Reddit reviews X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee TPB
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Reddit reviews X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee TPBWe found 6 Reddit comments about X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee TPB. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Giant-Size X-Men #1 is pretty much the start of the X-men as we know them today.
Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's run on X-men is kinda the peak of popularity for the X-Men comics.
If you want to get into the modern day run of X-Men, Joss Whedons Astonishing X-Men is very popular. Not sure if you started reading from the beginning or not.
If you want to get very current these are probably some good jumping on points for Uncanny X-Men, X-Men:Legacy and X-Force
Oh ok. No wonder I liked the colors so well--the version I read is a scan of the singles.
Looks like the issues you mentioned are all in X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee, and all except #269 are in X-Men: Crossroads, so I'll definitely be looking for those next time I'm at the bookstore. Maybe the coloring will be better than I expect, on one or both of them.
I always thought that the Magneto+Rogue thing was a bit out of left field, but I agree that the arc itself is really awesome. X-Men felt kind of loose and confusing around this time, thanks to the Siege Perilous throwing everyone everywhere, and the return of Rogue was when those loose ends really started being tied back together.
Strap the fuck in, because I spent way too much time researching this. Amazon links provided for reference, and I'm not really taking into consideration price issues or print availability, just so you're aware. My main attempt was to make as complete a collection in as few volumes as possible.
So, I'm focusing on the Claremont run of Uncanny X-Men. Whether crossover issues or miniseries are there aren't considerations, though most content is going to have them in there as well. Obviously the event-specific omnibus or hardcover collections are going to contain all the relevant tie-in issues of the sister series (X-Factor or New Mutants). The one exception is going to be Fall of the Mutants, since it was a thematic crossover rather than a storyline crossover, so you don't need to pick up Volume 2 for the events of Uncanny to make sense, since that focuses more on X-Factor.
Additionally... the stuff between Uncanny 244 and 269 is from the Claremont/Lee omnibus Vol. 1... and it's out of print and running for like $350 right now. There's some pieces that are going to be missing if you don't want to read that one, so I'm gonna pick out the trades that best throw that stuff in. This isn't exhaustive, and I'm sure there's some obscure collection from like, 1993 that might have the issues, but I'm not all-knowing, as much as I love the X-Men.
I'm also leaving the Omnis since you mentioned you're grabbing them, but you can grab the Marvel Masterworks 7-9 to cover the material on Omnibus 3.
So! Let's do this!
X-Men Chris Claremont/Jim Lee Omnibus Alternatives (collects Uncanny 248, 256-258, 265-267, 270-280 and X-Men 1-3):
As a final alternative, you could track down the Marvel Essentials collections 9-11 (you'll miss Uncanny 245 with this, so you might wanna grab 8 as well?), but these are black and white collections printed on news print.
So uh... there you go. I'm sure you might find the collections cheaper elsewhere (InStockTrades or other sources) or there might be other odd trades I'm missing. If you want to collect physically, there you go. If you just wanna read them, hit up Marvel Unlimited.
There are also the issues he did with Claremont (collected https://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Visionaries-Jim-Lee-TPB/dp/0785109218/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427756003&sr=1-1&keywords=x-men+visionaries+jim+lee) and the last stuff he did (https://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Bishops-Crossing-Jim-Lee/dp/1302901702/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471372408&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=bishops+crosimg)
This collection is pretty much what you want. Great stories in here.
https://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Visionaries-Jim-Lee-TPB/dp/0785109218