X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Reading Order: How to read the most ambitious X-Men run in a long time?
For a long time, X-Men comics were just a second thought at Marvel Comics. And then, Jonathan Hickman came.
What is the X-Men by Jonathan Hickman series about?
A new era begins for the mutants of the Marvel World. With artists Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva, writer Jonathan Hickman used past, present, and future to build a new kind of X-Story for the Mutantkind.
Charles Xavier has a plan. He makes an offer to the human in order to build a new Mutant nation on Krakoa Island where all the mutants in the world-good or bad-are welcome.
Together, they will take their place in the future and nothing will stop them. It’s a new beginning, but humans may not be ready to accept it.
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Follow the X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Reading Order:
I. House of X/Powers of X
These two miniseries work in concert to build a prologue to the newly revised world of the X-Men by Jonathan Hickman.
The House of X & Powers of X are collected in one book, but if you want to read issue by issue, this is the reading order:
- House of X #1
- Powers of X #1
- House of X #2
- Powers of X #2
- Powers of X #3
- House of X #3
- House of X #4
- Powers of X #4
- House of X #5
- Powers of X #5
- House of X #6
- Powers of X #6 (of 6)
II. Dawn of X
The new X-Men status-quo is in place. Now, new series are created to tell the multiple stories written by Jonathan Hickman and his Marvel collaborators.
- X-Men #1
- X-Men #6
- Excalibur #1-6
- New Mutants #1-4
- New Mutants #6
- Marauders #1
- Incoming #1 “Bar Sinister”
- X-Men/Fantastic Four #1-4
- X-Force #1
- Fallen Angels #1-4
- Marauders #2-3
- New Mutants #8
- X-Men #2
- Marvel Comics #1000 “The First Horsemen”
- X-Men #3
- New Mutants #5
- New Mutants #7
- New Mutants #9-11
- X-Force #2-3
- X-Men #4
- X-Force #4-5
- Fallen Angels #5-6
- Hellions #1-4
- X-Force #6
- Marauders #4-6
- Cable #1
- X-Men #8-9
- X-Men #5
- Giant-Size X-Men #1: Jean Grey & Emma Frost
- Marauders #7
- Giant-Size X-Men #3: Magneto
- Marauders #8
- X-Force #7-8
- Excalibur #7-8
- X-Force #9-10
- X-Factor #1
- Wolverine #1-3
- Cable #2-4
- Marauders #9-12
- Giant-Size X-Men #2: Nightcrawler
- New Mutants #12
- Marvel’s Voices #1 “The Race”
- Giant-Size X-Men #4: Fantomex
- Giant-Size X-Men #5: Storm
- X-Men #7
- X-Men #10
- Empyre: X-Men #1-4
- X-Men #11
- Wolverine #4-5
- X-Factor #2-3
- X-Force #11-12
- X-Force #15-16
- Excalibur #9-12
- X-Men #12
X of Swords >> The X-Men Crossover of the Year begins here
- X of Swords: Creation #1
- X-Factor #4
- Wolverine #6
- X-Force #13
- Marauders #13
- Hellions #5
- New Mutants #13
- Cable #5
- Excalibur #13
- X-Men #13
- X of Swords: Stasis #1
- X-Men #14
- Marauders #14
- Marauders #15
- Excalibur #14
- Wolverine #7
- X-Force #14
- Hellions #6
- Cable #6
- X-Men #15
- Excalibur #15
- X of Swords: Destruction #1
III. Reign of X
- S.W.O.R.D. #1
- X-Factor #5
- Excalibur #16
- Hellions #7-8
- Cable #7-8
- X-Men #16
- New Mutants #14
- Marauders #16
- Wolverine #8-10
- X-Factor #6-9
- New Mutants #15-17
- Marauders #17
- S.W.O.R.D. #2-4 (King in Black tie-ins)
- King in Black: Marauders #1 (King in Black tie-ins)
- Excalibur #17-20
- Hellions #9-11
- X-Men #17
- Marauders #18-19
- Children of the Atom #1-3
- Cable #9
- X-Force #17
- Juggernaut #1-5
- X-Force #18-19
- Wolverine #11-12
- X-Men #18-19
- Cable #10-12
- New Mutants #18
- X-Men #20
- X-Corp #1
- S.W.O.R.D. #5
- Children of the Atom #4-5 (takes place during the Hellfire Gala, but are not officially tie-ins to the event)
- Way of X #1-2
- Marauders #20
Hellfire Gala –>The X-Men Crossover of the Year begins here
- Marauders #21
- X-Force #20
- Hellions #12
- Excalibur #21
- X-Men #21
- Planet Size X-Men #1
- New Mutants #19
- X-Corp #2
- Wolverine #13
- S.W.O.R.D. #6
- Way of X #3
- X-Factor #10
- Children of the Atom #6
- S.W.O.R.D. #7 (part of The Last Annihilation crossover)
- Cable: Reloaded #1 (part of The Last Annihilation crossover)
- New Mutants #20-23
- Marauders #22
- The Trial of Magneto #1
- Marauders #23
- X-Men #1
- Wolverine #14-16
- The Trial of Magneto #2-4
- Inferno #1
- Hellions #13-16
- S.W.O.R.D. #8
- Hellions #17-18
- The Trial of Magneto #5
- New Mutants #24
- X-Men #2
- X-Force #21-22
- Excalibur #22
- Way of X #4-5
- X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation #1
- X-Corp #3-5
- Excalibur #23
- X-Force #23-24
- Marauders #24-25
- X-Men #3
- Excalibur #24-25
- X-Men #4
- S.W.O.R.D. #9-11
- X-Men #5
- Wolverine #17-18
- X-Men #6-7
- Devil’s Reign: X-Men #1-3
- Inferno #2
- X-Force #25-26
- Marauders #26
- Excalibur #26
- Wolverine #19
- Marauders #27
- Inferno #3-4
IV. Destiny of X
This is not Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men anymore! I will continue the work here, but more slowly.
I have to credit the Krakoa Era website, some Reddit users like deleted59 and regurgitatedthought but also some leagueofcomicgeeks.com users for their hard work doing what I failed to do (keeping up with everything!). Their work was a great help.
