re-reading the x-men
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sevI was a New Mutants fan in the late eighties, and I dipped my toes into the X-Men here and there. And then the franchise started to multiply and I got totally lost, and then I went off to college and read my way through other people's collections of other titles, and finally stopped trying to keep track of any of it and the New Mutants were over by then anyway, which made it harder for me to care.
Twenty years later, after the third time somebody gave me the hairy eyeball when I said my favorite Phoenix was named Rachel, I thought perhaps I should fill in the gaping holes in my experience. I've been reading the nine volumes of Essential X-Men reprints, which the seattle public library has. They're black-and-white reprints of X-Men & a couple of crossovers originally published 1975-1990 (the last one includes Uncanny X-Men #244-264 & Annual #13.)
I am very much enjoying this experience, but I've just about reached the end of the Essential X-Men reprints. This leads me to two problems:
1) With the proliferation of titles in the nineties, and then the reboot (reload? recycle...) more recently, I can't for the life of me figure out what goes before or after what.
and 2) because of (1) it's hard to be certain, but I don't think SPL has good coverage of the 1990-2000 era.
From the library's website I get things like "Contains material originally published in magazine form as Dark Wolverine #82-84, New Mutants #11, and Siege : storming Asgard - heroes & villians" with no indication of whether it comes before or after "Contains material originally published in magazine form as Second Coming: Prepare, X-Men: Second Coming #1-2, Uncanny X-Men #523-525, New Mutants #12-14, X-Men Legacy #235-237, and X-Force #26-28" (those were the Siege: X-Men and the X-Men: Second Coming reprint books, respectively) and X-Men:Mutant Genesis says "X-Men #1-7" but is very clearly *not* the ones published in 1963.)
Anybody have any guidance? Most of the publication timelines I've found have been either very general, or mostly plot-ful instead of issue-name-and-number-ful. The death of usenet has left me clueless as to how to find the kind of detailed lists once found onrec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (from which I've found the Reprint List as of 2001, which is how I've come to suspect the library lacks what I want next.).
And Rachel Summers is still my favorite Phoenix.
Twenty years later, after the third time somebody gave me the hairy eyeball when I said my favorite Phoenix was named Rachel, I thought perhaps I should fill in the gaping holes in my experience. I've been reading the nine volumes of Essential X-Men reprints, which the seattle public library has. They're black-and-white reprints of X-Men & a couple of crossovers originally published 1975-1990 (the last one includes Uncanny X-Men #244-264 & Annual #13.)
I am very much enjoying this experience, but I've just about reached the end of the Essential X-Men reprints. This leads me to two problems:
1) With the proliferation of titles in the nineties, and then the reboot (reload? recycle...) more recently, I can't for the life of me figure out what goes before or after what.
and 2) because of (1) it's hard to be certain, but I don't think SPL has good coverage of the 1990-2000 era.
From the library's website I get things like "Contains material originally published in magazine form as Dark Wolverine #82-84, New Mutants #11, and Siege : storming Asgard - heroes & villians" with no indication of whether it comes before or after "Contains material originally published in magazine form as Second Coming: Prepare, X-Men: Second Coming #1-2, Uncanny X-Men #523-525, New Mutants #12-14, X-Men Legacy #235-237, and X-Force #26-28" (those were the Siege: X-Men and the X-Men: Second Coming reprint books, respectively) and X-Men:Mutant Genesis says "X-Men #1-7" but is very clearly *not* the ones published in 1963.)
Anybody have any guidance? Most of the publication timelines I've found have been either very general, or mostly plot-ful instead of issue-name-and-number-ful. The death of usenet has left me clueless as to how to find the kind of detailed lists once found onrec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (from which I've found the Reprint List as of 2001, which is how I've come to suspect the library lacks what I want next.).
And Rachel Summers is still my favorite Phoenix.