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.
Yes lmao. I remember trying to read the Sonic comics back in the day, and if you didn't also read every single miniseries and special release you would very quickly get lost - and that universe was relatively well contained compared to the sprawling mediascape that is Marvel.
The best way to read comics is collected editions. Paperbacks will usually have everything you need to follow one story arc from beginning to end.