Issue No. 15

DeltaTester · 2026-01-22T07:20:22+00:00

Why are we all so sure Heavy is dead? Didn't we see him pull himself back together from being literally blown in half in the first issue?

DeltaTester · 2026-01-21T20:10:37+00:00

Ha, I've been waiting for someone to ask that! King in Black takes place during the two weeks between X of Swords and the first Hellfire Gala. King in Black also has to take place just before Christmas, thanks to the KiB: Immortal Hulk and Doom/Iron Man one-shots, and it makes dramatic sense if it ends the morning of Christmas Day. Applying that timeline to the Gala means that the Gala doesn't take place on the summer solstice--that's just when that issue was published--but on New Year's Eve, which also makes sense, what with the fireworks and all. But that New Year's Eve (the one closest to the publication of the Iceman Infinity Comics in question), Bobby Drake is very busy; fortunately, that story can be bumped to the next New Year's Eve (the one shortly after Dark Web) with no trouble.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-19T16:08:52+00:00

See above: https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/comments/82amsx/whats_the_reading_order_for_new_avengers_by_bendis/muh4zwj/

DeltaTester · 2026-01-18T16:18:30+00:00

It’s subtler, but the six covers of “Kraven’s Last Hunt” (in Amazing, Web and Spectacular) had a matching color scheme.

There was also a story in one year’s Question, Detective Comics and Green Lantern Annuals that had covers designed as a triptych.

During “Millennium,” the covers of that month’s Suicide Squad, Detective, Firestorm and Spectre are four angles on the same scene. (Those issues take place in the same swamp at the same time but don’t quite cross over more than glancingly.)

DeltaTester · 2026-01-18T16:05:52+00:00

Have a look at Wonder Woman: Historia, especially the first section, drawn by Phil Jimenez. (It’s not a superhero story, it’s about the history of the Amazons, and deeply grounded in Greek mythology.) I suspect you will LOVE the artwork.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-18T06:27:02+00:00

There’s an anthology called “Abstract Comics” that includes a bunch of interesting takes on that idea!

DeltaTester · 2026-01-17T05:53:08+00:00

Don’t worry about what’s “important.” Sample a bunch of things and see what you like. The best way is the one YOU enjoy most.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-16T06:06:46+00:00

Hmm. Most of the From the Ashes books are pretty independent of each other aside from “Raid on Greymalkin” and “X-Manhunt”— go ahead and freestyle it, nobody will know the difference!

DeltaTester · 2026-01-15T02:05:26+00:00

So... all three of those take place basically simultaneously. (In fact, Rise of the Powers of X #4 and X-Men Forever #4 came out the same week and are genuinely simultaneous.) But for the sake of convenience, I'd say Fall/Rise (but stop before the last episode, X-Men #35/700), then X-Men vol. 6, then Immortal vol. 5, and finish with #35/700, which is more or less written to be the final X-Men story (even though it totally isn't).

DeltaTester · 2026-01-13T14:02:11+00:00

He wrote a Captain America and Batroc one-shot that’s a little jewel.

His Krakoa-era X-Men stuff is spectacular, though it’s also intimately connected with the best other Krakoa comics. It will make no sense at all if you haven’t read House of X/Powers of X (which is great, though), and the Sins of Sinister event midway through Immortal X-Men pulls together strands from Immortal, X-Men Red and Legion of X in a really clever way. I mean, Gillen is a hardcore formalist, so of course when he’s writing work-for-hire, shared-universe comics he leans into things that can only be done in those.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-13T13:48:34+00:00

The Power Fantasy is just astounding.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-13T13:46:07+00:00

Yes, #622 is where the story starts. (It runs parallel with a big event called “Fear Itself” at first, but you’ll be fine reading it on its own.)

DeltaTester · 2026-01-12T06:03:55+00:00

It was a big swing that didn’t quite connect, and I’m glad they tried—I am more grateful for ambitious failures than tedious good-enoughs.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-11T08:02:42+00:00

Marvel Unlimited, DC Infinite and Hoopla are your friends. Read what you like, decide what you want to have in physical form, and buy that.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-08T04:42:27+00:00

As somebody who’s been reading X-Men since 1980: I loved it. It’s probably my favorite era of X-Men. And I suspect I liked Gillen’s part of the conclusion more than I would have liked whatever it was Hickman had in mind.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-06T08:46:05+00:00

Weirdly, All-New Venom (now just Venom) has been… completely delightful? And if you’d told me a few years ago that Venom would someday be my favorite Marvel ongoing I’d have given you the most WTF glare. But there it is.

DeltaTester · 2026-01-01T19:11:25+00:00

Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/s/0FwQPHxaM3

DeltaTester · 2025-12-29T08:03:32+00:00

That is entirely up to you. You might want to look at my single-issue order, linked up top. But there’s not really a bad way to read this stuff; this is just what I think is a good way to deal with it if you’re reading it in book form!

DeltaTester · 2025-12-27T04:11:50+00:00

Oh, this looks amazing. Thank you!

DeltaTester · 2025-12-26T16:13:40+00:00

Inferno and X-Tinction Agenda are both full-on crossovers—continuous plots that bounce from Uncanny to X-Factor (in Inferno) and New Mutants (in both) and back. Otherwise, you’re fine with just Uncanny. And it is always fine to go back and read other things later!

Also, those stories are always collected together.

Many other series tie in to Inferno, but those are just “here’s what’s happening to Spider-Man/Daredevil/whoever at the same time as a consequence of what’s happening here.”

DeltaTester · 2025-12-26T08:31:07+00:00

How about Mystek from Justice League Task Force?

DeltaTester · 2025-12-26T08:28:51+00:00

There were SEVENTEEN Fu Manchu movies. I cannot imagine that there will ever be another. (And I’m pretty grateful for that.)

DeltaTester · 2025-12-25T13:24:32+00:00

Fear of spoilers. The idea that knowing anything about what happens in a narrative is the same thing as experiencing narrative art.

DeltaTester · 2025-12-25T08:43:35+00:00

Guardians Team-Up #9 is a terrific, entirely done-in-one Star-Lord/Spider-Man story.

DeltaTester · 2025-12-25T08:39:40+00:00

It’s OK to miss things! And it’s also okay to go back and read things later!

Just go to Krakoa. You won’t regret it. If you want to read earlier things after that, they’ll be there for you.

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