I'm going through the X-Men before Disney/MCU fucks it up by integrating mutants into the franchise and I decided to start with Immortal X-Men. It's a good fun, but I keep getting derailed by allusions to events that've happened in other comic series.
Thank god I can access these for free, but how tedious is it to find cohesive stories. I know I'm seeking that in comics, but still.
I really like the X-Men as a series too. From the origins to the way they interact with other 'heroic' characters in Marvel.
Fun bit of trivia on the X-Men - when making action figures, human-shaped dolls fell (and mighs till fall) under a different tax bracket than, say, non-human creatures or monsters. To save money on that taxation, Marvel argued that mutants were not human and so shouldn't have the tax applied to them. It's a fact that capitalism dehumanizes people, but rarely do you such a hilariously bleak example of it.
Also, who's your favorite on the X-Men roster?
Mine's Rogue.
The Krakoa era started with so much promise but after Inferno it all just devolved into a mess. Jonathan Hickman was really the key to keeping it interesting and coherent. X-Men are always fun until timeline and space hijinks complicate the story.
As far as favorites go, Kate Pryde is my girl.