Help me out here, y'all. The wife watched X-Men: First Class with me and really liked it, and wants to read about how the X-Men got started, in comic form. She's reading the Lee/Kirby Essential, but I'm wondering if I should try something else. Should I track down the Steve Rude book, X-Men: Children of the Atom? Is there a more recent origin that's well done in comics?

I wanted her to go straight to All New, All Different X-Men, but she wanted the beginning.

Make sure that she reads The Hidden Years and Deadly Genesis between the original X-Men run and the All New, All Different X-Men.

Paul Jenkins has a bunch of good Origin stories in a series called Mythos including X-men

http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=610671

If you want them all in a trade
http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Mythos-v-P ... 0785115978

There was also X-men Origins One Shots these for the individual guys

Not as good as mythos, but most were entertaining

http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=x-m ... d=&PubRng=

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HKN118/?tag=imwan-20

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0785146709/?tag=imwan-20

Isn't Marvel doing a whole new line of graphic novels featuring these heroes' origins?

Children of the Atom was alright, I don't think Rude finished it though, someone else had to pencil the last few issues(Rude did issues 1-3, Paul Smith did issue 4, Essad Ribic did issues 5&6).

I just skimmed through the Children of the Atom books. Prof X's eyebrows are scary in the first few Steve Rude issues.

"Children of the Atom" is a great one to read if you want a coherent "origin" story for the Silver Age team. It hits all the thematic points and then leads right into the Lee/Kirby X-Men #1.

Tell her that the Season 1 book is coming out ni the spring then giveher some All New, All Different in the meantime.

Euphemism

Just get her to read this one.

Anyone ever read the Professor Xavier and the X-Men series?

http://www.comicvine.com/professor-xavi ... n/49-5553/

When I looked at the Children of the Atom books they were in the same box. I have no memory of ever buying or reading them. From a quick skim of a few issues it looks bad, really really bad.

Just tell her to find something worthwhile instead of the X-Men.

Definitive Fantastic Four origin?

Check and mate.

Definitive Challengers of the Unknown origin?

The whole Doom Patrol=X-Men/Fantastic Four=Doom Patrol thing really gets Hanzo going.

I just don't get it. They're both led by a guy in a wheelchair... and that seems to be it as far as similarities between the X-Men and the Doom Patrol go.

Meanwhile, the Doom Patrol? The scientist leader that formed the team? The flying energy guy? The big orange brute trapped in a body he hates? The attractive young girl who doesn't even want to be a superhero?

Sound familiar?

There are a couple other Patrol/X-Men similarities, but I still find your points persuasive and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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