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Jonathan Hickman X-Men Reading Order!

Marvel took C2e2 2019 by storm with the in-person announcement that writer Jonathan Hickman is returning to the publisher to write two congruent X-Men series. From 2008 to 2015, Hickman stood out as one of the best Marvel Universe writers, delivering impressive work across titles like Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the 2015 Secret Wars event (among others!).

Since Secret Wars, Hickman’s been focused on excellent creator-owned work with Image (books such as East of West and The Black Monday Murders), and Marvel’s been struggling to regain their footing. The promise of the writer’s return to an X-Men franchise that has also seen vast inconsistency throughout the 2010’s is an immensely satisfying prospect for fans of either.

Intriguingly, in pre-release hype Marvel has celebrated four distinct major eras of X-Men since Uncanny X-Men debuted in 1963: Giant Size X-Men #1 (1975), X-Men #1 (1991), Age of Apocalypse, New X-Men. The implication is that Hickman’s two series – House of X and Powers of X – will be the beginning of the 5th era.

Below you’ll find a complete guide to the X-Men comics of Jonathan Hickman, as well as connected prelude and tie-in issues that help explain the story.

Related Reading Orders:

Chris Claremont Era X-Men (1975 – 1991)

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Modern X-Men (1998 – Present)

Road to Hickman’s X-Men

New X-Men by Grant Morrison

In interviews (including a brief C2E2 chat with yours truly), Hickman is quick to laud Morrison’s work with praise, from Marvel Boy to New X-Men. It should not come as a surprise if his X-Men comics treat the New X-Men era with a degree of reverence.

Indeed, Hickman’s already pulled from Morrison’s lofty ideas, including the concept of the “phoenix egg” in his “Time Runs Out” build through to Secret Wars.

Comic Book Herald’s Jonathan Hickman Reading Order (2008 to 2015)

Speaking of massive, ambitious all-time great runs in Marvel history, Hickman’s run from 2008 to 2015 across the Marvel Universe stands as my favorite modern sequence of comics in Marvel.

Of particular interest, I’ve also dissected how Hickman wrote specific X-Men characters and concepts, and what we might expect moving forward given this history.

Uncanny X-Men (2018) #11 to #22

Marvel made much ado over the ($7.99) 2018 release of a new Uncanny X-Men #1, and the series ran weekly for the first 10 issues/weeks. While those ten issues do set the stage for a clear break that happens in Uncanny X-Men #11, they’re most focused on driving to the Age of X-Man event.

So, yes, long time X-Men fans can read the entire series, but purely for the purposes of a road to Hickman’s X-Men, I’d argue you can start with Matthew Rosenberg’s time writing the run solo from UXM #11 on.

Uncanny X-Men #22 is scheduled for release July 17, 2019, and is set to conclude this series of Uncanny (which began all the way back in the long ago known as 2018). The first issue of House of X will release the following week.

Jonathan Hickman writing House of X and Powers of X

Hickman on X-Men Checklist

House of X / Powers of X

Collects: House of X #1 to #6, Powers of X #1 to #6

This is the collected edition – Full issue by issue breakdown below.

House of X and Powers of X Reading Order

House of X #1

The House of X / Powers of X duology has been so fun, I’ve started a video series called “Krakin’ Krakoa” where I provide background, history, and just overall enthusiasm for the events of the comic.

The series starts here with a history of Professor Charles Xavier prior to House of X #1. From this point forward I’ll just list the next entry in the video series by number, so those of you looking to avoid any possible spoilers can do so here!

Powers of X #1

House of X #2

You can find my exploration of some stand-out references to past Hickman comics in Krakin Krakoa: Secrets of House of X!

Krakin’ Krakoa #3 also goes with House of X #2.

Powers of X #2

For my video background, check out Krakin’ Krakoa #4!

Powers of X #3

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #5!

House of X #3

House of X #4

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #7!

Marvel Comics #1000

Just the single page story by Hickman and Dustin Weaver about Apocalypse and his four horsemen!

Powers of X #4

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #6!

House of X #5

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #8!

Powers of X #5

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #9!

House of X #6

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #10!

Powers of X #6

Video companion via Krakin’ Krakoa #12!

After HoX & PoX… Dawn of X Reading Order!

X-Men Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

Marauders Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

Excalibur Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

X-Force Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

New Mutants Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

Fallen Angels Vol. 1

Collects: tbd

Issue by Issue Dawn of X Checklist

X-Men #1

Marauders #1

My review and theories of Marauders #1!

Excalibur #1

My review and theories of Excalibur #1!

New Mutants #1

My review and theories of New Mutants #1!

X-Force #1

My review and theories of X-Force #1!

X-Men #2

My review and theories of X-Men #2!

Fallen Angels #1

My review and theories of Fallen Angels #1!

Excalibur #2

My review of Excalibur #2!

Marauders #2

My review and theories of Marauders #2!

New Mutants #2

My review of New Mutants #2!

X-Force #2

My review of X-Force #2!

Fallen Angels #2

My review of Fallen Angels #2!

Marauders #3

X-Men #3

Excalibur #3

New Mutants #3

X-Force #3

Fallen Angels #3

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February 2020

Wolverine #1

X-Men / Fantastic Four #1

Giant Size X-Men: Jean Grey And Emma Frost #1

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. joe says

    September 1, 2019 at 5:06 pm

    Would reading Ed Piskor: X-Men: Grand Design / Second Genesis / X-Tinction help with Hickman’s House of X?

    Reply
    • chad says

      September 5, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      yes, they are a cliffnotes for entire xmen history tho its not in detail. it shows pretty much all the big events that happened

      Reply
      • chad says

        September 5, 2019 at 10:19 pm

        id say at least read giant size xmen issue to understand what krokoa is, and maybe read any of claremont’s xmen books or grant morrisons new xmen, to get an understanding of all the characters and what their powers are.

        grand design pretty much recaps their entire history of events that happened but dont so much go in to detail about the characters and what their powers are…

        Reply
  2. Asep says

    August 29, 2019 at 8:03 am

    Question.
    I am a new reader of comics. Can I start reading X-Men from House of X #1 even if I haven’t read anything prior to that? Will I understand the stories?

    Reply
    • Dave says

      August 29, 2019 at 10:08 am

      Good question! I wrote a whole column about it here: https://www.comicbookherald.com/previously-on-77-can-you-read-house-of-x-as-a-starting-point-the-all-time-pre-release-hype-rankings-and-being-a-fool-at-a-creator-signing/

      Short answer, House of X is intended as a starting place, and honestly, the fact that you haven’t read X-Men before might work to your benefit in some ways (less memory baggage!). That said, it can be a challenging first comic book, so mileage may vary! My advice is to give it a shot, and if it’s not working, try out some other comics as a warmup. Enjoy the comics!

      Reply
    • chad says

      September 5, 2019 at 10:16 pm

      id say at least read giant size xmen issue to understand what krokoa is, and maybe read any of claremont’s xmen books or grant morrisons new xmen, to get an understanding of all the characters and what their powers are.

      Reply
  3. Josh says

    August 25, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    Road to list should include Soule’s Astonishing X-Men. At least the first two volumes that contain the resurrection of Xavier in Fantomex’s body as “X”

    Reply

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