City of Bane is an extended story during Tom King’s Batman run as a loose tie in to Year of the Villain. Bane takes over Gotham City, which is nothing new, but the ending leads to a major defining moment which shapes Batman/Bruce Wayne and the extended Bat-family’s stories way beyond Tom King. It also …
After the events of Infinity, the Terrigen mist spreads around the world from the bomb which awakens dormant Inhumans. This starts a new era for the Inhumans and a chain of events which leads into Inhuman and eventually leads into Inhumans vs. X-Men. This is not treated or written as a prelude, it is a …
Empyre was a 2020 Avengers/Kree/Skrull centric event which followed Incoming! It was an event which ran through the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and as such, has several tie ins which were cancelled. Written and directed by Al Ewing, Empyre was fairly well received but nothing outstanding. However, it did bring a lot of …
In 2008, the story arc “Brainiac” made a lot of changes to Superman continuity – Jonathan Kent’s death and the return of the bottled city of Kandor. This arc lead to a much larger story called “New Krypton”. This page contains the reading order for this. This story is set post Crisis and pre Flashpoint …
When Trinity War was being unrelieved it was described as a self-contained New 52 Justice League centred event – however, it soon became clear it was a lead up for Forever Evil (Forever Evil reading order here). It intoduces the mystery of Pandora and the introduction of the Crime Syndicate from Earth-3 – the main …
The Lazarus Contract is a very short but very good crossover between the Titans and Deathstroke following the return of Wally West in DC Rebirth. Wally West… help me bring my son back… and I’ll stop being Deathstroke… forever. No more costume. No more contracts. No more killing. Save one life… save thousands. Deathstroke – Titans #11 The Lazarus Contract …
Forever Evil was the first line wide event during new 52, line wide being characters from outside of their sphere involved i.e Bat-family and Superman-family. Trinity War acts a sort of prelude to this main event and we have a Trinity War reading order. It is an interesting event but not one which was Universe …
Damnation was a short and sweet Doctor Strange event following the events of Secret Empire. Specifically, if you’ve read Secret Empire (Secret Empire reading order here!) then it deals with what happened in Las Vegas. The series is written by Donny Cates (who has done wonders with Marvel, and Nick Spencer (who went on to …
No Man’s Land was a Bat-family crossover event which covered the entirety of 1999 across multiple titles. It was and still is one of the most significant events (Knightfall being the other one – Knightfall reading order) to have happened in Gotham City and is still referred to even today, despite the Batman New 52 …
Inhumans Vs. X-Men (often called IVX) is a crossover event from 2016 which came as a result of Secret Empire with Inhumans Vs. X-Men providing closure following that event. There are some elements of Civil War II for background reading but nothing huge. This makes Inhumans Vs. X-Men not an integral part of the timeline …
