Tuesday, August 24, 2010

MC2/Spider-Girl (reading order)

In 1998 Tom DeFalco conceived of the "MC2" or Marvel Comics 2 Universe (982) as a possible alternate future of the mainstream Marvel Universe (616) set in the present day as if the superheroes of the 616 had aged and whatnot. Essentially this was a proto-Ultimate continuity.
While I have not yet read many issues I've managed to score nearly all of them in my years of haunting comic cons, bargain bins, used book stores, and the like. Here is what I've been able to put together for reading order on these titles based again solely on release date. I'll get into the wisdom of buying hundreds of comics for series that I have not yet sampled from and may not actually enjoy reading once I do get them. I'm not paying you all for psycho-analysis after all.

What If (Vol 2) #105 - 1st Appearance of Spider-Girl, MC2
Spider-Girl #0
Spider-Girl #1/2

Concurrent?
Spider-Girl #1-12
A-Next #1-12 Oct 1998 - Sep 1999
J2 #1-12 Oct 1998 - Sep 1999

Spider-Girl Annual #1 1999

Concurrent?
Wild Thing #0 1999
Spider-Girl #13-17
Wild Thing #1-5 Oct 1999
Fantastic Five (Vol 1) #1-5 Oct 1999

Spider-Girl #18-21

Concurrent?
Spider-Girl #22-24
The Buzz #1-3 Jul 2000

Spider-Girl #25

Concurrent?
Spider-Girl #26-28
DarkDevil #1-3 Nov 2000

Spider-Girl #29-84

Concurrent?
Spider-Girl #85-89
Last Hero Standing #1–5 (June 2005)

Spider-Girl #90-97

Concurrent?
Spider-Girl #98-100
Last Planet Standing #1–5 (July 2006)

Amazing Spider-Girl #0

Concurrent?
Amazing Spider-Girl #1–4
Avengers Next #1–5 (November 2006 – January 2007)

Amazing Spider-Girl #5–7

Concurrent?
Amazing Spider-Girl #8-10
Fantastic Five (volume 2) #1–5 (July 2007 – September 2007)

Amazing Spider-Girl #11-17

Concurrent?
Amazing Spider-Girl #18-22
American Dream #1–5 (May 2008 – July 2008)

Amazing Spider-Girl #23-30
Amazing Spider-Girl #1–30 (October 2006 – March 2009)

Spectacular Spider-Girl #1–4 (Jul 2010 – Oct 2010)

Web Spider-Man (back-up features) #1-7

Forth-coming:

Spider-Girl: The End #1-6

I guess that's all I got for now. I'll probably update some as I read through the issues, until then if any of you have suggestions, I'll take them.

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