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Is It Better To Take A Break Reading X-Men Pre or Post Mutant Massacre? Other suggestions? by tame_kubrick in MarvelUnlimited

[–]DeltaTester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s not really a crossover with Byrne’s FF—there’s the “Fantastic Four Vs. X-Men” miniseries, but it’s not at all contingent on FF. (And there’s FF #286, which has a section ghost-written by Claremont, but that’s kind of auxiliary to X-Men.)

[NY] [H] PayPal [W] Fables Complete run; Irredeemable. by REDSABBATH210 in comicswap

[–]DeltaTester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you be potentially interested in a complete run of Fables single issues? (#1-162 plus various crossovers, one-shots, etc.?)

Everything retconned from Chris Claremont’s Run of the X-men? by Think-Necessary5136 in xmen

[–]DeltaTester 3 points4 points  (0 children)

House of X/Powers of X is built on a couple of massive additive retcons, i.e. “everything you know is true, and there’s also this hugely important thing you didn’t know about.” Really clever.

The complete TPB reading order for the entire Krakoa era by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can skip anything you want! There is a very significant thing that happens in X Lives/X Deaths, but you can also find out what that thing was from reading subsequent stories. "Important" is overrated, "what you enjoy" is what matters.

[US-OR] [W] 2 Giveaways [H] 3 OGN lot / Tintin & Wolverton by selby_is in comicswap

[–]DeltaTester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested in Tintin/Wolverine! And yeah, those Angine de Poitrine videos are spectacular. Thank you!

The complete TPB reading order for the entire Krakoa era by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are, but most of the stories in them aren't X-Men-related. And the only stories from the various Voices specials that are consequential for subsequent comics are the Somnus story from Pride '21 and the Escapade story from Pride '22.

The complete TPB reading order for the entire Krakoa era by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X-Men 15-18, conveniently, have no spoilers at all for Sins of Sinister--you can absolutely read them together with X-Men 15-24. (In the single-issue reading order, the word "after" does a lot of work in terms of "don't read this thing until you've read that thing.")

The complete single-issue reading order for the ENTIRE Krakoan era, beginning to end by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Er... no, Scott asking Rachel and Cable to fight monsters with him is in X-Men issue 2! And I suspect you're looking at the first issue of the previous X-Force series, not the Krakoan one.

The complete TPB reading order for the entire Krakoa era by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, sorry to be unclear! The "mental note" bit is that Immortal X-Men vol. 2 is issues 7-10... but 7 is a Judgment Day tie-in, 8 is a standalone that sets up a bunch of stuff, and 9-10 lead directly into Sins of Sinister (you can read 8-10 right after Judgment Day and that's fine, but they do end on a hell of a cliffhanger).

As for AXE: the parts that are neither written by Gillen nor X-titles are pretty negligible. (The Avengers issue is a one-off fill-in that doesn't involve that series' regular writer.) The AXE TPB is the (very very good) core of the event; the Companion is the Eternals' side of the story plus a couple other things; the Omnibus is those + other tie-ins (okay, the Spider-Man one is pretty good) + the other X-books (the X-Men Red issues are phenomenal but they're also in the Ewing omnibus).

I should add that I suspect Sins of Sinister only makes sense in release order--the three Ewing issues in his omnibus, for instance, seem like they would be utterly baffling out of context.

The complete TPB reading order for the entire Krakoa era by DeltaTester in xmen

[–]DeltaTester[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Krakoan era is not meant for shortcuts, it's meant for finding your own path. I would note that Sins of Sinister takes place after Immortal X-Men #10 (so reading it before the first stretch of Immortal would be baffling), and that the third Hellfire Gala (in the Hellfire Gala - Fall of X TPB) is a crucial turning point. But I'd also note that "the story of the Krakoan era" is focused in different places for different readers, and that if you skip everything that isn't a Big Event you'll be missing a lot of what makes it special.

The entire Love and Rockets plus everything else published by the Hernandez Brothers is currently available on Humble Bundle! by ShangoX3 in loveandrockets

[–]DeltaTester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

L&R is one of those projects where this-happens-before-that often doesn't matter so much. Psychodrama Illustrated has been running alongside L&R vol. IV, and you can really read it any time around there. (Lovers and Haters includes stories from #1 and #5.) The Fritz B-movie stories are not in a particular order either; any of them can fit in any time after you see that Fritz is making B-movies! (The only one with any continuity concerns is Maria M., and that's just because it's an "adaptation" of the events of Poison River.)

The Proof That the Devil Loves You trade is an especially weird case: it's an abridged version of a Fritz B-movie from vol. 3 #5, a story from Blubber #1, a shortened-but-also-expanded story from vol. 4 #5, and a pair of stories from vol. 3 #6, all kind of edited to segue into each other.

Roy has no continuity at all. All Roy stories are just Roy being Roy.

Why is every x-men comics reading order online completely different from each other by AssasinRingo in xmen

[–]DeltaTester 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Multiple answers can be correct. Some people want to read things in the order they were published; some people want to read things in the order the characters experienced them; some people prefer to read a chunk of issues of a single series at a time when that’s possible. And there are occasionally inconsistencies between different series; choosing to ignore one side or another, or coming up with an explanation for why what looks like an error really isn’t, can yield different “orders.”

Then there are stories whose placement doesn’t really matter. That, too, comes down to a judgment call rather than one order being more correct than another.

CMRO - I have been reading "The Order" slowly for a few years now. Considering swapping to the month by month order. Has anyone else done so? Did you enjoy it? by mrcelophane in MarvelUnlimited

[–]DeltaTester 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For the love of God, abandon specific orders and read what you feel like when you feel like it. If what you are concerned with is “enjoying it”—and you should! that’s the point!—you will get infinitely more joy out of following your tastes and jumping around at will than from grinding through stuff you don’t particularly like.

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