Thread:ADour/@comment-13487566-20131209230650/@comment-4651179-20131210000449

Thanks.

Iron Man recently started a new story arc called "Iron Metropolitan", and you don't need a lot of background in order to follow it (mainly every bit of the history about Iron Man needed to understand some aspects of the story are given in the recaps, or in the narration by Tony Stark). That new story line just started in issue #18 (released past month), and this month's issue was released last week, so it won't be hard to find them and get into Iron Man.

I'm currently not into Spider-Man because, in case you don't know, Otto Octavius (known as Doctor Octopus) currently inhabits Peter Parker's body after performing a mindswap against Spidey's will in order to escape death, and to defeat his biggest enemy once and for all. Otto now stars his own ongoing series called "Superior Spider-Man", because he now tries to become a better Spider-Man than the one Peter Parker was. The most recent story arc started in issue #22 (released November 27), and features Spider-Man fighting the newest heroic Venom, who is Flash Thompson (war hero, mostly known as Peter Parker's bully from high school).

I hope this helped.

Thanks, I'm glad the Christmas background is welcomed.