You're coming back to the X-Men just as I decided I was sick to death of being jerked around by the constant reboots and scaled back my reading to a single title.
No, not really. I'm just interested in reading a specific number of books associated with a very specific arc. And I'm not reading quite everything in the arc - because really can't afford it. I have no interest in anything that happens after the issue of Uncanny X-men when Cyclops leaves the X-men Estate to Storm and takes off with his brother. (The Secret Wars looks really stupid. And how Cyclops dies, not worth my time. He apparently gets hold of a Phoenix egg that gives him superpowers enabling him to fight a God Like Doctor Doom, who snaps his neck, while the other flee to the new universe. Meanwhile they are resurrecting Jean Grey and an old as dirt Wolverine...to reboot the series? I'll pass.)
I'm reading Operation Zero Tolerance, a few issues between it and Ages of Apocalpyse, a couple of issues where they save Cyclops, then New X-Men (Morrison's books) skipping over the whole Cassandra Nova and Genosha bit, jumping over Astonishing, to House of M, then X-men Genysis, Messiah Complex, Divided We Stand, Manifest Destiny, Schism, Second Coming, a few key issues of Avengers vs. X-men, Consequences, Uncanny X-men, a few issues of All New X-men...and that's it. Full arc.
The trick with reading comics is knowing when to stop, I think. I want to read a specific story arc - that focuses on a specific group of issues. Avoiding all the crazy world-building multi-universe issues that give me a headache.
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Date: 2015-09-10 10:20 pm (UTC)No, not really. I'm just interested in reading a specific number of books associated with a very specific arc. And I'm not reading quite everything in the arc - because really can't afford it. I have no interest in anything that happens after the issue of Uncanny X-men when Cyclops leaves the X-men Estate to Storm and takes off with his brother. (The Secret Wars looks really stupid. And how Cyclops dies, not worth my time. He apparently gets hold of a Phoenix egg that gives him superpowers enabling him to fight a God Like Doctor Doom, who snaps his neck, while the other flee to the new universe.
Meanwhile they are resurrecting Jean Grey and an old as dirt Wolverine...to reboot the series? I'll pass.)
I'm reading Operation Zero Tolerance, a few issues between it and Ages of Apocalpyse, a couple of issues where they save Cyclops, then New X-Men (Morrison's books) skipping over the whole Cassandra Nova and Genosha bit, jumping over Astonishing, to House of M, then X-men Genysis, Messiah Complex, Divided We Stand, Manifest Destiny, Schism, Second Coming, a few key issues of Avengers vs. X-men, Consequences, Uncanny X-men, a few issues of All New X-men...and that's it. Full arc.
The trick with reading comics is knowing when to stop, I think. I want to read a specific story arc - that focuses on a specific group of issues. Avoiding all the crazy world-building multi-universe issues that give me a headache.