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X-aminations X-Men Reviews

X-aminations is a series of posts written with the goal of examining each and every issue of Marvel Comics X-Men and its various spin-off titles. 

The current regular schedule of reviews rotates through three different series every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 

Wednesdays: Uncanny X-Men, X-Men (vol. 2), Generation X
Thursdays: X-Factor, X-Force, Excalibur 
Fridays: X-Man, Wolverine, Cable

Reviews of annuals, the quarterly X-Men Unlimited, additional limited series, one-shots and relevant appearances in other series will be worked in as needed. 

Part of the goal of this project is to get a feel for what it would be like to walk into a comic shop on a given month and pull these titles off the stands. Thus, issues are examined according to their on sale date, with the titles covered in a given two week period equating to what was on sale in a given month. Annuals, limited series, significant guest appearances and the like will be fit in where they can be, but the main titles will remain in their on-sale date groupings.

On sale dates come mostly from Mike's Amazing World of Comics, a fantastic website and resource you should check out if you haven't already. Matters of chronological appearances are usually determined by the Official Marvel Index and/or the Marvel Chronology Project, with occasional assistance from SuperMegaMonkey's Marvel Chronology project. Discrepancies/oddities/general notes on the matter of chronology will be discussed in the relevant issues' posts.


Want to start at the beginning? Here's the very first X-amination (of X-Men #1, of course). Click through from there to read all the reviews in order!

X-aminations: What's Coming Up

All X-aminations

X-Men & Uncanny X-Men

New Mutants

X-Factor 

Excalibur

Wolverine

X-Force

X-Men (vol. 2)

All New X-Factor

X-Men Unlimited

Cable

Generation X 

X-Man

Annuals 

X-amining X-Men Elsewhere (guest appearances, limited series, etc.)

Retro X-aminations (reviews of issues I missed the first time around)

Unstacking the Deck (reviews of Marvel's various trading card series)

Notable Runs

Chris Claremont & John Byrne

Chris Claremont & Jim Lee 

Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz's New Mutants

Chris Claremont & John Romita Jr.

Chris Claremont & Marc Silvestri

Louise Simonson & Brett Blevins' New Mutants 

Louise Simonson & Rob Liefeld's New Mutants

Louise Simonson & Walt Simonson's X-Factor

Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri's Wolverine

Peter David & Larry Stroman's X-Factor 

The "Blue & Gold" era of Uncanny X-Men & X-Men (vol. 2). 

Notable Storylines

"The World Tour"

"Proteus"

"The Dark Phoenix Saga"

"The Demon Bear Saga"

"The Cross-Time Caper"

"Inferno"

"Acts of Vengeance"  

The "Non-Team" era of Uncanny X-Men

"Days of Future Present" 

"X-Tinction Agenda

"The Muir Island Saga"

"Mutant Genesis"

The Blue/Gold Era

"X-Cutioner's Song"

"Fatal Attractions"

"Bloodties"

"Child's Play"

"Phalanx Covenant"

"Legion Quest"

"Age of Apocalypse"

"The Road to Onslaught"

2 comments:

  1. i have always been intrigued by the family dynamics between cable, Phoenix 2, and Prof. Xavier. How did Xavier feel about Cable taking the Nw Mutants?

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  2. Added link to post posting all "Onslaught" reviews.

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