What?

Reading and reviewing every Marvel comic book through in-universe chronological order according to THIS reading order comprising 16,000 issues.

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Why??

Ever since I identified Thor’s hammer to my friends in the Iron Man 2 post-credit scene my brain has continued to chase that high, even if I don’t consciously want to. I must C O N S U M E comic knowledge.

The thing is: at the time, I didn’t even read comics. Couldn’t afford them and didn’t know where to get them, so I would just read entire Wikipedia pages for different characters.

And I chose Marvel over DC because I actually knew quite a bit more about DC than Marvel, even though I preferred Marvel’s movies. Guess I just spent more time on DC’s wiki pages as a kid.

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Three things had to happen in order for me to find the motivation to start this very, very, very long project:

1. Whenever I read runs that are set in the main continuity there’s always elements of each characters’ lore from the 60s or 70s I have to google to understand.

2. It seemed like an impossible task to read that much comic, until a friend convinced me to read One Piece and I managed 1,000 issues in a few months.

The problem is One Piece is consistently, at minimum, good.
However, Marvel has hundreds of different creative teams going back to the 60s, so statistically, a concerning percentage of it has to be bad.

SO….

3. As a test-run I read the entirety of the Ultimate Marvel line.
   700 issues of poorly-written edginess. (Outside of the Spider-Man series.)
   Blob becomes a cannibal and eats the Wasp, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver do some incest, the Hulk is an incel…

Learning to appreciate bad comics is like drinking coffee.
The first time you taste it, it’s overwhelmingly bitter and you’re compelled to gag.
Then you realize you were tasting the “wrong parts” and learn to focus on the “good parts.”
For the Ultimate Universe that equates to finding comedy in how meatheaded they made Captain America and…. nope, no other examples, its just finding comedy in bad.

C O M E D Y.

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And that brings us current. After finishing the Ultimate Marvel line, I briefly started reading through the Main-616 Universe starting in the year 2000, since that’s when UM started.
And the continuity DARED to confuse me after ALL THE WORK I DID.

So now I’m reading every Marvel comic out of SPITE.
And this website is mostly a memory backup.

Maybe if they stabilize those brain chips I can put the whole thing in my skull.
A man can dream.