All New X-Men Vol. 1

The X-Men have always been my favorite Marvel comic characters to follow. They've had some great stories over the years: Deadly Genesis, Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse, Phoenix, etc. The more recent stories have included a struggle against extinction starting with the Avengers Disassembled arc in 2005. I would highly recommend reading the Marvel events following Disassembled up to and including the Civil War.

This book is a perfect place to start if you haven't read an X-Men book in a long time or would like to start reading X-Men stories. All New X-Men Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men follows the epic Marvel event, Avengers vs X-Men. Some truly devastating events happened in that story and this book is the aftermath.

Scott Summers aka Cyclops has become this generation's Magneto. He has disbanded from the X-Men and started his own group. New mutants are popping up once again and he's made it his mission to recruit them. Beast, on the verge of death, travels back in time to visit the original X-Men. He brings them to the present to show them what Cyclops has become.

Michael Bendis as the author and Stuart Immonen as the illustrator make a hell of a team and have really knocked it out of the park with his one.

I give All New X-Men 5 out of 5 Burning Lariats.