Last Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Welcome to ReadThingsRight, a website designed to help you navigate the complex world of interconnected universes. With some of these universes as massive as they are, a good starting point and viewing sequence isn't always simple to find. This website is here to try and determine to perfect order for the best audience experience, prioritizing story and cohesive flow over chronological order or release order. I have broken my orders down into ones based on comic books, ones based on movies, and ones based on television shows, all of which generally shoot for the same goals. So if you're stuck on how to read or watch something, here's how to ReadThingsRight.
Each reading and viewing guide is ranked on 3 scales, each from 0 to 5. Quality determines how good the story is on average. Cohesion is how much the story makes sense, even when put into it's best possible order; sometimes things are just really disconnected until the crossover. Accessibility is how accessible the story is for newcomers, assuming they have no pop culture knowledge of the characters.
Alien and Predator respectively introduced some of the most iconic action-horror monsters of the 1980s, and they came together on the big screen in the early-2000s for what should be two intense, tension-filled battle movies. Instead the Alien vs Predator films are not very good, although they both have some interesting ideas and the second has some really good fight scenes between the two iconic monsters.
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Following Kate Bishop's breakout role in 2012's Hawkeye series, she was finally given her own book as the singular Hawkeye
in 2016. Written by Kelly Thompson with a variety of artists, this new Hawkeye series sees Kate try to establish herself as
her very own superhero out in L.A., complete with new companions and her very own archnemesis in Madame Mask. The series is
really good, with a fun, action-packed tone that still takes itself seriously when it needs to.
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Based on a novel by Pierre Boulle and adapted by Arthur P Jacobs, The Planet of the Apes sees astronaut Taylor, played by
Charlton Heston, land on a planet run by intelligent apes. From there, four sequels were filmed, exploring the future and
past of the planet. Each film mostly gets a new cast and crew, with only some carryover between films. What this means is
that each film is pretty different, but they are tied together by their themes and overarching exploration of the Planet
of Apes.
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Based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, this long-running franchise follows Goku as he grows from a
comedic kid into a fighting machine, facing off against anything from terrorists to aliens to gods. While
there are a lot of non-canon Dragon Ball features, this watch order will focus solely on the canon shows
and films in the Dragon Ball franchise for the most accurate story.