Every X-Men Run - Reading Order & Starting Points
You wanted it, you demanded it, the task nearly cost me my sanity, but here it is. This is the first of five videos that will cover - or damn nearly cover - every in-continuity X-Men-related series ever published. This first video covers the main team's monthly series and notable limited series and specials. The next videos will tackle the other X-Teams, Wolverine, Deadpool and other solo series. The goal is to offer an understanding of the sixty years of the team, their high and low points, where to begin reading the X-Men and where to follo afterwards. These are every X-Men run, series and phase.
The essential reading order goes as follows:
Lee/Kirby's Run
Thomas/Adams' Run
Claremont/Byrne/Cockrum's Run
Solo Claremont's Run
80s crossovers
Early 90s crossovers
Morrison's Run
Whedon's Run
Brubaker's Run
Carey's Run
Late 2000s crossovers
Gillen's Run
Aaron's Run
Bendis's Run
Hickman's Run
Top Ten ranks as follows:
10 - Carey's Run
9 - Mutant Genesis
8 - Messiah Complex
7 - House of M
6 - Mutant Massacre
5 - Giant Size + Claremont/Cockrum's Run
4 - Hickman's Run
3 - Whedon's Run
2 - Morrison's Run
1 - Claremont/Byrne's Run
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Man, I have an obsession with Reading X-Men comics. There's so many X-Men stories for me to read such as Days of Future Past, The Phoenix Saga, Fall of the Mutants, God loves Man Kills, Inferno, Mutant Massacre, X-tinction Agenda, Days of Future Present, Uncanny X-Men, X-cutioner's Song, Fatal Attractions, Phalanx Covenant, Legion Quest, Age of Apocalypse, Onslaught, Excalibur, X-Factor, X-Force, Operation Zero Tolerance, Magneto War, Search for Cyclops, New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Xtreme X-Men, Decimation, Astonishing X-Men, Deadly Genesis, Rise and fall of the Shi'ar Empire, Utopia, Messiah Complex, Necrosha, Divided we stand, Manifest destiny, X-Infernus, Dark X-Men, Second Coming, Curse of the Mutants, Schism, Regenesis, Avengers vs X-Men, All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Battle of the Atom, Amazing X-men, All New X-Men, Phoenix Resurrection, and the Krakoan Era: (X of Swords, Inferno, Deaths and lives of Wolverine, Hellfire Gala, AXE Judgement Day, X-Men Red, Sins of Sinister, Immoral X-Men, Dark X-Men, Fall of the House of X, Rise of the Powers of X). Whoo!!! I have a lot of reading to do.
@zulfiqarazani9451
Ай бұрын
What about the ashes? Sorry, I don't read the X-Men.
LOVE THIS! I can’t get enough of your vids, especially those about X-Men!…
THIS is how a guide should be! Informative with no talking and relaxing music in the background. Also, it should be Casey not Kelly for Children of the Atom. GREAT work!
Thank you, very helpful. It can be difficult to navigate the Marvel Universe. Too many crossovers, in my opinion. Crossovers can be exciting as long as they are rare. If they keep coming up, they become a tiring gimmick.
Another great work man, congratulations !
Another great one. Awesome evergreen content. Hope more folks find the channel
I love watching these videos!
Amazing, thanks!
Thanks for this
Great video Thanks a lot I started reading at First Class, then jumped back to The Hidden Years and now i think I'll read since the very beginning. I just love the original team so much.
@comicbelief
2 ай бұрын
You might find the 60s run very dated. The Lee/Kirby and the Thomas/Adams runs are good, but these are not the X-Men as you have come to know them. Lee writes characters as good and evil, without shades of grey. Characters haven’t yet acquired some personality traits they will be known for in later runs. And some of the post-Lee stories are truly bad. I’m not saying don’t read them, but adjust your expectations, and take them in the context of their time, so you can enjoy them. For a great take on the original team, look for Joe Casey’s Children of the Atom limited series. And the 1980s X-Factor.
@sebastiancarias4647
2 ай бұрын
@@comicbelief Thanks a lot for the advice, I'll be reading your recommendations soon!
Thank you dude, this is amazing. I'm stucked in Uncanny X-men vol 1. Maybe #269 or #270. Now I know what I have to read and where is best to just... jump.
Thank you so much for this. Now if you just do Spider-Man I'll be golden!
Thank you so very much for compiling this and helping me to catch up. I ditched comics around the Grant Morrison era. Hated the weird grittiness of the direction and was seriously annoyed at the shift to Emma and Scott. The art was also not to my liking either. Sooo looking forward to Louise's upcoming run! X-men 97 is dragging me back kicking and screaming. lol.
@comicbelief
2 ай бұрын
Check out Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men. Scott and Emma are still at the center of it, but it’s a great return to traditional heroics
Say what you will about the crossover events AoA is still my all time favorite
Atlast Bro did it🎉
It seems my suspicions were right. Onslaught is the best STOPPING point for Classic X-Men starting in Claremont
@comicbelief
2 ай бұрын
True. Though I wouldn’t bother with Phalanx Covenant
@mawinstallation6626
2 ай бұрын
@@comicbelief It leads into Generation X though, and I'm really interested on that lol. Even though many say it's only good for its first 20-ish issues.
This is an amazing video, I've really gotten a grasp on how to read the core X-Books cause of this. Is there any chance Spider-Man or Superman could get a video?
@comicbelief
2 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. The videos on Spider-Man is ready and coming soon. I’m working on Every Superman Run as we speak. 🙂
@devilofhellskitchen8521
2 ай бұрын
@comicbelief Awesome, can't wait to see it. I've been dying to know how to read Spider-Man
@comicbelief
2 ай бұрын
@@devilofhellskitchen8521 Spider-Man is one of the few characters that you can read from the very beginning and find it enjoyable, if a little dated. His best phases are the Lee/Ditko/Romita from the 60s, the Stern run from the early 80s, Kraven’s Last Hunt by DeMatteis, the Michelinie run from the late 80s/early 90s, the Straczynski run from the 2000s and finally the Dan Slott run of the last decade. The videos start in two weeks, and should give you better details.
4:16 I think here is an error about XM/Alpha Flight
@comicbelief
8 ай бұрын
You are correct. Damn it…
Great Work! Thanks for that perfect reading guide 🫶🏼🫶🏼
Is Schism collected on any sort of Omnibus or large book for that nature?
@comicbelief
23 күн бұрын
@@godzillagus8358 I don’t believe so. Even Prelude to Schism and the tie-ins to Generation Hope are separate collections. I thought it might be part of the Wolverine & the X-Men series omnibus, or the Avengers vs X-Men omnibus, but a quick search shows this is not the case.
@godzillagus8358
23 күн бұрын
@@comicbelief then do I understand correctly that Schism fits in between Wolverine & the X-Men Omnibus and AvX Omnibus? Curious choice to leave it out. I can only speculate why since I'm so behind in the timeline. Many thx for the response 🙂
@comicbelief
23 күн бұрын
@@godzillagus8358 Actually, Schism fits before both. It’s the event that launches the Wolverine & the X-Men series, then only a few months later we get Avengers vs X-Men. Schism impacts on both series and should be read before them. But since Schism had a prelude series, and they also gave AvX its own prelude (an unnecessary cash-grab about Cable), I guess putting them all together would seem unwieldy.