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X-Men Reading Order, Part 2: 2010 to 2019 – LIVE on Omnidog’s Vault

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Today I am making my return to Omnidog’s Vault with my dear friend Jess to help him re-organize his X-Men collected editions into reading order LIVE on camera! Last time we handled all of his X-Men books from 2000 to 2010. This time, we’re tackling the next decade – with books from Utopia, Marvel Now, All-New All-Different Marvel, ResurrXion, and Krakoa!

Do you love my comics Reading Orders – like my famous X-Men Reading Order – but wish you could see how I create them LIVE and in REAL TIME? Here’s your chance.

This will be interesting, because I don’t maintain any official reading orders for X-Men past 2012! Am I ready to play Cerebro for an era of comics I don’t often re-read and don’t actually enjoy? Tune in live at 1pm ET to find out! The only advanced knowledge I have of what Jess has in store for me is the thumbnail of the video below.

Crushing Krisis Organizes Omnidog’s X-Men Books LIVE!

 

X-Men Reading Order – LIVE on Omnidog’s Vault

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Today I am appearing live for a very special show with a very good friend on Omnidog’s Vault to re-organize his X-Men collected editions into reading order LIVE on camera!

Do you love my comics Reading Orders – like my famous X-Men Reading Order – but wish you could see how I create them LIVE and in REAL TIME? Here’s your chance.

Jess the Omnidog has been teasing the possibility of this show for years now. He has been buying X-Men trade paperbacks with reckless abandon since 2014, shortly before I met him. However, he hasn’t read any X-Books between Astonishing X-Men and the Age of Krakoa. Now he has accumulated more than four shelves worth of X-books and he’s read to dig in, but first he needs them shuffled into a coherent order!

Am I up to the task, or is my Cerebro brain too rusty at this point? Tune in live to find out! The only advanced knowledge I have of what Jess has in store for me is the thumbnail of the video below.

Crushing Krisis Organizes Omnidog’s X-Men Books LIVE!

 

Updated: X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #1: Original X-Men (The Silver Age)

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This is available to everyone, but it was made possible via the support of Patrons of Crushing Krisis:

The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #1: Original X-Men 

One of the biggest factors in CK’s popularity exploding in the early 2010’s was the X-Men Reading Order I debuted back in 2012.

It emerged from a moment of frustration, as all of my best projects tend to. This time, my ire was focused on the fact that no one had produced an actually readable chronological guide to reading X-Men. Existing guides were either simply ordered by release date or ridiculously complex lists that broke down every single-panel flashback.

None of them were comprehensive of every book, nor were they appropriate for the Trade Era of collected editions.

Despite being a major feature of CK, I can’t say I’ve ever been proud of the presentation of the Reading Order. A lot of the pages have a certain “git’er’done” quality to them that was a hallmark of CK’s early expansion that I’ve never had the time to improve.

Honestly, they always makes me think of the scrawlings of a Serial Killer, like the notebooks upon notebooks in Se7en. That’s what it looked like to figure out – I had giant rolls of paper unspooled across the floor with scribbles and crossouts and loop-de-loop arrows on them. [Read more…] about Updated: X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #1: Original X-Men (The Silver Age)

X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #2: Second Genesis

A reading order for stories starting with Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975 and ending with Uncanny X-Men #142 in February 1981. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Collecting X-Men: A Definitive Guide. Last updated March 2021.

Era #1: Original X-Men  X-Men Reading Order Guide  Era #3: New Mutants

What does Era #2: Second Genesis include?

This era of the X-Men Reading Order is focused on the beginning of the Bronze Age run of X-Men, starting from the introduction of the second generation team in Giant-Size X-Men #1. That includes all of the team’s stories through Dark Phoenix Saga, Kitty Pryde joining the team, and Days of Future Past.Giant Size X-Men (1975) #1

X-titles released in this era:

  • Giant Size X-Men (1975) #1 & Uncanny X-Men (1963) #94-142 – see Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont
  • Angel and Iceman in Champions #1-17 and various Champions guest appearances – see The Champions for collection information
  • Captain Britain in Captain Britain, Vol. 1 (1976-77) #1-39, Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain (1977) #231-247, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #65-66 (but not the remainder of his early material – that’s in the next era!) – see Captain Britain for collection information
  • Sabretooth’s debut in Iron Fist #14 and a full-team appearance in #15 – see Iron Fist for collection information

Later X-titles set in this era:

  • Giant Size X-Men (1975) #3-4
  • Back-up stories in Classic X-Men (1986) #1-44
  • Uncanny X-Men: First Class (2009) Giant Size & #1-8

Notes:

  • X-Men (1963) is often colloquially referred to as Uncanny X-Men (1963) even though the title did not officially pick up the “Uncanny” adjective until issue #142. That is my convention on Crushing Comics, as it’s all one volume of the same ongoing series.
  • Each issue of the Classic X-Men (1986) reprint series included a back-up story. While some back-ups corresponded to the issue they reprinted (as with the back-up in Classic X-Men (1986) #3 fitting with UXM #95), many stories are set much earlier or later in continuity. I’ve noted them in their proper reading order here, partially to assist folks who picked up the Classic X-Men omnibus, but from an “ease of reading” standpoint I feel you should read them in batches (which I have also indicated below).
  • I treat any Wolverine story that is after he gains his Adamantium in the Weapon X program but before he joins the team as being effectively a Silver Age story that occurred in parallel to Silver Age X-Men, thus they appear in the prior era of the guide.
  • Beast joined The Avengers with Avengers (1963) #137 and is not tracked as an X-Man in this era, though he does make appearances in UXM.

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X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #1: Original X-Men

A reading order for stories starting with X-Men #1 in September 1963 and prior to Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Collecting X-Men: A Definitive Guide. Last updated March 2021.

Era #0: Before X-Men  X-Men Reading Order Guide  Era #2: Second Genesis

What does Era #1: Original X-Men include?

This era of the X-Men Reading Order is focused on Silver Age X-Men. That includes all of their original Silver Age stories from Uncanny X-Men (1963) #1-66, their “gap years” of guest appearances prior to Giant-Size X-Men in 1975, and stories later inserted into the period (like Emma Frost and X-Men: The Hidden Years).Uncanny X-Men (1963) #1

X-titles released in this era:

Later X-titles set in this era:

Notes:

  • X-Men (1963) is often colloquially referred to as Uncanny X-Men (1963) even though the title did not officially pick up the “Uncanny” adjective until issue #142. That is my convention on Crushing Comics, as it’s all one volume of the same ongoing series.
  • I treat any Wolverine story that is after he gains his Adamantium in the Weapon X program as being effectively a Silver Age story that occurred in parallel to Silver Age X-Men, thus they appear in this era of the guide.
  • However, I do not cover every Wolverine story in the X-Men Reading Order – only the major ones! See Guide to Wolverine for a reading order of every Wolverine appearance.

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