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Persephone - as Trijhaos says, you need not ever read anything other than the Grant Morrison New X-Men comics to enjoy New X-Men. Everything from before that gets explained, almost always in a way that is clear and concise.
This thread arrives at a good time - tomorrow is the day that the second New X-Men paperback is released, which includes the Germ Free Generation and Imperial storylines, which conclude the story begun in the E Is For Extinction story. If you buy that, you'll have everything released to date except for the three most recent issues, which shouldn't be hard to come by in any good comic shop.
One thing I'm not clear on is whether or not the new trade paperback will include the New X-Men Annual, which is actually the beginning of the Germ Free storyline. To catch you up with that quickly: some of the X-Men go to China, and discover that there are people called "U-Men" who are led by a charismatic Tony Robbins-ish guy named John Sublime, and that they are killing/maiming mutants to harvest them for their body parts. The U-Men graft the mutant body parts to their bodies, because they want to be members of the "Third Species" and have mutant powers along with their human DNA.
While in China, the X-Men free a mutant named Xorn who has been a prisoner of the Chinese government for something like 50 years. Xorn's brain is in fact a tiny star, and he has incredible power. He is frustrated with his life, and is about to commit suicide (and thus creating a small black hole), but Cyclops talks him out of it.
The U-Men and John Sublime are the villains of the Germ Free Generation story, and Xorn joins up with the X-Men later on in the Imperial story. |
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