5 Best & Worst Things About X-Men Comics
3. Best - A Rich Universe
The X-Men's corner of the Marvel Universe has kept on expanding over the years, allowing for a diverse range of stories.
Apart from the usual business of fighting evil mutants or human hate groups, the team have engaged in all manner of weird and wacky adventures. They've travelled into space to fight the Shi'ar empire, butted heads with demons in Limbo and even travelled to alternate dimensions like the Mojoverse, a world run by the TV obsessed lovechild of Jabba the Hutt and the spider robot from Wild Wild West.
Not only have these provided some excellent stories for the X-Men , they've allowed the franchise to branch out into a number of spin-offs.
Each of these teams shine a light on a different part of the X-Men world. We've seen the dramas of life as a mutant student in books like New Mutants and Generation X, the darker side of the X-Men in their covert strike group X-Force and life as a mutant detective in X-Factor. The UK even got their own X-Men team in the delightfully strange Excalibur.
There was also the Exiles, a group of alternate versions of minor characters like Blink, Morph and Mimic, travelling across time and space to save multiple universes.
Books like these and flip old ideas right on their heads and give a fresh spin on the X-Men.