I have to confess, I haven't really kept up with the X-Men since the mid-1980s, so I don't know everything that's been going on with them for the last few decades. But a friend recently sent me two volumes of a run of X-Men by Joss Whedon, so I wanted to give it a shot. Joss Whedon does not disappoint, and even if I didn't understand every reference to the "current events" of mutants at the time it was written, it struck me as good stuff. A cure for the mutant gene? An alien who wants to wipe out human mutants to save his planet? The Danger Room AI gone sentient and rogue? I love it!