Joss Whedon and John Cassaday set out to make something readable out of the X-Men's messy continuity, and completely ignored the major crossover events that happened in the Marvel Universe during the series' run. How many times has Jean Grey died? Is she dead now? Where did Rachel Summers come from? Onslaught? When is my local comic book store going to finally divide the new comics racks into 'Indie,' 'DC,' 'Marvel,' and 'Books that feature Wolverine?' It's some dense,frustrating, sometimes silly stuff, to say the least. The team has a long, sprawling, and confusing history that's on the level of DC's Multiverse (and that's company wide!). Most significant for me is the continuity. Yet there's plenty to not love about the X-Men. What kid drawn to the world of nerdom doesn't find that easy to identify with? Mutants were not born out of the fears of the atomic era, they were just born and born different. For me, as I'm sure was the same for any generation before or after mine, the X-Men felt so fresh and different from all the other comic book characters out there. At that age, the fact that there were girls i that club was oddly fascinating. This was a bit before the 90's animated show came out, so to know the X-Men, who they were and what they're about, it was like being in a secret club. Who doesn't love the X-Men on some level? When I was in the third grade, I don't think there was anything that seemed cooler to me than the X-Men. However, roughly half of the books in the line for this month will not reach my local comic shop in time for my article, and which ones that have, well.the less said of them, the better. Contains as extra material: the complete, uncensored Morrison Manifesto character designs by Frank Quitely, New X-Men #119, page 7 as drawn by Ethan Van Sciver before Igor Kordey joined the artistic team Igor Kordey's double spread from issue #120 envisioned as a single page issue #121 complete script unused version of issue's #128 last page creative evolution, from script to colored page, of issue's #138 first and last sequences Phil Jimenez pencils for assorted covers and pages character designs and page layouts by Marc Silvestri Unused inventory covers by Tommy Lee Edwards, Ariel Olivetti and Ethan Van Sciver Wizard Magazine issues #117, #124, #129-#131, #140, #147, #149, Inquest Magazine issue #86 and Wizard X-Men Special Edition covers by artists Frank Quitely, Michael Turner, Brian Bolland, Kevin Maguire, Ethan Van Sciver, Adam Hughes and Marc Silvestri art for a Wizard article by Lee Weeks and the X-Men (1st series) #94 Wizard Ace Edition cover and overlay by Frank Quitely.Observant followers of my comic articles here on the Fort will realize that I promised more coverage of Marvel's Point One line this month.

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