the last good issue of x-men?

[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.

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

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.

[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.