X-Men: From The Ashes – The Definitive Collecting Guide & Reading Order

The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide on collecting X-Men: From the Ashes, including X-Men flagship titles by Gail Simone, Jed McKay, Eve Ewing, and more in comic books via omnibuses, hardcovers, and trade paperback graphic novels. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics. Last updated April 2024 with titles scheduled for release through December 2024.

In March 2024 Marvel Comics answered the question of how the X-Men line will move on from The Age of Krakoa with the announcement of X-Men: From the Ashes.

Editor Tom Brevoort introduced the era by saying, “The X-Men are fractured in the aftermath of the end of Krakoa, scattered across the globe without a central base of operation. What that means in practice is that all three titles carrying the name X-MEN are core X-MEN series—they all center around one of the major aspects of what the team has been about at different points. This is very much by design. We want to field a wide assortment of X-titles with different styles and tones and approaches, an X-MEN book for virtually any taste.”

This new era of X-Men comics will launch with three co-flagship books and a total of nine titles beginning in July 2024 and continuing through the remainder of the year. It will kick off with a new X-Men (2024) book by Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman along with X-Force, NYX, and Storm.

That will be followed in August 2024 by Gail Simone & David Marquez relaunching Uncanny X-Men (2024) with what would be issue #701 – though it will just be numbered #1. Then, in September we’ll get a book with “New Mutants” vibes called Exceptional X-Men (2024) by Eve Ewing & Carmen Carnero.

We’ll also see three more books as part of this relaunch – X-Factor, Storm, & Wolverine.

We don’t know too much more about this new era, its reading order, and it’s collected editions – but, this page will track that all every week as issues begin to release!

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• X-Men: From the Ashes
  • Flagship titles
    • X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Jed MacKay & Ryan Stegman (July 2024 – ongoing)
    • Uncanny X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Gail Simone & David Marquez (August 2024 – ongoing)
    • Exceptional X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Eve Ewing & Carmen Carnero (September 2024 – ongoing)
  • Supporting titles
    • X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic (2024) #1-(TBA)
    • X-Men: Blood Hunt (2024) [various]
    • NYX (2024) #1-(TBA) by C. Kelly, Lanzing, & Mortarino (Jul 2024 – ongoing)
    • Phoenix (2024) #1-(TBA)
    • Storm (2024) #1-(TBA)
    • Wolverine (2024) – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan
    • Wolverine: Revenge (2024) – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan
    • X-Factor (2024) – See Guide to X-Factor
    • X-Force (2024) by Geoffrey Thorne & Marcus To – See Guide to X-Force

X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Jed MacKay & Ryan Stegman (July 2024 – ongoing)

This book will begin with a cast of Cyclops, Beast, Magneto, Psylocke (presumably Kwannon), Kid Omega AKA Quentin Quire, Temper (formerly AKA Oya), Magik, and Juggernaut. They will be based on Alaska, which has interesting implications for Scott Summers – since that was the home of his grandparents and his home with Madelyne Pryor.

MacKay has presided over a stellar and incredibly-popular run of titles for Marvel, including Black Cat, Moon Knight, Doctor Strange, and the current Avengers flagship!

Jed MacKay said:

If you look at that line-up, they’re a group of people who are not well suited to integrating into the world. And in these books, we’ll see what that means and what it looks like going forward.

Uncanny X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Gail Simone & David Marquez (August 2024 – ongoing)

This book will begin with a classic cast of Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and Wolverine based in New Orleans. However, if you know your Gail Simone comics, you know that this cast will expand and transform in each arc!

Simone said:

I think X-Fans are special in that we identify with having something different about us…and you’re going to feel that in this book, and what it means to have that thing about you that’s different, or exceptional. We go deep into the emotional part of that.

Gail Simone is known for many dark turns of plot and creepy runs. Combined with the initial New Orleans setting, this run might turn out to have a dark or horrific vibe to contrast with a very shiny and well-known cast of heroes.

Exceptional X-Men (2024) #1-(TBA) by Eve Ewing & Carmen Carnero (September 2024 – ongoing)

This book will launch with a tight focus on Kate Pryde as she deals with the PTSD of surviving the experience of the Age of Krakoa. It will follow her back to her hometown of Chicago as she meets a trio of new mutants – Bronze, Axo, and Melee. Will Kate take them under her wing? And, what will her new relationship be with long-time frenemy Emma Frost?

Eve Ewing said:

Longtime fans of Kitty Pryde can count on the kinds of adventures you expect from her as a classic favorite, while I hope new and old readers alike will get to love this all-new team of young mutants. Kitty, the one-time kid sister figure of the X-Men, has to reckon with her own memories—good and bad—of being a child of Xavier as she navigates a role as leader and mentor for a new generation of mutants who are trying to make their way in a time of crisis.

X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic (2024) #1-(TBA)

A digital-first release that kicked off the same week as the finale of the Krakoa era to help link some plotlines to this new era of storytelling.

#1-(TBA): Collection information TBA, but Marvel’s Infinity Comics are often not collected for a year or longer after their original release, if at all.

X-Men: Blood Hunt (2024) [various]

In the wake of the fall of Krakoa, X-Men participate in the 2024 mid-year event Blood Hunt at the same time their new titles launched. Also, see Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Blood Hunt

X-Men: Blood Hunt (2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958664 / digital TBA)
Collects X-Men: Blood Hunt – Jubilee (2024) #1, X-Men: Blood Hunt – Magik (2024) #1, X-Men: Blood Hunt – Psylocke (2024) #1, X-Men: Blood Hunt – Laura Kinney, The Wolverine (2024) #1, and Wolverine: Blood Hunt (2024) #1-4

NYX (2024) #1-(TBA) by Kelly, Lanzing, & Mortarino (Jul 2024 – ongoing)

This book revives the title of the book that introduced Laura Kinney (X-23 & Wolverien( 20 years ago (as a child being regularly sexually assaulted as a sex worker, despite the fact that she had been created as children’s cartoon character).

Hopefully this book from writing team Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artist Francesco Mortarino helps us all forget about this title’s auspicious origins! It is anchored by both Laura and Kamala Khan – Ms. Marvel! They are joined in the primary cast by Prodigy, Anole, and Sophie Cuckoo.

Marvel’s announcement adds:

Free from the X-Men’s guidance and Krakoa’s protection, they’ll shut out the noise and overcome the hate by doing what they do best—EVOLVING. But if you can count on anything, it’s that mutants are never all in agreement, and some are having a really hard time letting Krakoa go…

This is a book about mutants living past the end of their world and into a new beginning. This is Ms. Marvel embracing her mutant life in the neon streets of the Lower East Side. This is Anole trying to keep his head above water. This is Wolverine in the shadows of Bushwick, protecting her own. This is Prodigy writing history as it happens—and Sophie Cuckoo finding her own way. The news reports are bleak. The streets feel dangerous. There’s something lurking underground. Evil coming from every direction. But they’re determined to make it. This is mutant community. This is mutant pride.

Phoenix (2024) #1-(TBA) by Stephanie Phillips & Alessandro Miracolo (Jul 2024 – ongoing)

This book focuses on Jean as The Phoenix on a solo cosmic adventure!

The Phoenix Force wasn’t a major presence on Krakoa until the Fall of X endgame, since Jason Aaron was using it in his Avengers titles for most of that period. It will be interesting to see how it is brought back into the X-Men fold. Marvel’s announcement adds:

She is Jean Grey. She is Phoenix. She saves the world. She brings death. One woman, alone in space, who not only must do what no one else can: she yearns to. A desperate S.O.S. from Nova brings the Phoenix to the edge of a black hole, where hundreds of lives hang in the balance… and whatever Jean does—or fails to do—will bring darkness to the universe and haunt her in ways she can scarcely imagine…

“Jean is one of the most powerful characters I’ve ever written,” Phillips explained. “The beauty and challenge to Jean is that she is imbued with a cosmic force alongside the morals, shortcomings, and empathy of a human being. The dichotomy between those two is something incredibly special about Jean, and means that she is constantly doing a dance between humanity and absolute power.”

Storm (2024) #1-(TBA)

Storm returns with her own title after two years spent at the helm of Al Ewing’s X-books on X-Men Red (2022) and Resurrection of Magneto (2024).

Early hints of her plot sees her integrated with the human world (and drab human fashion) as a United States political hopeful. That early glimpse rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way after seeing her as the monarch of Mars AKA Arakko – plus, it’s not depicting Storm with natural textured hair – which many have seen as a big win for her design over the past several years.

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