Marvel Comics: 50 best Marvel comic books of the 2000s
By Mark Lynch
What are the best, must-read, and most important Marvel Comics of the last twenty-three years? Find out right here!
Each genre has its generational classics. In music, you have Prince’s Purple Rain, David Bowie’s Space Oddity, and the Beatles’ Let It Be. In movies, there’s Coming to America, The Godfather, and Predator. In Marvel Comics, series like the original Secret Wars, the first Giant Sized X-Men No. 1, and Kraven’s Last Hunt are all series that every comic book fan should read. In the 2000s Marvel continued to put out classics. Unfortunately, because of the definitive comics in the past, the comics in the 2000s seem to be overlooked.
In the past two decades, Marvel Comics has stopped relying on things that were once a staple. Captain America is no longer overly wholesome. Cyclops created a team specifically designed to kill. Meanwhile, Wolverine became a teacher (no one saw that coming).
Teams have let in people they normally wouldn’t. For example, Rogue led an Avengers team with Deadpool and Cable on it (Uncanny Avengers). Juggernaut was once one of the X-Men’s greatest enemies. Now he’s on their team. It’s made for an interesting and unpredictable twenty-plus years.
Coming up are 50 comic book series that every Marvel Comics fan should read. Some of them are great stories that helped characters evolve or had a major effect on the universe. Others are just amazing reads. Let’s begin.