X-Men

FYI Claremont's run is 17 years long and includes 4 or 5 concurrent titles.

It's a really fun read, but there is a lot of it.

I've also found a good way to fill in gaps is the Xplain the Xmen podcast, they've been going through everything for a few years now.

>Is it okay I start there without know who's back and why he left?

Surprisingly? YES. See here's the thing. Back in the day comics were written in a way that anyone could pick up any issue and be able to suss out what was going on via context.

For a long time, it was Marvel's policy.

In medias res is a really fun, chaotic way of jumping into x-men, as so much of the basics are common knowledge.

X-Statix is VERY different from regular X-Men stuff, so you might want to leave it for later, if you read it at all. Check online to see if you think it's worth it.

Don't

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I'd still argue that the 90s number 1 is the best way to jump in but even that relied a lot on in medias res. And I've said this before but it's actually really impressive how much stuff happens in this issue.

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You can literally just start with HoX and PoX since that’s why the rebooted the X-men.

But it's shit and doesn't represent any version OP might be remotely familiar with, shill-kun.

Start with the first 20 issues or so, which introduces the cast and a lot of the major protagonists (Magneto, Juggernaut, Sentinels etc.), skip to the Neal Adams run (which has a surprising number of call backs to it during the first ten years of the New X-Men run), then your good to go with Claremont.

There is a "complete" chronological X-Men torrent out there. It ends in the late 2000's if I recall. Being able to flip back and forth for references and seeing how different things are from the very beginning to now is pretty nice.

The foot notes back then were super useful. Past stories aren't always required to enjoy modern ones. They just add an extra layer.

it start to be really good in 1979

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FUCK THEM, DON'T LISTEN TO THAT user, THEY ARE BRAINDEAD IDIOTS AND THEY HATE THE OFF-KILTER X-MEN LORE. ALL THEY WANT THE X-MEN TO BE ABOUT IS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SHIT, AND THEY COMPLETELY DISS SPACE / ALT DIMENSION / SAVAGE LAND / LIMBO / MAGIC / SORCERY STUFF

it was my first x-men issue, so it certainly did the job well. literally user, you can start anywhere, including recent hickman stuff

>including recent hickman stuff

But I wouldn't.

Think yesterday someone sum Marvel as being almost like a soap opera. And the more I think about it the more true it is. Where lots of stuff in the past happened but it's always built so you can jump in and get caught up with all the storylines fairly fast. And Claremont era really went all in with that.

Start from issue 1, when you reach the bit where they reprinted stuff skip to Giant Sized X-Men and read forward, reading the spin-off book as they appear. When you reach issue 200 or the year 1986, make a choice to continue in the face of increasingly bad stories or give-up for your own fan-fic, which will be just as entertaining as what the X-Men has become.

That was me. I mentioned it again in a different thread just today and I think I'll always stand by it. Maybe I was an odd kid, but my favorite issues were always the fall out ones. The ones were characters would just sit down, have a drink, reflect on what was happening around them. Have things really sink in on how much they lost or could have lost and it reaffirms how much what they have right now, in this moment, means to them. I want to see the X-men with a local pub. I want to see them take time to go through the park and just talk.

I mean look at this page from Uncanny 297. This is right at the end of X-cutioner song. Chuck gets his legs back because reasons but it's temporary and Jubs has her go skating with them. Maybe it is RADICAL 90s action, but at it's heart it's a poor girl spending time her teacher who changed her life. She's the one who was there when his legs failed again and we get like 4 solid pages of stuff like this. Her just being there for him as he was her. And it's just nice. It's nice. The issue even has another story of Gambit consoling a blinded Rogue and Archangel spending time with Beast as they reflect on being OG X-men. It was just an all around good issue.

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You can even find it in stuff the early 00s. Like here's a page from the tail end of New X-men Academy X. The kids just sit around the mansion, there's a fire place glow and they all just TALK. Talk about how scared they are about their prospects and what they're gonna do and the only thing they can really answer is "Stick together." Makes me made they got phased out for shitty Gen Hope.

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Go read the Epic Collections, they haven't all been printed but the first 7 or so will wet your apatite. And from there you can choose which spin-offs you want to follow.

Just read Claremont's stuff and stop there, honestly.

Actually, stop when Jim Lee stops doing the pencils, which is only about 8 issues after Claremont's departure anyway.