What the fuck's all the hype about

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Chaawwwllllsss.....! No....!

There's hype?

How much X-Men stuff do I need to know before reading this? I've always wanted to get into the X-books but their entire timeline seems monumentally complicated, and I have no idea what is and isn't necessary reading

Not at all user, I don't know what op is talking about. Absolutely nobody is talking about this series. Big flop, just cancel it, etc.

last storytime hit the bump limit in a few hours

Hickman knows how to do lore and build up.

The one question is whether he will Morrison his plot up and break every x-men tenet or not. We gotta wait for the ending.

honestly none, the whole run is a big reset to makeup for the last 10 years of marvel shitting on the x-books since ike was bitter about muh film rights

BASED Maker is playing a ruse on x-men

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Yes, that is what happened last time.

Imagine if it's like "Okay, but this time no dangling subplots or endless meandering side quests"

why is xavier a twink

If anything benefits from having charts explaining everything is the X-Men. I feel like some fans knowingly underestimate how convoluted it all is simply because they've taken it for granted or ignore vast swathes of continuity that other fans don't.

But the charts don't really do anything outside of info text dumping exposition and recycling what the story is already telling us in the actual comic.

Hickman charts make me fucking hard

Not really though? A lot of the information in the charts cannot be explained through panels without leaving serious gaps in the narrative, because they explicitly serve to expand on stuff they organically wouldn't be possible to convey directly through dialogue. The Omega Level mutants, the structure of the space initiative against mutant expansion, the timeline branching created by Moira's lives (the differentiation, not the endgame of each), etc etc.

text dumping exposition is actually great idea. Powers of X charts gave information enough for an issue or two worth of pure exposition.

>The Omega Level mutants

Completely superfluous power level shit

>the structure of the space initiative against mutant expansion

Could have just as easily been done in a normal comic page.

>the timeline branching created by Moira's lives (the differentiation, not the endgame of each)

Bunch of fairly pointless details, you get the gist of it directly from the comic. It does not add anything significant to learn specific dates when X,Y and Z happens in any specific timeline.

>text dumping exposition is actually great idea

Ever heard of show, don't tell?

Ever heard of continuity cleanup on a budget? You can't just cram so much information within a few panels. The charts are good.

>continuity cleanup

But he's just making it more convoluted with Moira and the different time periods in the narrative. And it's ridiculous to say that everything involving the X-men only happened in the past ten years.

#1 had like 300k preordered

>But he's just making it more convoluted with Moira and the different time periods in the narrative.
Not even in the slightest, consolidating every single timeline screw up as yet another iteration is actually pretty clever.
And the second thing is basically the sliding timescale striking back again, it cannot be avoided.

People like to bring up "show, don't tell" like it supposed to apply at every occassion. When you have an action scene and character tells you what's going on, show don't tell is relevant. When you are supposed to give reader specific information regarding backstory surrounding first issue, details about different mutant generations and reasons for mutant downfall i'd rather see it as a two page exposition dump.

>consolidating every single timeline screw up as yet another iteration is actually pretty clever.

All it does is make everything more convoluted when you have to start explaining Moira's convoluted time loops shenanigans in order to handwave any inconsistency moving forward. That is what happens every time you try to clean up continuity, if you do not retcon everything out.

X-Men can never recover after what Marvel did to them.

Comic books

Even Yea Forums is in hype mode.

Not much really, just the basics that you probably aleady have through osmosis. However, if you care enough you can buy some books through a rec list. I'm sure there are hardcovers and Omnibuses (Omnibii?) of all the major arcs.

Ideally I'd tell you to download Nemesis43's packs, since they're all the best quality you can get. But the site he was using as his main hub has been down for 2 months now, and it's pretty much dead, so all those packs are gone. He's moved to another, ettv, but he's only uploading new stuff. Anyway, you can go and get each issue individually, from libgen, but it'd take you a lifetime to download everything. However, there's a guy over at 1337x, who's been uploading an X-Men Chronology in packs (just search x-men pack). They're numbered, broken into storyarcs and jump through the various crossovers and other books. Basically the guy's included /everything/. He's about reached last year's book, at pack 65 or so, meaning he's about done. The only downside is that to keep the size at a managable threshold, the files are mostly scans, no digital. As it stands, it's about 150GB, otherwise you'd be looking at 400GB+. Personally I prefer digital, but scans are alright if you just want to read through a shitton of stuff in a short amount of time. And really, the fact that all the crossovers are there and everything's numbered, is a huge plus. When I was reading X-Force a few years back, I had to visit libgen all the time for the tie-ins.

Anyway, I'm doing /that/ until Hickman's book properly launches in October, so there's that. But there's not a /lot/ you need to know; just the basic stuff you can find through a wikia or whatever.

Comics

X-fags are battered housewives

that last issue was fucking stupid

So who's fucking Orchis over first, Alpha Flight due to incompetence/Canada or HYDRA due to being fucking HYDRA?

Don't forget about Doom becoming a god, something that Hickman does every time.