68 Comic Reading Order

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To clarify, this site is not a reading order for the comic book entitled Ultimate X-Men which was published between 2001 and 2009. No, the subject of this is of a much broader scale. This site was created to walk readers through the entire history of the X-Men in the primary 616 Marvel Universe, from their debut in 1963 until today. I have put a lot of time and love into creating this order, with the intent that it is the best and most accurate one of its kind on the internet. I hope that it allows you to enjoy as much as I have what is perhaps the greatest long-running team comic and social allegory comic ever written.

This is not an essentials only type of order. Every appearance of the X-Men that amounts to more than a brief cameo is included here. It is only stuff that does not contain at least three X-Men which must be deemed important to the overall narrative in order to be included.

On that note, I want to mention one other thing that I believe to be unique about my Order. There are sometimes issues in the Order that do not feature X-Men at all. The reason for this is that certain events in the Marvel Universe that affect the X-Men (for example, Civil War or the newer Secret Wars) are not X-Men-centric events. They do involve the X-Men, so they are not skippable; however, in order to get a complete and fleshed out story, it is often necessary to read issues focused on other characters. So when it is in service of the overall narrative to go off track to something that is not directly about the X-Men, I have done that. Overall though, this is always meant to be the story of the X-Men above all else.

Sometimes comics in the Reading Order overlap. Sometimes several issues happen in between the pages of an issue. Where that happens, I have attempted to note it. I do not always have specific pages where this occurs, unfortunately (though in recent years I do far more often), but I can at least tell you that somewhere in issue A, you need to break to read other issues B, C, D, etc. I have tried to make this clear by making my comic lists into multi-level lists, with issues that occur within another issue sub-bulleted beneath the issue that you should begin reading first.

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VOL.10 - MILESTONE RETURNS
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NOTE: These comics are a brand new reboot of the Milestone world, and are still currently being published. Thus I do not know the correct reading order. I will update this when the project inevitably falls apart and ends.

Of those titles starting the universe, and the one that brought me back to this dead universe, was Dark Dominion. Steve Ditko, who only penciled part of the first issue before walking away, deserves a great deal of credit for inspiring what Jim Shooter would eventually create. According to Shooter:

Building a suggested reading order for Defiant is unique due to the website Shooterswork.com acquiring the creator notes for the unpublished Schism issues. Those notes include a rough timeline detailing events that happened in the other titles and how they would go on to impact the crossover event. I used these notes and my personal knowledge of the series for putting together my suggested reading order.

I cannot guarantee this is complete, it has been culled from a variety of sources, but the majority of the initial ordering came from -x-men-volumes-88-100-the-new-revolution with some heavy modifications by myself as warranted while reading.

Thus, it has no intersection with your X-Men reading at all! You could just intersperse it with your read in chunks based on its release dates (it began the same month as Fatal Attractions and ended during Onslaught, with the final 2099 story in
2099: World of Tomorrow (1996) #8 out just before Operation: Zero Tolerance).

Hey,I want to start reading X-men and I am starting to read uncanny X-men(ISSUE #1) release in 2019.I wanted to know if I should read soem other comics before it or should directly jump into it. It will be helpful if you can also suggest some other X-men storylines which will be cool to read.

P.S. if anyone reads this, is Captain Britain worth reading? At this time that is one of the only things I plan to skip, other than the Super Spider-Man issues that fall in the early Claremont era and other crossovers of his.

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The architects of The High Republic initiative have stated that publishing order is the best order to read in and we generally agree outside of a few special circumstances which you will find below. That's why our reading order is not in timeline order, but rather in our recommended reading order to get the optimal storytelling experience.

We have put a lot of thought into the best order to read the High Republic in, and this list is the result of hours of debate and thoughtful placement.

The High Republic is a publishing initiative of books, comics, and other media projects surrounding an era of the Star Wars universe that takes place roughly 200 years before The Phantom Menace.

Every piece of new media in The High Republic is created in coordination with every other new story; this means that events in every book, comic, and more often reference events and characters in others.

Phase 2 of The High Republic sends us backwards 150 years from the events of Phase 1. It includes an all new cast of characters and a completely original story related to Phase 1. Even though, Phase 2 takes place before Phase 1 chronologically, we do not recommend starting here if this is your first time reading.

One year after the events of Phase 1, much has changed in the galaxy. Starlight Beacon has fallen and Marchion Ro has erected the Stormwall, establishing the Occlusion Zone. With the balance of the galaxy upended, Phase 3 explores this greater conflict as well as how our heroes have changed in the aftermath of a great tragedy.

There was a time when Deadpool had four on-going comics at once along with minis and other madness. While it was a time of quantity over quality, Deadpool Team-Up had a lot of gems in there. A follow-up to Deadpool #900 (making fun of how Spider-Man, Hulk, and others suddenly had #600 comics coming out), we got this series, which was numbered in reverse order.

A villain known as the Daimyo has made a ton of enemies and each issue focuses on a different one, each a powerless, Japanese counterpart to certain Marvel heroes. You have Wolverine, Hulk, Punisher, Psylocke, and finally Deadpool. Other than the Psylocke issue, a crazy village idiot with his scars covered in a wide, straw hat tends to show up and pushes the heroes one way or another. This is, as you can guess, Deadpool, who gets the spotlight in the last issue, mixing his silly nature, a serving a emotional trauma, and a whole lot of badass.

Hey, Hastings is back! In a series of two-for-one-shots that feature Avengers characters teaming up with X-Men characters, we have Hawkeye and Deadpool working together. You know, Deadpool is sort of an X-Men guy. This beats the pants off of most of Deadpool Team-Up due to the banter between the two snarky superhero man-children. Their pirate-fighting adventure is a great prelude to the Hawkeye vs. Deadpool miniseries, though they certainly get along better here. While most heroes immediately hate Deadpool, Hawkeye takes a shining to him from the start and the two fight side-by-side like total bros. Also notable for the debut of the exploding Hulk Hands trick arrow.

On Halloween, Deadpool ends up crossing paths with both Hawkeyes and inserts himself in helping them solve a mystery. They uncover a plot involving Black Cat, Typhoid Mary, and a lot of brainwashed weirdos dressed as superheroes.

Wow, an actual Deadpool event! About time we got one of these. Told across three books, Shiklah finally decides to start an uprising and take over New York City. While the Mercs for Money keep her busy, Deadpool and Spider-Man take a trip to Europe to bring in the only monster capable of putting a stop to this: Dracula.

What makes this one so fun is that Fred Van Lente gets to do a quasi-follow-up to his amazing Taskmaster miniseries from years earlier. Not only does Taskmaster himself show up for a bit, but underrated D-list villain Don of the Dead gets to strut his stuff.

The story also bounces back and forth between the present and the future, decades on where Wade and Peter living at the same retirement home. A guilt-ridden Deadpool constantly keeps an eye on his reluctant buddy to secretly keep him alive and it all ties into their LMD adventure. Soon Old Man Wade will have no choice but to use a time machine to reach the present and make things right.

These are listed in the order which the events in each comic take place, NOT the release date. Though it's also listed that way by default most of the time. The Golden Age and Tick & Artie comic series' are not part of the continuity.

The following is a suggested reading order for the Young Justice companion comics. Several events depicted in the comics overlap with others from the episodes, therefore it is not possible to have a completely sequential viewing/reading order for the series and the comics. The suggested order presented below strives to reconcile chronology with narrative coherence as much as possible.

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