This week I finally got in the mail the last issues I needed so I could read Part 12 – 22 of the X-men event “Ten of Swords”. Since I am only a year or so back into reading comics, I got the strong impression that this event has set up some significant story seeds for the future.

This past week I read the first eleven of the 22 issue X-Men cross-over event, X of Swords.

There is no specific groundbreaking storytelling here, but I am enjoying how Hickman is establishing a deeper mutant mythos within the Marvel Universe.

Society changes, writers change, art changes; and if one feels that the addition of updating the back story of a character is offensive, then do not read the comic book. Comic books have always been at the forefront of human rights and social justice issues and that will never change.

…I mentioned in some previous posts that I’m reading the in X-men titles. I read the first 4 issues of the new Cable series. I need to do a bit of research to figure out why Cable is now a young man and not the old gruff guy he was when I read him 20 or so years ago.

I haven’t read the x-men since the mid 90’s (shortly after the Age of Apocalypse event) and with this reboot, I decided to give it a go again. 

I read the first for issues of the six titles that have come out and I ranked them from the one I will continue to read to the ones I will stop reading.