The X books you should be reading are X-Factor, which I know I've recommended like a million times but I don't think you were picking up yet, and Uncanny X-Men. The X-Men seem to be stuck in like a billion big event style things (Endangered Species, Messiah Complex, Messiah War, and now Second Coming), but Uncanny is being written by Matt Fraction who is quite excellent. Matt Fraction and Peter David (X-Factor, and formerly She-Hulk) are a couple of my favorite writers right now, along with Ed Brubaker, Geoff Johns, and in a league far above all of them, Mark Millar. You should basically be reading everything any of those guys is writing. I mean, I HATE Superman, but John's Superman Secret Origins is fantastic.

but yeah, short version, read X-Factor and Uncanny X-Men.

SoldierHawk wrote:

^ Bingo. This event seems like a great place to jump on the Uncanny/X-Factor bandwagon, so jump on I shall. (Might also pick up the Messiah storyline, once it gets traded. If its not already.)

X-Factor has NOTHING to do with the event. One of the reasons that the book is so good is because Peter David gets to write his story without being harassed by the continuity police of the big storylines. I'm so fucking sick of all these giant stories in both companies.

Maybe a couple issues did and I forgot, but overall X-Factor stays out of the way of the big storylines, cause it's better than that.