I could not keep up on Batman at all. It used to be like 2-3 issues a month and DC said f'k it - they want Batman we will give them Batman a few years ago and it was like 10-12 issues a month.
X-men is some serious major nerd commitment. Read a bit of the big late model runs but it's just too dense at this point for me. Definitely need a scorecard to keep track of the multiple versions of characters and all the wacky changes and I cannot imagine what a Hickman deconstruction would be like.
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 September 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
Last i saw, MOST of the X-runs are available in Marvel Unlimited if you have a tablet and/or are comfortable reading at your computerhttps://www.marvel.com/unlimited
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
that's true, a good option for the priceI wish Marvel Unlimited was better at multi-title collections and crossover reading order. though maybe they've improved, I haven't used it in a few years
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
Just checked - they're only 3 months behind now? Maybe I should just give up on print, most of my floppies are Marvel
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
there's any numbers of reading order guides online of coursehttps://comicbookreadingorders.com/marvel/events/
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
Hickman’s runs are so long I need to pause and get a breather, and then I forget everything and start again.
I read the first issues hickman’s monthly (agree marauders was the only other dece title, although xforce (!) was fun). But then the pandemic and having a toddler happened and I have a year and a half of deliveries from my comic book store to catch up on. Is any of it as good as hoxpox was?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 10 September 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
Nope, unfortunately, but I feel like it might pick up on the way out. Also, he's leaving Marvel soon to do that Substack thing, so this era won't be as long as his other projects.
― Nhex, Friday, 10 September 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
I followed but unsubscribed from his substack– it’s like all the boring texty bits Hickman puts in his book run rampant
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 10 September 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
Also substack is evil of course
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 10 September 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Did anyone make it to the end/read the last issue? I lost track of Krakoa ages ago, it has seemed like a messy ending that hasn't really played to AE and KG's strengths, and that sapped my interest in finishing Hickman's run.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:52 (four months ago) link
I have the lot but still haven't even started it, lol.
Perversely, I just started re-reading the immediate (initial) post-Claremont era. No, I don't know why. Alan Davis's solo run on Excalibur (that initial nine-issue storyline, at least) is still very near the top of the all-time X-book heap, and I expect Peter David's inaugural X-Force stint to hold up. The rest, well...
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 June 2024 15:11 (four months ago) link
His second run on X-Factor is also decent for a few years
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 June 2024 15:28 (four months ago) link
I haven't followed X-Men since the 80s, but I do have the House of X/Powers of X hardcover book and liked it well enough although I wouldn't say I completely understood it all. What should I read next? Preferably something collected in book format so I don't have to chase down lots of stuff.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 10 June 2024 15:34 (four months ago) link
The Grant Morrison run is a classic that works well a single, discrete story. Peter David's short X-Factor run from the early 90s is also fun.
The rest of the Hickman run is collected, but is a bit of a comedown after HOXPOX. After Hickman leaves, Gerry Duggan takes over to finish the story, quite poorly. Al Ewing and Kieron Gillen also had decently reviewed X books that just finished, but I haven't read them - they're a bit too wrapped up in ongoing continuity for my liking.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 11:43 (four months ago) link
I read the Krakoa arc here and there but never with any consistency. The beginning mini-series are fascinating as a story, and a few other early issues really sparked, but there was, for lack of a better word, “too much product” to keep up with.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:25 (four months ago) link
I think it will actually hold up better over time as people drop all the random minis and not so great runs (looking at you adjectiveless X-Men). They probably won't do a massive Omnibus set with all 700 issues or whatever it is, but people will probably remember selectively pick the good arcs, like HoX/PoX, X of Swords, X Lives/Deaths of Wolverine, all the Ewing stuff (SWORD/X-Men Red) and the Gillen stuff (Immortal X-Men, Eternals/AXE, Sins of Sinister). The more mediocre series and events like the Hellfire Galas, Inferno, Trial of Magneto, etc. will be read by completists. Stuff like Marauders that started out super promising and fizzled out.
Maybe the Percy runs will also be liked, since it's the most cohesive storyline and fairly self-contained between Wolverine and X-Force + Wolverine's event; though a little too grim for my taste, they go really far with making Beast a complete maniac
― Nhex, Friday, 14 June 2024 01:26 (four months ago) link