Just got to reading this for the second time ever – which is an odd thing to say about a comic I own two different editions of (the collection and the IDW Artisan Edition).

Here’s the thing. Before this, in my naïveté, I only liked Born Again for the David Mazzuchelli art, and I’ll admit now that I was largely wrong to do so, even though Miller’s writing continues to not particularly speak to me (except for some his most outré moments in Sin City).

I reread it this time because I was gearing up to reread Batman: Year One and figured I should start with their previous vaunted collaboration, which had after all ended only the previous year. Also came the timely release of Mangasplaining’s Born Again episode. Just felt right.

(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.)

The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32.

In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by Disney, so Marvel wasn’t as invested in the X-Men, but they tend not to come out and admit that.)