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The Uncanny X-Thread: Now with a helpful OP!
Balefuego
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The X-Men are rad but there's so much out there WHERE DO I START
Honestly the best way to do it is check out this awesome self contained run to see if X-Men are for you.
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1-4
In the post-Messiah Complex X-universe:
Honestly the best way to do it is check out this awesome self contained run to see if X-Men are for you.
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1-4
So you got House of M
then following House of M there's
X-Men: Deadly Genesis. This follows up on a couple of loose plot threads from House of M, and is one those "dark secret from the X-Men's past rears its head" type stories.
Featured X-Men in this story include Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Rachael Summers), Wolverine, Prof. Xavier, and Banshee. Non-essential, but it does cover a couple of salient storylines from House of M. It's decent enough.
Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire is the direct sequel to Deadly Genesis. It's an X-Men/Starjammers in space story. Non-essential, but if you like X-Men in space... (and I do). Featured cast: Xavier, Havok, Marvel Girl, Polaris, Nightcrawler, Warpath, Lilandra, Corsair, Hepzibah.
Around the same time, X-Men: Supernovas features a new, more pro-active team of X-Men back on earth. This is where the build towards Messiah Complex starts, but again it's not absolutley essential. Featured cast: Rogue, Cannonball, Cable, Mystique, Sabretooth, Iceman, Lady Mastermind, Omega Sentinel.
X-Factor is sort of a side book about a mutant detective agency, but it deals heavily with the "street level" impact of House of M and also features one of the major characters from that event. If you like X-Men with a noir feel, you will probably like this. Cast features: Madrox (Multiple Man), Strong Guy, Siryn, M, Rictor, Wolfsbane, and Layla Miller.
(There was also a prequel mini-series about Madrox that took place before House of M.) These are non-essential, although Madrox and Layla in particular play large roles in Messiah Complex. (There are 4 volumes total of X-Factor that come before Messiah Complex, although the trades for this series are smaller)
Uncanny X-Men: The Extremists covers the return of (some) of the team from the Shi'ar storyline's return to earth, to put them back in play. Non-essential.
X-Men: Blinded by the Light is the continuation of the Supernovas cast and leads directly into the Messiah Complex crossover. Essential if you read and enjoyed Supernovas.
Messiah Complex was a big event story that crossed over the 4 main X-titles at the time (Uncanny, X-Men, X-Factor, New X-Men). Essential reading, this sets up the direction for the entire X-universe for the forseeable future.
In the post-Messiah Complex X-universe:
Anyway, post Messiah Complex post ahoy!
Uncanny X-Men: Divided We Stand Bridges the end of Messiah Complex to the brand new status quo in Uncanny X-Men #500. Hippies, San Francisco, a roadtrip across Russia and did I mention hippies? Cast: Emma, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus.
X-Men Legacy: Divided He Stands Follows up on Xavier's fate from Messiah Complex. (This is book is so underrated guys)
X-Force: Angels and DemonsAfter Messiah Complex, Cyclops decides the X-Men need thier own black-ops wetwork team. Thier mission is to pro-activley eliminate perceived threats to the dwindling mutant population. First up: The Purifiers. (Cast: Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Wolfsbane, Archangel)
Wolverine: Get Mystique Wolverine wants revenge for what Mystique did to the X-Men during Messiah Complex.
Cable: Messiah War Cable's on the run in the timestream, determined to protect the baby at all costs from the former X-Man who betrayed them all.
X-Factor kind of took a dip in quality post-MC, mostly for art reasons and I'm hoping they will get that fixed soon. And I can't in good conscience reccomend Young X-Men yet.
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Interesting how there's no mention of the Scarlet Witch.
Such a stupid, pointless death. No reason at all behind it.
He hit a plane head first.
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The 4 core x-books are all pretty solid so it's not too bad the story will be split between them, but I don't really like the principle of it.
Finally, book centered on Beast? Awesome.
She's a much more interesting character dead.
I agree I generally hate back-up strips, but I read all of those books anyway. If they were putting parts in New Excalibur or some shit then I would be pissed.
Edit: Is that Billy Tan art?
Hell, I am a fan of the whole Guthrie clan.
also, oh good, what looks to be another days of future past-esque thing there
just what the x-books needed. more looping internal self-referencing continuity!
god, cannonball effing rules. he's always been one of my favorite semi-minor mutants
Same page.
Someone please put Paige on a team.
And don't say Austen's run because that shit never happaned.
NEVER HAPPANED
It's a condition.
it's not really a bad idea, it's just that david hine can't seem to write very well and he's been in charge of all of the minor mutants since house of m ended
But basically it has little or nothing to do with the issue itself.
It just hasn't been implemented well at all.
Hine is obsessed with the Morrison style weirdo mutants which is pretty much what the Decimation was supposed to get rid of. I dont know why they thought he would be a good fit.
She punched someone's head off. It was pretty cool.
Also, Dark Beast? Awesome. Last I remember he was tooling around in Genosha. He shown up anywhere else since then?
No, he's been confirmed to have survived and to still have his powers, but thats it.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but if that "encounter he'd hoped to avoid" leads to a 1on1 with Dark Beast ... lets just say boners will be sprung.
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Does dark beast still have his shiny metal trousers?
Sounds pretty fuckawesome.
Okay, I'm definatley missing somthing, but, isn't Dark Beast Beast from the future? And didn't he get raped by Future Phoenix?
I thought Dark beast was AoA Beast, but was one of the very few who actually survived when that alt. universe went bye-bye.
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Why is Iceman wearing boxerbriefs in that shot? Dammit, can't anyone draw him cool anymore? The guy's made of ICE- he doesn't need extra layers!
You're thinking of Here Comes Tomorrow Beast.