I haven’t read any new X-Men comics since 2006. Astonishing X-Men was good, the last ones I read. Now I’m actually going through all the old stuff from the 70s and 80s… and will work my way up! I’ll read everything!
I found your channel looking for info on x men grand design and dawn of x like yesterday (6/25). So happy I did! The next thing I started watching was this series and I can’t believe it’s wrapping up! Amazing job!
Man these reading orders does make me happy that we have a new era of x men wiping the slate clean as I am 22 and want to commit fully to x men now but before so many series to read to catch up so overwhelming
It may be too early to wish for this but I do hope David Gabriel and company at Marvel would highly consider Dawn of X Volume 1 and Volume 2 omnibus. Maybe early to mid 2022 hopefully! Btw, so jealous you have the Kotobukiya Emma Frost !
Omar is greatness! No one can deny the love this man has for comics! Living legend 🍻 just received my Kull Omni and 3 Conan omnibus, now I need to find the first one... Before I start X-Men 😏💸
out of the 6 episode is the best jump on point for new readers i dont want to go all the way back to the start as of i do not have the finances for all of that
Charles Soule never lands an ending on a 6 issue plus run. That Astonishing X-Men run started out so well (like most of his work) and whiffed like anything longer than 6 issues like the rest of his runs...
Awesome effort, Omar! That X-Men Black with the one-shots sounds interesting. I definitely recommend the Dawn of X TPBs. They are the better value, and a great way to sample the other titles in the world of X. Collecting them, I found that I REALLY LOVE X-Force, and I also enjoy Hellions and Marauders... :)
Ive loved the Magik character since i first discovered X-Men My exBro n law gave me a few of his old books when i as a kid They were the first xmen books i ever read . They’re from the 80s including UXM 160
I feel good that after Secret Wars, I skipped to the Multiple Man, Dead Souls, Extermination section of the timeline. It doesn't seem that I missed out on too much.
Thanks a lot for these. I’m actually planning on binge-watching Part 1-6 this coming weekend now that the entire reading order run is complete. So Omar, should we expect Part 7 later this year ? 😂
Thanks again Omar, looking forward to getting to the Hickman stuff soon, though there’s a couple of books in it I might skip I think. Hellions sounds interesting with Sinister and Madeline Prior.
I've been reading the Powers of X/House of X book and it's pretty enjoyable for the most part so far. I've made it farther in that book than I have with any of the Bendis X runs. I would like to continue reading it, but now it's getting all kinds of confusing since as you showed, there are now multiple different titles to obtain after it. Why couldn't they just keep Powers and House going with 7+?????? As for the Hickman Omnibus, why the hell are Powers and House not included in it? Isn't that like important to the story? Also, why are issues 12-15 missing for X-Men 2019?
I think same reason Hickvengers didn't include Secret Wars. It kicks off/ends the era, but isn't necessary. 12-15 are contained in the X of Swords OHC.
I was not that much of an X-men fan, I loved the reboot by Claremont and Cockrum, but as their popularity grew Marvel just kept pumping out more and more X titles and quality suffered, so I stopped reading. But I love what Hickman's being doing with the X titles. i love the Dawn of X anthology series, coming from England that's the way our home-grown comics are done, 4-5 pages in each issue per story per week. Even our reprints of Marvel and DC titles were done like that. So that's the way I'm collecting them, Hardcovers for the big events like Hox/Pox and X of Swords etc. Then the anthology books for the in-between issues, Hickman is my new Alan Moore, he's doing god's work.
Yes, it's almost a complete reboot for the status quot, and it contains pieces of context for the older stuff it's using in its story. If you're interested in jumping into Hickman's era, make sure to read HoX/PoX as the first thing, as it kicks off everything that comes after.
I own the House of X Powers of X hardcover and I'm thinking about getting the Hickman xmen Omni, is there a lot of overlap between those two? I really want to continue that story line without having to hunt down a dozen different books. Thanks
Will there be a reading order #7? A lot of new books have come out since this video (Hellions, X-Force, Marauders, Hellfire gala, X lives of Wolvie, etc)
There's an issue of Journey Into Mystery in *Marvel Universe: Time & Again* that has Sgt. Fury & the Howling Commandos on Krakoa sometime after WWII... Or maybe Vietnam... Sliding timescales 🧐
Great videos as always. I have picked up all the hardcovers since Hickman took over and I was wondering what order would you recommend to read. Thank you
I know you said you were gonna do a video on it so I can wait for that but was wondering where would you put Rick Remenders uncanny x-force run in here and when does Old Man Logan enter the 616 so I can put all that run before that. If it's addressed in an upcoming video I can wait too. Thanks Omar this was a huge help! Greatly appreciated!👊
Where does Weapon X, the 2 Gen X and the 2 Jean Grey books fit in? Jean Grey happens before RessurXion but does it happen before or after Venom/X-Men Blue? Also, thanks for the videos, these were amazing, very helpful and very well done. Never regret taking your time talking about these books. We're here with you listening and reading along! My current dilemma is what to buy next. After Gold, Blue, Red, Black, Mr. Mrs. X, X-Men Disassembled, and Wolverine & Cyclops I swore no more softcovers (too expensive and I like hardcovers & omnis). I got HoX PoX hardcover. I wish there would be a Dawn of X omnibus rather than just the upcoming Hickman X-Men omnibus. Looks like X of Swords is going to be out of print soon?
For your initial question, a bunch of the books in this era were pretty disconnected and doing their own thing, other than when they explicitly crossed over like Gold and Blue did for the Mojo Worldwide story, and most started within two months of each other, so they can be read for the most part volume for volume along with the other titles, or all at once without much problem. Weapon X ran concurrently with Gold/Blue, as did Generation X before it got cancelled early. Jean Grey is the only one that has a little wrinkle - it ran alongside Blue and is basically Jean stepping away from the team to not only get a break from the other four guys, but to deal with her own stuff. However, the very last issue takes place during the Phoenix Rising: The Resurrection of Jean Grey mini series. So I think I'd read it all before X-Men Blue vol.3, then the Phoenix story. The Venom/X-Men trade is explicitly after X-Men Blue vol.3 as it contains X-Men Blue Annual #1, and issues #21-22. And yes, you're probably correct about X of Swords going out of print soon. The hardcover is already gone from the usual discount trade locations, although it is still available on Amazon for a little less than MSRP. I'd grab it sooner rather than later if you're interested in collecting Hickman's era in hardcover.
@@HawkEyeTS Yo. Thanks for the info! Mapping X-Men is so hard sometimes. I keep hearing mixed reviews about X of Swords, but I loved HoX PoX so I think I wanna continue. I'm not up to date because I don't buy and read single issues.
@@NearMintCondition 🤣 I meant needed for the gold and blue plot. Of course I'm still reading and enjoying it (when I've finished the uncanny x men omnibusses of course) 😊
greetings I'm a little lost and I was wondering if you could locate me. I bought X-Men The animated series The adaptations that contains X-Men Adventure 1992 (1-15), X-Men Adventure 1994 (1-13) and X-Men Adventure 1995 (1-13) And thinking that it is a continuation of that omnibus I bought X-Men 92 the Saga continues which contains X-Men 92' (2015) 1-4, X-Men 92' (2016) 1-10 and X-Men 92: House of XCII 1-5 Could you consider that there is a correct chronology having these two omnibus? Thanks for any help
Omar did you forget xmen gold vol 0 and xmen blue vol 0 or was they in part 5 video , I cant remember as I'm going to attempt to buy them a and saw a vol 0 for each , I've just ordered dawn of x vols 1 -16
Thanks for posting this. I only am collecting the Hickman story, but don't understand HOW any reading order could be complete without the "Dawn of X" collections; I really wish Marvel would put out the omnibus for "Dawn of X", rather than a useless "X-Men" omnibus, which suggests they'd put out omnibi for each title separately. If they end up doing that, there'd be no way of knowing the reading order and we'd have to jump between omnibi; a "Dawn of X" series of omnibi would be the easiest and clearest way. Then again, they're making more money putting out omnibus in softcover form first because people have no idea if there'll be an omnibus of those ever coming out. I hope there will be. I've only read "Dawn of X" 1, but I found the X-Men titles the least interesting, though I enjoyed them all; the Kitty Pryde one was probably my favorite; X-Force was great, too.
The dawn of x trades only map out issues that came out in release order, not chronologically. The individual series in the dawn of x barely cross over with each other so it’s fine just reading those series on their own. A dawn of X isn’t an ideal reading order as you think it is.
@@UltimatePower01 Thanks for your advice, but I think you might be wrong. For example, X-Men is the first issue in each "Dawn of X" volume until Volume 4, where it's placed at the end. This implies a specific reading order and not merely release dates. However, that's still preferable to having everything in separate Omnibus volumes.
@@Muldfeld It's a little bit muddier than that. For the first six volumes each book has one issue of each of the six series that launched Dawn of X in them. Some of it makes sense, as there are a few references to things happening in other books, but there's definitely a smoother reading order that could be made for them. However, that stops at volume 7 - at that point they start grouping together issues where the story might effectively be a two or three parter. For example, one of X-Force's stories takes place over three issues, so they placed two at the end of one volume, and the third at the start of the next. Because of this grouping style, volumes 7 through 16 do actually have a pretty solid reading order that SIGNIFICANTLY deviates from when they were published. I would hope that they'd try to rearrange the content of the first six volumes to be a smoother experience if/when it ends up in omnibus form, but yeah, everything else could be copied exactly as they are in the trades.
@@HawkEyeTS I've only read volume 1, but my volume 7 has 2 Excaliburs and Volume 8 has 2 Wolverines and, I think, 2 X-Force issues. Thanks for explaining that things are "muddier" than the Dawn of X order, but I think we can agree it'd certainly be a better reading order than if Marvel persists in just releasing Omnibi of each title separately.
Honestly, I feel like the quality of content takes a steep dive after Age of Apocalypse finishes up, but there's still some decent stuff in the "Road to Onslaught" period, and the Onslaught event is... well if you read the road content you might as well read the finale. After that it meanders enough that I quit reading as a teen and didn't come back for a very long time. I've been catching up on the various eras though, and Grant Morrison's New X-Men run is definitely worth picking up after that though. I also REALLY enjoyed the Messiah Complex/Second Coming era, which along with Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, and Superior Spider-Man, are what brought me back into comics collecting.
What is your personal preference? Dawn of X anthology format for completists? Or hold out for the Hardcovers for House of X/Powers of X and for X of Swords?
The Dawn/Reign trade paperbacks do NOT contain the HoX/PoX and X of Swords 'events', and the hardcovers for both of them have already been released. So if you want to get them, I'd act quickly. Both are out of stock already at the cheaper shops like CheapGraphicNovels or InStockTrades, but you can get House of X at a reasonable price still from third party sellers, and X of Swords is still in stock at Amazon (albeit at only like 20% off MSRP). The anthology and stand alone series paperbacks slot in-between those 'event' books, so you can pick whatever format you want for them, but personally I love what's been done with the era almost across the board, so I recommend the anthology versions.
I'm just going to say it. I HATE Jonathan Hickmans X-men. For 2 reasons: 1) The X-men are no longer X-men. 2) The idea of a Mutant island or state is not original. 1) The main core of The X-men (in my opinion) is that they are different, and humanity hates them for being different. As long as you have that in your run, its an X-men story. Hickmans X-men Saga doesn't have that facet. He has lost the core. 2) Just to repeat what I have said above, The idea of a Mutant island or state is not original. Hickman himself has dabbled with that idea in the Ultimate Universe with Tian. And we actually had a Mutant nation on an island, until Grant Morrison destroyed it. I know lots of comics are unoriginal, but the concept of the Mutant refuge has been to overused in my opinion.
X-Men gold was atrocious for me. I lost interest in Blue when Bloodstorm came around. It really felt like the X-men were treading water for years waiting for Hickman to come take over.
@@NearMintCondition Ohhh okay, thanks for clearing that up, I'm a bit new to this and your videos have been incredibly helpful and fun to watch. P. S. I don't think anyone will mind if your 2021 collected editions tour runs well over an hour long, give us the Snyder cut lol
