The Scarlet Witch has had a tough life. Over the years, she’s subverted by Chthon, found out her twin sons are fragments of Master Pandemonium‘s soul, lost them both, seen her synthezoid husband dismantled and been manipulated by her father, Magneto. When she finally snapped, she destroyed the Avengers (during AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED, 2004-2005). Magneto took her to Genosha to help her recover, but so far he’s failed. Now, his failure and her state of mind could threaten all reality…
If it’s your first time reading House of M, I’d recommend sticking the eight-issue ‘House of M’ series rather than slotting in all the tie-in issues as well. They’re largely unnecessary and seriously disrupt the flow of the story.
As usual, I’ve highlighted the essential stories, but the ones outside of the main limited series either add a little more explanation to the world-building (like Black Panther‘s story), have an actual effect on the characters in mainstream continuity (Captain Britain‘s mission to save reality is a fine exmple) and are just cool, fun comics (like the Exiles‘ journey through the multiverse). Most of the other tie-ins are forgettable, have little bearing on continuity and often conflict with the events of the main series.
If you’ve read the main storyline before and you want to read it in order, tie-ins and all… hey! Go for your life!
Major Event: While the main story is covered in the eight-issue event, the expanded tie-ins make this a ‘major event’.
Must-Reads: In the Quick List , must-read chapters are in bold; in the Fallout section, issues marked with a ✔ are the stories that are most heavily impacted by this event.
1st appearances: Listed first appearances are debut appearances of Earth-616 characters unless otherwise stated; technically, any appearance of a character from the House of M reality is a first appearance due to the theory that Earth-616 merged with the pre-existing Earth-58163, but frankly, I think that’s a ridiculous idea and would prefer to keep it simple.
The Finale: Cable & Deadpool #17, Exiles #71, Mutopia X #4 andNew X-Men: Academy X #19 take place at the same time as House of M #7; breaking this down by pages is so utterly disruptive to the main narrative of the House of M mini-series and to the flow of those individual issues that I believe splitting down the pages is pointless and often conflicts too heavily with House of M #7; therefore, those tie-in issues have been included slightly earlier in the Full Reading Order section and are treated as having taken place before the reality reset.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue.
Spoilers: The issue descriptions and fallout section contain spoilers, so be warned!
- FORGING THE SWORD (2004) – Magneto is revealed to be alive on Genosha
- AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED (2004-2005) – The Scarlet Witch takes down the Avengers
- BREAKOUT (2005) – Formation of the New Avengers
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the chronological reading order without story descriptions, or spoilers:
- Excalibur #11 (tie-in)
- Excalibur #12 (tie-in)
- Excalibur #13
- Excalibur #14
- House of M #1
- Uncanny X-Men #462
- Spider-Man: House of M #1
- House of M #2
- Incredible Hulk #83
- House of M #3
- Spider-Man: House of M #2
- Wolverine #33
- Wolverine #34
- Wolverine #35
- Mutopia X #1
- Secrets of the House of M #1
- The Pulse: House of M Special Edition
- Iron Man: House of M #1
- Black Panther #7
- Spider-Man: House of M #3
- Incredible Hulk #84
- Spider-Man: House of M #4
- Mutopia X #2
- Uncanny X-Men #463
- Iron Man: House of M #2
- Iron Man: House of M #3
- Incredible Hulk #85
- Uncanny X-Men #464
- Uncanny X-Men #465
- Spider-Man: House of M #5
- Fantastic Four: House of M #1
- Mutopia X #3
- Incredible Hulk #86
- New Thunderbolts #11
- New X-Men: Academy X #16
- New X-Men: Academy X #17
- Fantastic Four: House of M #2
- Fantastic Four: House of M #3
- House of M #4
- House of M #5
- Captain America #10
- The Pulse #10
- Exiles #69
- New X-Men: Academy X #18
- New X-Men: Academy X #19
- Exiles #70
- Exiles #71
- Cable & Deadpool #16 (tie-in)
- Cable & Deadpool #17
- Mutopia X #4
- House of M #6
- House of M #7
- House of M #8
- House of M: The Day After #1
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Excalibur #11 (tie-in) In the present day, Archangel sets up his new organisation Mutantes Sans Frontières. His launch party in Zanzibar is interrupted by a major assault by the Weaponeers who are secretly employed by Courtney Ross. Archangel, Husk and Askari do their best to defend Zanzibar from the attackers! 1st appearance: Askari/Jono Baraka | |
| Excalibur #12 (tie-in) Over on what’s left of the island nation of Genosha, the island’s mutant team Excalibur formed by Professor X (Charles Xavier) hear about the attack on Zanzibar and teleport over to help out. The team to tackle the Weaponeers while Callisto goes for their leader, Viper. One of Viper’s men, Scimitar, resorts to threatening the Vice President’s family to win the fight. Back in Genosha, the Dark Beast informs Magneto of Callisto’s plight, but Magneto chooses not to pass the news on to Xavier so he can stay focussed on helping the comatose Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff). 1st appearance: General Umbaja, Taniqa Umbaja | |
| Excalibur #13 Callisto convinces Viper to help Archangel to take down the back-stabbing Weaponeers and defeat Scimitar. The country receives an influx of cash from Courtney Ross to help them rebuild. In Genosha, Xavier runs out of ways he can help the Scarlet Witch recover and sends an astral projection to Doctor Strange, hoping magic will do the trick! | |
| Excalibur #14 Doctor Strange takes a tour through Professor X’s mixed up memories, trying to heal Xavier to they can help Wanda together. Despite this, Strange can’t help her. Magneto is now desperate to save the daughter he failed. This means the end of Excalibur. 1st appearance: Sir Raptor |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | House of M #1 (pp.1-23) Charles Xavier returns to America and summons the X-Men as well as old and new Avengers, to Avengers Tower to help decide what to do about the Scarlet Witch. In Genosha, Wanda’s brother Quicksilver begs Magneto not to let them kill her, but he’s all out of options. The Avengers and X-Men fly out to Genosha, many of them witnessing the devastation after Cassandra Nova‘s attack on the island nation for the first time. But Wanda and Magneto are missing. When the group investigates a decrepit cathedral, everything goes white… 1st appearance: ‘Yellowjacket’/’Hank Pym’/Criti Noll (true identity unrevealed), House of M/Earth-58163 |
| Mutopia X #1 (pp.1-3) Police Officer Izzy Ortega is despairing his recent life-choice when reality takes a different turn… | |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #462 (pp.1-4) Storm’s X-Men team a fighting the Weaponeers in East Africa when the world goes white! Sensing a massive impending change, Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey) transports herself and Psylocke to the White Hot Room – the core of creation that houses the Phoenix Force… |
| ✔ | House of M #1 (p.24) Peter Parker wakes up, leaving his wife Gwen Stacy-Parker to sleep in. 1st appearance: Gwen Stacy-Parker (Earth-58163, cameo), ‘House of M’/Earth-58163 |
| Spider-Man: House of M #1 (pp.1-2) Peter Parker stands crying over his wife and young son, with no clue why he suddenly feels such emotion… 1st appearance: Gwen Stacy-Parker (Earth-58163, full), Richie Parker (Earth-58163) | |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #462 (pp.5-17) Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) and his shapeshifting wife Meggan wake up in Otherworld when the effect of the reality warp hits, sending waves of multiversal variants of known heroes through the barriers of reality! The warp brings the insane Sir Jim Jaspers back into being (having been destroyed during THE JASPERS WARP, 1982-1984) – but this time with the powers of the Fury – as well as Brian’s reality-warping brother Jamie Braddock. Both transport themselves out of Otherworld… 1st appearance: Flight Leader/Dan Hampson, Celestial Nullifier |
| ✔ | House of M #2 (pp.1-8) Retired war hero Steve Rogers is living out the last of his days in the Bronx. Scott Summers and Emma Frost are a happily married working couple. Alison Blaire hosts her own chat show. Simon Williams is a huge movie star. Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel, the world’s most popular non-mutant superhero. Kitty Pryde is a school teacher…. New identity: Ms Marvel/Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel |
| Spider-Man: House of M #1 (pp.3-7) In this world where mutants rule and humans are soon to be extinct, Peter Parker is one of the most famous mutants on the planet. Despite sensing that all’s not quite right, Peter gets on with his life as the owner of Spider-Man Inc and the inventor of the web-shooters that are about to be distributed to law enforcement officers across the globe. Providing a life of luxury for his human family (his wife, Gwen, and his son, Richie Parker, his aunt and uncle Ben & May Parker and father-in-law, George Stacy), Peter is loved by everyone. Everyone except his publicist J Jonah Jameson who he relentlessly bullies… 1st appearance: Ben Parker (Earth-58163), Spider-Man Inc, ‘House of M’ Spider-Man costume (cameo) | |
| Incredible Hulk #83 (pp.1-20) Bruce Banner and his duel persona, the Hulk, have found peace and acceptance in the Australian outback with the Aborigines. Humans have come to Australia in their droves, seeking refuge from the mutant-ruled world. One of Magneto’s SHIELD units led by Unus the Untouchable initiates a cull which is interrupted by Monica Rappuccini‘s AIM forces. They get additional help from the Hulk who orders SHIELD to leave the country… New identity: Exodus/Bennet du Paris as Governor Exodus, Hulk/Bruce Banner as Two Minds | |
| ✔ | House of M #2 (pp.9-18) Luke Cage leads the underground Human Resistance Movement that includes Felicia Hardy, Misty Knight, Danny Rand, Marc Spector and the White Tiger. The troubled Bob Reynolds tells his psychiatrist Dr Stephen Strange that he’s plagued by visions of darkness. Piotr Rasputin works on his farm in Russia. At Stark Industries, scientist Hank McCoy works with genius Hank Pym who’s secretly desperate to save humanity from extinction. In Wakanda, fashion designer Janet Van Dyne creates an outfit for Ororo Munroe, the Queen of Kenya… New identity: Storm/Ororo Munroe as Queen Ororo Munroe |
| Spider-Man: House of M #1 (pp.8-12) George Stacy presents Spider-Man’s Web-Shooters to the police, offering a deal to arm their law enforcement officers with the wrist-mounted devices. For a price… 1st appearance: Captain George Stacy (Earth-58163) | |
| Mutopia X #1 (pp.4-11) Human police officer Izzy Ortega is assigned to take down the extremist Sapien League – a violent offshoot of the Human Resistance Movement. Ortega thwarts the League’s attempt on the life of mutant rapper Jazz E Jazz which puts him at the top of the League’s hit list… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | House of M #2 (pp.19-22) Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier over Manhattan, Commander Logan wakes up to discover he’s been granted his fondest desire – his memories have returned. But there’s a catch. They’re the memories of the true reality and they don’t line up with this world ruled by the House of Magnus! 1st appearance: Red Guard (Earth-58163), SHIELD Sentinels (Earth-58163) New identity: Wolverine/Logan as Commander Logan |
| ✔ | House of M #3 (pp.1-7) Immediately figuring out what must’ve happened on Genosha, Wolverine throws himself off the edge of the Helicarrier and crashlands on a ledge on the side of a building in the altered New York City… |
| Spider-Man: House of M #1 (pp.13-20) Spider-Man Inc make an enemy of businessman Norman Osborn when Gwen buys out his company Oscorp and fire him. Crusher Hogan shows up for Peter Parker’s surprise birthday party, still in his Green Goblin wrestling costume… New identity: Crusher Hogan as the Green Goblin, Peter Parker as the Green Goblin (unrevealed) | |
| Mutopia X #1 (p.12) Bishop is assigned to work with Officer Izzy Ortega… | |
| Wolverine #33 Agent Mystique of the elite Red Guard is questioned by Sebastian Shaw, Director of SHIELD. Logan’s recent behaviour in this reality had already been a little off. In the recent ‘past’, Logan and Mystique were present when Nick Fury tried to steal a Sentinel! | |
| Wolverine #34 Logan and Fury had a long-standing grudge ever since Fury was demoted from Director of SHIELD to Drill Sergeant after the Mutant Wars. And it looks like Wolverine set Fury up, before luring him into a hangar that exploded. But Nick Fury’s a tricky guy to kill. 1st appearance: Earshot/Travis Spangler (Earth-58163) | |
| Wolverine #35 Commander Logan later crossed swords with Fury, who escaped while Logan saved Mystique from an explosion. Sebastian Shaw works out the truth – the seemingly resurrected Nick Fury had actually been a disguised Mystique the whole time. She’d been trying to give Logan back his edge. In the present, Shaw orders Mystique to bring the rogue Commander Logan in! | |
| Mutopia #1 (pp.13-22) Bishop and Ortega deal with a major Sapien League incident in Manhattan that draws the attention of Sentinels and implicates Shaky Kaufman! 1st appearance: Erik | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #1 (pp.21-22) After the party, another Green Goblin shows up when everyone but J Jonah Jameson has left Peter’s birthday party and offers him a chance to get back at Peter Parker! New identity: Peter Parker as the Green Goblin (unrevealed) | |
| Incredible Hulk #83 (pp.21-22) Bruce Banner’s Aborigine friend Gateway reveals to him that this ‘reality’ isn’t real! | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #2 (pp.1-5) The Green Goblin offers Jonah the chance for revenge against his boss by giving him Peter Parker’s journal… | |
| Iron Man: House of M #1 (pp.1-6) Tony Stark and Johnny Storm are the two greatest fighters in the Sapien Deathmatch. But Magneto can’t let it look like humans have a chance against the Sentinels, so Tony’s father Howard Stark stops both of them from winning the latest contest… 1st appearance: Howard Stark (Earth-58163), Sapien Deathmatch Armor |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Secrets of the House of M Erik Magnus‘ heads of the’ House of Magnus has pretty much ruled most of the world since the Mutant Wars. Wanda Magnus is Erik’s human daughter who rarely ventures into the public eye. Charles Xavier has been missing since the Mutant Wars ended. Sebastian Shaw heads up SHIELD as a mutant peacekeeping task force. Otto Octavius, Hank McCoy and Hank Pym discuss the progress of science in a ‘Mutant Week’ article. Lila Cheney runs Teleportation Tours and can take you around the world to any destination, including Genosha, Kenya and the Mutant Institute and Mutopia. Note: This is essentially a one-shot handbook to the House of M reality which explains this history of the major players as well as some additional key story points that aren’t revealed in the main titles. | |
| The Pulse: House of M Special Edition The latest copy of The Pulse includes new on Carol Danvers’ relationship with Simon Williams, Mariko Harada”s kidnapping by Hydra and scientist Dr Moira MacTaggert is on the run. Note: This is a tabloidesque promo release with text overviews of the ‘House of M’ crossover titles, building-up to Magneto’s birthday which falls at the same time as the anniversary of Magnus’ victory during the Mutant Wars. | |
| ✔ | House of M #3 (pp.8-11) Wolverine catches up on this new reality with a copy of The Pulse. He steals a motorbike and heads to Westchester… |
| Mutopia #2 (pp.1-8) Shaky Kaufman demands the capture of Ishmael Ortega. Meanwhile, Ortega prepares for his daughter to attend the ceremony where her mutant power will be unlocked. After meeting Mister M, he isn’t sure he wants her to go through with it… 1st appearance: Machine New identity: Mister M/Absolom Mercator as Sensei | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #2 (pp.6-15) Peter Parker sends his bodyguard, the Rhino, to question wrestler Crusher Hogan over Jonah’s whereabouts due to the ‘Green Goblin’ connection. But Rhino only ends up hospitalising Crusher… 1st appearance: ‘Venom’ (Earth-58163), ‘House of M’ Spider-Man costume (full) | |
| ✔ | Black Panther #7 (pp.1-3) While making a delivery on behalf of his father, Quicksilver does his best to win the heart of Queen Ororo of Kenya, but she’s not interested… |
| Iron Man: House of M #1 (pp.7-8) Tony Stark returns to Stark Industries snd learns of Hank Pym’s Vision Project… | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #2 (pp.16-22) Peter dons his Spider-Man costume and searches for Jonah himself, but he’s too late to stop JJJ from announcing to the press that Peter Parker isn’t a mutant! | |
| ✔ | Black Panther #7 (pp.4-6) Magneto was hoping his heir would break up Queen Ororo’s romance with the Black Panther as well as her connections with the Human Resistance. When his assassin Sabretooth fails to kill the Panther, Magneto sends his ally, Apocalypse, to dispatch him. But Black Bolt of the Inhumans shows up and blows the powerful mutant off the face of the Earth. The Black Panther gathers powerful allies in the form of Black Bolt, Queen Ororo, King Namor of Atlantis and Emperor Sunfire. |
| Spider-Man: House of M #3 (pp.1-12) Peter Parker is now a wanted man and his family are in ruins. While visiting Crusher Hogan in hospital, Peter also stops in on a young Spider-Man fan who was beaten into a coma. A hospital security guard realises who Peter is and convinces him to do stop wallowing and do something about the mess his life is in. Spider-Man begins his search for the Green Goblin but starts by subduing the rampaging Rhino who’s feeling guilty about hurting Crusher… 1st appearance: Officer Giarusso (Earth-58163) | |
| Incredible Hulk #84 With now AIM on his side, the Hulk overthrows the mutant government of Australia, costing Unus, Exodus, Pyro and the Vanisher their jobs with SHIELD. | |
| ✔ | House of M #3 (pp.12-14) Wolverine arrives in Westchester only to find there’s no Xavier Institute, just a residence. There’s no Charles Xavier and no X-Men…. |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Spider-Man: House of M #3 (pp.13-22) The Rhino gets help from Electro, Ox and the Vulture in order to subdue the Green Goblin for Peter. Gwen Parker arrives in time to unmask the Goblin, revealing him to be an insane Peter Parker! | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #4 (pp.1-7) Peter tricks his wife and friends and escapes, though he narrowly avoids death at the hands of a Sentinel… | |
| ✔ | House of M #3 (p.15) Wolverine begins a desperate search for allies… |
| Spider-Man: House of M #4 (pp.8-12) Peter’s family decide to use his tech to locate him and save him from himself… | |
| Mutopia #2 (pp.9-10) Izzy Ortega continues to feel close to his wife due to her mutant power… | |
| Iron Man: House of M #1 (pp.9-23) Tony secretly builds a hi-tech suit of armour to show his father up. While testing it, he discovers a trio of Sentinels attacking a Human Resistance Movement cell. His new armour makes short work of two of the Sentinels, but the last pins him to the ground. The Sentinel pilot reveals himself as Howard Stark! | |
| Iron Man: House of M #2 (pp.1-6) Tony pushes his father’s Sentinel back long enough to escape, but the humans are apprehended. He returns to his office to find he’s under suspicion of being the rebel Iron Man… | |
| Mutopia #2 (pp.11-14) Izzy Ortega makes some dubious decisions… | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #4 (pp.13-22) J Jonah Jameson employs Norman Osborn’s dubious contact, Alistair Smythe, to build him a robot to protect him from Peter Parker. Ben Parker, George Stacy and Gwen Stacy-Parker seek out Peter’s journal and are attacked by Jameson’s Spider-Slayer. Spider-Man trashes the robot Spider-Slayer and departs without explanation! But the Parker/Stacy family have at least managed to get their hands on the journal. 1st appearance: Spider-Slayer (Earth-58163) | |
| Mutopia #2 (pp.15-16) Kaufman sends his men in to shake up Izzy Ortega… | |
| ✔ | Black Panther #7 (pp.7-11) The assassin Sabretooth fails to kill the Black Panther who beheads the feral mutant… |
| Mutopia #2 (pp.17-22) Izzy Ortega lies to his wife about his injuries; with Bishop, Izzy finds the Sapien League’s hidden HQ; the Daily Bugle discover Izzy’s secret! | |
| Mutopia X #3 (pp.1-12) Kaufman’s men apprehend anti-mutant terrorist Sashenka Popova and decide to set her up to kill Izzy Ortega. Armena Ortega finds out about Izzy’s affair with Lara the Illusionist… | |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #462 (pp.18-23) Otherworld’s ruler Roma assigns Captain Britain and Meggan to investigate the trans-temporal tsunami emanating from Earth-616 so they can fix it before it destroys reality completely. Jamie Braddock pulls both his sister Psylocke and Marvel Girl out of the White Hot Room and into the altered Earth-616. They materialise in England, outside Braddock Manor which s guarded by a Sentinel! |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #463 (pp.1-8) Marvel Girl, and Psylocke enter the party on the Braddock grounds and discover King Brian Braddock and Queen Meggan Braddock as hosts, having completely forgotten their mission to save reality due to the effects of the trans-temporal wave… New identity: Captain Britain/Brian Braddock as King Brian Braddock, Megan as Queen Meggan Braddock |
| Iron Man: House of M #2 (pp.7-22) Tony Stark finds himself under investigation, but no one can prove he’s the Iron Man. Only Howard Stark knows and he advises Tony to destroy the suit. Instead, Tony puts the Iron Man armour back on and, with help from the armoured Johnny Storm, tries to get to Hank Pym before the Sentinels do. Pym unleashes a gene bomb that only kills his mutant oppressors. Though Tony and Johnny save him, Pym reveals he’s placed more bombs all over the city! 1st appearance: Madame Envoy (Earth-58163) | |
| Iron Man: House of M #3 In their armour, Tony Stark and Johnny Storm chase through the city to deactivate the bombs, pursued by SHIELD agents who are unaware of their intentions. Howard Stark confronts Tony wearing Johnny Storm’s Deathmatch armour. Hoping to suppress a potential human uprising, Magneto arrives and tries to kill Iron Man. Tony uses counter-magnets to shift Magneto’s assault to his father, Howard, killing him. Tony defuses the last of the gene bombs before it can harm Magneto, earning enough of Magneto’s trust. He goes on to use his new armour to repair the damage done to the city. | |
| Mutopia X #3 (pp.13-15) Armena Ortega confronts her husband Izzy over his very public kiss with Lara the Illusionist… | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #5 (pp.1-12) The Parker family read the journal only to find it riddled with Peter Parker’s dark fantasies, including the deaths of his Uncle Ben, Gwen and George Stacy. Even when everything’s going right, Peter sabotages himself. Elsewhere, Spider-Man is besieged by homeless humans… | |
| ✔ | Black Panther #7 (pp.12-14) Magneto receives Sabretooth’s head in a box. In retaliation, he sends his ally, Apocalypse, to dispatch the Black Panther.. 1st appearance: Council of Kings (Earth-58163) New identity: Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida as Emperor Sunfire |
| Uncanny X-Men #463 (pp.9-14) Roma tries to restore Captain Britain’s memories in his sleep, but his confused state in the morning provokes him into attacking Courtney Ross! Pete Wisdom receives news from America that Commander Logan has gone rogue and Magneto’s Marauders are in England, pursuing a mutant who carries Magneto’s genes… | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #5 (p.13-17) Now the most hated man in America, Peter Parker finds his uncle and tells him there’s only one way out of all of this… | |
| Incredible Hulk #85 After sleeping together, Monica Rappaccini reminds Bruce Banner that she slept with him before, back in college. Monica’s daughter, Thasanee Rappaccini (also known as the Scorpion) finds out her mother’s been using Dr Aaron Isaacs‘ cyborg process and the tech from his robot ‘son’, Adam Isaacs, to turn human refugees into tricked-out zombie cyborgs. Scorpion explains her mother’s plan to send them after Magneto to the Hulk. | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #1 (pp.1-8) Lord Doom and his Fearsome Four attack another of Magneto’s political foes, the Mole King, in his subterranean kingdom. The Invincible Woman (Doom’s wife, Valeria Von Doom), the Inhuman Torch (Kristoff Vernard, Doom’s adopted son) and the It (Ben Grimm, the only survivor of Reed Richards‘ shuttle flight to space) overthrow the Subterraneans. Doom breaks the Mole King’s neck… 1st appearance: Fearsome Four (Earth-58163 – Invincible Woman/Valeria Von Doom, Inhuman Torch/Kristoff Vernard, It/Ben Grimm) |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Black Panther #7 (pp.15-22) The Council of Kings arrive in Wakanda and make short work of Angel, Iceman and Nightcrawler – the Horsemen of Apocalypse. The Council – Queen Ororo, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, King Namor of Atlantis and Emperor Sunfre of Japan – take the fight directly to Apocalypse. Only Lord Doom of Latveria refuses to take part. With barely a word, Black Bolt blows Apocalypse off the face of the Earth. The Black Panther now has powerful allies to help him oppose Magneto’s rule. |
| Mutopia X #3 (pp.16-25) Shaky Kaufman wants Izzy Ortega dead for interfering with Lara. He offers captive Sapien League leader Sashenka Popova her freedom if she kills Ortega for him. 1st appearance: Crowley, Mister Punch, ‘Filthy’ Frankie Zapruder | |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #463 (pp.15-22) Captain Britain, Marvel Girl, Meggan and Psylocke and Marvel Girl head to the West Country where the Blob of the Marauders has managed to stop the Juggernaut. While Cap and Meggan keep them distracted, Marvel Girl and Psylocke locate the missing mutant and discover… a blue-skinned, two-fingered, three-toed female mutant who looks nothing like Magneto at all! 1st appearance: Marauders (Earth-58163), T-Rex (Earth-58163) |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #464 The Marauders’ target, Nocturne, who is actually the offspring of Nightcrawler and the Scarlet Witch of Earth-2182 and a former member of the reality-hopping Exiles (joining the team during DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, 2001). Roma finally gets through to Captain Britain, reminding him of his mission to save reality! Nocturne is taken by the Marauders. Omega Sentinel leads the Sentinels in a siege on Braddock Manor. |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #465 Roma sends Captain Britain Corps members Captain UK and Justicer Bull to help Captain Britain defeat the Marauders and save Earth-616. Juggernaut tries to protect Nocturne from the Marauders and ends up using the Blob to plug the hole in reality. Meggan takes the Blob’s place and seals the rift from the other side, separating herself from her husband forever! |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #1 (pp.9-10) The Fearsome Four are celebrated when they return to Latveria… | |
| Incredible Hulk #86 (pp.1-19) Hulk and Scorpion fight their way through Monica’s AIM cyborg army and use the Sydney Opera House to smash a giant cyborg… | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #1 (pp.11-16) Victor von Doom is still bothered by the mere mention of Reed Richards, despite him being dead. Doom’s mother, Cynthia Von Doom, tries to convince him to kill Magneto and rule in his place. Quickslver summons Doom to Genosha… | |
| Spider-Man: House of M #5 (p.13-22) Now the most hated man in America, Peter Parker fakes his own death so that he and his family can live in peace. He warns Erik Magnus to ease up on the humans in return for staying ‘dead’. | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #16 (pp.1-10) The junior SHIELD agents dubbed the Hellions take down Cameron Hodge‘s Human Liberation Front suicide bombers. Hellion team member Surge celebrates the win with a secret meeting with her boyfriend, Prodigy of the New Mutant Leadership Institute… 1st appearance: Cameron Hodge (Earth-58163), Human Liberation Front (Earth-58163) New identity: Hellion/Julian Keller as Scion |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Incredible Hulk #86 (pp.20-22) Banner kicks AIM out of Australia, but hangs on to Rappaccini so he can keep an eye on her. Magneto sends a holo-projection of himself to offer Bruce his freedom if he hands over Australia, but Bruce refuses and warns Magneto never to come back. | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #1 (pp.17-22) Doom arrives in Genosha and gains approval for killing the Mole King. But Doom takes his frustrations over his own fealty out on the It and plans to make this world a ‘House of Doom’! New identity: Magneto/Erik Magnus Lehnsherr as King Erik Magnus, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff as Prince Pietro Maximoff | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #16 (pp.11-16) Agent Moonstar and Mystique decide to pull Surge from the Hellions’ next mission – arresting Surge‘s ‘terrorist’ human father Seiji Ashida in Japan – and replace her with the sadistic Magik… 1st appearance: New Mutant Leadership Institute New identity: Karma/Xuân Cao Mạnh as Headmistress Mạnh, Danielle Moonstar as Agent Moonstar | |
| New Thunderbolts #11 Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) meets the delegates of the alien Kree Empire when they visit Earth. But the meeting is attacked by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker‘s anti-mutant squad – Flashback, Radioactive Man, Andrea von Strucker and Andreas von Strucker. Kree representative Genis-Vell takes on Flashback and starts to remember the true reality and see its future – including his own role in the destruction of the universe itself! Genis discovers a human plot to kill the Kree delegates to create an alliance with their enemies, the Shi’ar. While struggling his his perception of reality, Genis prevents the use of the biotoxin designed to kill the Kree. Dr Zebediah Killgrave puts Genis in stasis due to his unstable nature. 1st appearance: Atlas Class Sentinel New identity: Ronan the Accuser as Judge Advocate Ronan | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #2 (pp.1-16) Magneto tasks Doom with using his scientific and magical knowledge to create a prison for his enemies in another dimension. After the Fearsome Four kill the dimension’s inhabitants, Doom plans to use it’s weird magnetic physics to trap Magneto and rule the world in his place… | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #16 (pp.17-22) Surge turns to Prodigy to help rescue her father. Elsewhere in the Institute, Quentin Quire finds out resident psychologist Dr Sean Garrison is secretly working with Surge’s father. Garrison’s daughter, Wallflower, kills Quire before he can tell anyone! | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #17 (pp.1-18) Surge discovers corruption within SHIELD and convinces the New Mutants to help her get to Japan and save her father. The Hellions meet Emperor Sunfire and confront him about the terrorists’ target, Project Genesis, which is designed to turn waste into a food source for the population of the world. Surge and the New Mutants find her father’s terrorist cell. Back at the Institute, Tag discovers Quentin Quire’s body. Douglas Ramsey deems his death a suicide… | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #2 (pp.17-22) Despite Quicksilver’s suspicions, Magneto and his family accept Doom’s invitation into the other dimension to observe the prison the Fearsome Four have created. | |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #3 (pp.1-8) The Fearsome Four trap Quicksilver and stranding Magneto and Princess Lorna Magnus there before returning to Earth. Doom prepares to take the throne of the entire world… | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #17 (pp.19-20) The Hellions petition Sunfire who denies Project Genesis was a target… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Fantastic Four: House of M #3 (pp.9-22) Magneto has a secret ally in the It who free the House of Magnus from the other dimension. Magneto kills Valeria and Kristoff. Doom’s mother betrays her son to save her own life. Magneto uses his powers to show the metal-skinned Doom who’s boss, but allows the broken Latverian leader to live now that he’s been neutered. The It is forced out of Latveria, but finds company with a blind member of the Human Resistance called Alicia Masters. | |
| ✔ | House of M #3 (pp.16-22) The Red Guard catch up with Wolverine when he tries to contact Tony Stark. Cloak suddenly teleports him to the hidden headquarters of the Human Resistance Movement. Luke Cage orders Logan to remove the tracker from the base of his neck. His instructions are backed up by a very angry archer… Hawkeye! |
| ✔ | House of M #4 Hawkeye shoots out Logan’s tracker with an arrow, but the Sentinels have already tracked him down. They tear into the Resistance hideout, so Cloak teleports as many people out as he can. Logan explains his ‘altered reality’ story and Luke Cage starts to believe him. From among the Resistance, a little girl called Layla Miller unlocks Cage’s memories. They figure the Scarlet Witch gave everyone what they wanted using Charles Xavier’s telepathic powers. Logan and the Resistance find Scott & Emma Summers’ apartment. Layla unlocks Emma’s memories. Wolverine fears the damage to reality is permanent. 1st appearance: Layla Miller |
| ✔ | House of M #5 (pp.1-14) Layla Miller is taken on the search for the heroes who’ve forgotten their real lives, starting with Scott Summers, then onto Spider-Man whose memory restoration is so jarring due to him having to learn his wife, Gwen, and this Uncle Ben are actually both dead. Now, Peter wants to kill Magneto. Layla and the group go on to restore the memories of Kitty Pryde, Stephen Strange, Carol Danvers, Tony Stark, Jennifer Walters and Matt Murdock… |
| ✔ | The Pulse #10 (pp.1-4) Reporter Kat Farrell tries to find out why SHIELD Director Sebastian Shaw is present at an investigation into an explosion at Stark Industries, riling a Red Guard agent in the process. |
| Captain America #10 (pp.1-22) Steve Rogers, the former Captain America, attends an evening dedicated to the work he did as Cap and the achievements he made through his controversial career… | |
| ✔ | House of M #5 (p.14) / Captain America #10 (pp.1-22) Wolverine’s crew decide not to recruit Steve Rogers because he’s old and retired… |
| ✔ | House of M #5 (pp.15-21) SHIELD’s Red Guard – Agent Mystique, Agent Nightcrawler, Agent Drew, Agent Rogue and Agent Toad – invade the once-secret hideout of the Human Resistance Movement. Layla Miller frees their minds to end the fight. Hawkeye goes off alone. Wolverine knows the group need to take the battle to Magneto to find out where Professor X is. Meanwhile, Magneto prepares for Lord Doom’s arrival in Genosha. Alone, he visits the memorial garden dedicated to Charles Xavier… New identity: Polaris/Lorna Dane as Princess Lorna Magnus |
| ✔ | The Pulse #10 (pp.5-21) Now that he knows the Scarlet Witch’s killed actions led to his death (during AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED, 2004-2005), Hawkeye heads to the Daily Bugle. Having failed to convince her editor that there’s a story behind the Stark Industries incident, Kat Farrell works late into the evening. Hawkeye confronts Kat in full costume and tries to convince her that the House of M is a paper-thin illusion created by Magneto. He takes her to what should be Avengers Mansion, then on to Central Park to blow up the Sentinel head on display there. He figures Wanda Maximoff wants him to put her out of her misery and heads to Genosha. 1st appearance: Cerena Taylor |
| ✔ | House of M #6 (pp.1-8) Doom arrives in Genosha for an awkward meeting with Magneto. In Manhattan, Cyclops prepares the Avengers and X-Men to assault Genosha, though they begin to question if they’ll even be able to put reality back the way it was… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Exiles #69 At the Nexus of All Realities, the Exiles have decided to return to their home realities after discovering the truth about the Timebreakers. They arrive in Beak‘s home reality of Earth-616 and discover things aren’t as they left them. Beak’s girlfriend Angel doesn’t even know who he is. The Exiles debate trying to restore Earth-616 to normal. However, there’s a serial killer on the loose dubbed ‘Mutant X’ – also known as Proteus – who can send his consciousness into other bodies until he uses them up. The next body he possesses is Angel’s! 1st appearance: Blunderbuss, Moira MacTaggert, Proteus/Mutant X/Kevin Mactaggert |
| New X-Men: Academy X #17 (pp.21-22) Knowing SHIELD is rotten, Surge and her friends turn to the Human Liberation Front to help her find her father! | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #18 Surge, Prodigy and their teammates join forces with the human terrorists in Japan led by her father Seiji Ashida and Donald Pierce. This brings them into conflict with the Hellions until both groups discover Project Genesis is really designed to experiment on humans by giving them powers. Wallflower takes the opportunity to use her powers to convince her former allies to kill each other. Back in America, Dr Sean Garrison also tries to convince Xuân Cao Mạnh and Doug Ramsey to murder each other when they learn the truth about Project Genesis! | |
| New X-Men: Academy X #19 Tags save Xi’an and Doug. Sean Garrison jumps out of a window. Mercury kills Wallflower to save her allies. Dani Moonstar kills Donald Pierce when he turns against them. Surge’s dad is still a wanted criminal, despite his motivations actually being pure. The Hellions and New Mutants band together to fight Emperor Sunfire and his forces just as reality is reset… | |
| ✔ | Exiles #70 Moira MacTaggert approaches the reality-hopping Exiles to ask for their help in subduing her son, Proteus. By the time they corner him, he’s inhabiting Angel’s body and holding Beak hostage. |
| ✔ | Exiles #71 (pp.1-20) Proteus learns of the Exiles’ reality-hopping abilities, leaps from Angel’s body into Mimic‘s and uses the Timebreakers’ tech to leap to another world. Blink uses her last vial of regenerative serum to save Angel’s life. Heather Hudson transports the Exiles back to the Nexus of All Realities. When the Earth-616 is returned to normal, Angel and Beak find themselves and most of their children powerless. Only little Tito Bohusk keeps his beak and wings. |
| Cable & Deadpool 16 (tie-in) The trio realise this ‘War’ Cable is native to Earth-5701. Deadpool bodyslides out to Earth-58161, a reality in which ‘Brother Nathan’ had brought peace and eradicated war. Siryn and Cannonball arrive three minutes later and Deadpool immediately jumps to Earth-58162. This world’s Cable gave in to the Phalanx infection completely. Deadpool fights off the Phalanx-Cable’s attempt to infect him and bodyslides to another reality. This time, he finds an infant Cable in the clutches of Mister Sinister… Also see THE LEGEND RETURNS | |
| Cable & Deadpool #17 Cannonball and Siryn arrive and have barbecue with Sinister and Deadpool. Sinister explains how Magneto took control of the world, marking this as a reality-warped version of Earth-616. Sinister takes a sample of Deadpool’s DNA to speed baby Cable’s growth and make him an adult within days. Deadpool grabs the baby and bodyslides out. Also see THE LEGEND RETURNS New identity: Cable/Nathan Summers as Baby Cable | |
| Mutopia X #4 (pp.1-21) Lara the Illusionist tries to warn Bishop of Popova’s plan to kill Ishmael Ortega in front of his family. Ortega is defended by his mutant son Esteban Ortega who deflects the killshot and accidentally hits Ortega’s daughter, killing her. Mister M fails to save Chamayra Ortega’s life… | |
| ✔ | House of M #6 (pp.9-22) The world’s leaders gather in Genosha to celebrate King Magnus’ birthday, including Doom, the Black Panther, Princess Ororo of Kenya, King Namor of Atlantis and Genis-Vell, the envoy of the Kree Empire. Wolverine, Cage and the gang sneak aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier and Emma Frost uses her powers to mask their presence and convince the captain to steer in the direction of Genosha where they gatecrash King Magnus’ party. Cyclops leads the assault team while Emma Frost, Layla Miller and Cloak search for Charles Xavier, only to find his grave. Cloak slips underground, but can’t find a body! 1st appearance: House of Magnus Royal Guard, Billy Magnus, Tommy Magnus New identity: Photon/Genis-Vell as Private Genis-Vell, |
| ✔ | House of M #7 Cyclops and his crew attack the Royal Family of Genosha as Wanda Magnus collapses into building blocks. Doctor Strange locates the real Wanda Maximoff as she plays with her children. He confronts her over Magneto’s use of her power to create a new reality, but it was actually Quicksilver who convinced his sister to tap into Charles Xavier’s powers to learn what would make everyone happy. She then used her powers to create the ‘House of M’ reality. At that moment, Magnus confronts Emma Frost and Layla Miller who restore his memories. Before Strange can learn the location of Charles Xavier, the Scarlet Witch is shot in the back with an arrow by Hawkeye who demands to know why she killed him. She discorporates him before he gets an answer. Magneto attacks Quicksilver, having learned what his son has done in his name, buut the attack causes the Scarlet Witch to hit back against her father by restoring the world as it was, but with one massive alteration. As reality shifts back, she utters the words “no more mutants”! |
| ✔ | Exiles #71 (pp.21-22) When the Earth-616 is returned to normal, Angel and Beak find themselves and most of their children powerless. Only little Tito Bohusk keeps his beak and wings. |
| Mutopia X #4 (pp.22-23) Izzy Ortega finds out his daughter is dead. | |
| ✔ | House of M #8 Reality is restored to normal with only a handful of heroes remembering the altered reality, including Spider-Man who’s particularly cut up over what he’s lost. At the Xavier Institute, Emma Frost discovers many of the mutant students have lost their powers. Using Cerebra, she learns the mutant population has dropped from a million to only a small few. Wolverine is among those who still have their powers, along with all his memories. Doctor Strange failed to protect the world from this mystical attack. The Avengers visit the ruins of Avengers Mansion and discover evidence that Hawkeye is alive again. Magneto remains in Genosha as one of the powerless mutants. Someone resembling the Scarlet Witch is shopping in Latveria. But what happened to all the mutants’ powers? 1st appearance: Saint Joan’s Orphanage (unnamed) |
| ✔ | House of M: The Day After #1 It’s the darkest of days for mutants. New York’s Mutant Town loses its claim to the name. The X-Corp building in Paris is blown up by anti-mutant terrorists. The X-Men offer the Xavier Institute up as a safe haven for any mutants. Jamie Madrox‘s X-Factor Investigations team start looking into the cause of the power loss, not realising Cyclops and Emma Frost know the truth. Quicksilver wanders the streets, blaming himself. Mammomax, Erg and Peepers make their way to the Xavier Institute, pursued by members of the Sapien League who see this as their chance to finally wipe the ‘mutant plague’ off the face of the Earth. Wolverine and Colossus manage to rescue them, but the mansion is suddenly surrounded by Sentinels! Also see DECIMATION 1st appearance: Office of National Emergency/O*N*E (General Demetrius Lazer, Sentinel Squad O*N*E), Sapien League (Leper Queen) |
See how this story fits into the wider Marvel Universe with these reading orders:
- HULK FAMILY, 2004-2007 – Warbound
- X-FACTOR, 2004-2013 – Investigations
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| House of M: Civil War #1-5 (2008-2009) How Magneto won the Mutant Wars and what he lost in the process of building the House of Magnus is revealed. | ||
| House of M: Avengers #1-5 (2008) How Luke Cage formed the Human Resistance Movement is revealed. | ||
| Hulk: Broken Worlds #1 (2009) In an untold tale of the House of M, Betty Ross and Glenn Talbot move to the Hulk’s Australian haven; Hulk clashes with the Red Guard. | ||
| House of M: Masters of Evil #1-4 (2009-2010) How the Hood created a safe haven for humans, but made an enemy of Magneto is revealed. | ||
| Onslaught Reborn #1-5 (2007-2008) The power loss briefly allows the resurrection of Onslaught who goes in search of revenge on Franklin Richards; Franklin recreates his Counter-Earth and that world’s versions of the Fantastic Four and Avengers to defeat Onslaught and send him into the Negative Zone. | ||
| Cable & Deadpool #18-19 (2005) Cable gradually returns to adulthood. | THE LEGEND RETURNS | |
| Mutopia X #5 (2006) Chamayra Ortega dies from the injuries from the House of M reality when the world returns to normal; Mutant Town’s mutant population are revealed to be almost entirely powerless. | DECIMATION | |
| ✔ | Sentinel Squad O*N*E #1-5 (2006) The US Government builds new, larger, human-piloted Sentinels to contain the mutant population. | DECIMATION |
| Incredible Hulk #87 (2006) Bruce Banner wakes up in Australia, in bed with Monica Rappaccini; Banner/Hulk and Scorpion (Carmilla Black) first meet, unaware of their possible connection as father and daughter. | ||
| ✔ | X-Men #177-178 (2006) The X-Men and Sentinel Squad O*N*E defend the Xavier Institute from the attacking Sapien League; the O*N*E announce their role as permanent fixtures around the Xavier Institute, in light of the latest crisis; Iceman regains his powers. | DECIMATION |
| New Excalibur #1 (2006) Captain Britain forms a new Excalibur team, alongside Nocturne and Juggernaut. X-Men Unlimited #13 (2006) Mesmero is among the mutants learning to deal with life without powers. Uncanny X-Men #466 (2006) Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers) is seriously unnerved by the arrival of the Sentinels at the Xavier Institute as it mirrors the oppressive future timeline she’s from. | DECIMATION | |
| Exiles #72-82 (2006) The Exiles pursue Proteus though several alternate Earths; Proteus uses up Mimic’s body, killing him; Proteus jumps to Morph‘s body where he’s contained and made to believe he’s the real Morph. | ||
| X-Men: The 198 Files #1 (2006) Some of the estimated 198 remaining powered mutants are accounted for. | DECIMATION | |
| ✔ | X-Factor #1 (2006) Jamie Madrox begins investigating the cause of M-Day. | DECIMATION |
| ✔ | Giant-Size Ms Marvel #1 (2006) Ms Marvel recalls her experiences in the House of M reality and decides to be a better hero. | BEST OF THE BEST |
| ✔ | Son of M #1-3 (2006) Quicksilver tries to make amends for his actions by setting events in motion to restore his and others’ lost power. X-Men: 198 #1-5 (2006) The grounds of the Xavier Institute become a refugee camp for mutants, referring to themselves as the ‘198’. Generation M #1-5 (2006) Alternative reporter Sally Floyd investigates M-Day from a human perspective. New X-Men #20-23 (2006) Only a handful of students retain their powers and the rest are forced to leave the Xavier Institute; William Styker bombs the minibus carrying the depowered mutant kids, killing most of them. Son of M #4-6 (2006) Quicksilver’s attempt to restore mutants’ powers ends up making things worse; Quicksilver gains new abilities; it’s revealed that Genosha’s Excalibur team have lost their powers; Callisto has lost her tentacle arms along with her mutant powers. | DECIMATION |
| ✔ | Wolverine #36-40 (2006) Wolverine deals with learning the truth about his past. | DECIMATION ORIGINS & ENDINGS |
| Thunderbolts #100 (2006) Baron Zemo separates Genis-Vell into several pieces and dispersed him across the Dark Dimension in order to save existence. | RIGHT OF POWER | |
| ✔ | Cable and Deadpool #26-27 (2006) Apocalypse returns to save mutantkind in their darkest hour. | BLOOD OF APOCALYPSE |
| X-Men #182 (2006) Polaris regains a version of her powers from Apocalypse. | BLOOD OF APOCALYPSE | |
| ✔ | X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6 (2006) The energy from the mutants’ removed powers awakens the third Summers brother – Gabriel Summers, aka Vulcan – who returns to Earth; a powerless Charles Xavier resurfaces. | DECIMATION THE RISE OF VULCAN |
| ✔ | New Avengers #16-20 (2006) A mutant called Michael Pointer gains all the powers lost by the other mutants on M-Day. | DECIMATION |
| Black Panther #18 (2006) Storm marries the Black Panther. | CIVIL WAR WEDDING OF THE CENTURY | |
| Ms Marvel #8 (2008) Ms Marvel and Wonder Man enter into an on-again/off-again relationship. | CIVIL WAR | |
| ✔ | Civil War: X-Men #1-4 (2006) Sentinel Squad O*N*E upgrade their Sentinels; Bishop sides with the O*N*E against the X-Men in an effort to prevent his future timeline coming to pass; the 198 disband. | |
| New Excalibur #8 (2006) The events of M-Day allow the Shadow King to free himself from the astral plane. | ||
| ✔ | New Avengers #26 (2007) The resurrected Hawkeye locates the amnesiac Scarlet Witch (and apparently sleeps with her) in Latveria. | |
| Wolverine #55 (2007) Wolverine decapitates Sabretooth. | EVOLUTION | |
| ✔ | New X-Men #37-41 (2007) It’s revealed that Belasco allowed Magik to remain alive when he saw her resurrection in the House of M reality and drew her back to Limbo. | |
| ✔ | X-Men: Endangered Species #1 (2007) Beast begins an ill-fated mission to try to save mutantkind from extinction. | ENDANGERED SPECIES |
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| Avengers: The Initiative #1 (2007) America wins the superpowers war before it started due to other countries losing their mutants. New Warriors #1-6 (2007) Many depowered mutants (including Beak and Angel) use technology to gain new abilities as New Warriors. | THE INITIATIVE | |
| ✔ | X-Men: Die By The Sword #1-5 (2007) Nocturne is reunited with the Exiles; Excalibur and the Exiles join forces to take on Mad Jim Jaspers/The Fury. | |
| ✔ | X-Men: Messiah Complex #1 (2007) The first mutant to be born since M-Day causes conflict between mutant factions. Uncanny X-Men #493 (2008) The Sentinel Squad O*N*E pilots are infected with Nano-Sentinels and destroy the Xavier Institute before being destroyed themselves | MESSIAH COMPLEX |
| ✔ | X-Factor #31 (2008) Mutant Town is destroyed by Arcade. Cable #1-5 (2008) Cable takes the mutant baby – Hope Summers, believed by Cyclops to be the ‘Mutant Messiah’ – to be raised in the future. Uncanny X-Men #495 (2008) The X-Men abandon the destroyed Xavier Institute. | DIVIDED WE STAND |
| ✔ | Free Comic Book Day: X-Men #1 (2008) The X-Men officially relocate to San Francisco. Uncanny X-Men #500 (2008) The High Evolutionary gives Magneto an exo-skeleton that mimics his lost powers. | MANIFEST DESTINY |
| Secret Invasion #1 (2008) ‘Hank Pym’ is revealed to be a shapeshifting Skrull. New Avengers #40 (2008) ‘Jessica Drew’ is revealed to be a Skrull. | SECRET INVASION | |
| ✔ | New Avengers #45 (2008) Flashbacks reveal how the Skrulls stepped up their invasion plans when Earth’s mutants lost their powers as revealed; the secret activities of ‘Hank Pym’ and ‘Jessica Drew’ in the House of M reality are revealed. | SECRET INVASION |
| What If?: House of M #1 (2009) The alternate reality Earth-9021 is revealed in which the Scarlet Witch removed the powers of every superhuman. | ||
| ✔ | Captain Britain and MI13 #6-9 (2008-2009) Meggan is revealed to be trapped between dimensions. | |
| ✔ | Uncanny X-Men #507 (2009) Magneto’s powers are fully restored by the High Evolutionary. | LOVELORN MANIFEST DESTINY |
| ✔ | New Avengers #51 (2009) Having repeatedly failed to defend the Earth from mystical attacks and using his powers irresponsibly, Doctor Strange loses the title of Sorcerer Supreme to Brother Voodoo. | DARK REIGN |
| ✔ | Captain Britain and MI13 Annual #1 (2009) Meggan is reunited with Captain Britain. | VAMPIRE STATE |
| ✔ | Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1 (2009) The X-Men form an island nation as a haven for the last remaining mutants on Earth. | UTOPIA |
| ✔ | X-Men: Second Coming #2 (2010) Hope Summers’ return to the present causes the emergence of the first five new mutant signatures since M-Day. | SECOND COMING |
| What If?: Spider-Man – House of M #1 (2010) The alternate reality Earth-10298 is revealed in which the House of M version of Gwen Stacy remains alive when reality is reset, resulting in disaster for Spider-Man; in another reality, Earth-81029, Peter Parker’s personality remains split between his own and the Green Goblin when reality resets; a number of parody alternate universes are also revealed. | ||
| Amazing Spider-Man #639-640 (2010) Ironically, it’s revealed that Doctor Strange could use his ‘magic whammy’ to make the entire world forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man. | ||
| ✔ | Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #1-9 (2010-2012) The real Scarlet Witch returns; the Witch’s reality altering powers are revealed to have been caused by her possession by the Life Force; the Witch in Latveria is revealed to be a Doombot; the Scarlet Witch regains her own powers and begins restoring others mutants’ powers; Wiccan and Speed of the Young Avengers are confirmed to be the Scarlet Witch’s children. | THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE THE HEROIC AGE |
| ✔ | Captain Marvel #1 (2012) Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers) finally becomes Captain Marvel. | EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HERO |
| ✔ | Avengers vs X-Men #6 (2012) Hope Summers willingly leaves Utopia with the Scarlet Witch and the Avengers, prompting the Phoenix-powered Cyclops to proclaim “no more Avengers’. Avengers vs X-Men #12 (2012) Hope Summers and the Scarlet Witch defeat the Phoenix Force and restore mutantkind’s lost powers by combining their abilities and uttering the words “no more Phoenix”. | AVX: AVENGERS VS X-MEN |
| ✔ | Axis #7 (2015) The Scarlet Witch’s magic reveals that she and Quicksilver are not Magneto’s children and aren’t even related to him in any way. | AXIS |
| ✔ | Uncanny Avengers #4 (2015) It’s revealed that the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver gained their powers from experiments performed by the High Evolutionary (the Evolutionary covered his tracks so that any scans would classify the twins as mutants). | AVENGERS NOW! |
| ✔ | House of M #1-5 (2015) The House of M alternate universe (Earth-58163) becomes the Monarchy of M domain on God Emperor Doom‘s patchwork multiversal Battleworld (Earth-15513). | SECRET WARS |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| House of M Omnibus | Cable & Deadpool #17 Captain America #10 Exiles #69-71 Fantastic Four: House of M #1-3 Giant-Size Ms Marvel #1 House of M #1-8 House of M Sketchbook #1 House of M: The Day After #1 Hulk: Broken Worlds #1 Incredible Hulk #83-87 Iron Man: House of M #1-3 Mutopia X #1-5 New Thunderbolts #11 New X-Men: Academy X #16-19 Pulse #10 Pulse: House of M Special Edition Secrets of the House of M #1 Spider-Man: House of M #1-5 Uncanny X-Men #462-465 Wolverine #33-35 |
| House of M Companion Omnibus | Excalibur #8-14 House of M (2015) #1-5 House of M: Avengers #1-5 House of M: Civil War #1-5 House of M: Masters of Evil #1-4 New Avengers #16-20 What If?: House of M #1 What If?: Spider-Man – House of M #1 |
| House of M OHC | House of M #1-8 Pulse: House of M Special Edition Secrets of the House of M #1 |
| House of M: No More Mutants OHC | Exiles #69-71 Giant-Size Ms Marvel #1 House of M: The Day After #1 Mutopia X #1-5 New X-Men: Academy X #16-19 |
| House of M: Spider-Man, Fantastic Four & X-Men OHC | Black Panther #7 Fantastic Four: House of M #1-3 New Thunderbolts #11 Spider-Man: House of M #1-5 Uncanny X-Men #462-465 |
| House of M: Wolverine, Iron Man & Hulk OHC | Cable & Deadpool #17 Captain America #10 Hulk: Broken Worlds #1 Incredible Hulk #83-87 Iron Man: House of M #1-3 Pulse #10 Wolverine #33-35 |
| House of M tpb | House of M #1-8 Pulse: House of M Special Edition |
| House of M: Fantastic Four/Iron Man tpb | Fantastic Four: House of M #1-3 Iron Man: House of M #1-3 |
| House of M: Incredible Hulk tpb | Incredible Hulk #83-86 |
| House of M: Mutopia X tpb Mutopia X tpb | Mutopia X #1-5 |
| House of M: New X-Men tpb | New X-Men: Academy X #16-19 Secrets of the House of M #1 |
| House of M: Spider-Man tpb Spider-Man: House of M tpb | Spider-Man: House of M #1-5 |
| House of M: Uncanny X-Men tpb | Uncanny X-Men #462-265 Secrets of the House of M #1 |
| House of M: World of M featuring Wolverine tpb | Black Panther #7 Captain America #10 Pulse #10 Wolverine #33-35 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Omnibus Black Panther – The Complete Collection by Reginald Hudlin vol.1 | Black Panther #7 |
| Cable & Deadpool vol.3: The Human Race Deadpool & Cable Omnibus Deadpool & Cable – The Complete Collection vol.1 | Cable & Deadpool #16-17 |
| Captain America by Ed Brubaker Omnibus | Captain America #10 |
| Decimation: X-Men – The Day After | House of M: The Day After #1 |
| Exiles vol.12: World Tour Exiles Ultimate Collection vol.4 | Exiles #69-71 |
| Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus vol.5 | Incredible Hulk #83-86 |
| New Thunderbolts vol.2: Modern Marvels Thunderbolts Omnibus vol.3 | New Thunderbolts #11 |
| New X-Men: Childhood’s End – The Complete Collection | New X-Men: Academy X #16-19 |
| Wolverine by Daniel Way – The Complete Collection vol.1 | Wolverine #33-35 |
| X-Men ReLoad by Chris Claremont vol.2: House of M | House of M: The Day After #1 Uncanny X-Men #462-465 |
Reading Order © Omniverse Comics Guide 2026
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