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Secret Wars 2015: One Crossover To Rule Them All

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I make a point to read every comic I buy at least twice, once the week it comes out, and again several months later before I file them away.  The first time I read it, I can appreciate the serial nature of the story, since each issue is released between two and four weeks apart.  The second time, I read entire story arcs in one sitting, so I can enjoy the whole story at once, as if I purchased a graphic novel. I just finished my second reading of the Secret Wars event and many of the tie-in stories. For a bit of context: when Secret Wars came out, almost every single Marvel series ended, and for a few months were replaced with comparable miniseries.  This is because, in the story, the entire Marvel multiverse ends and is replaced with Battleworld, a planet made up of surviving pieces of different universes/dimensions.  I purchased several of these, especially the ones that seemed to replace the comics I was buying anyway (...

New Mutants and New X-Men: Young mutants are the best mutants

Following my read-through of the early years of Laura Kinney, I decided to read about her time at the Xavier Institute, learning alongside other teenage mutants.  I decided  to read the entire New X-Men series (of which Laura joins the cast halfway through), as well as the New Mutants maxi-series that led into it. For this post, I read the following comics: New Mutants 1-13 (by Nunzio DeFilippi s and Christina Weir , 2003-2004) New X-Men 1-46 + Yearbook Special (by Nunzio DeFilippis. Christina Weir, Craig Kyle , and Chris Yost , 2004-2007) New X-Men: Hellions 1-4 (by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, 2005) The X-Men: Messiah CompleX crossover event, which in addition to New X-Men 44-46 (above) includes the following issues from 2007-2008: X-Men: Messiah CompleX one-shot (by Ed Brubaker , 2007) Uncanny X-Men 492-494 (by Ed Brubaker, 1963) X-Factor 25-27 (by Peter David , 2005) X-Men 205-207 (by Mike Carey ,  1991) I read all of these...