give me x-men recommendations. I don't give a fuck about continuity either, as Marvel continuity is LOLNO1CURR.
Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender.
New X-men by Grant Morrison.
X-Statix-Peter Milligan
X-men Age of Apocalypse.
Messiah Complex.
X-Force by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost.
X-Force by Simon Spurrier
X-men by Mike Carey or at least until Age of X. After that it gets a little shitty with too much Rogue.
Ultimate X-Men-Until probably Kirkman comes on it's fun Hollywood X-men stuff. Then it gets a bit better when it becomes Ultimate Comics:X-men by Brian Wood.
Wolverine By Larry Hanna.
80s X-men are a required taste so I never recommend that. 90s X-men is kind of all over the place and honestly if you read AoA you've read the best thing. It's had to think of anything good about the 90s because where do you even start. Early 90s is riding high on post Chris Claremont plotlines and a lot of it is messy like the Psylocke stuff. Mid 90s has a lot of Onslaught and Operation Zero Tolerance and they aren't regarded as high points. Late 90s is pretty awful as it's full of false starts and then Alan Davis steps in leading to more crap. There's some good stories, but nothing I can pin point as a nice complete read like AoA. I loved the X-Cutioner's Song though as a kid.
Lot's of Claremont 80s stuff shows it's age, but the Australian Era(Uncanny X-men 224 up until X-men 3) I find still holds up and is really engaging. Lots of adventure as so many of the X-men are split up and so many plotlines going so many places. Some of the events of the time like Inferno, Fall of the Mutants, and Mutant Massacre are cool. Though X-Tinction Agenda kind of falls flat.
Early 00's belongs to New X-men with Uncanny putting out shit mostly. I found some of the Warren Ellis produced Counter X stuff like X-Force ok, but 2000-2001 X-men are mostly forgotten. Though this reminds me that X-Man and Generation X were pretty consistently good titles.
There's also Excalibur. Some of that stuff is fun. As was X-Factor when it's the original 5. Though I say that not because I like the original 5, but because some of the actual plotlines like Apocalypse start here and some of it is worthwhile.
I find it hard to recommend X-men because a lot of the storylines are so continuity based. It's not like Batman where I can just say The Dark Knight Returns or whatever.
A lot of the X-men stories that I like are stories that are the result of a lot of build up. Even the Dark Phoenix is better if you've read some of the stuff that leads up to it. Jean is Phoenix for a while after all. I also find it hard to recommend a lot of Claremont X-Men because it is plotted but also overly wordy and corny. I honestly think his late 80s stuff holds up more then anything else which includes the Dark Phoenix.
Then again I've read X-Treme X-men and enjoyed it so I don't know what I'm talking about. Don't read X-Treme though it has nice art.
Also I did'nt read all of it, but Exiles with Blink was fun. It was about a bunch of X-men related characters traveling to Alternate Dimensions. It was really fun, but I'm sure the premise dried up.
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