They continue on but without bonus stuff. Classic 45 (UXM 139) – The end of the reprints adding new content.Phoenix The Untold Story – Sort of a high-end “what if” issue that contains round table transcripts of the creators and editorial team, plus artwork of how they came to the conclusion of the story, and other possibilities along the way.UXM 110 – A fill-in story that also wasn’t included in Classic, which is a crime because it’s the first time they played baseball!.UXM 106 – Wasn’t in the Classic run because it wasn’t part of the “main” story but it’s a fun one shot.
Not gonna lie, it’s pretty messy reading both of these back to back cause Classic rewrites like 2/3 of the story, but that kind of big overhaul and confusion is only for the first issue.
Giant-Size Uncanny X-Men 1 – Even though Classic 1 is supposed to be a modified reprint, it skips a lot of stuff in here, so I think both portray a more complete picture.I read these instead of the original issues because of the extras and benefit of hindsight. Each issue has some corrections and cleaning up of panels or dialogue, plus a new short story (usually by Claremont) taking place around the time of each issue. I chose to start with Classic X-Men, a reprint comic published in the late 80s to catch people up. Because of that not everything is by Claremont, but I’d say at least 80% is, and if I included anything that isn’t then there’s a reason. That said, I only mention the basics for setting up the title before returning to UXM, rather than integrating them all. When New Mutants/X-Factor/Excalibur start I add what you need to know to introduce them - things that you would’ve known about if you were reading at the time of release just because of the climate or through osmosis. This is an attempt at presenting the entire mutantsphere as it evolves. It took me a long time and a lot of mixing and matching of other lists to find a basic framework that I could then nudge as I read it. It encompasses so many years, titles, minis, GNs and characters that I didn’t know what to bother with and what not to, or where they led. With each list made I felt better about trying harder ones, but this was still the most intimidating comic reading list there is.
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