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I was always a fan of the Earth X trilogy (Earth X, Universe X, Paradise X). It was Marvel's answer to DC Comics Kingdom Come series. It was very ambitious in that not only was it a story that took place 30 years in the future (like Kingdom Come) but it also tried to explain the why to just about everything in the Marvel Universe. None of those explanations apply to the multiverse, just that particular universe (although the Handbooks try to discredit those explanations as being possible deceptions)

I'd also recommend Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme limited series. It's what Supreme Power was based off of. It's a "kinder gentler" version of the Squadron... It was written in the 1980s after all... but it's still a thought provoking read that delves into the ethics of super-heroes trying to use their powers to create a utopia (which is what Supreme Power was trying to do but failed at miserably, mostly because the writers who took over after JMS didn't have a single clue what they wanted to tell as a story)

I would also strongly recommend the original run of Exiles (the reality hopping X-book not the Malibu series) which was great until Chris Claremont started writing it, then it became less fun.. I'd skip his run on New Exiles, because it's the typical of later day Claremont stuff. Derivative. Boring. And the series got cancelled so he had to make a rush ending.

I would also read Alan Moore's run of Captain Britain as well. Great stuff.

Spider-Man Noir was a good read as well.