Graphic Novel Reading Group discussion

I wanted to start reading Grant Morrison's New X-Men run, however, I really want to read what happens just before that in Genosha (when it's the mutant Utopia). Are there any specific TPBs to read, or anything? I'm not sure where to start or what to start.

I hadn't read X-Men for some time when Morrison started on the book. From what I remember, it was a pretty good starting point with very little confusion as to what was going on or had gone before.

If you have Marvel Unlimited, you could just plow through, well, everything X-Men from Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne up until that point. Which, given the X-books love of assumed knowledge/familiarity might not be a bad thing.

It's certainly on my reading list.

I know the hardcover of the X-Tinction Agenda contains the earlier saga introducing Genosha... If you wanna start at the beginning.

If you plow through the Claremont era(s), that's going to be a LOT of reading!

I'm not really sure if there's a TPB about Genosha before Grant Morrison's New X-Men. Maybe, but I think that's missing the point. Morrison's run was intended to not be so beholden to continuity. It's not necessary to read what came before, it's specifically trying to get away from that 90s era X-Men. Just start reading, don't worry too much. Spoiler for decade-old comic: Genosha is destroyed in the first issue anyway.

Good readings to you.

Magneto became leader of Genosha at the end of the 1999's Magneto War arc, which has been collected, and includes a Magneto War one-shot, X-Men #85-87, and Uncanny X-Men #366-367. (It also includes the three-issue Magneto Rex mini, which shows him beginning his rule.)

After this, Genosha shows up here and there in different books, but it's individual issues for the most part. There is the Magneto: Dark Seduction mini from 2000.

The big story to read would be 2001's Eve of Destruction, by Scott Lobdell, which includes X-Men #111-113 and UXM #392 and 393. It's actually a really good story, I thought, though not without some weaknesses. It's definitely worth reading.

And then Grant Morrison came in with New X-Men and destroyed Genosha as his opening act.