You should definitely read New Mutants! It's a fantastic series with a lot of really great characters—Illyana and Dani are two of my favorites. And it has some great stuff with Magneto.
New Mutants also ties in much more closely with X-Men than X-Factor does—for a long time the New Mutants and the X-Men are living in the same house and storylines can start in one book and finish in the other. X-Factor does its own thing, and the characters don't even talk to the X-Men for a very long time. (Which gets awfully silly, to be honest—I think the editors wanted the books to stand on their own, but there were a lot of melodramatic misunderstandings that could have been solved if someone had just picked up the phone. And X-Factor surely had the mansion phone number!)
I don't think you have to read New Mutants to understand what's going on with the X-Men—my library only had the X-Men half of things and I managed—but it does help a lot. And it's a really great series, so it's well worth reading in its own right.
(I'm not as fond of X-Factor—never really forgave it for what happened to Madelyne as a result of its existence—but it does have its moments, after the very rough first few issues. I really liked the Judgement War storyline, which has kind of a TOS Star Trek feel.)
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Date: 2018-12-19 09:02 pm (UTC)New Mutants also ties in much more closely with X-Men than X-Factor does—for a long time the New Mutants and the X-Men are living in the same house and storylines can start in one book and finish in the other. X-Factor does its own thing, and the characters don't even talk to the X-Men for a very long time. (Which gets awfully silly, to be honest—I think the editors wanted the books to stand on their own, but there were a lot of melodramatic misunderstandings that could have been solved if someone had just picked up the phone. And X-Factor surely had the mansion phone number!)
I don't think you have to read New Mutants to understand what's going on with the X-Men—my library only had the X-Men half of things and I managed—but it does help a lot. And it's a really great series, so it's well worth reading in its own right.
(I'm not as fond of X-Factor—never really forgave it for what happened to Madelyne as a result of its existence—but it does have its moments, after the very rough first few issues. I really liked the Judgement War storyline, which has kind of a TOS Star Trek feel.)