Update 5-29-10 - Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight, Question, and Secret Origins

We have a bunch of exciting reading order updates to the DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline today, including all the Dennis O'Neil Question trade paperbacks, and a cool hard-to-find Secret Origins trade from 1989 that included an original O'Neil Batman story - how often would you find a trade with original content today?

And speaking of Batman, you'll notice a couple of Legends of the Dark Knight trades on the timeline, including Shaman and Venom. Legends causes some difficulty, of course, because the stories are sometimes out of or contradictory to continuity; but then again, Shaman is reflected in Secret Origins and Venom is reflected in Knightfall, so there's some value to these books. You'll slowly begin to see these added to the timeline around the times the stories that are collected were published, and I'll annotate where appropriate as to how the books connect.

Matt Wagner's Monster Men and Mad Monk now appear on the timeline, too, because they lead in to Ed Brubaker's Man Who Laughs, the collection of which also includes a modern-era Detective Comics story. In this way, things are fitting together nicely.

As you know, you can catch the timeline on Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Comic Blips. Thanks to everyone who's been spreading the word!

Update 5-22-10

Another week, another round of reading order updates to the Collected Editions DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline. Not much time to talk about it all right now, but here's a couple of fun facts: Did you know the only series to collect anything from DC Comics's Bloodlines summer crossover is Hitman? And that the final collection of the now-Vertigo Animal Man series crosses over with Booster Gold? All fun things you can learn from the DC TPB Timeline.

Thanks to everyone who's been supporting the timeline on Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Comic Blips -- getting the word out really helps. I especially appreciated this DC Comics message board thread. Thanks all!

Update 5-15-10

Your favorite DC Comics reading order source just keeps moving forward. Last time we completed all the Superman collections on the DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline; now we've got all the Wonder Woman collections and all the Catwoman collections, including some incidental trades with single issues you might have missed.

Another highlight is some reorganization of the Batman Reborn/Battle for the Cowl issues, especially in terms of how they intersect with Superman: New Krypton. I'm just starting in to reading Batman Reborn, Batman and Robin, Red Robin and the rest, so you can expect to see that section start to move, coming up.

The last update to the DC Comics TPB Timeline was just two weeks ago ... could we have another update even sooner? Stay tuned!

As always, be sure to lend your support to the DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline on Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Comic Blips. It's appreciated!