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?

Generation X: A (mostly) great series, with Chris Bachalo doing some of the best art of his career. I’ve always had a soft spot for GenX, since it was just starting up when I really got into comics, and that chromium wrap-around cover to #1 was the coolest thing ever. This is the whole run in 5 pretty equal-sized volumes, broken up by creative team.

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.

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!

X-Men between Age of Apocalypse and the Twelve.

From Messiah Complex to Second Coming

In the aftermath of House of M the future of mutants has never been bleaker. At the seeming end of their evolutionary cycle, a miracle arrives in the form of the first mutant birth since the events of M-Day. But from this source of hope comes a clash between mutants over who will control the child’s fate. It is a race for the future as the Purifiers, Mr. Sinister and the X-Men clash! The fight for the future begins here!

I loved Hama’s work on G.I.Joe and Silvestri’s work on Uncanny X-Men, so this was a definite buy for me as a kid. To me, this was one of the best teams to ever work on a Wolverine book. It’s a shame that they were only able to produce 24 issues together before Silvestri left to help form Image Comics.

Following the assassination of Graydon Creed, Bastion is given permission to hunt down mutants using his newly created Prime-Sentinels who were in essence part human, part robot. A cross-over epic featuring X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Cable, Generation X, X-Force, and Wolverine.

Here are the early exploits of Spider-Woman, from her first appearance in Marvel Spotlight 32 right through to her final issue of the first series.