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Fanboys and True Believers 7-The X-Men Crossovers!

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Contributed by: John Kindelan on 12/4/2007

Crossovers is a term used in the comic book industry that implies the story that is in the comic book will 'crossover' into other comic books. Sometimes this means there is more than one "title" of a book. Like Spiderman has Amazing Spiderman, Spectacular Spiderman and Spiderman. Batman has Batman, Detective Comics, and Robin's individual book would also be considered a 'Batman Book'. The Spiderman or Batman story would run throughoutout all of their titles making it a crossover. For a reallybig crossover you might actually have a story go into every title that is put out by the company as well as have its own special series. This last year we saw this with DC Comics52 and Marvel Comics Civil War.

The master of the crossover by far however is the X-Men. Mostly because there are so many "X" titles for the story to crossover too. You have X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine, X-Factor, Excalibur, New Mutants, Cable, X-Force, Generation X, and even more. Its sometimes very expensive to be a comic book reader, if you want to keep up with a cross over story and going and buying all the parts of the story.

The X-Men have been mastering this crossover for the past 27 years. Back in 1980 the Dark Phoenix Saga one of the biggest X-Men crossovers ever first ran, and was even responsible for part of the last X-Men movie, X-Men Last Stand.

Since that one there has been numerous ones such as Days of Future Past, Mutant Masacre, Fall of the Mutants, Inferno, X-Tinction Agenda, X-Cutioners Song, Phalanx Covenant, Age of Apocalypse, Onslaught, House of M, Endangered Species and now the most recent Messiah Complex.

To try and explain any of these stories would make your head explode. If you want to pick up any of them to read or if your looking to get someone a holiday gift and they like X-Men comics, or just comics in general there are some good ones on that list that would make good gifts. You can buy them in Graphic Novel versions, where it is a culmination of all the individual books in one book.

Ones to get - I liked Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past, Inferno, X-Tinction Agenda, Phalanx Covenant, Age of Apocalype and House of M.

Stay away from - X-Cutioners Song and Onslaught, those are the worst.

Messiah Complex is not available in graphic novel form as of yet because its still currently running in comics.

Some great artists worked on these stories which is why I like them so much.
On Dark Phoenix you have some of John Byrne's best work.
Inferno gave us Marc Silvestri, X-Tinction Agenda had some great early Jim Lee work. Phalanx Covenant introduced us to Joe Madureira and showed us Andy and Adam Kubert working together.
Age of Apocalypse however has probably the best line up of artists ever to work on one cross over, its like the Ocean's 12 of comic artists, Joe Madureira, Andy Kubert, Salvador Laroca, Chris Bachalo, Carlose Pacheco and Terry Dodson to name a few.

Now we have Messiah complex which brings us a more detailed and matured Marc Silvestri, Humberto Ramos another great artist and the new guy Billy Tan who seems to follow in Silverstri's style of art.

With so many books to get its sometimes its more cost effective to get the graphic novel for the story than get the single issues, but as a collector its great to get those as well. Most local comic shops or Borders or Barnes and Noble will have these books in trade versions. However you should always support your local comic book shop and you'll always get a better deal. Certain shops run specials, especially during the holiday season for their graphic novels. I have a gift card to Don's Atomic Comics on my Christmas list, last year I got Batman's Long Halloween story, can't wait to see what I get this year.

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Submitted By: Chris Woodard

posted on 12/4/2007 @ 9:26:36 AM

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I missed part 4 of Messiah Complex; spent Saturday looking for it to no avail :( I ordered it online but now I have to wait to read part 5 until part 4 gets delivered! D'oh! Age of Apocalypse was the best, that was so much fun for 4-5 months.

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