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Reddit mentions of X-Men: Schism
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| Height | 10.25 Inches |
| Length | 6.75 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | July 2012 |
| Weight | 0.71429772888 Pounds |
| Width | 0.5 Inches |
Forget about continuity, universes, timelines, etc; it's all very confusing, even to creators/fans. The best way to jump in is to just start reading.
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Think about your favorite stories from other media. What you might like to read in a comic? Are you more interested in good storytelling or becoming a Marvel knowledge nerd?
Creative teams change often and characters get re-worked e.g. I never cared for Hawkeye until Matt Fraction’s run. Focus on well-received and relatively self-contained stories. Pick an interesting character/team and seek their “greatest hits”. You may encounter the occasional unexplained reference/character/event—just ride along (Wiki if necessary).
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Ultimates 1 & 2 (Avengers) | Mark Millar | Ultimate
Avengers / New Avengers | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 2
Captain America | Ed Brubaker
Captain Marvel | Kelly Sue DeConnick
Daredevil (1979) | Frank Miller | Daredevil 1
Daredevil | Bendis | Daredevil 2
Doctor Strange: The Oath | Brian K. Vaughn
Fantastic Four / FF | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 1
Hawkeye | Matt Fraction
Immortal Iron Fist | Brubaker & Fraction
Inhumans | Paul Jenkins
Iron Man: Extremis | Warren Ellis | Iron Man 1
Invincible Iron Man | Matt Fraction | Iron Man 2
Marvels (Marvel History) | Kurt Busiek
Moon Knight | Warren Ellis
Ms. Marvel | G. Willow Wilson
Planet Hulk | Greg Pack | Hulk 1
Punisher Max | Garth Ennis
Thor | Jason Aaron
Ultimate Spider-man | Bendis | Ultimate
Vision | Tom King
New X-Men | Grant Morrison | X-Men 1
Astonishing X-Men | Joss Whedon | X-Men 2
Uncanny X-Force | Rick Remender | X-Men 6
Events/crossovers can be fun and/or tedious. They are most appreciated by readers well-versed in relevant continuity. Generally, the best non-event comics integrate these seamlessly or avoid them entirely (notwithstanding editorial/executive mandates). Regardless, you may want to familiarize with major plot points.
Modern Marvel events/crossovers:
Title | Writer | Note
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Avengers Disassembled | Bendis |
Secret War | Bendis |
House of M | Bendis | X-Men 2.5
Annihilation | Abnett, Lanning, Giffen | Cosmic
Civil War | Mark Millar |
World War Hulk | Greg Pak | Hulk 2
Annihilation: Conquest | Abnett, Lanning, Giffen | Cosmic
Messiah Complex | Brubaker, Kyle, Yost, et al. | X-Men 3
Secret Invasion | Bendis | Dark Reign
War of Kings | Abnett, Lanning, et al. | Cosmic
Messiah War | Kyle, Yost, Swierczynski | X-Men 4
Dark Avengers / Utopia | Bendis, Fraction, et al. | Dark Reign
Siege | Bendis | Dark Reign
Realm of Kings | Abnett, Lanning, Reed | Cosmic
Second Coming | Kyle, Yost, Fraction, et al. | X-Men 5
Fear Itself | Matt Fraction |
Schism | Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen | X-Men 7
Avengers vs. X-Men | Bendis, Brubaker, et al. | X-Men 8
Infinity | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 2.5
Secret Wars | Jonathan Hickman | Hickman 3
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Marvel has had a lot of stuff happen over the last decade. The Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown, some Avengers died, a bunch of mutants lost their powers, Jean Grey died again, there was a superhero civil war over whether the government ought to register heroes, Captain America died, the Hulk destroyed Manhattan once, Spider-Man's history got changed so he and Mary Jane never got married, Skrulls invaded, Norman Osborn got put in charge of SHIELD for a while, Captain America came back, the X-Men moved to San Francisco, Wolverine is in charge of the old Xavier school, the Phoenix was going to destroy the world or maybe it wasn't and there was a lot of fighting about it.
Here are, I think, the most important story arcs to catch up on the status quo and a lot of different characters' story arcs:
X-Man is around, though he's not in any books right now at this moment, unfortunately. He was in New Mutants volume 3 from issue #25 until issue #50, when it was canceled. So he's just kind of out there at the moment. Oh, but if you were an Age of Apocalypse fan, you should check out the Age of Apocalypse series that ran for a while recently. It only lasted 14 issues, but it was pretty good. The first volume is here: http://amzn.com/0785163026. I'd also really recommend checking out Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force, which was really, really good, and also tied into the Age of Apocalypse in its Dark Angel Saga storyline. The first volume of that is here: http://amzn.com/0785148558
Which one comic series would I recommend reading first? Hawkeye. Definitely Hawkeye. It is a really well written, beautifully illustrated, low key book that absolutely does not require reading anything else.
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! :)
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Don’t try to read everything—there’s too much. Forget about “catching up”, continuity, universes, and timelines; it's all very confusing, even to creators/fans. Older comics can be an acquired taste for modern audiences, so first appearances/early origins may not be the best starting points. Creative teams change often, characters get re-worked, and origins are re-told (e.g. I never cared for Hawkeye until Matt Fractions’ run).
Pick an interesting character/team and seek their “greatest hits”. Don’t get stuck “preparing”, just start reading. Focus on well-received, relatively self-contained, and complete stories. You may encounter the occasional unexplained reference/character/event—just ride along (Wiki if necessary). Remember, there are so many other great characters and publishers to explore, and not all comics are about superheroes.
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Modern Marvel characters/teams:
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Events/crossovers can be fun and/or tedious. They are most appreciated by readers well-versed in relevant continuity. Generally, the best non-event comics integrate these seamlessly or avoid them entirely (notwithstanding editorial/executive mandates). Regardless, you may want to familiarize with major plot points.
Modern Marvel events/crossovers:
Discover your preferences and let them guide you. Do you like: old/new comics? Specific genres? Literary/natural narratives? Cartoony/realistic art? Familiar/weird concepts? References/self-contained? Social/political commentary? Family-friendly/explicit content? Optimism/pessimism? Have you noticed that a specific artist/writer consistently makes comics you like? Follow these instincts.
Suggestions to improve this guide are welcome.
Generally speaking, the X-Men have been in an ongoing story since the House of M event. The HoM story itself isn't really necessary, but the last issue is. I won't spoil it for you in the event you choose to read it.
From there, the X-Men enter an era called Decimation. There's nothing there that's particularly important there for our purposes, so we can jump ahead to the first big story that followed up on this: Messiah Complex. That event segued into Matt Fraction's run on Uncanny X-Men, which isn't stellar, but really cements Cyclops as a major leader of the "mutant nation." There are two crossovers in his run that serve different purposes: Utopia, a Dark Reign tie-in, and Second Coming, a sequel to Messiah Complex. Fraction wraps up his run soon after SC and hands the book to Kieron Gillen, who leads the book through Schism and into the Avengers vs X-Men crossover, which is the culmination of Cyclops' journey, leading into Bendis' Uncanny X-Men which runs concurrently with All-New X-Men.
A note: If you want to skip the majority of Fraction's run (which you can,) you can replace 1 & 2 with Utopia and the third with Nation X.
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Continuing from my last post ...
Whereas the Marvel Universe annual storylines were often separate concepts / events that ultimately set the stage, led into each other, much of the X-Men stories from 2005 onward revolved around one big concept: the "Decimation" of the Mutant species as a result of Marvel's "House of M" crossover, and how the X-Men worked to save those that remained. This was a plotline that took many twists and turns until 2012 Avengers vs. X-Men, which ultimately resolved it.
X-MEN STORYLINES & CROSSOVERS (IN ORDER)
And that's pretty much it. Hope it helps!