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Guide to Invaders (New for Patrons!)
I’m back with another new guide for Patrons of CK! In a way, this guide is a combination of the last two. It significantly revises and expands existing guide content like the Guide to Old Man Logan, but it’s also a guide that refers to real world dates like the Guide to Stranger Things Comics & Novels! That meant putting together the reading order was a lot of fun, since in this case it involved a bit of actual historical research! Plus, I got to page through a lot of comics I own and love. That’s right, I’m introducing the most complete reading order on the internet to Marvel’s World War II heroes with my Guide to Invaders!
This guide is available exclusively to Patrons at this time.
As with many new reading orders that involve expanding an existing section of a guide, when I began this Invaders reading order I thought to myself, “This can’t be too hard, right? I already know every Invaders series that has existed!”
The Invaders have two distinct periods of continuity – their World War II adventures and their various reformations in the modern day.
The modern day material is simple enough. But, the WW2 material hasn’t always been released in the order it works in continuity. And, since the team canonically stayed together to the very end of the war, that means they existed through the presumed death of Steve Rogers and Bucky.
Oh and, also, the original Human Torch killed Hitler.
Now do I have your attention?
Guide to Stranger Things Comics & Novels (New for Patrons!)
It’s another slightly scary new guide for Patrons of CK. This one is for something I love outside of comics – so much that I’ve actually written a few blog posts about it! I’ve also kept up with its comics for years, and when I searched the web for a complete guide I came up with nothing. Nada. Zero. Even the supposed main Wiki is missing tons of information and guidance. Well, we all know what happens next – I make a new guide! No guide on the internet has every put every TV Season, Novel, and Comic Book in order … until now, in my brand new Guide to Stranger Things Comics & Novels!
Guide to Stranger Things Comics & Novels
This guide is available exclusively to Patrons until the debut of Season 5 later this month!
I know what you’re asking yourself: Is Stranger Things really this complicated? Can you just… watch the show and then read the comics?
My friend, I need you to roll for Perception… with disadvantage!
That’s because the comics have never told a story in continuity order. The jump between seasons and tell prequel stories, with occasional one-shots set during seasons and their epilogues. Then, adult novels have added more prequel stories, but YA novels have told stories that overlap seasons – which doesn’t count the junior novelizations of the seasons themselves.
No wonder no other guide has ever gotten this right. Just like Nancy’s relationship with Jonathan and Joyce’s relationship with Hopper, it’s complicated.
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