Comics House of M- Avengers vs X-Men

[A Necessary Evil]

Okay, so I was told about this, and how it started out and is culminating into this epic battle, and was wondering, where do I start? Is there something before House of M I should read? If not, where's the starting point? Please and thank you.

 

[JewishHobbit]

While not X-Men related, the only think that's helpful to read prior to House of M is Avengers: Disassembled (Avengers 500-503). You don't HAVE to have it, but if you want to have a better idea of what's happening regarding Wanda when HoM starts, that's what you'll want to read. You can also read the first 12 issues of Astonishing X-Men (or 1st 2 tpbs) as those are the X-Men in House of M, and the Astonishing X-Men plots are important to what comes after House of M.

Are you interested in reading all the X-Men books between these time periods or just the important ones to this main plot? Would you like a read order? And if so, do you prefer individual issues or tpb? I love creating read orders

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I'd like to read everything, so I know what's going on. Just like Cataclysm up to No Man's Land for Batman, but mainly in order lol. Thanks for the heads up

 

[JewishHobbit]

Sure thing. Give me a couple days and I'll see what I can give you. Do you prefer trades or individual issues?

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Normally trades, Individual ones cost too much money, especially for a story as (seemingly) big as this, unless I've started collecting from the beginning. Excellent and thank you

 

[JewishHobbit]

Well, here's a list I've come up with so far. I made it through Second Coming, but now I have to get to bed. I'll complete it through AvX later. If all this is too much, then just focus on the red tpbs, as those are the key stories. I know you wanted to start at House of M, but I've always felt that this era of X-Men really begins with Morrison's New X-Men. So I started there. If you don't like that, then skip to Excalibur vol. 1 and Astonishing X-Men, then skip Day of the Atom, then keep going with the red tpbs. This list may not be exactly perfect, but it's as close as I could make it. Also, some runs that really had zero to do with anything around it got dropped from this list. Things like Astonishing X-Men post-Whedon's run, or X-Men Legacy post-Utopia became 2nd or 3rd tier titles that were completely forgettable and unimportant.

Morrison’s New X-Men (this run is bound in various way... either 7 trades, 3 ultimate trades (I think), or 1 Omnibus)
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New Mourning (X-Men 155-156, Uncanny 442-443)
Excalibur Vol. 1: Forging the Sword (issues 1-4)
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted (Astonishing 1-6)
Uncanny X-Men – The New Age Vol. 1: The End of History (Uncanny 444-449)
Uncanny X-Men – The New Age Vol. 2: The Cruelest Cut (Uncanny 450-454)
X-Men: Day of the Atom (X-Men 157-165)
Uncanny X-Men – The New Age Vol. 3: On Ice (Uncanny 455-461)
X-Men: Golgotha (X-Men 166-170)
Rogue: Forget Me Not (Rogue 7-12)
X-Men: Bizarre Love Triangle (X-Men 171-174)
X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom (X-Men 175-176, Black Panther 8-9)
Avengers Disassembled (Avengers 500-503)
Excalibur Vol. 2: Saturday Night Fever (issues 5-10)
House of M Prelude: Excalibur (Excalibur issues 11-14)
Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous (Astonishing 7-12)
House of M (HoM 1-8)
House of M: Uncanny X-Men (Uncanny 462-465)
Decimation – X-Men: The Day After (X-Men 177-181)
X-Men: Blood of Apocalypse (X-Men 182-187)
New X-Men: Childhood’s End Vol. 1 (New X-Men 20-23)
New X-Men: Childhood’s End Vol. 2 (New X-Men 24-27)
New X-Men: Childhood’s End Vol. 3 (New X-Men 28-32)
Uncanny X-Men – The New Age Vol. 4: End of Greys (Uncanny 466-471)
Uncanny X-Men – The New Age Vol. 5: First Forsaken (Uncanny 472-474)
X-Men: Deadly Genesis (Deadly Genesis 1-6)
Uncanny X-Men: Rise & Fall of the Shi’ar Empire (Uncanny 475-486)
X-Men: Emperor Vulcan (Emperor Vulcan 1-5)
Road to War of Kings (Kingbreaker 1-4)
War of Kings (War of Kings 1-6)
Black Panther: The Bride (Black Panther 14-18)
Uncanny X-Men: The Extremists (Uncanny 487-491)
X-Men: Endangered Species (Endangered Species 1-17)
New X-Men: Childhood’s End Vol. 4 (New X-Men 33-36)
New X-Men: Childhood’s End Vol. 5 (New X-Men 37-43)
X-Men: Supernovas (X-Men 188-199)
X-Men: Blinded by the Light (X-Men 200-204)
Astonishing X-Men: Torn (Astonishing 13-18)
Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable (Astonishing 19-24, Giant Sized)
X-Men: Messiah Complex (Uncanny 492-494, X-Men 205-207, New X-Men 44-46, X-Factor 25-27)
Wolverine: Get Mystique (Wolverine 62-65)
X-Force Vol. 1: Angels & Demons (X-Force 1-6)
Uncanny X-Men: Divided We Stand (Uncanny 495-499)
Young X-Men Vol. 1: Final Genesis (Young X-Men 1-5)
X-Men Legacy: Divided He Stands (X-Men Legacy 208-212)
X-Men Legacy: Sins of the Father (X-Men Legacy 213-216)
X-Men Legacy: Salvage (X-Men Legacy 219-224)
Uncanny X-Men: Manifest Destiny (Uncanny 500-503)
Uncanny X-Men: Lovelorn (Uncanny 504-507, Annual)
Uncanny X-Men: Sisterhood (Uncanny 508-512)
Cable: Messiah War (Cable 1-5)
Cable: Waiting For The End of the World (Cable 6-10, King Sized Cable)
X-Force Vol. 2: Old Ghosts (X-Force 7-11)
X-Force Vol. 3: Not Forgotten (X-Force 12-13, 17-19)
X-Force/Cable: Messiah War (Cable 11-13, X-Force 14-16)
X-Force Vol. 3: Not Forgotten (X-Force 12-13, 17-19)
Utopia: Avengers/X-Men (Uncanny 513-514, Dark Avengers 7-8, X-Men Legacy 226-227)
X-Men: Nation X (Uncanny 515-522)
X-Men Legacy: Emplate (X-Men Legacy 228-230)
X-Necrosha (X-Force 20-25, X-Men Legacy 231-234, New Mutants 6-8)
X-Men: Second Coming (Uncanny 523-525, X-Men Legacy 235-237, New Mutants 12-14, X-Force 26-28)