Volume 83: Regenesis Team Gold

Spinning directly out of X-MEN: SCHISM, the X-Men are split in two. Wolverine takes one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again with a new school, a new student body and a lot of surprises up his sleeve. But when the new Hellfire Club decides they don’t like what the ol’ Canucklehead has started, and decide to burn the place to the ground, will the school even outlast its first day? Then, Rogue leads a squad of veteran X-Men charged with teaching – and safeguarding – the next generation of mutants. But that proves to be no easy task when new threats emerge every day at the school, from the interdimensional demons known as the N’Garai to an out-of-control Weapon Omega. And the deadliest enemy of all may be the near-omnipotent mutant called Exodus, who blames Wolverine and his team for the schism that split the X-Men in two, and he’ll do everything in his vast power to reunite the species – including removing anyone who stands in his way. Wolverine and Japan go way back. In the Land of the Rising Sun, he’s taken on the Yakuza and the Hand, overcome personal tragedies, and fought some of his fiercest battles. Now, he’ll have to do all those things – and more – all at once! As if that was not bad enough, Dr. Rot is back! Discover the secret behind Rot’s twisted family – and what Wolverine’s connection is. It’s Wolverine vs Dr. Rot for control of Wolverine’s brain, but can Wolverine destroy the last vestiges of Weapon X’s programming?

Volume 84: Regenesis Team Blue

In the wake of Schism, Cyclops leads a team of X-Men whose express purpose is to deal with extinction-level events. Meet the X-Men’s “Extinction Team”: Storm, Emma Frost, Magneto, Namor, Colossus, Danger, Magik and Hope. And the team’s formation hasn’t come a moment too soon, for longtime X-Men nemesis Mr. Sinister has brazenly taken possession of the massive alien Dreaming Celestial – an act of open hostility designed to put the X-Men in their place, but also an offensive that will draw the attention of the godlike Celestials themselves. Then the X-Men’s Science Team takes it upon themselves to make a gesture of goodwill on behalf of mutantkind and better the world … using SCIENCE. But just as construction of the X-Club’s state of the art space elevator nears completion, chaos erupts! Can Dr. Nemesis, Madison Jeffries, Kavita Rao and Danger clear the X-Men’s name before their experiment backfires? A nuclear explosion has ripped a small Montana town to shreds. Cyclops has no idea what his Extinction Team will find inside the 10-mile-wide geodesic dome that has risen up inside the blast zone, or who caused it. Psylocke and Magneto do, but they’re not telling. Can the X-Men solve the mystery of Tabula Rasa – and survive the experience? If they do, the worst of the worst galactic criminals are waiting for them, courtesy of an explosive jailbreak from S.W.O.R.D.’s orbiting prison. Will the combined might of the X-Men and Avengers be enough to bring them all in?

Volume 85: The Final Execution

After surviving the new Hellfire Club’s opening salvo, Wolverine and the X-Men face a crisis of a different kind: funding for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Wolverine’s only option to keep the school open is a trip across the universe to bet everything at an intergalactic casino. And a Brood-hunting monster has come from space to take out his target at the Jean Grey School, and he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way – which is just about everyone on the Logan-less campus. Plus: the new Hellfire Club wants another shot at destroying everything Wolverine has ever loved – and they’ve hired Sabretooth to make that a reality! X-Force exists to tackle the problems that ordinary X-Men can’t or won’t confront – with extreme prejudice. Picking up the pieces in the aftermath of the Dark Angel Saga Fantomex and Ultimaton must allow the world’s most powerful weapon to leave their care. Psylocke must say goodbye to the man she loves. And new friends must stand and make a suicide march. But is this the end of X-Force? The secret mutant hit squad has sacrificed much and has fallen to its lowest point as the killing begins to take its toll. Two members have left the team at a terrible time as a new, deadlier-than-ever Brotherhood of Mutants strike at X-Force’s heart. This is a Brotherhood like none before. Each member, each attack, has been designed specifically to hurt X-Force in the worst way possible…by a mastermind who knows all of X-Force’s weaknesses.

Volume 86: Fight the Future

Repercussions from the infighting among the X-Men’s old guard reach the tight-knit New Mutants: Cannonball, Sunspot, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, Karma and Dani Moonstar all must make life-defining choices in the wake of Schism. Who stays, and who leaves? Is there a third choice that could redeem the team? The New Mutants soon learn a terrible event has changed the course of their history – and the more they try to fix it, the worse it gets! The team thought they’d defeated their most unexpected foe – but they’ll soon learn that while you can change the future, you can never escape it! Then the Marauders return with a vengeance when Chimera leads the squad into battle against the X-Men! Karma discovers an unknown but incredibly powerful telepath is controlling their assailants, and Wolverine leads his team on an investigation that puts their minds and hearts to the ultimate test. When a new race of mutants is discovered, Storm’s team investigates – and learns the secret origin of the Proto-Mutants! But tensions are running high back on Utopia, as even though Storm’s team reports to Cyclops, she has her own very definite agenda! How long can Storm keep an increasingly frustrated Cyclops from taking control of her team … and will the X-Men’s infighting accidentally doom the Proto-Mutants to extinction?

Onward to AvX!

Volume 87: AoA X-Tinction

Return to the Age of Apocalypse, as the AOA X-Men make their final stand against the evil Weapon X – and lose! A new AOA super-hero team the X-Terminated must rise to take the fallen X-Men’s place – but what makes them so drastically different? Then, travel the multiverse with Dazzler, Captain Howlett, Kid Nightcrawler, and Emmeline Frost – lost between dimensions with no way home! Dazzler adjusts to dimension-hopping life as the ad hoc X-group targets…evil versions of Professor X?

Then the X-termination event begins! AOA Nightcrawler just wants to get home, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get there. With the fabric of reality at stake, Wolverine calls in a team to confront the doppelganger of their dead friend. But are they ready to do what’s necessary? Iceman is changed after his multi-dimensional ordeal. What aftershocks will this have in his life? And what is left of the Astonishing X-Men, the X-Treme X-Men and the Age of Apocalypse? Find out here!

This volume takes place after Avengers Vs X-Men.

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Volume 78: The Heroic Age

In the wake of Second Coming, the X-Men deal with the changes in their world. Friends have died, lives are changed-but is that a light on the horizon? The new world begins here!After suffering heavy damage during Bastion’s attack on mutantkind, the city of San Francisco is rebuilding. Hoping to aid in the reconstruction effort, Cyclops tasks a team of X-Men – including the newly arrived mutant messiah, Hope – to lend a hand. But when something goes terribly wrong, will the X-Men lose everything they fought for?

Then New Mutants who are still left are licking their wounds on a forced R & R trip. While they try and put themselves back together, others are looking to take them apart. A strange secretive military group has an agenda involving Illyana Rasputin. And they don’t want to give her a medal.  Finally, Wolverine promised Cyclops that X-Force would disband–he lied. A secret society has resurrected En Sabah Nur, putting into motion events that will turn this age of heroes into an Age of Apocalypse! To hold them back, Wolverine and Archangel bring together Fantomex, Deadpool and Psylocke to form The Uncanny X-Force! Stained by their history, they are the only ones capable of making the hard resolutions necessary. A band of likeminded friends and mercenaries set to one purpose, one big ugly task–kill Apocalypse by any means.

Volume 79: The Curse of the Mutants

A vampire bomb is set off in San Francisco’s Union Square where dozens are covered in blood. Soon everyone touched by the blood falls victim to a strange manufactured virus, including the X-Men’s own Jubilee! Xarus, son of Dracula, plots to create a new breed of vampires by using the X-Men?! However the X-Men fail to yield causing Xarus to bring an army of bloodsuckers to conquer Utopia! As the X-Men are confronted with this deadly vampire threat, Namor takes matters into his own hands on a mission that might bring down the entire might of the vampires on their heads…and destroy Atlantis in the process! Plus: Deadpool gets hired by a bunch of good Draculas to fight some bad Draculas – and no, they don’t sparkle! Wade takes on the rebel vampires in a hospital fight and even manages to rescue the girl! Wait, sorry, he shoots her in the leg!

Optional volumes to read next
Wolverine Goes to Hell

Volume 80: Age of X

It’s a new age for the X-Men. Cyclops and company have declared it a time to be heroes. But strange rumors have come to the attention of the X-Men, and Storm and her team are off to New York City to investigate. What do they find in the dank sewers beneath Manhattan? Only New York’s favorite wall-crawler has the answers.

There are innumerable and varying potential futures awaiting mankind. Between them exists only one constant, only one common thread: the rise of the Deathloks! Seeded in our present, they grow, a time virus spreading across all possibilities, infiltrating the fate of mankind and they have one main directive: Fantomex must die!

Then, in a world where the X-Men never existed, and mutantkind has been hunted to extinction, the few remaining mutants have banded together to make their last stand. They spend each day in their stronghold, Fortress X, beating back the anti-mutant forces that would see them wiped out. But when a conspiracy is discovered within Fortress X itself, could it be that mutantkind’s last bastion will crumble from the inside out? And when the dust settles, no one will be left unscathed.

Volume 81: Unfinished Business

Magneto is an X-Man. This may not be news to you, but only a handful in the Marvel Universe know that the poster boy for Fearing Mutants is now living just off the coast of one of the United State’s largest cities. How on Earth are the X-Men going to explain the presence of one of the world’s most infamous super villains? While Cyclops, Emma and Wolverine are off in Japan dealing with giant monsters, something dire happens that demands the X-Men’s attention. With their leaders away, should the X-Men deny their help? HELL NO! Storm, Colossus and Kitty Pryde join Beast and Agent Brand to take on the Brood. Are Storm and her crew up to the task? And what is Cyclops going to say when he learns of this?

Speaking of Cyclops, he is sick of unfinished business coming back to haunt the X-Men, so he’s tasking the New Mutants to finish it. Their first mission: Find X-Man. Nate Grey returned in DARK X-MEN, but ended up in the hands of Norman Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. With the Dark Reign at an end, where is X-Man? Plus Rogue and her team of X-Men are on an intergalactic search and rescue mission, hoping to pull their long lost teammates from the fray. But in what condition will they find Marvel Girl, Havok and Polaris? Find out here!

Volume 82: Dark Angel Saga/Schism

The X-Men are used to being feared. When Fear Itself finally reaches the West Coast, they’re going tobecome well acquainted with the emotion first hand. The unstoppable Juggernaut is marching step by step towards Utopia, and they have all the time in the world to realize how little they can do to stop him as an offer by the Serpent’s servant puts human and mutant at each others’ throats, one X-Man makes a selfless decision in an attempt to halt the Juggernaut’s rampage- but will there be any going back?

Apocalypse’s heir, Archangel, has picked up where his predecessor left off, amassing an army of En Sabah Nur’s greatest servants! The only hope X-Force have of saving Warren Worthington from the dark entity that inhabits his soul rests in a dimension where Apocalypse, and his technology, took over the world: the Age of Apocalypse! Plus: someone has wiped out a small town in Northern Montana and in its place a new alien landscape has grown. What is Tabula Rasa? And how does it’s coming reflect the end of the world as we know it?

It’s never been a more dangerous time to be a mutant. Even with their numbers at a record low, the world refuses to trust mutantkind. And after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it’s at this moment, when the mutant race most needs to stand together, that a split begins that will tear apart the very foundation of the X-Men. A line will be drawn and each X-Man must choose a side and when the dust settles, the X-Men landscape will be irreparably changed.

Optional volumes to read next
Daken/X-23 

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