Marvel tookC2e2 2019by storm with the in-person announcement that writer Jonathan Hickman is returning to the publisher to write two congruent X-Men series. From 2008 to 2015, Hickman stood out as one of the best Marvel Universe writers, delivering impressive work across titles like Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the2015 Secret Wars event(等)。
Since Secret Wars, Hickman’s been focused on excellent creator-owned work with Image (books such asEast of WestandThe Black Monday Murders
), and Marvel’s been struggling to regain their footing. The promise of the writer’s return to an X-Men franchise that has also seen vast inconsistency throughout the 2010’s is an immensely satisfying prospect for fans of either.
Intriguingly, in pre-release hype Marvel has celebrated four distinct major eras of X-Men sinceUncanny X-Mendebuted in 1963:Giant Size X-Men #1(1975),X-Men #1(1991),Age of Apocalypse, New X-Men. The implication is that Hickman’s two series –House of XandPowers of X –will be the beginning of the 5th era.
Below you’ll find a complete guide to the X-Men comics of Jonathan Hickman, as well as connected prelude and tie-in issues that help explain the story.
Related Reading Orders:
Chris Claremont Era X-Men (1975 – 1991)
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Road to Hickman’s X-Men
In interviews (including a brief C2E2 chat with yours truly), Hickman is quick to laud Morrison’s work with praise, fromMarvel BoytoNew X-Men. It should not come as a surprise if his X-Men comics treat theNew X-Menera with a degree of reverence.
Indeed, Hickman’s already pulled from Morrison’s lofty ideas, including the concept of the “phoenix egg” in his “Time Runs Out” build through toSecret Wars.
Comic Book Herald’s Jonathan Hickman Reading Order (2008 to 2015)
Speaking of massive, ambitious all-time great runs in Marvel history, Hickman’s run from 2008 to 2015 across the Marvel Universe stands as my favorite modern sequence of comics in Marvel.
Of particular interest, I’ve also dissected howHickman wrote specific X-Men characters and concepts, and what we might expect moving forward given this history.
Uncanny X-Men (2018) #11 to #22
Marvel made much ado over the ($7.99) 2018 release of a newUncanny X-Men #1, and the series ran weekly for the first 10 issues/weeks. While those ten issues do set the stage for a clear break that happens inUncanny X-Men#11, they’re most focused on driving to theAge of X-Manevent.
So, yes, long time X-Men fans can read the entire series, but purely for the purposes of a road to Hickman’s X-Men, I’d argue you can start with Matthew Rosenberg’s time writing the run solo fromUXM#11 on.
Uncanny X-Men#22 is scheduled for release July 17, 2019, and is set to conclude this series of Uncanny (which began all the way back in the long ago known as 2018). The first issue ofHouse of Xwill release the following week.
Hickman on X-Men Checklist
Collects:House of X #1 to #6, Powers of X #1 to #6
This is the collected edition – Full issue by issue breakdown below.
House of X and Powers of X Reading Order
TheHouse of X / Powers of Xduology是如此的有趣,我已经开始了一个名为“Krakin’Krakoa”的视频系列,在那里我提供了背景、历史和对漫画事件的整体热情。
The series starts here witha history of Professor Charles Xavier prior toHouse of X#1. From this point forward I’ll just list the next entry in the video series by number, so those of you looking to avoidany possiblespoilers can do so here!
You can find my exploration of some stand-out references to past Hickman comics inKrakin Krakoa: Secrets of House of X!
Krakin’ Krakoa #3also goes withHouse of X#2.
For my video background, check outKrakin’ Krakoa #4!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #5!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #7!
Just the single page story by Hickman and Dustin Weaver about Apocalypse and his four horsemen!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #6!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #8!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #9!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #10!
Video companion viaKrakin’ Krakoa #12!
After HoX & PoX… Dawn of X Trade Reading Order!
You should know that Marvel is collecting (at least) the first six issues of the new comics in the X-Men line known as Dawn of X two ways. First, there’s your traditional series trade paperback where the first six issues ofX-Mencomics will all be collected (for example). Less traditionally, there are also hardcover collections called “Dawn of X Volume One” and so on, that collect only the first issue ofeachof the six Dawn of X titles, then only the second issue ofeach, and so on.
Now, there’s been a lot of debate as tothe merit of reading every comic in the Dawn of X. There issomecontinuity overlap, and in that regard, I’d encourage fans ofHouse of Xread at least the first two issues of the six launch titles (all listed below in the issue by issue order!) to see which books you enjoy the most. From there, it’s really down to personal preference, and I’d advise sticking with the books that do it for you. For the completists like myself, though, thoseDawn of Xcollections may seem awfully tempting.
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1
Collects: X-Men #1 To #6
Marauders by Gerry Duggan Vol. 1
Collects: Marauders (2019) #1-6
Collects: X-Force (2019) 1-6
Excalibur by Tini Howard Vol. 1
Collects: Excalibur (2019) 1-6
New Mutants by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1
Collects: New Mutants 1-6
Collects: Fallen Angels (2019) 1-6
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 2
Collects: X-Men (2019) 7-11
New Mutants by Ed Brisson Vol. 1
Collects: New Mutants (2019) 7-12
Collects: X-Force (2019) 7-12
Collects: X-Men/Fantastic Four (2020) 1-4
Marauders by Gerry Duggan Vol. 2
Collects: Marauders (2019) 7-11
Excalibur by Tini Howard Vol. 2
Collects: Excalibur (2019) 7-11
Wolverine by Benjamin Percy Vol. 1
Collects: Wolverine (2020) 1 (A Story), Wolverine (2020) 2-3, Wolverine (2020) 1 (B Story)
Collects: Hellions (2020) 1-6
Collects: Cable (2020) 1-6
Collects: Empyre: X-Men (2020) 1-4
X-Factor by Leah Williams Vol. 1
Collects: X-Factor (2020) 1-3, 5
Dawn of X Hardcover Collections
Collects: X-Men (2019) #1, X-Force (2019) #1, Marauders #1, Excalibur (2019) #1, Fallen Angels (2019) #1 And New Mutants (2019) #1
Collects: X-Men (2019) #2, X-Force (2019) #2, Marauders #2, Excalibur (2019) #2, Fallen Angels (2019) #2 And New Mutants (2019) #2
Collects: X-Men (2019) #3, X-Force (2019) #3, Marauders #3, Excalibur (2019) #3, Fallen Angels (2019) #3 And New Mutants (2019) #3
Collects: X-Men (2019) #4, X-Force (2019) #4, Marauders #4, Excalibur (2019) #4, Fallen Angels (2019) #4 And New Mutants (2019) #4
Collects: X-Men (2019) #5, X-Force (2019) #5, Marauders #5, Excalibur (2019) #5, Fallen Angels (2019) #5 And New Mutants (2019) #5
Collects: X-Men (2019) 6, X-Force (2019) 6, Marauders 6, Excalibur (2019) 6, Fallen Angels (2019) 6 And New Mutants (2019) 6
Collects: Marauders #7, Excalibur (2019) #7, X-Force (2019) #7 And Wolverine (2020) #1
Collects: Marauders #8, New Mutants New Mutants (2019) #7, Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey And Emma Frost, X-Force (2019) #8, X-Men (2019) #7 And Excalibur (2019) #8
Collects: New Mutants (2019) #8, Marauders #9, Cable (2020) #1, X-Men (2019) #8, Excalibur (2019) #9 And X-Force (2019) #9
Collects: New Mutants (2019) #9, Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler, Hellions #1, Wolverine (2020) #2, X-Men (2019) #9 And Excalibur (2019) #10
Collects:X of Swords: Creation (2020) #1, X of Swords: Stasis (2020) #1, X of Swords: Destruction (2020) #1, X-Men (2019) #12-15, Excalibur (2019) #13-15, Marauders (2019) #13-15, X-Force (2019) #13-14, New Mutants (2019) #13, Wolverine (2020) #6-7, Cable (2020) #5-6, Hellions (2020) #5-6, X-Factor (2020) #4
Issue by Issue Dawn of X Checklist
My review and theories of Marauders #1!
My review and theories of Excalibur #1!
My review and theories of New Mutants #1!
My review and theories of X-Force #1!
My review and theories of X-Men #2!
My review and theories of Fallen Angels #1!
My review and theories ofMarauders #2!
My review of Fallen Angels #2!
There’s a short story in this Marvel preview/murder mystery by Hickman, RB Silva and Marte Garcia, featuring Mister Sinister. Well worth the read, and for the teaser it contains forX-Men/Fantastic Four.
A non “Dawn of X” comic that nonetheless features Krakoa, Wolverine, and Quentin Quire. Story by Leah Williams and David Baldeon who will go on to produceX-Factor阿霉素。This mini will read best if you read all 5 issues (and frankly, a fair amount of Gwenpool before that!), and it’s a really effective series closer.
Includes short stories featuring a handful of X-Men, set during the Krakoa era. Vita Ayala and Bernard Chang tackle a Forge story, and most notably for me, theBitter Rootcreative team delivers a Wolverine and Hulk story!
Given the Marauders involvement in this series, I’d recommend reading prior toMarauders #6, even though this issue was published alongsideMarauders#7.
LikeX/FFabove,Wolverineis a Dawn of X wave 2 series addition that makes more sense earlier in the reading order than its release date would place it (the comic was released the same week asMarauders#8 andNew Mutants#7).
Technically, I’d argue you could placeWolverine #1before evenX-Force #1如果故事的其他部分在相同的时间框架内展开,我可能会做出相应的调整!
Ok, this is a stretch, but there are thematic and literal connections to the Dawn of X in this oddball one-shot that diehards may find interesting. First off, the entire premise is tied to Weapon Plus, which is the expansion of the Weapon X program that originates during Morrison’sNew X-Men. Second, Man-Slaughter (they weaponized a Man-Thing!) is actually very tied to sci-fi themes writer Benjamin Percy explores inX-Force #6. And finally, the back-up story about Brute Force (which was anactualMarvel miniseries and is blowing my mind) mentions the Orchis program!
Doctor Strange makes a cameo on Krakoa
这一期发行的时间要晚得多,但应该在“巨型x战警”系列开始之前按时间顺序阅读。死侍闯入克拉科阿!
Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost #1
Not super essential, but Wolverine teams up with Felicia, and they occasionally talk Krakoa. Kris Anka’s art slays.
I debated including this issue, but there’s ahuge这可能会对x战警产生重大影响。Keep in mind that unless you’ve been keeping up with Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness’ run onAvengerssince “Marvel Fresh Start,” 66% of this story won’t seem relevant!
Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler
Free Comic Book Day 2020 – X-Men
我的评论!Please note the FCBD special is very much a lead-in to theX of Swordsevent, and will be accounted for in that reading order as well!
Technically anEmpyretie-in, although this one is way more focused on X-Men. Myreview!
Part of theEmpyrereading order. Myreview!
The events ofX-Men#11 seem to occur more or less simultaneously with theEmpyre X-Menminiseries. It was published after all 4 issues were released, so I’ve included here.
ThisEmpyrepost-mortem kicks off with a really good conversation between Jen Walters and Wolverine. Note that the issue will reference the events of the first Donny Cates and Nic Klein arc onThor,and as you should expect, it will mean alot moreif you’re caught up on Al Ewing’sImmortal Hulk
(and you really should be!).
Placement of this 5 issue Jugs mini is flexible, as is the initial relevance to the X-Men’s big picture! Still, a pretty enjoyable series if you like Juggernaut.
Marvel Voices: Indigenous Voices #1
丹尼·月星,拉恩·辛克莱,还有银狐的故事!
Jason Aaron’sAvengersis building to a Phoenix story, which means the X-Men aren’t far. There’s a short tease involving Wolverine and Jean Grey at issue’s end.
Gerry Duggan brings Wolverine and Magik into his savage story, with supernatural implications that might tie into the Dawn of X down the road. I expect this should occur beforeX of Swords, but otherwise timing fairly flexible.
Everything Is X of Swords!
X of Swords Event Reading Order
Some updates for Franklin Richards.
Next:Reign of X
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嗨,我对漫画很陌生。我想找到一个好的开始漫画,我选择了X之家/ X力量精装合集。我还找到并购买了所有的《x战警黎明》和《x战警统治》。我想知道在乔纳森·希克曼的《x战警》系列中还有没有其他我遗漏的漫画。我想找到所有与之相关的或者存在于同一个宇宙的漫画。即使不是x战警/变种人的书。第二个问题,这些书中提到的其他漫威或者像复仇者联盟、蜘蛛侠等存在吗?如果有,是否有直接与house/powers/dawn/reign of x有关的书?Thank you
几乎你能找到的任何漫威书籍都会设置在同一个宇宙,但我强烈推荐《不朽绿巨人》,你可以让它穿越四个Omnibusses,这是不可思议的!
是的,这绝对是我一直在找的名单。这为我节省了大量的时间,我可能会浪费在寻找一个在Comic Vine上订购的书。
如果商业平装书/精装书和个别问题在不同的文章中或不相互混杂,这将不那么压倒性。
Simply … THANK YOU!!!!
I’ve been looking for a way to catch up with the X-Men. This list and your website is PHENOMENAL!!! Gratitude X ♾!
Hey Dave! It would be really helpful if you could add the non X-Men issues like Gwenpool #5, etc to the Dawn of X hardcover reading order and TPB reading order as well. It would be helpful for those who are not reading issue-wise. Thank you!
感谢一年过去了。值得一提的是,《超新星》和《X战警传奇》中金库故事的其他后代也加入了这一元素。
I appreciate it’s not super important as Hickman recaps everything, but even in the interviews he name drops Carey and says that after Grant Morrison it’s the next most relevant story he picks up for his run.
And I feel you have a good order somewhere on the website for either Mike Carey or Rogue run or somethinf I can’t quite remember, but you could link to it I’m sure.
而马修·罗森伯格的《神秘》。嗯。是的,它的发生而笑。足够地说。我们谈得越少越好。
Hey, thank you for making this list but I do have a small fix already.
《x战警3》需要先于《Maurauders 3》上映,因为泽维尔已经活在里面了。
Once again thank you!
Hey Dave, love your reading orders! I noticed that Volumes 11 – 16 for the Dawn of X trades are available to order. If the information Amazon provided is correct, Vol 16 collects the first two preludes to X of Swords.
亚马逊的榜单错误已经有一段时间了。他们仍然假设COVID从未发生过,并相应地编写了每本平装本。例如,我相信《X之黎明11卷》说它收集了原子之子1号,但显然它从未发布过!
Would you say the Fantastic Four Empyre tie-ins should be on this list as well, considering Wolverine’s involvement?
I have already had two custom bound volumes of Dawn of X made. Had I been a little more patient on publications I would have altered them slightly I think. Especially with Wolverine 1 placement. My reading order is as such:
Volume 1:
X-Men 1
Marauders 1
Excalibur 1
New Mutants 1
X-Force 1
Fallen Angels 1
X-Men 2
Excalibur 2
Marauders 2
New Mutants 2
X-Force 2
Fallen Angels 2
X-Men 3
Marauders 3
Excalibur 3
New Mutants 3
X-Force 3
Fallen Angels 3
Marauders 4
Excalibur 4
New Mutants 4
X-Force 4
Fallen Angels 4
X-Men 4
Volume 2
Marauders 5
Excalibur 5
New Mutants 5
X-Force 5
Fallen Angels 5
X-Men 5
Marauders 6
Excalibur 6
Fallen Angels 6
New Mutants 6
X-Force 6
Marauders 7
X-Men 6
Excalibur 7
X-Force 7
New Mutants 7
Wolverine 1
Marauders 8
X-Men 7
New Mutants 8
X-Force 8
G.S. X-Men Jean and Emma
Excalibur 8
掠夺者9
Right now I’m trying to put together Volumes 3 & 4 to mail off today. It’s frustrating with lockheed in GS Nightcrawler and Kate in Excalibur 10, plus X-Men & FF should have been somewhere in my first two volumes but they didn’t come out until I had already mailed these so I can either place them after Kate comes back or scrap them altogether. I can’t decide. Any thoughts?
这个阅读顺序怎么可能是正确的呢?我们都知道凯特·普赖德已经死了好几期了,在掠夺者第11期复活了。
She is seen is Excalibur 10 which means it would have to take place after marauders 11 ( probably 12 because she appeared to have never left the island until then) or It’s possible it took place before marauders 7 or 8 (which ever kate was killed in)
I have a big problem with the current X-men titles not being able to tell you when that issue is taking place compared to other titles.
I noticed Kate’s appearance in Excalibur 10 as well, but took it to be part of Jamie’s reality warping. She also has a flying ship in that issue too. I could be wrong on that but that’s how I read it.
I think you are missing the short story from Marvel’s Voices 1, which features Forge and what seems to be the first appearence of the upcoming Children of the Atom
我终于赶上了我的漫画TBR,刚刚完成了巨大尺寸的x战警夜行者,考虑到洛克希德的加入,它的顺序不应该被提升吗?我以为我们最后一次见到他,是在船沉后,他从睡梦中醒来。(I haven’t read Marauders #10 yet).
Considering the two different ways of collecting TPs for the dawn of x titles, how do you think they’ll map a dawn of x omni? Across titles or title specific?
I’d predict any omnis will *largely* follow strict publication order, and then they’ll probably just move to my reading order
Gwenpool Strikes Back issue 5 has Gwenpool joining Krakoa (so can be seen as a tie-in issue)
Nice call – updated!
Xmen Fantastic Four 3 – where does X/FF 3 fit in?
Should be in there right after issue 2!
那么第二波到底是从哪里开始的呢?我可以想象《金刚狼1》是继《x战警6》之后第一期在末尾加上阅读顺序的,我想是的。它包含的阅读顺序没有x战警/神奇四侠,甚至没有《新变种人》,尽管该系列仍在运行。
Granted, I’m not caught up reading Dawn of X (busy life) but I am still buying them as they come out and tracking the new series as they release.
你觉得《x战警/FF》在标准基础上符合什么?当凯蒂突然出现在那本书里的时候,我有点吃惊。作为一个新的漫画读者,非线性的故事情节有时仍然会让我感到困惑。
谢谢你的不断更新。他们很有帮助。
把乔纳森·希克曼(Jonathan Hickman)写的4个新的变种人问题放在一起会更有意义吗?还是会过于复杂?
我喜欢这个想法,在某种程度上它是有意义的,但issue #7实际上玩得非常特别的新变种人的奇怪的发布结构到目前为止!
so would you recommend reading 1, 2 and 5 together and leaving 7 after 6?
Off the top of my head, I don’t see why not
我刚看了FF那一期,富兰克林先生在跟大家告别。有趣的是,他谈到了与尼姆罗德和欧米茄哨兵的战斗。我想,时间会告诉我们希克曼早期作品的哪些部分是通向HoX/PoX之路的一部分。
Also, despite its flaws, surely it is appropriate to list Hickman’s work on Avengers vs X-Men here?
That’s a great callout! Very cool to consider seeds that might have been planted in FF.
我记得在AvX上看到Hickman的脚本时,我将一些关于他的内容的指南放在一起,但并没有得出任何必要的结论。然而,把工作标注出来,并给它寻找线索或乐趣是完全公平的!
Would reading Ed Piskor: X-Men: Grand Design / Second Genesis / X-Tinction help with Hickman’s House of X?
yes, they are a cliffnotes for entire xmen history tho its not in detail. it shows pretty much all the big events that happened
id say at least read giant size xmen issue to understand what krokoa is, and maybe read any of claremont’s xmen books or grant morrisons new xmen, to get an understanding of all the characters and what their powers are.
grand design pretty much recaps their entire history of events that happened but dont so much go in to detail about the characters and what their powers are…
Question.
I am a new reader of comics. Can I start reading X-Men from House of X #1 even if I haven’t read anything prior to that? Will I understand the stories?
Good question! I wrote a whole column about it here://m.e-fidanlik.com/previously-on-77-can-you-read-house-of-x-as-a-starting-point-the-all-time-pre-release-hype-rankings-and-being-a-fool-at-a-creator-signing/
简单地说,《X战警之家》只是一个起点,说实话,你之前没有读过《X战警》,这在某些方面可能会对你有帮助(更少的记忆包袱!)也就是说,这可能是一本具有挑战性的第一本漫画书,所以效果可能会有所不同!我的建议是试一试,如果不奏效,试一下其他的漫画作为热身。享受漫画!
id say at least read giant size xmen issue to understand what krokoa is, and maybe read any of claremont’s xmen books or grant morrisons new xmen, to get an understanding of all the characters and what their powers are.
Road to list should include Soule’s Astonishing X-Men. At least the first two volumes that contain the resurrection of Xavier in Fantomex’s body as “X”