Reddit reviews The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 2

There are a few different places you can start:

If you HAVE to start from the beginning just read the first 24 issues, you can then skip over to Claremont's era

My recommendation would be to either start with Chris Claremont's 1st era (aka 70's) & 2nd era (aka 80's) on Uncanny X-Men or from 2001-ish (aka modern X-Men) time period onwards onwards. Either way just skip the 90s for now, you can alway go back to that later.

• Claremont's first era (70s): You can buy them HERE and HERE
  
  
• Claremont's second era (80's): You can buy them HERE and HERE
  
  If you want to start with Modern X-Men...
  
  
• ...you can start with Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men which you can buy HERE
  
  
• Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men start's right where Morrison's New X-Men leaves off and you can buy that HERE and HERE
  
  From there you can get caught up pretty easily if you follow this list in order:
  
  
• House of M (buy here)
  
• Messiah Complex (buy here)
  
• Second Coming(buy here)
  
• Schism (buy here)
  
• Avengers Vs X-Men (buy here)
  
  From there I would move on to the current All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men titles:
  
  
• Read all of All-New X-Men (pre Battle of the Atom Crossover) Buy here: VOL 1 & VOL 2 / VOL 3
  
• Read all of Uncanny X-Men (pre Battle of the Atom Crossover) Buy Here: VOL 1 / VOL 2
  
• Read Battle of the atom crossover (buy here)
  
• Catch up with All-New X-Men VOL 4 / TRIAL OF JEAN GREY / VOL 5
  
• Catch up with Uncanny X-Men VOL 3 / VOL 4
  
  Great, now you're all caught up!
  
  PS, the great thing about X-Men is there is a ton of content to explore aside from the main storyline!
  
  
• X-Statix (buy here)
  
• Uncanny X-Force (buy here)
  
• X-Factor (starts with these two: HERE and HERE)
  
• Cable & Deadpool (buy here)
  
• Wolverine & The X-Men (buy here)
  
• Ultimate X-Men (start HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE)
  
  
  ...and much more!
  
  Happy reading! :)

Depending on your price range, you could consider as something like a trade paperback (softcover collection) or a hardcover/omnibus that would collect more issues of the story (or sometimes an entire story arc).

Based on the stories and characters you mentioned, some suggestions you might want to look into include:

Uncanny X-Men Omnibus: Volume 1, Volume 2, and/or [Volume 3]
(https://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-Vol/dp/0785199225)
New X-Men Omnibus
Astonishing X-Men Ultimate Collection: Book 1 and/or Book 2
[X-Men Legacy Legion Omnibus]
(https://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/X-MEN-LEGACY-LEGION-OMNIBUS-HC/OCT161003)

Shop around, instocktrades.com is a great comic dedicated site with great pricing, Amazon has a great selection, or you could also use a site like Comic Shop Locator to find a dedicated comic shop near you that could also help you out with suggestions.

If your husband reads books digitally on a tablet or laptop, something to consider might be a subscription to a service like Marvel Unlimited ($70 for 1 year) or Comixology Unlimited ($6/month). Both act as a kind of "Netflix for comics" in that with an active membership you can browse and read thousands and thousands of comics. Marvel Unlimited offers access to Marvel Comics titles only, and has an extensive selection of 20,000+ comics. Comixology Unlimited offers a smaller selection of Marvel Comics but also titles from other comic book publishers such as Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW, Boom! Studios and more. It offers a selection of 10,000+ comics, mostly offering the first or second collection of a series as a sampler which you could then decide to purchase separately if you really enjoy a series.

Happy shopping! I hope this helps!

http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-New-Printing/dp/0785185690/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420996821&sr=1-8&keywords=chris+claremont

http://www.amazon.com/The-Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-Volume/dp/0785185720/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=07S4DR80MMP38T1QS2M4

These two omnibuses are a good start. A much cheaper option is a subscription to Marvel Unlimited.

You don't need to read anything to understand what is going on in the movie. But probably the best way to understand everything is to first know everything about all of the mutants in the movie. So go to IMDB, write down the names of all of the mutants appearing in DoFP and then go to marvel.wikia.com the main marvel universe is universe-616

Even though he won't be in a lot of it, read up about Biship, a lot of the future stuff has to do with him. Read up on the sentinels and Bolivar Trask. Maybe read about the sentinel Nimrod. There are some links below that could really help you. Really though, wikipedia and the marvel wiki and I'm sure there is an X-Men wiki are amazing resources.


http://marvel.wikia.com/Uncanny_X-Men_Vol_1_141

http://marvel.wikia.com/Nimrod_(Earth-811)

http://marvel.wikia.com/Robert_Kelly_(Earth-616)

http://marvel.wikia.com/Bolivar_Trask_(Earth-616)

If you're willing to drop some dollars and want to be an X-Men expert for the movies buy these two omnibi from amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-Volume-Printing/dp/0785185690/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397491138&sr=8-1&keywords=uncanny+x-men+omnibus

http://www.amazon.com/The-Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-Volume/dp/0785185720/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397491138&sr=8-2&keywords=uncanny+x-men+omnibus

If you want really want to drop some dollars get these as well, though I don't think they will be as helpful to DoFP

http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Chris-Claremont-Jim-Omnibus/dp/0785158227/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1397491138&sr=8-3&keywords=uncanny+x-men+omnibus

http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Chris-Claremont-Jim-Omnibus/dp/0785159053/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1397491138&sr=8-4&keywords=uncanny+x-men+omnibus

EDIT: Forgot to say that the DoFP story line is in the first Uncanny X-Men Omnibus.

If that's the Claremont Uncanny X-Men OMNIBUS vol 2, I'm interested.

Also interested in the FF OMNIBUS. Assuming it's all I want, 150 shipped perhaps?