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For Aquaman skip almost everything and start with the four Geoff Johns volumes from the new 52. These are called vols 1-4 and have the subtitles of The Trench, The Others, Throne of Atlantis, and Death of a King. They are excellent. I can also recommend the two Jeff Park volumes that come after (5 and 6). I can't speak for anything after that.

Green Arrow, the easiest spot to start is with Green Arrow Year One and then read Rebirth forward. There are a few other good runs(Kevin Smith, Metzler, Winnick, Lemire) but Year One and rebirth will be the easiest place to jump in.

The last three are the most complicated:

Superman has different places to start depending on what you are looking for.

If you want to read about the various Origin's superman has had then you can read: Superman for all seasons, Superman:Birthright, Superman: Secret Origin, Superman: American Alien (A greg miller rec).

If you want to read Superman as an established hero, there are two good places to jump on board: Geoff Johns run that starts with Last Son of Krypton is really good. Otherwise, start with Superman:rebirth which is a really great run so far.

And for some just overall good Superman stories: Kingdom Come, Superman:Secret Identity, All-Star Superman.

Batman...Oi.

Do you want to read older books or newer books?

For older books you have the always timeless Batman Year One, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman:The Long Halloween and it's sequel Dark Victory.

If you want to read more recent books, then it just depends how far back you want to start reading.

You can go all the way back, you can go back to the 90's and read Knightfall, you can go back to the early 00's and read Cataclysm/No Man's Land, or you can jump in 2006's Batman and Son when they introduced Damien Wayne. To do that, you'll just read the Batman books by Grant Morrison.
If you want to get got up to modern Batman the fastest, just start with the New 52 run as other's have mentioned that starts with Batman vol 1: The Court of Owls.


Spider-Man, you have to decide what kind of stories you want. Do you want Peter Parker in High School? Then read Ultimate Spider-man. It's a seperate universe from the normal marvel universe, but it is really good. It also leads to Miles Morales who is, in my humble opinion, the best Spider-Man ever.

Do you want to read crazy Peter Parker in his late 20's becoming a High School teacher? Read the run that starts here:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Spider-Man-Ultimate-Collection-Book/dp/0785138935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502988383&sr=8-1&keywords=spider-man+by+jms

Do you want to start with Peter as an adult, but Single? Jump in with Spider-Man: Big Time.
I personally, think Big time is the best place in the normal continuity to start. Dan slott wrote some good stories and it feels the most like the pop culture Spider-Man people know.

Lastly two things. If you want to read about Miles Morales, you can just start with the Miles Morales Ultimate Collection:
https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502988492&sr=1-3&keywords=miles+morales

But if you really want a cool story, there is a Spider from another universe named Spider-Gwen who takes the spider-man story you know and twists it on it's head:
https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Gwen-Vol-0-Most-Wanted/dp/0785197737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502988539&sr=8-1&keywords=Spider-Gwen+0
Spider-Gwen and Miles are my personal favorites.

And let us know if you want to read cool comics that aren't about Superheroes. Because that is where the really great writing is.

For most comics if you want print graphic novels, go with Amazon. If you want print issues, find a local store. If you want digital, go to Comixology.com which does not have the problem of if the given book or issue is in print.


The important thing to remember is that a lot of us comic readers that started before the movies made them mainstream, didn't have internet resources, so we just jumped into random stories that sounded interesting and filled in our knowledge gaps as we went forward. Even now I don't know everything and never will. And I've been reading comics for over ten years.

Since it seems like you're mostly interested in DC characters I'd recommend checking out the current Rebirth Series. Now I'm only familiar with Batman and Flash, so I can't speak to the quality of the other series but I've enjoyed both of them so far.

Here's some links to the first volume of the Rebirth Series of all the characters (plus the Flash) you mentioned:

Aquaman

Batman

Green Arrow

Flash

Superman

As for the best place to buy comics I recommend Amazon and Barnes & Noble as they are generally pretty cheap and run good sales fairly often (especially Barnes & Noble).

Now for some of my personal recommendations:

Batman New 52 Vol. 1 Court of Owls, it's Batman at his best investigating an old Gotham conspiracy.

Hawkeye Vol. 1 My Life as a Weapon, it's about what Hawkeye does when he's not an Avenger. It has some really amazing art.

Hope this was helpful! Feel free to message me with any questions you might have!

As someone that has been collecting headphones for over 10 years, I can tell you that there is diminishing returns once you get into the $500 + territory. You are pretty much trying to find the sound signature that you love.

Point being, some of the best headphones in the hobby are easily $200-300 range. I would actually highly recommend the HD-600 or HD-650. They are fantastic headphones, and a lot of audiophiles even use them as end game (since they scale incredibly well with Amps/DACS) - and are overall a good balance.

HD-600

https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-Open-Back-Professional-Headphone/dp/B00004SY4H/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501292664&sr=8-1&keywords=Hd600

(They are on sale now too. $285 compared to $400)

HD-650

https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-650-Professional-Headphone/dp/B00018MSNI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1501292664&sr=8-2&keywords=Hd600

(Also on sale. $315 normally $500)

They are both very similar. The 650 has a little more bass/veil, the 600 are slightly more neutral (without a colored bass). But both are very close (I personally find the 600 are more comfortable to wear. But the 650 looks more aesthetically pleasing and audiophiles seem to prefer it over the 600 but they are damn close in sound).

The 600/650 have really nice soundstage, clear separation of instruments - and decent bass (won't be boom). They are just great all around cans. The 650 rank really high on Head-Fi (the largest audiophile forum) and are actually rated the second best headphones on there.

https://www.head-fi.org/f/showcase/category/over-ear.263/?order=popular


If you don't mind me asking Tim, what sound sig do you like? Are you a treble man? Do you like that crunch/speed? Or are you a bass man? Do you like a thicker sound?

I think Greg has mentioned this before, but it's best to pick out "runs" and just go from there, because I'm not sure that there's a great starting point to get into DC otherwise.

My personal favorite is the Brian Azzarello run of Wonder Woman, that began with the new 52. It's self contained, and does a great job of reimagining her.

You can also read basically the entirety of Batman from New 52 on, starting with #1 and Scott Snyder through to the current Tom King run, https://www.amazon.com/Batman-DC-Comics-New-52/dp/B005NLH8SS

On the Superman front, Kingdom Come, Red Son and All-Star Superman are three separate but great self contained runs, but I'm sure Greg can speak more to this.

If your goal is to get back into continuity so you can be up to date, whoa boy are you in for a challenge. I'm no expert on this, but New 52 is probably the starting point. New 52 was basically a complete reboot for every character in 2011 (except batman) so it begins with every Hero's origin story. DC rebirth is the last major shakeup that retconned a lot of stuff (in particular swapping back to old Superman) so that could also be a good starting point.

DC has a couple of big "events" here and there but I'm not super familiar with them, and unlike Marvel they generally don't screw up the ongoing series too much.

Morning Show clarifications, suggestions and general thoughts:

1. Flash joining the Army (25:13)
   
   

• This actually happened. I haven't read the issues but Flash actually did join the army in the main continuity. It lead to him losing both of his legs and eventually bonding with the Venom Symbiote (which of course gives him the ability to walk again). This, in turn, lead to him becoming Agent Venom, a secret Agent for the government who goes on missions using the Symbiote as a type of battle suit.
  
  

2. Kraven the Hunter (Somewhere around 27:00 and 28:30)
   
   

• This isn't anything about the particuluar issue but, if you're interested in Kraven, he has a great story called Kraven's Last Hunt, where he defeats Spider-Man, buries him alive, and wears his own Spider suit and takes on villains. Also, If you're into the idea of one villain throwing a bunch of other villains at a hero in a gauntlet style, check out Batman: Knightfall. It's the first appearance of Bane and how he defeats Batman and breaks his back. The way he does this is by sending a bunch of villains at Batman, one after the other, so that Bruce is weak and tired when he gets home. Bane then attacks him in his home and defeats him, which leads to a guy called Azrael becoming Batman for a while.
  
  

3. The ending (29:40 - 33:00ish)
   
   

• I don't wanna harp on this too much but, since they talked about it for a while, I thought I'd chime in on the ending. The thing you have to understand is that Gwen is basically Uncle Ben part 2 for Peter. Like, she was the first girl he ever loved and he ended up being the reason she died. Honestly, even though they weren't married, Greg was pretty spot on in the comparison as far as how emotionally traumatizing this was for Pete. The reason MJ is so understanding at the end is because she gets how big a deal that was. I don't mean to criticize what the guys were saying (they definitely had valid points) but that's just my two cents.
  
  

4. References (34:45)
   
   

• This is minor but, since Greg showed This page, I just wanted to mention that it's a reference to Spider-Man's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15. This was referenced a few pages later when Flash says that it was Amazing and MJ says "yeah, an Amazing Fantasy".
  
  

5. Other Minor Stuff
   
   

• Greg did a great job of explaining No Man's Land so I thought I'd link it Here. Minor note about it: It takes place after a great story called Cataclysm. In it, a giant earthquake occurs in Gotham and the city is pretty much destroyed. Batman and crew then go out and spend days (with no sleep) making sure they can rescue as many people as possible. This leads to No Man's Land, where the rest of the country decides that it would cost too much to rebuild Gotham so they just close it off and leave the people to fend for themselves. I love No Man's Land but Cataclysm was probably my favorite part of that arc.
  
  Okay that was that. If you guys want, I can try to keep doing something like this but it's gonna be kinda hard since I don't read a lot of non-Big 2 comics. For instance, I definitely won't be able to do something this long for Private Eye next week since I've never read it and will probably only have time to read the first volume.

I can’t relate to what you are going through, but I can relate to opening up on issues as a means of help.
I’ve heard this book is fantastic and sounds like something you could benefit of.

Anxiety as an Ally: How I Turned a Worried Mind into My Best Friend https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692401512/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cXydBbTWG54CB

Dan has been a game critic and pundit for years and has openly spoken on his anxiety.

Here’s an old GoG vid on the topic too.
https://youtu.be/h1l_SW0VWts

It's very hard to find a good camera in that price range. If you have a phone that is less than a couple years old, you're probably better to go that route. That said, if you can afford a GoPro, the guys use a GoPro HERO4 BLACK as a backup camera that would be better than a smartphone in most applications. This model's built in mic is said to be much better than the new model that was just released. If you want to use an external mic, you'll need this adapter. You can also find all of their gear in a post I made here, if you're interested.

Edit: If you decide to use a smartphone, this is a pretty good mic that attaches directly to a phone.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F1Z78GM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hey, so my younger brother was starting his junior year of college a few years back and he was a CS/Computer Forensics major. This was the laptop he hand picked as a gift because the one he was previously using couldn't do everything he needed it to. He never had any problems and still uses it today at work in his programming job. He has never had to upgrade or change anything in it. Even if you do not want this one, i fell like it will be a good framework to go off of. Hope it helps. He just graduated this summer and was using this laptop everyday.

I bought this a few months ago and it's worked great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019IFIJW8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1