It was an X-citing prospect: A proper X-Men movie free from the burden of Wolverine, now he was off making his own franchise, the tale of how the titular adversaries Magneto and Professor X became the mutant communities Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Chuck in some mutants we hadn't seen before and the Cuban Missile Crisis and surely you would X-pect good things. (ED - That better be the last X-Pun or you're out of the gang!)

I did. Sadly, it wasn't all you would hope for.

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It's X-Man vs X-Man, it what seems to be another rolling event in the X-Universe, can anyone remember when there wasn't an event in the X-Universe? Looks like it may be Cyclops' X-Men vs Wolverine's X-Men, I can get with that, just like playing Marvel vs Capcom.

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Let me say this first, I am not a ranter, I am not an irrational fanboy hater, I am not Jack's inflamed sense of rejection (I am a fan of Fight Club, clearly) but I am pissed at Fox, for what seems like far too many times to count Fox's marketing deprtmnet have dropped the ball, this time with The X-Men: First Class poster. Follow after the jump to see the full poster:

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The answer to the question posed in the title of this post is simple; not as much as you can learn from the end credits of the X-Men anime.

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From the beginning X-Men kinda pissed me off. A mate of mine used to get them all and would lend me stacks, all of which always felt too much like hard work to properly enjoy. Every story would require you sorting through 4 or 5 different titles and getting them in the right order, and would invariably make no sense to anyone with less that three years comprehensive X-Men knowledge. The fact lots of it was written by Chris Claremont, a writer whose work always feels like a chore to read, didnt help either. So as a result, the X Universe has pretty much passed me by although I have recently got into the solo Wolverine stuff after being sucked in by the rocking Mark Millar/John Romita run. I also read and enjoyed Ultimate X-Men while it lasted which delivered on its "You only have to read this title for it all to make sense" promise.Because of this when deciding which Marvel Essential collection to get after having loved reading the formative issues of Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Hulk, I decided to give the mutants another try and picked up Essential Uncanny X-Men volume one.

I'm sure you know about these Essential collections, but for anyone who doesn't they are basically black and white reprints that print every issue of a title from the beginning and really let you see how the characters formed and evolved over their earliest appearances. Some of it is a little rough round the edges and some characters take a while to get into their stride, but this X-Men one was just painful.

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