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Gods help me, I signed up for a trial of Marvel Unlimited, which for ~$70/yr seems to give you access to many issues of Marvel comics, as long as you don’t mind reading them on a screen.

If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, is there anything you particularly recommend?

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Yeah, I won't claim that 616 Tony hasn't Done Some Bad Things because he sure has, but for the most part, he really is a team player, as are all the Avengers, or they don't really last long as Avengers.

One of the big differences between the structure of the Avengers in the MCU versus the comics is that in the MCU Cap just basically leads the Avengers and everyone knows that, but in the comics the Avengers are more democratic and have a charter and bylaws and so on and team chair is an elected position; in the beginning they were all taking turns and then it started to be a little more permanent. The three Avengers who have held the position for longest are Cap, yeah, but also then Wasp and Black Widow, the last two of whom were successively team chairs for about fifteen years, and then lately it's been T'Challa. So they basically all have experience listening to each other and following each other's orders.

Unfortunately I am one of the people who believes we haven't had a good Iron Man run since about 2009 so I find it hard to recommend more modern comics. As I've said, I really like Busiek's run from 1998 (as well as the rest of that volume) and I think it's readable without knowing much in the way of backstory and has some of my favorite arcs but I think also the art has started to age a little for modern sensibilities -- but to me that is The Real Tony Stark.

Probably the best modern starting point I would pick for Iron Man is the beginning of Iron Man vol 4 which is from 2005 or 2006 or thereabouts; it begins with Warren Ellis's miniseries Extremis which includes an origin story recap and is a pretty solid intro to the character. It's short, only six issues, and the art is much more modern in style.