(Part 2) Top products from r/xmen
We found 37 product mentions on r/xmen. We ranked the 179 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. X-Factor by Peter David: The Complete Collection Volume 2 (X-Factor: The Complete Collection)
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
X-Factor: The Complete CollectionMarvel Comics
22. X-Factor by Peter David: The Complete Collection Volume 1
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
25. X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: The Complete Collection Volume 1
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Marvel Comics
26. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
X-Men God Loves, Man Kills
28. X-Factor Vol. 0: Madrox - Multiple Choice (X-Men)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
29. Astonishing X-Men: Gifted Prose Novel
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 2
Used Book in Good Condition
31. Astonishing X-Men By Joss Whedon & John Cassaday Ultimate Collection Book 2
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
Marvel Comics
33. Astonishing X-Men: Rogue, Vol. 1 - Going Rogue
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
34. Unisex Jean Grey Dark Phoenix Jacket Costume Cosplay X-Men Suit Coat (XS, Female Coat)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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35. X-Men: Mutations (Beast, Angel, Psylocke)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
36. Essential X-Men, Vol. 3 (Marvel Essentials)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
37. Wolverine: Meltdown (X-Men)
Sentiment score: 4
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
38. X-Men: Excalibur Classic, Vol. 1 - The Sword is Drawn (v. 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
There's not another omnibus, but there are several other ways to continue reading.
Marvel Masterworks prints about a dozen comics in each book, in full color. [Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men - Volume 7] (http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Masterworks-Uncanny-X-Men-7/dp/0785135138/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408764821&sr=8-1&keywords=marvel+masterworks+uncanny+x-men+7) is where you'd need to start.
Essential X-Men prints a ton of comics in black & white. You'd need to start with [Essential X-Men Vol 3] (http://www.amazon.com/Essential-X-Men-Vol-Marvel-Essentials/dp/0785106618/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1408764892&sr=8-2&keywords=essential+x-men+3).
You can also collect the TPBs. [From the Ashes] (http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Ashes-Chris-Claremont/dp/0871356155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=from+the+ashes+x-men) (168-176) is a classic run, one of Joss Whedon's favorites.
Lifedeath and Ghosts are two other TPBs around the same time period.
Here are my favorite story arcs, in chronological order, after where you're at:
Other notes...........
Enjoy!
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.
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.
If you want to start with Modern X-Men...
From there you can get caught up pretty easily if you follow this list in order:
From there I would move on to the current All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men titles:
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!
...and much more!
Happy reading! :)
> I know you asked for comics, but there's a novelization called "Gifted" that focuses on Kitty Pryde that I really liked. (If your wife hates Emma, she would definitely like the way Kitty is constantly chastising her). It's a fun and short read. Here's an Amazon link:
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> https://www.amazon.com/Astonishing-X-Men-Gifted-Prose-Novel/dp/0785165150
That's perfect too! Thank you!
Go with the MadroX limited series that preceded X-Factor. It's probably the best, simplest Multiple Man story out there, giving a great overview of the character with a nice story and great art, while setting up the X-Factor series to come.
I bought this
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Age-Apocalypse-Scott-Lobdell/dp/0785159827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367640381&sr=8-1&keywords=age+of+apocalypse+omnibus
It was pretty expensive, but it's pretty cool, and has all the relevant collections I believe, along with a couple bonus things
I have always really enjoyed the original New Mutants series
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-New-Mutants-Classic-Vol/dp/0785121943/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1407602936&sr=8-6&keywords=new+mutants+classics
And the Excalibur classics
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Excalibur-Classic-Sword-Drawn/dp/0785118888/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1407602993&sr=8-5&keywords=excalibur+classics
They are not "required" reading. But I would recommend them :)
I know you asked for comics, but there's a novelization called "Gifted" that focuses on Kitty Pryde that I really liked. (If your wife hates Emma, she would definitely like the way Kitty is constantly chastising her). It's a fun and short read. Here's an Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Astonishing-X-Men-Gifted-Prose-Novel/dp/0785165150
X-Men (1975 - 1981)
Giant Size X-Men #1
Uncanny X-Men #94 - #124
Uncanny X-Men Annual #3
Uncanny X-Men #125 - #138
Uncanny X-Men Annual #4
Uncanny X-Men #139 - #143
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2
Maybe better ways to get this that are more cost effective but this is one option (goes for all the links in this post).
If you know you can't get into comics from the late 70's and early 80's because the writing style bothers you then I would look at either Grant Morrison's New X-Men or Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men.
X-Men (2001 - 2004)
New X-Men #114 - #117
New X-Men Annual 2001
New X-Men #118 - #154
New X-Men Omnibus
X-Men (2004 - 2006)
Astonishing X-Men #1 - #24
Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1
Astonishing X-Men Ultimate Collection 1
Astonishing X-Men Ultimate Collection 2
IMO the Claremont, Cockrum, and Byrne stuff is much better then the others and holds up to this day however it was written in a time when you did have to read the comics there are lots of words compared to a modern comic, this bothers some people.
Thank you very much, this really helped my understanding.
Based on the information you gave, if I’m looking to read the early run that everybody seems to love, I can get it collected in these two Epic Collections: 1 | 2
Also, for the Vol. 3/Vol. 1 run from the 2000’s it seems there’s two bigger trades (1 | 2) that encompass it.
Here is book 1 of 2 of the "Complete Collection". I'm almost done with book 1 and I would definitely recommend to anyone interested in the hitsquad known as X-force.
I'd also recommend Kyle and Yost's run of X-force (which features Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, Wolfsbane, and Archangel ). But bear in mind this is dark and bloody. Here is book 1 of 2
I'm not familiar with lotdk. Try God Loves, Man Kills (1982)
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.
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https://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Visionaries-Jim-Lee-TPB/dp/0785109218
I'd start with the MadroX limited run from Peter David, which was so successful, it spawned a new run of X-Factor (which if you are getting the individual issues, be aware that it goes from issue #50 to issue #200)
You can buy a new copy for under 50. Be warned that omnibuses are extremely uncomfortable to read...but Mike Allred's art is absolutely gorgeous in the large format (except for the dr strange thing) and there is zero gutter loss due to the sewn binding.
Hmm, this is kind of a toughie with such limited info to go on. There's been any number of short story anthologies featuring the X-Men. By "a book" can I assume you mean a trade paperback? Could it be this one? It collects various shorts from the second volume of X-Men Unlimited. There's also Manifest Destiny, as well as two volumes of Vignettes, though those are older stories that wouldn't be as overtly dark as you describe. Do any of these sound familiar?