New X-Men
As Marvel’s current X-books prepared for the end of a golden age—the Krakoan status quo that re-ignited my love of X-Men comics in a way little had since… well, the comics I’m about to gush about right now—the timely arrival of a new omnibus reprint of Grant Morrison’s early aughts comics let me revisit the comics that made me fall in love with this world and characters in the first place. As a child of the ‘90s I was innately familiar with the X-Men animated series, and then the Fox films as they helped reshape the future of superheroic cinema as we know it today, but it was New X-Men’s bold, fresh update to the characters and continuity that made me love the comics versions of these characters more than anything else. Biting, funny, epic, filled with fascinating interpretations of timeless legends, and perhaps the greatest Emma Frost has ever been in comics history, New X-Men remains one of my all-time favorite runs on a comic book. The whole world was watching, and it really was nothing less than fabulous. – James Whitbrook
