Yeah I'm not even someone who reads in chronological order but I think it's neat to know where books go

Thank you so much. I'm glad it helped.

Thank you so much for being here with us! :) that as they say is that. :)

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

@@NearMintCondition You're welcome! Btw, could you tell me what's in reign of x and what's coming after it?

Thank you so much for watching them.

Thank you so much

I love that issue.

There is a reading order playlist. Or did you mean just X-men my dood?

@@NearMintCondition Nope, I meant a playlist of just these X-men guides 1-5. :-)

And that’s okay.

Sadly just X-men so far. :)

Oh. That will come :)

You are so welcome!

Yes, it's almost a complete reboot for the status quot, and it contains pieces of context for the older stuff it's using in its story. If you're interested in jumping into Hickman's era, make sure to read HoX/PoX as the first thing, as it kicks off everything that comes after.

@@HawkEyeTS thanks!

It is right after Second Coming

@@WiktorProsniak uncanny x-force?

@@bertfechner417 yes. And Old Man Logan enters 616 during/after Hickmans Secret Wars.

I think same reason Hickvengers didn't include Secret Wars. It kicks off/ends the era, but isn't necessary. 12-15 are contained in the X of Swords OHC.

Okay, that's very confusing then. Were House and Powers in an omnibus previoulsy?

Honestly, I feel like the quality of content takes a steep dive after Age of Apocalypse finishes up, but there's still some decent stuff in the "Road to Onslaught" period, and the Onslaught event is... well if you read the road content you might as well read the finale. After that it meanders enough that I quit reading as a teen and didn't come back for a very long time. I've been catching up on the various eras though, and Grant Morrison's New X-Men run is definitely worth picking up after that though. I also REALLY enjoyed the Messiah Complex/Second Coming era, which along with Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, and Superior Spider-Man, are what brought me back into comics collecting.

For your initial question, a bunch of the books in this era were pretty disconnected and doing their own thing, other than when they explicitly crossed over like Gold and Blue did for the Mojo Worldwide story, and most started within two months of each other, so they can be read for the most part volume for volume along with the other titles, or all at once without much problem. Weapon X ran concurrently with Gold/Blue, as did Generation X before it got cancelled early. Jean Grey is the only one that has a little wrinkle - it ran alongside Blue and is basically Jean stepping away from the team to not only get a break from the other four guys, but to deal with her own stuff. However, the very last issue takes place during the Phoenix Rising: The Resurrection of Jean Grey mini series. So I think I'd read it all before X-Men Blue vol.3, then the Phoenix story. The Venom/X-Men trade is explicitly after X-Men Blue vol.3 as it contains X-Men Blue Annual #1, and issues #21-22. And yes, you're probably correct about X of Swords going out of print soon. The hardcover is already gone from the usual discount trade locations, although it is still available on Amazon for a little less than MSRP. I'd grab it sooner rather than later if you're interested in collecting Hickman's era in hardcover.

@@HawkEyeTS Yo. Thanks for the info! Mapping X-Men is so hard sometimes. I keep hearing mixed reviews about X of Swords, but I loved HoX PoX so I think I wanna continue. I'm not up to date because I don't buy and read single issues.

I was thinking the same and it seems easy to map. They can add red and black, and release the entire era in two volumes.

The Dawn/Reign trade paperbacks do NOT contain the HoX/PoX and X of Swords 'events', and the hardcovers for both of them have already been released. So if you want to get them, I'd act quickly. Both are out of stock already at the cheaper shops like CheapGraphicNovels or InStockTrades, but you can get House of X at a reasonable price still from third party sellers, and X of Swords is still in stock at Amazon (albeit at only like 20% off MSRP). The anthology and stand alone series paperbacks slot in-between those 'event' books, so you can pick whatever format you want for them, but personally I love what's been done with the era almost across the board, so I recommend the anthology versions.

@@HawkEyeTS so get the HoX/PoX hardcover then!

Wait for the anniversary next year

lol they are in part 4 :)

😂Shows how much attention I pay , either that or my memory is getting a whole lot worse 😂

Muchas gracias, hermano.

You can.

Needed? It’s X-men so yes :) Not connected, though.

@@NearMintCondition 🤣 I meant needed for the gold and blue plot. Of course I'm still reading and enjoying it (when I've finished the uncanny x men omnibusses of course) 😊

I don’t think it was out yet.

@@NearMintCondition Ohhh okay, thanks for clearing that up, I'm a bit new to this and your videos have been incredibly helpful and fun to watch. P. S. I don't think anyone will mind if your 2021 collected editions tour runs well over an hour long, give us the Snyder cut lol

The dawn of x trades only map out issues that came out in release order, not chronologically. The individual series in the dawn of x barely cross over with each other so it’s fine just reading those series on their own. A dawn of X isn’t an ideal reading order as you think it is.

@@UltimatePower01 Thanks for your advice, but I think you might be wrong. For example, X-Men is the first issue in each "Dawn of X" volume until Volume 4, where it's placed at the end. This implies a specific reading order and not merely release dates. However, that's still preferable to having everything in separate Omnibus volumes.

@@Muldfeld It's a little bit muddier than that. For the first six volumes each book has one issue of each of the six series that launched Dawn of X in them. Some of it makes sense, as there are a few references to things happening in other books, but there's definitely a smoother reading order that could be made for them. However, that stops at volume 7 - at that point they start grouping together issues where the story might effectively be a two or three parter. For example, one of X-Force's stories takes place over three issues, so they placed two at the end of one volume, and the third at the start of the next. Because of this grouping style, volumes 7 through 16 do actually have a pretty solid reading order that SIGNIFICANTLY deviates from when they were published. I would hope that they'd try to rearrange the content of the first six volumes to be a smoother experience if/when it ends up in omnibus form, but yeah, everything else could be copied exactly as they are in the trades.

@@HawkEyeTS I've only read volume 1, but my volume 7 has 2 Excaliburs and Volume 8 has 2 Wolverines and, I think, 2 X-Force issues. Thanks for explaining that things are "muddier" than the Dawn of X order, but I think we can agree it'd certainly be a better reading order than if Marvel persists in just releasing Omnibi of each title separately.

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How come they are not "different"