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tetrahedron:
if you like the old school, you could start by dl'ing torrents of beginning "amazing x-men" and spidey.  it's interesting to see the world of comics at its inception, you know?  that's what i did, and it's been enjoyable.  of course, buy the stuff if you like it, etc.

Sean C:
Buy Wizard Magazine. Nine times out of ten, they recap everything that happened in both universes each month.

logosmonkey:
Yeah I second the idea of catching up on continuities and retcons on wikipedia. They do a good job of summarizing everything that happens in the majority of larger books.
I really, really suggest the Civil war stuff from Marvel though. I haven't read one of those books I disliked yet. The whole story line is just awesome and  the battles that are coming up are going to be just outstanding.

Jayfarer:
I got into comics recently.  I did it through two ways:

1) Wikipedia.  Name you don't know?  Reference you don't get?  Look it up, it helps.
2) Scott Tipton's Comics 101 articles.  He currently writes at www.comics101.com, but their archive is kind of glitchy.

I would also just look into buying the best/most popular trade paperbacks of the characters & titles you are interested in.  Like Batman?  Get Year One, Hush and Dark Knight Returns.  Like X-Men?  Get some things written by Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon.  Or at least read them quickly in the bookstore.

Gryff:
Johnny C, trade paperbacks are your friend.

I will go ahead and reinforce a few of the suggestions of others:
Astonishing X-men
Runaways
Ultimate X-men/Ultimate Spiderman/The Ultimates

Those would be your best bet Marvel-wise, in my opinion. All of those series started not too long ago so they should be relatively easy to get into.

I can't recommend too many DC books because I don't tend to read a lot of their stuff. However, Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Long Halloween/Dark Victory, and The Killing Joke are all excellent trades to get if you're interested in the caped crusader.

After that I would recommend branching out to Vertigo stuff like Y: The Last Man, Fables, Preacher etc. Also Hellboy (Dark Horse comics) is awesome.

There ya go. Probably too much information, but I can't resist listing a bunch of my favourites!

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