the last good issue of x-men?

[Bionic Joe]

ok i want to know what was the last great x-men issue:gossip: In my opion the last great issue was uncanny x-men 144 and any issue after uncanny 175 is really unreadable:yes: and other then x-men the hidden years and phoenix-end song none of the x titles are worth the time of day

[Blue Meanie]

Days Of Future Past X-Men 141 - 142. After that it's ALL CRAP. I LOVE Dave Cockrum, but I can't stand the Brood Saga.

[The Toyroom]

I currently read Astonishing X-Men (although I'm getting tired of the third arc) and prior to that the last X-Men I read on a regular basis was Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. I haven't picked up an issue of Uncanny or X-Men in years. Got tired of the many sub-plots being unanswered and unaddressed over the course of 20 years. Too many mutants and too many teams. At one time the X-Men were the underdogs of the Marvel Universe...now they are the freakin' Marvel Universe!

[The Toyroom]

The Claremont/Cockrum*/Byrne issues were some of the earliest I remember reading and are still the best of the series.

*1st time around.

[johnmiic]

I haven't read any since Art Adams penciled some in 1986. I do have some annuals with FF crossovers where Franklin is grown up.

[Bionic Joe]

toyroom i think you nailed it on the head with to many mutants and to many teams and may i add to many titles guess that was why i liked the hidden years so much it was a striped down team even end song it only had a hand full of mutants and most were only the important ones wolvie/cly/beast/storm /nightcrawer

[kingdom warrior]

Days Of Future Past X-Men 141 - 142. After that it's ALL CRAP. I LOVE Dave Cockrum, but I can't stand the Brood Saga.

Yes Sir after those issue it has all been poop.....this is before all the freakin Mutant teams and before Wolverine got overexposed

Notice how the stories they adapt for Tv and the movies come from the New X-men stories from this time.....I liked it when there was only ONE X-men book.....

[MegoMonk]

I started reading comics around 77. I think my first X-Men issue was 102. After about 10 years they went down hill. I stopped reading the X books by 1991. A few years ago, I bought a few boxes of 2nd hand comics from 2001 to 2003. The X-men from that time were awful. They had this dopey soap opera story where Havok had been in a coma and fell in love with his nurse. So, Polaris turned evil and tried to kill the nurse, and had to fight the X-Men. Who writes this stuff? Yecchh.

[BlackKnight]

Currently reading the arc of "Rise & Fall of the Shi'ar Empire" in Uncanny X-men & Loving it. Love Warpath & Marvel Girl 2... Rachel. Great Story, filled with X-men, Gladiator, the Shi'ar & the Star Jammers. Ohh,.. & the 3rd Summers Brother. :grin:

[The Toyroom]

The Shi'ar Empire and the Starjammers are okay but I really only like them in the X-Men world when done by Cockrum or Byrne and the threat is Phoenix (i.e. the old stuff). I really don't think the X-Men should be mucking around in space operas on a regular basis. They should be fighting the mutant persecution that still exists in this country. :grin:

[aquatroy]

Still digging Astonishing!

[Cosmicman]

I think when people have been reading X-Men as much as we have. The stories and the characters get old and there isn't really nothing writers can do to make the book interesting that we haven't already seen.
I tried to hang on but it seemed like after the movie came out, they tried to turn the characters into black leather garbed versions similar to the movie. Though they did change it back to the spandex costumes, I was too far gone to go back. I tried picking up a few issues of Astonishing X-Men but it didn't catch me like it did some people.
Maybe I am getting old but I don't see any point of collecting X-Men anymore. They are no longer on my reading list.

[Comic Book Geek]

I didn't read X-men as a kid, and could never get into X-men after that. I tried to jump into it many times, but just always found myself in the middle of years of drama that I was never a part of... Unitl, I read Astonishing X-men. Great read. Wheden's about done. I think X-fans should at least read the first trade.

[BlackKnight]

Just not a Fan of Astonishing X-men,.. :no: I'll take Uncanny, & Regular X-men anyday. ;)

[The Toyroom]

Astonishing's 1st 2 arcs were good...not so much the 3rd.

[emeraldknight47]

I haven't picked up an issue of X-MEN in quite a few years. For one thing, there are just too darn many of the things!

I'll chime in here and say I think the last GREAT X-Men storyline probably was the "Days of Future Past" issues. They had everything you could want from a comic and then some. I remember when I used to walk home from the mall at night right after reading those issues in the fall and pretending I was Wolverine and there were Sentinels lurking around in the dark. Ah---the fun of youth!

[Drzsmith]

I was gonna say Uncanny 143 the Kitty Pryde Christmas issue.

[thunderbolt]

Read the Morrison story and Byrne's Hidden Years and that was after quitting it all years before that when the Image boys screwed it all up.

[The Bat]

Currently reading the arc of "Rise & Fall of the Shi'ar Empire" in Uncanny X-men & Loving it. Love Warpath & Marvel Girl 2... Rachel. Great Story, filled with X-men, Gladiator, the Shi'ar & the Star Jammers. Ohh,.. & the 3rd Summers Brother. :grin:

Yeah I read all of those books when they came out, except "War of Kings"...which I just picked up in TB, good stories!:yes:

As far as the last "truly GREAT" issues of X-Men...that would be the start of Jim Lee's X-Men Issues #1, 2 and 3.:applause:

[Gorn Captain]

The last ones I really got a kick out of was Uncanny X-Men: Mutant Massacre, somewhere around 210-213, I think...

[madmarva]

I liked X-men a lot through Uncanny 200 when Magneto was on trial. After that the book lost its juice for me. I enjoyed the Hidden Years and some of what Morrison and Wheddon did, but as many have stated, the Cockrum/Claremont/Byrne years are unquestionably the best, in my mind. Never liked the Frost/Cyclops relationship and to me Cyclops is the X-Men. The rest are supporting characters.

I do believe the overabundance of mutants is the issue, but creating new characters is how writers have tried — I said tried — to keep it fresh. And obviously, the series still works for a lot of readers and that's totally cool.

I may pick up schism in the trade, but I'm sure I'll have no clue what's going on. But the idea of having two X-Men teams at odds with Cyclops and Wolverine as leaders does interest me.

[boynightwing]

For me it was the Age of Apocalypse. Oh and perhaps the Joss Whedon stuff as well.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I kinda peetered out around the Madelyne Pryor era. They did a good job before that of making it feel like something was happeneng, but by then you could see ideas repeating, and the characters were getting WAY too emo for me.

Don C.

[samurainoir]

Currently reading X-men Schism which ain't bad... I'll be continuing this into wolverine and the Xmen which is the new title jason Aaron has been writing. His wolverine and prior to that Woverine Weapon X are terrific... Almost a Vertigo feel to them

Dropped Astonishing after Warren Ellis was finished his run. Started reading Uncanny when Ed Bruaker took over and continued into Matt Fraction's run. The only problem I've had with following Uncanny is the fact that it keeps getting interrupted by crossovers which I don't follow into all the rest of the various x-titles for the most part, which was what made Adtonishing so enjoyable throughout Joss Whedon and Warren Ellis' runs, and Grant Morrison's New X Men prior to that.

[samurainoir]

I may pick up schism in the trade, but I'm sure I'll have no clue what's going on. But the idea of having two X-Men teams at odds with Cyclops and Wolverine as leaders does interest me.

You'll be able to figure out Schism well enough... The only thing I wasn't familiar with was this new set of students, but you get the gist of the conflict one of them ignites between Cyclops and Wolverine. Otherwise it's just knowing that Cyclops has united ALL of the mutants under one country... mutopia. Including Magneto and Sub Mariner.

They start you with anew Hellfire club and give their origin in the series

[BlackKnight]

I haven't read an X-Book Since 2nd Coming , which I did like alot till the End...., X-Force changed to Uncanny X-Force, which wasn't the same to me ..., and Nightcrawler and Cable Died.... or for now. I really liked Cyclops' X-Force.