New X-Men Omnibus

I am amazed beyond belief New X-Men was one of the most amazing & inclusive X-Men books I have ever read!  Grant Morrison is a genius pure & simple I wish he would write something else for Marvel.  I have been a longtime X-Men fan ever since I was introduced to the uncanny mutants through the 90's cartoon.  The cartoon convinced me to track down early collections of Chris Claremont's run on the X-Men.  Now Stan Lee may have created the X-Men but Chris Claremont is the godfather of the franchise no other writer has taken the X-Men so far or added so much to the mythos.  Grant Morrison is one of the greatest writers when it comes to researching a franchise & bringing original concepts to the forefront again.  Not only does he flush out the original concept but he injects new ideas & new concepts.  In just his brief X-Men run Morrison has used almost every trope & idea that the X-Men are known for.  Everything from adventures in space, the phoenix, persecution, racism, drama, death, sentinels, Weapon Plus program, the Shi'ar Empire & alternate reality futures,  Everything is here & it is executed almost perfectly.  I absolutely loved the the majority of this run as for what happened to the Magneto in this volume I agree that it didn't stick to the landing but the overall reveal was awesome.  I completely disagree that Marvel erased the majority of Grant Morrison's run on from continuity in fact I think they preserved a great portion of it.  Since this run not only have Magneto & Xavier taken more of a back seat but leadership of the different mutant factions has been taken up by other characters.  Cyclops has had an especially big push over the last couple of years.  As for the Scott / Emma relationship Jean gave her consent in the end so I think it was a nice progression for both of the characters.  Several characters that Grant Morrison created are still being used today, Quentin Quire, Angel, Beak, Fantomex & the Stepford Cuckoos.  Yes I know Beak & Angel are depowered now thanks to M-Day but they still exist.  I really love the final story-arc Here Comes Tomorrow an alternate future story in which the X-Men of the future must take on The Beast & it reveals the real fate of Jean Grey-Summers.  Since her final death the original Jean Grey has been dead since 2004, longer than any of her previous deaths.  The story introduces the idea of the Phoenix Egg which is currently being used in Brian Michael Bendis's current X-Men run.  Physically Jean Grey is dead but spiritually her consciousness has fully merged with the Phoenix Force as a cosmic entity.  She returns when needed to restore balance appearing multiple times since Morrison's run.  In essence this series brings forth many of the ideas that Marvel has been using currently taking chances with characters in new directions.  Currently Marvel has killed off Charles Xavier & given his mind to the Red Skull.  They have killed off the Watcher & replaced him with the original Nick Fury.  Wolverine has also been killed off is being temporally replaced by several of his enemies before being fully replaced by X-23.  Currently in there major summer event of 2015 they have destroyed both the Marvel Universe & the Ultimate Universe to create a battle world in the style of Game of Thrones ruled by Doctor Doom.  This event will create a new Marvel Universe so in the fall anything is possible as to what the new Marvel Universe will hold but these type of out of the box thinking is the type of stuff that Grant Morrison brought with his writing style.  The follow up to Morrison's run is Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men I look forward to everything that comes after the this run which includes one of my other favorite X-Men stories Messiah Complex which leads to a whole set of other stories.  This is a fabulous jumping on point for all of the lapsed X-Men fans or people who just don't know where to start.