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EDIT: this is probably pretty off-topic for this thread. I probably won't be continuing to elaborate on this as I feel I've said all that I need to say on the matter, so I won't be getting any further off-topic. If Weapon X wants to continue it/needs me to explain anything further, we can do it in PM.

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Originally Posted by Weapon X

I think I need a good starting point recommendation.

I don't know a good starting point to get you well-read on the histories and such of different characters; for me, I mostly just gained that info through comic book fan cultural osmosis and a bit of reading on wikis. However, if you want a good starting point for reading what's going on right now: I don't know one for Marvel, but for DC, the perfect starting point would be DC Universe: Rebirth, released just about a year ago now.

It was DC's most recent relaunch, but it didn't reboot the universe like New 52 did; instead, it's kind of positioning the New 52 reboot in-universe as someone else messing with the DC Universe, so all the different versions of characters from the New 52 weren't separate versions of the characters, but the same exact people, just with their history changed*.

After DC Universe: Rebirth, for whichever titles you want to read, you read the "[title]: Rebirth" (which is kind of a one-shot to introduce new readers to that specific title), and then start the actual series with the "[title] #1", and continue on from there.

It's only been a year since then, so even the titles that have been bi-weekly and started right after DC: Rebirth started are only in their early #20's**, and many of them have already had trade paperbacks released; so you can just pick up however many trade paperbacks there are for that title, and whichever issues that aren't included yet in a trade paperback (take Batman, for example***; right now, it's up to issue #21, so you'd go and pick up Batman: Rebirth, Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham (Batman #1-6), Batman: Night of the Monster Men (the crossover one; Batman #7-8, Nightwing #5-6, and Detective Comics #941-942), and Batman Vol. 2: I Am Suicide (Batman #9-15), and then you'd go and pick up the individual issues of Batman #16-21. Of course, you could always just pick up each individual issue as well, but that might cost more). Do that for all titles you're interested in.

Sorry if this was still too complicated, but this is the least complicated explanation I personally can give.

*The exception to this is Superman, who is the pre-New 52 version, but this gets explained further as you read into the books that have been coming out since then.

**This is true except for Detective Comics and Action Comics; those titles' numberings have been restored to the ones that started when they originally started in the 1930's and weren't really changed (as far as I know) until the New 52 reset them both back to #1, so they restarted after Rebirth from issues #934 and #957, respectively.

***Batman in particular is a bit complicated in terms of the collections, as it had a crossover with other titles; the collected forms of the majority of other titles are just the different issues of that comic.

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Originally Posted by Weapon X

The other thing for me is, and I don't know if it's just DC that does this, but when I read comics, a lot of times in the speech bubbles they put words in bold that don't need to be in bold. So there's emphasis on ridiculous things like "I opened the door"

Yeah, sometimes (if not executed well), it can be really weird. Fortunately a lot of the time they put emphasis on things that actually do make sense, but it definitely can get jarring sometimes.