hopeheartfilia]

Met Daisy. shes so fucking cool.

my headphones gave out but Jonh had an intervention, has accepted that he you know, mightve went a bit overboard, and also that he'll try sleeping, which, what more could I ask for.

btw no shit jonh of course your coworkers were trying to avoid you, you werent subtle at all

And yeah the Bassira (bazera? the real reason i dont like audio books is that i cant spell names, exposed) thing isnt suprising. I bet you she tries to pet cats she walks by on the street. Idk she doesnt take them in but she does leave food out for them sometimes. (yes jonh is basically a cat and all of my reasoning for this)

A bit surpised the police is that effective in killing vampires btw, id assumed they would have Some protocol but thats a pretty good one I think

Also the watching thing with the mirror. how it has something to do with the archive.. is the archive a tool in a civil war between horrors or is it just haunted, like was it created for the purpose of fucking other Things up, or does it nature just attract the looking or something. also what is it actually

(yes i am implying there are multiple horrific entities that are sentient and have an overarching plot, blame michael)

Also also I liked the astronaut episode, i think ill like other episodes like it. just. loneliness. Not the ones that are ovewhelmingly blue even if they are cool. Eh I still like the Jane Prentiss one the most, it was very descriptive and struck some chords, i think those will hit me hardest, questioning the self, not perception but identity, and loneliness. Might be wrong of course, and I didnt find the space one peticularly scary, perhaps because I listened to it in a convenience store filled with people, i just liked it

The one about the canibalism and colorado(?) was also quite cool, i just liked the main charather, and her husband was such a himbo

I dont really know what Ive posted and what I havent, but just. yay jonh said hed at least try to sleep a bit, and video evidence seems to have assured his colleague related paranoia a bit, good for him, martin is so nice, hes too nice actually and I think everyone ahould be extra nice to martin. (perpetual martin stan back at it again) (if jonh yells at martin to divulge information that may be personal again ill yell at jonh myself. like yeah so what even if martin had actually done it. doesnt mean you should yell at martin.) (also i really hope he(john) gets a calm week or two, he needs it, not that im counting on it of course)

[mattelektras]

hi i am new to comics and i'd like to know how did you even start reading them and like,, how do you choose what character to read, where to start with them, what ORDER to follow (if you even follow them) because i really want to read more and more but idk many characters, i don't want just to read the "popular" ones + i never know where to begin ?? wish i knew a little about a lot of chs so i could pick one to read haha. what are your recs? and how do you pick issues/volumes to read? ty

i got into them through movies and tv i think?? like when i was little i watched stuff like teen titans, b:tas, dd 2003, and justice league unlimited to DEATH. so i had kind of.. prior attachments to characters like wonder woman (i had one w raven but when i actually read comics it wasnt the same??). but then my dad used to read n collect comics when he wasnt an Old Man so i read TONS of old stuff just for the sake of it like i cannot tell you how much weird old shit i have in my comics collection. captain carrot crossover w teen titans anyone????

thats how i got into silver sable because i basically started with a ton of obscure old comics. i dont know how else i would have fell in love with her because they never use her in anything so thanks @ dad @ god

ANYWAY as for how i personally get into them:

if you’re in a situation where you really dont know where to start, i think team books are a good go to?? you can experience a lot of different characters at once and get a feel for what/who you like and who you dont. and then if you want to be more specific in the KIND of team books you read, think of it in terms of what kind of characters do you like in general?? like do you like antiheroes like xforce, straight up heroic kind of ppl ie the justice league or the avengers, teams that stand for a bigger meaning like the xmen, teen heroes like the teen titans or the young avengers

like for me... i like murder teams so i read xforce/dark avengers/secret six

wiki pages never fail. it’s kind of the same process as above like... search the dc antiheroes category or the marvel women category etc

a lot of sites like comicvine have a recommended reasing section for a lot of characters. as well as wiki pages having an ‘appearances’ section that lists every issue they’ve ever been in. which is good for if you have an ultimate fav because you can read EVERYTHING and love them even more. like.... i would be willing to bet i’ve read every elektra thing??? give or take like 5 issues. and thats how i did i. but it’s also good for more general reading because you can see which series a character was in a large chunk of

eg. when i wanted to read more about rose wilson after seeing her in.... i think it was blackest night, i looked and saw that she’d been in the majority of teen titans vol 3, so i read it

for a bigger name character, i would recommend reading their solos (naturally). like search comixology for batman/captain marvel/iron man etc and the first things that come up will be their solos, and the description of that run will usually give you an idea as to how important it is in the character’s narrative 

THIS IS SHALLOW BUT I GO ON LOOKS... i love bizarrely white haired characters. i dont know why but if theyve got naturally white hair with no explanation for it then im in. so whenever i see a cover w a white haired character on i read it and its worked out pretty well for me ngl??? silver sable as mentioned, i read all the spiderman stuff i’ve read because of black cat, i read vol 5 of new warriors because of namorita having white hair and then i read backwards and LOVED everything and now theyre one of my favorite teams.

its always easiest to love a character that you relate to. so maybe look into characters that are you sexuality or your gender or your race. like comics can be a very diverse medium sometimes, and then other times, the complete opposite. so it can mean a lot when u find a character you relate to on such a personal level

some reading order places that i know of

marvel/dc (good for events/crossovers)

marvel/dc plus lots of other stuff.i’d say i use this one most because its good at separating eras so you can avoid reading old shit when you dont wanna

reddit, despite being reddit, has a huuuge collection of rec lists

my comic recs tag

most of the time, if you google [character] reading order, someone somewhere will have made one!!

if i find a new character i want to read about i usually do a bit of rec list hunting and then a bit of figuring it out by myself?? like see what the biggest events of their narrative were and where they happened, read the obvious stuff to get a general feel for them, and then if im really into it, read the less important stuff?? so i’d say the process is read a rec list. see what happens > read the descriptions/summaries of the longest runs/most well known solos

for keeping up with stuff weekly, i tend to have a few favourites that i read by the issue, and then a lot of other stuff that i enjoy but dont keep up with?? i like 2 binge it every 5 issues or so and then if it gets really good i graduates to being kept up with

i keep track of what’s coming out each week w this site 

aaaand then, i keep up with previews to see whether or not a character i care about is gonna be in anything so i can make sure i read it. eg. i dont generally read amazing spiderman, but silver was in the most recent arc as i found out from the release of the cover, so i immediately knew i was gonna be into it for a few issues

and then also solicits, where descriptions usually give away what’s gonna be worth reading for the month

the best advice i could probably give would be dont overthink it??? who cares if you dont read it chronologically. in my experience, even if you do, there will always be stuff that doesnt make sense because comics are just.... like that. and half of the time, not understanding a reference to earlier stuff isnt gonna impede your comprehension of what you’re reading. most likely its gonna be little things and then later on when you read filler issues you’ll be like oh!!!! thats what they were talking about!! eg. i didnt read civil war until WAY after it happened, but i read stuff surrounding it and because the basic premise was explained in what i read, i didnt feel out of the loop??

so like... dont let any of that put u off. long ass rec lists can be daunting because you just think have i really gotta read all that shit!!! but 90% of the time.. making your own way works just fine, maybe just use recs as a guideline along with other resources