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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.
This article will not be updated anymore. Since we have launched a blog dedicated to comic book reading orders, you can find an up-to-date version of this X-Men by Hickman Reading Order here.
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.
