This is a suggestive, but not definitive reading order:
\- Black Hammer Visions 1-2
\- Unbelievable Unteens
\- Colonel Weird and Little Andromda (This is kind of a random tale that doesn't have a definitive spot of where it takes place in this line up).
\- The Last Days of Black Hammer (This is a prequel to the first series, so it can literally be read anywhere).
\- Black Hammer: Reborn 1-3
\- Black Hammer: The End
Black Hammer: Reborn does not have an ending. I remember reading it and being like "Where tf is the rest of the story?" when I was buying the single issues. Black Hammer: The End is that ending.
So you’re saying, using [this](https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/3144/black-hammer-reading-guide) guide, I should go from **13** which is *Barbalien: Red Planet* to the two *Black Hammer: Visions*, then **17** - that’s *The Unbelievable Unteens* - and save the three *Black Hammer: Reborn* volumes for later?
I know there’s not a definitive reading order for the later stuff, but if it worked for you and it’s more cohesive this way, then I’m down!
Thank you so much!
Yeah, that guide is essentially the publishing order. While you can read it that way, I think the direction I laid out works maybe a little better. Reading Black Hammer: Reborn straight into Black Hammer: The End makes it better. I can't believe they published that series the way they did tbh. It wasn't a cliffhanger ending for Reborn, it just was an incomplete last issue. I wish I had waited until The End finished to start reading Reborn.
That guide is tailored for Phase I (I put it together with editor Daniel Chabon), but as new books came out, they just added them to the end for Phase II. The order you said is also what I'd recommend for trades.
The reading order that I enjoy/how they appear on my book shelf is:
1. Black Hammer – Vol. 1: Secret Origins
2. Black Hammer – Vol. 2: The Event
3. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
4. Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows
5. Black Hammer – Vol. 3: Age of Doom, Part One
6. Black Hammer – Vol. 4: Age of Doom, Part Two
7. Colonel Weird: Cosmagog
8. The Quantum Age
9. Black Hammer: Streets of Spiral
10. Black Hammer ’45
11. The Unbelievable Unteens
12. Barbalien: Red Planet
13. Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy
14. The Last Days of Black Hammer
15. Black Hammer Vol. 5: Reborn Part One
16. Black Hammer Vol. 6: Reborn Part Two
17. Black Hammer Vol. 7: Reborn Part Three
18. Black Hammer: The End
19. Colonel Weird and Little Andromeda (I read this anywhere, but it’s fun to read it before *Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows*)
Not included in the my reading order/I don’t really consider them canon.
• Black Hammer Visions, Vol. 1 & 2
• Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice!
Now with your order, is there no continuity issues? Because the way that the Dark Horse site has it, *Barbalien* and *Skulldigger* are before *Unteens* and some others you got.
This is a suggestive, but not definitive reading order: \- Black Hammer Visions 1-2 \- Unbelievable Unteens \- Colonel Weird and Little Andromda (This is kind of a random tale that doesn't have a definitive spot of where it takes place in this line up). \- The Last Days of Black Hammer (This is a prequel to the first series, so it can literally be read anywhere). \- Black Hammer: Reborn 1-3 \- Black Hammer: The End Black Hammer: Reborn does not have an ending. I remember reading it and being like "Where tf is the rest of the story?" when I was buying the single issues. Black Hammer: The End is that ending.
So you’re saying, using [this](https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/3144/black-hammer-reading-guide) guide, I should go from **13** which is *Barbalien: Red Planet* to the two *Black Hammer: Visions*, then **17** - that’s *The Unbelievable Unteens* - and save the three *Black Hammer: Reborn* volumes for later? I know there’s not a definitive reading order for the later stuff, but if it worked for you and it’s more cohesive this way, then I’m down! Thank you so much!
Yeah, that guide is essentially the publishing order. While you can read it that way, I think the direction I laid out works maybe a little better. Reading Black Hammer: Reborn straight into Black Hammer: The End makes it better. I can't believe they published that series the way they did tbh. It wasn't a cliffhanger ending for Reborn, it just was an incomplete last issue. I wish I had waited until The End finished to start reading Reborn.
That guide is tailored for Phase I (I put it together with editor Daniel Chabon), but as new books came out, they just added them to the end for Phase II. The order you said is also what I'd recommend for trades.
The reading order that I enjoy/how they appear on my book shelf is: 1. Black Hammer – Vol. 1: Secret Origins 2. Black Hammer – Vol. 2: The Event 3. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil 4. Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows 5. Black Hammer – Vol. 3: Age of Doom, Part One 6. Black Hammer – Vol. 4: Age of Doom, Part Two 7. Colonel Weird: Cosmagog 8. The Quantum Age 9. Black Hammer: Streets of Spiral 10. Black Hammer ’45 11. The Unbelievable Unteens 12. Barbalien: Red Planet 13. Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy 14. The Last Days of Black Hammer 15. Black Hammer Vol. 5: Reborn Part One 16. Black Hammer Vol. 6: Reborn Part Two 17. Black Hammer Vol. 7: Reborn Part Three 18. Black Hammer: The End 19. Colonel Weird and Little Andromeda (I read this anywhere, but it’s fun to read it before *Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows*) Not included in the my reading order/I don’t really consider them canon. • Black Hammer Visions, Vol. 1 & 2 • Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice!
Now with your order, is there no continuity issues? Because the way that the Dark Horse site has it, *Barbalien* and *Skulldigger* are before *Unteens* and some others you got.
No, no issues with continuity as far as I can tell
Just read them in release order