What Comics Should I Read to Get Cassandra Nova?
The bulk of Cassandra’s most important appearances are in New X-Men, starting with the very first arc, “E for Extinction,” in New X-Men #114, all the way through to her defeat in New X-Men #126. Marvel recently collected New X-Men in a complete omnibus format again last year—it’s well worth checking out!—or you can read those issues digitally through Marvel Unlimited.
The impact of the Genoshan Genocide—Cassandra’s defining legacy—appears here and there across the next few decades of comics, but if you really want to see the fruition of how mutantkind reckons with it all, it’s worth checking out some of the X-Men material of the post-2019 Krakoan age. The first “Hellfire Gala” event, as well as the spinoff miniseries Trial of Magneto, deal particularly with this, but for Cassandra’s return itself, you’ll want to check out 2022’s Marauders relaunch—which is also available in physical trade paperbacks as well as digitally through Marvel Unlimited.
