This was tremendously helpful, Omar! I don’t think I quite understood how expansive the Krakoa era of X-Men has been. Sigh. Lol.

This is the third time I try to understand the reading order that works best but every time I watch this video I get more and more confused. I feel so stupid it makes me mad.

This is a great and comprehensive video. Well done and thank you. It's really disappointing they're going to discontinue the anthologies without Fall of X. I don't want to have to chase a dozen different titles to finish out this era. The anthologies were perfect, as you say, for the reader who wants the full experience. There's been a few decisions in Marvel's history since the 90s that have made me walk away entirely as a reader for several years. This may be one of them. We'll see.

The best there is at what he does! Thank you so much Omar! You Rock! Sad to hear about the Anthologies.

The post-hoxpox era of X-men in collected edition has been such a disaster. Thank you for trying to make it all make sense Omar. I tapped out trying to keep up (even any singles) like 3 years ago. My vote for how to collect it all (if Marvel needs an idea) would be boxsets of the anthologies. Or if they are set on discontinuing those versions, you can put multiple volumes together into standard sized hardcovers like they did with the infinity saga, civil war, secret wars etc. Those boxsets were awesome. Looks like it could be broken up into three boxsets. 1) Hoxpox-Dawn-x of swords 2) reign-inferno-trials-lives/deaths 3) sins of sinister-fall-etc. I bet if the fans felt they had a guarantee that their collection could be complete, they would preorder the heck out of a boxset treatment. As opposed to omniboo that may or may not ever see certain series, or more specifically, not see them for years and years. Roll out 3 boxsets over the course of 1.5-2 years, I bet people will show up for that.

I have been collecting the Krakoa era in the Anthology format. I also buy the event books in OHC format to round out the run. I try not to have any gaps if I can. I am thoroughly enjoying this new X-Men status quo. I’ll be sorry to see it go whenever Marvel reboots.

Jeez Marvel should be thanking you for the marketing!

That is a massive amount of books. I read a lot of these series when it started but the only stuff I really enjoyed was the books written by Hickman. I dropped everything else within the first six issues or less.

Thank you so much for all of these they are so amazing! Please continue making them as they help and I’m sure so many others so once again thank you!

Randomly suggested during a live chat and this man delivers! thank you Omar

HOLY CRAP OMAR. THIS IS UNREAL. Thank you so much you really are the comics king my friend 👑

Dude! Was just thinking about wanting to know the reading order regarding Krakoa today!!! As a new collector so happy to have your channel around! Keep up the great work!!

I have to say, it is really impressive how you keep tabs on these reading orders. It's not enough that you study the books, you must have a gift!

Stellar work! Your reading order videos are so helpful and fun to watch. Thank you!

Finally this is what I've been waiting for !!

HoxPox is what got me into X-men and comics in general. I followed all the series religiously until Lives / Deaths of wolverine and then there were so many series spinning-out it was hard to keep track and I fell off. Really hoping we get a bunch of omnibus' covering this era so I can finish off all the series I missed, mapping them would be a nightmare unless you just have EVERYTHING in release order.

Thanks for the vid Omar! Good to know that I have the books in the correct order.

Woah, crazy timing! I literally just starting reading this era today! Did a search for the best reading order literally 20 minutes before you uploaded this. Thank you so much for this Omar!

Great video Omar, the documentation you've done on this has been really good too

The best thing i have seen this morning! Thank you almighty uncanny omar!

Thank you omar , been waiting for this ❤

Been looking everywhere for this, thank you.

I hope you update this yearly sir! Such big help! I also hope krakoa era won’t end.

A comprehensive video, Omar!!! Such detail! I fear that with the discontinued news, we have to find any format to collect this complex era. Make Mine X-Men!!!

Thank you so much I really needed this omg

Reading Immortal XMen, Judgement Day, and Sins of Sinister in order was amazing. Immortal xmen is my favorite title

Thank you so much for this video Omar! I have not started reading this era of X-Men but I have been collecting the hardcovers for when the moment comes. I still have hope that Marvel releases some OHC for the rest of titles that we don't have in hardcover format

Oh this is unbelievably exciting

I just asked about this like 3 days ago, perfect timing dude thank you now I can go back to spending

Thank you so much for doing this!!

I really appreciate this! I also though would love to see a video of how you'd map the Krakoa era in omnis. I'm debating whether to wait for those or try to jump on now

Omar yes boy! So glad you made this mate

Thank god!! Im so confused reading these issues

What a coincidence that I’ve recently received the House/Powers of X and X of Swords hardcovers in the mail xD thank you for this video!

Sabretooth is a must read!!!

I haven't watched it through yet but Omar doing the lord's work. Such a good resource

Whew! What a ride. Omar, thank you for these videos. These are so much fun to watch. I love how you cover everything and where it takes place. I collect in the ohc format. No exceptions. So I have House Of X/Powers Of X, X Of Swords, X-Men By Hickman Omni, Inferno, Hellions, and I'm collecting Percy's X-force. I did have the Hellfire Gala ohc but I ended up selling it because I hated it. I got the volume 1's of Excalibur and Marauders but sold them too as they weren't my cup of tea. I'm on the fence about getting Percy's Wolverine. I'm gonna wait until I read volume 2 of his X-force to make up my mind. As for series I would like to see collected in ohc, all of Al Ewing's stuff. He is the most underrated writer for the past 10 years. I'd be tempted to get Gillen's Immortal X-men as well. Everything else looks bland. I'm all for the anthology series. I think it's a shame they aren't continuing those through Fall of X since it should be the last stretch, right? The reason anthologies aren't for me is I like a singular vision to my stories. That's why I love following creators as supposed to "era's." You get bounced around from stories you like, to ones you may not. And let's be honest, some of lower titles don't have the strongest creative teams, so their stories aren't as engaging. Again, to each their own and I think it's so cool that Marvel is putting this era of collected editions in a few different ways. Thanks again! P. S. I see that DM cover of Secret Warriors on your shelf. Take care and peace everyone.

legion xmen legacy may be one of the best comic runs of all time that nobody talks about should be up there with frank millers daredevil and claremont xmen

perfect timing!

It sucks about the Anthology titles, I collected the Anthology and the Hardcovers for the missing stories. Having never been the biggest X-fan, I don't know that I'll be buying anymore of the X-books, once the Anthology books end.

Finally!! Good job sir

Great as always Omar! I still hope we will see the Fall of X anthology, that's such an interesting way to read all the books. One question: when to read AXE? Thanks again for another amazing video

Hickman’s New Mutants was an absolute blast. I still remember the dice based fight game in the middle of New Mutants #2/3. 🎉

I really reaaaallllyyy hope then when the omnie comes out for these titles, they map it perfectly and collect absolutely EVERYTHING! For everyone reading Hox-Pox in single issues when they came out, it was a bit of a thing to read them in order. It's a bummer that the anthology books you're discribing here look that they are a great read with all those titles in one book, but i refuse to collect yet another format, next to singles, OHC and omnie, enough is enough, y'know what i'm sayin' It's a sad thing when you are reading OHC's that usually collect a great deal of content, but you're still missing out on issues from certain titles, hence the omnie mapping will be an amazing future adition to the collection, hoping they indeed collect everything in reading order.

I really tried to work out a good reading order for this era, but in the end I came to the conclusion that most of the books standalone pretty well, and usually read better that way (at least through to _Inferno,_ it gets a bit messier for some of the books when _Judgment Day_ hits). e.g. _Excalibur_ #1-12 > _X of Swords_ > _Excalibur_ #16-26 > _Knights of X_ > _Captain Britain_ is a pretty clean throughline. _Wolverine_ and _X-Force_ are basically the same book though and should be read together (if you can figure out the timeline between them, which is not always clear). _Cable_ in particular, I would recommend reading in one chunk. Read #5-6 as part of _X of Swords,_ but then read #1-4 and #7-12 in one chunk after the crossover (think of the early issues as a flashback, if chronology is especially important to you). It's a single story, and doesn't have enough of a connection to what's going on elsewhere on Krakoa to benefit from switching back and forth or being put on the backburner for an extended period while you catch up with a bunch of other books. The ending does have a significant impact on _SWORD_ though, so make sure to read _Cable_ before that. Oh, and avoid _Fallen Angels_ like the plague. It's awful.

Love this, thank you.

😲 Omar...... ..... we love you!

Bless u for making this video 🤙

The Excalibur Vol. 1 & Marauders Vol. 1 HCs are so hard to get now 😢 I'm with Omar....love the anthology idea. Makes it so easy to know what the reading order is!

Great video!!!

So disappointed they aren't doing the anthologies any more! This means I'll have to get X-Men, Immortal X-Men, X-Men: Red, Wolverine ect. all separate wow, thanks for the heads up because I'm enjoying this X-Men era a lot.

Fingers crossed that they do a Krakoa Era Companion Omnibus that has all the missing oversized hardcover series and events like 4X, Way of X, Fallen Angels, and Trial of Magneto… still holding out a lil hope we eventually get the New Mutants and SWORD series’ in oversized hardcover too

I really hope marvel changes their mind on the anthology series, they printed French versions of it. By far was my favorite way to collect these

Aye man thank you for this but this will be a long fun/journey

We need some simple and coherent way to collect this era for those of us who have missed it thus far. Era sounds awesome

I’ve been out of the loop since before this era & I’m just getting started and can’t wait to absorb all of it - the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the name Krakoa was the huge monster/mouth that was living in the yard of the school

Imagine Marvel announce X Men The Krakoa Omnibus vol 1!

Really would be fun to get SWORD, New Mutants and X-Factor as OHCs or even Omnis. Dawn of X and so on Omnis sound messy to me though the idea of a Companion Omni with the minis and short lived like FF/X-Men and Fallen Angels sounds good to me.

I saved this video in my playlist "best I've seen" so I can come back as I read this era of X-men 😁.

Nooo! Love the anthologies, so disappointing. This is really helpful, thanks Omar. Would love a list of what series trades to pick up to transition from an anthology collector with the least double dipping from Trials onwards!

It’s so colorful!

Great, I need some guidance

Thanks for the great video Omar! I've read HoX/PoX and then I read the X-Men Omnibus (2022). Now I am confused on what to read next because the Dawn of X anthologies also overlaps with the Omnibus. What do you think is the most economical way to cover most of Hickman's X-Men without doubling-up? Thank you

Wow, great video! Bad news about the anthologies though, it was my primary way of reading this era and actually keeping up with the content. Not sure if i'll be able to continue after Trials of X completes. I suppose I'll have to wait for Omnis and end up double dipping. But then should I complete Trials of X... Sigh.... Decisions.....

Thank you!!

How should we go about collecting after the Trials of X vol 12? I really feel lost since they decided to quit making these trades.

Great video

Something I noticed across reddit and facebook groups is how many people have collected the Krakoa books in this format opposed to the Dawn of X, Reign of X etc format. I think that kinda tells me that shelf appeal is more important than convenience to a lot of folks. I collected it in the other format mainly because I didn't want to struggle with reading order. unfortunately, not enough people bought it to justify continuing this format.

Hey Omar, does the Empyre Omnibus not fit in with this? And I'm bit miffed about Trials of X vol 12 finsihing on Sabertooth 3 and other stroies in anthology series not ending in that format, bit of a kick in the teeth unless i'm missing a vol 13 solicit?

Sweet mother of Bor. Now I see why they wanted to release these in deluxe rather than omnibus format.

Oh my god. Dude this is awesome. Thank you!

Wonderful, Omar. Marvel does my head in sometimes. Rather than muck around with single series OHCs, and have to switch back and forth, why can't they simply release Omnibus' of the Krakoa era and make it easy to read for the fans who want the oversized format.

I liked the FF X-men side story. It added to and was interesting

I'm tempted to try out Hickman's X-Men and maybe Ewing's X-Men Red.

I’d prefer when the go the omnibus route, it’s for individual series/creator centric like the Hickman X-men omnibus. As you said, for the cancellation of the anthologies, they were less crossing over, so it makes no sense to do the same mistake twice? Plus the omnis would complement the already existing OHCs.

I am so disappointed with the cancelation of the of x series. Now I have an incomplete collection that will not be finished and because that was my focus getting the out of print books is going to be such a pain in the ass.

Thanks for this Omar Its a good era and i read them digitally (which I hate) but i will wait for a better collection. Half the anthologies are unavailable and its just too much to read. Even the Hickman omni didn't have x of swords. So hard to buy anything.

Would love to see you update some of the older reading orders Omar 👍💪

Perfect timing! Any chance of getting tpb reprints of the Dawn of x? Some volumes are hard to find and independent sellers are asking for ridicylous amounts.

I was super into the krakoa era when it started but I started falling behind around the first hellfire gala and eventually I would stop buying comics. I want to get caught up but it seems like such a monumental task to read all of these series but I feel like this video has helped a bit.

So I was looking at the documented list on Patreon after subscribing under "X-Men Reading Order Part 7 (Krakoa Era). I noticed the list is in a different order for the "Trades by Series" section in comparison to the one shown in this video. Which is more accurate/up to date?

Thanks Omar! But damn really sad about not getting Fall of X. :(

Do you think we’ll ever get Duggan’s X-men, X-men red and Immortal hardcovers? Would love knights of X and captain Britain to be collected in a ohc too. Or as Excalibur vol 3.

I hope they create a Krakoa-Era Omnibus Collection?!

Hey @Near Mint Condition, is there a breakdown of which issues to read and when at all? I just got given all the HCs from a mate and would love to read them all in order.

I have Marvel Unlimited. Would it be okay to read a series like X-Men from #1 to say X of Swords? Or would it be better to read it one issue at a time, like it is released and how it is in Anthology series?

Hey, I’m reading this event into x of swords and I noticed something. You mentioned read up to issue 11 which is correct but this I found out while reading “issue 11” in the omnibus of Xmen isn’t actually Xmen issue 11 because the book goes through in chapters so there’s going to be for example issue 10 of Xmen through the book at chapter 13. At the top of the page of the “cover” of the issue that has the red tint, the page to the right of the book at the top there should say this [XM10], on “issue 11 you had in the video that was the nightcrawler giant issue that the book collects so you would have to keep reading up to chapter 15 in the book to get to Xmen issue 11.

Can you make an update video for the Krakoa for the anthology trades please

Hey Near Mint question! I want to get into the Krakoa era Xmen comics but at the same time there’s so much to read, what are the chances most of these books will become Omni’s in the future, or do you know of any coming that might’ve been announced recently

I'm a hardcover book/TP reader, so if I want to continue after Inferno, I would need to start with Reign of X vol 1?

What if, right? My era starts and begins here with Hickman. And any other series that actually strengthens what he was planning. So I do have some of Wolverine, New Mutants, Hellions that does it. Wouldn't mind getting the hardcovers but I don't want anything extra. So the comics are fine since I get that option to pick and choose.

Not sure about Omar but *I* need a lie down after watching that!😃

Ohhhh Omar you sure sounded like a cranky Gen Xer when you said you missed the mansion era 😂😂 also curious that you mentioned them looking at doing omnis for the era after Fall. Surely the whole Krakoa experience won't be gone gone after that.....right!?

When it comes to this I am happy I have marvel unlimited to read it all when I want to get into it

Is Excalibur 15 not really included in any anthology, trade series or oversized hardcovers?

I’m sooooo bummed about the anthologies. I actually sold my OHC to collect them that way… it was like a months comics in your mailbox and I liked reading them that way.

You must’ve read my mind. I was going to message in the live Q&A and ask this very question. The most baffling era?…..

the beauty of the dawn/reign/trials trades was that it included one-shots and minis so you didn't have to run around asking what you were missing, as a completionist it was A GODSEND. kind of annoying as a trade reader, to read a bunch of issues of X-Men, hit the AXE event, go back, and read up on all the X-Men Red until you hit the Axe event, go back and read up on Immortal x-men til you hit AXE, etc... but i also get that looking on the shelf - if you asked me where colossus started being influenced by the writer, i see a sea of grey/white/black spines and it means little to me... each book and spine having it's own identity Does really help.

when the Anthologies first dropped, it seemed messy, but it's definitely the best way to read the experience. the other formats require too many bookmarks. ;)

What are the chances the other series (for example Duggan’s marauders/X-men, X-force, Wolverine etc) will be collected in an omnibus format similar to Hickman’s X-men run? Or would be it be collected in an ‘era’ omnibus? (Dawn of X omnibus)