X - X-men

X-men: people (fictional), comics

I started getting into comics in the early nineties, via my neighbors, right around the time that X-Men #1 (the Claremont / Jim Lee, multiple variant cover, top selling comic of all time one) came out. The X-men had cool mutant powers, and not only was there action, but there was also soap-operatic drama, and I liked that they were students (at one point) at a boarding school. The women were all drawn to be hot (which is par for the course for many comics), but they also kicked ass just as much as any other characters.
Then Jim Lee jumped ship to help create Image comics, so I stopped reading X-men and moved on to WildC.A.T.S.

I picked up reading X-men comics in the early 2000s, borrowing friends copies of the Grant Morrison run, and collecting X-treme X-Men (because it had Psylocke and Beast in it (though they killed her)) even though Claremont was past his prime by that point.

The X-men cartoons have all been pretty decent (Except the new one that has "Wolverine" in the title... I don't like Wolverine), and the first two X-men movies were not too bad either.

SEE ALSO: school fiction, Woodland