x-men crossover mania

[georgexjr]

x-men: manifest destiny
x-men: original sin
astonishing x-men: ghost boxes
x-men: worlds apart

to keep up with this stuff you need to be buying...
astonishing x-men
uncanny x-men
x-men: legacy
cable
secret invasion: x-men
young x-men
x-men: original sin
wolverine: origins
astonishing x-men: ghost boxes
wolverine: manifest destiny (by jason arron a board favorite)
x-force
x-men: worlds apart
x-men: manifest destiny


all this (im assuming) leads up to inferno 2.

lets not forget all the neat magik stuff coming out soon as well.

shit.

[hank41]

wtf! do they really expect everyone to buy all this?

oh, crap. maybe i will :o

[conanobrien]

I am not an X-men expert at all in fact I know very little but this seems just like a money making scheme to me. Instead of putting out let's say four quality books rich with story it seems like they would rather put out all this mediocre stuff and depend on the X-men nuts like Ron to buy it all.


If I am wrong and these are all good or mostly good I would like to know because I enjoy the movies and characters but I haven't read the stories.

[hank41]

i feel the exact same way. it feels like a scheme, so i wont buy it. but i would love to read the whole thing if its a good read

[georgexjr]

im complaining but in reality, ill have to pick up wolverine orgins and the limited series...

still a lot though.

[viperseatlotus]

I like the x-men and all but i am thinking...meh to this.

[kwok_talk]

Wait. Just a little confused. Who said you needed to buy all those titles to know what's going on in X-men? Worlds apart / original sin are just minis. Manifest destiny is more of a theme (unless you want to buy the short story one shots) and AXM is just the normal AXM story. I could be wrong, but I don't think you'll need to read all the books you mentioned to understand what's going on with the top 4.

[hank41]

if thats true, and it could be, i would be more than happy to read them

[gobo]

My impression of things is a lot of those "crossovers" are going to be like Divided We Stand in that they're all branded the same but aren't really crossovers.

At least in terms of Manifest Destiny, I haven't even heard about those other things

[hank41]

i need things cleared up

[oh_caroline]

Are any of these things really even crossovers? If I have a complaint about current X-men continuity, in fact, it's that it doesn't intersect enough. I'm reading Astonishing, Uncanny, Legacy, Cable, and X-Factor but I feel like I could be reading any one of those books and skipping the others. I'm not reading Young X-men or X-Force and so far it doesn't really affect anything.

Other than the move to San Francisco -- which was handled to my satisfaction with a few lines of exposition in Astonishing -- I don't think anything since 'Messiah Complex' has even affected other books. I'll check out some of the upcoming minis, if I like the creative teams, but I haven't had any reason to think that I *need* to be reading any of these books to get the others.