A Rookie’s Look at Avengers Disassembled

Tackling Avengers Disassembled

I decided that since I’m reading through the Avengers Disassembled storyline as a personal project, I thought I’d put together a post that covers which issue and titles that covers.  While I’ve read the issues from Marvel’s 1962 and a couple of other shorter events, this one is definitely the longest I’m gonna try to read so far.

Rambling Redshirt Reads...Avengers DisassembledFrom my understanding, Avengers Disassembled from 2004 is the template that Marvel has used since then for large cross-over events and it certainly seems to involve quite a few of Marvel’s characters.  From what I can tell at this point, it’s got Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Ant Man, Wasp, Black Panther, Vision, Captain America, Falcon, Nick Fury, Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Storm, Cyclops, Invisible Girl, and I’m sure other main characters from the universe not to mention various other, non-main, heroes (for instance, it has almost everyone from Asgard).

And while heroes are only one side of the equation, there are plenty of bad guys too: the Queen, Loki, and Arsenal are the just main ones I’ve seen so far, but I’m sure there are more out there since I’m only about a quarter of the way through the story.


 

Avengers Disassembled Reading Order

I took this reading order from Comic Book Herald’s site and since his “My Marvelous Year” was the inspiration for reading through this I thank Dave from there.

One of the good things with Marvel is that each of these issues is available from Marvel Unlimited so with a free trial you should be able to read through the whole story.  Personally, I think the cost of the subscription is worth it, but then I’m trying to read more comics this year.

Here’s the basic list…

 

Thor 80 Ragnarok: Part the First
Thor 81 Ragnarok: Part the Second
Thor 82 Ragnarok: Part the Third
Thor 83 Ragnarok: Part the Fourth
Thor 84 Ragnarok: Part the Fifth
Thor 85 Ragnarok: Part the Last
Iron Man 84 When Worlds Colide
Iron Man 85 Univited Guests
Spectacular Spider-Man 15 Royal Flush: Part 1: Under My Skin
Spectacular Spider-Man 16 Royal Flush: Part 2: Under My Skin
Spectacular Spider-Man 17 Changes Part 1
Spectacular Spider-Man 18 Changes Part 2
Spectacular Spider-Man 19 Changes Part 3
Spectacular Spider-Man 20 Changes Part 4
Captain America & The Falcon 5 Jimmy’s Way
Captain America & The Falcon 6 Snapped
Captain America & The Falcon 7 Lost in Translation
Captain America 29 Super Patriot: Part 1
Avengers 500 Chaos: Part 1
Iron Man 86 The Singularity: Part 1
Avengers 501 Chaos: Part 2
Avengers 502 Chaos: Part 3
Captain America 30 Super Patriot: Part 2
Captain America 31 Super Patriot: Part 3
Captain America 32 Super Patriot: Part 4
Avengers 503 Chaos: Part 4
Iron Man 87 The Singularity: Part 2
Iron Man 88 The Singularity: Part 3
Iron Man 89 The Singularity: Part 4
Avengers Finale 1 Finale
Fantastic Four 517 Fourtitude: Part 1
Fantastic Four 518 Fourtitude: Part 2
Fantastic Four 519 Fourtitude: Part 3
Excalibur 8 Saturday Night Fever

I figure a the end of this story, I’ll know quite a bit more about the Marvel Universe and in particular, things that have happened since the turn of the century.  It’ll also be a good beginning to continue with the “My Marvelous Year” project that Comic Book Herald has going on.  I started up with them at year one, but couldn’t keep up – perhaps this is another chance to catch up – though, it’s a hell of a lot of reading.