Here is the break down between New Mutants’ list and Brian Cronin’s List
(and I promise this will be my last post on the subject)
Phalanx Covenant dropped from 15th place to 50th
Imperial dropped from 40th place (tied for 38th) to 44th place
Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire stayed at the same rank of 41.
House of M dropped from 14 to 39
Return of the Brood (Earthfall) stayed the same at 38
Rise of the Phoenix dropped from being tied for 45 to 34
Welcome to Genosha (which Brian called “A Green and Pleasant Land – no wonder everyone else calls it the other title) stayed at 33!
Here Comes Tomorrow dropped from 20 to 32
Second Coming dropped from 25 to 31.
X-Tenction Agenda dropped from 9 to 30
Supernovas dropped from 12 to 29
Crossroads jumped from tied at 41 to 28
X-Cutioner’s Song dropped from 11 to 27
Torn stayed the same at 26.
Mutant Genesis dropped from 23 to 25
LifeDeath jumped from tied at 53 to 21!
Planet X dropped from 18 to 20
Riot at Xaviers dropped from 13 to 17
The Brood Saga jumped from 21 to 16
Fatal Attractions jumped from 23 to 15
Fall of the Mutants dropped from 7 to 14
Asgardian Wars jumped from 16 to 13
Messiah Complex dropped from 8 to 12
Inferno dropped from 8 to 11
Preteus Saga jumped from tied at 41 to 10
Mutant Massacre dropped from 2 to 7
Gifted jumped from 21 to 6
From the Ashes would have jumped from 48 to 8, from the collected trade to the highest ranked story.
E is for Extinction stayed at 5
God Loves, Man Kills jumped from 10 to 4
Age of Apocalypse stayed at 3
Days of Future Past jumped from 6 to 2
Dark Phoenix Saga stayed at 1
The stories that did not change were:
Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire at 41
Return of the Brood (EarthFall) at 38
Welcome to Genosha/A Green and Pleasant Land at 33
Torn at 26
E is for Extinction at 5
Age of Apocalypse at 3
Dark Phoenix Saga at 1
In the end though, like any of these lists, it usually just boils down to, these are the 50 best X-Men stories, you may disagree with some of the rankings but just use it as a way to know which stories are worth checking out. X-Men have a bunch of crossovers so those will always make the list.
21 stories didn’t make the CSBG list so that’s really 71 stories to check out. Pretty impressive that New Mutants’ compiled list starts has the top 16 making the list. Some newer stories show up if you don’t want just the best of the 80s and such. Plus with Paul Smith’s run being made into one entry, it did open the list for five additional stories so there’s that as well.
Seems like the between the two lists, New Mutants’ was about actual storylines whereas CSBG’s list was about storylines and individual issues.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 