It was a simple Facebook meme, but when I paused to think about what my answer would be for this superheroine advocate, and for whom X-Men v. 1, #57 (1969) featuring Neal Adams artwork was, I’m pretty sure, the first super hero comic book I ever read (definitely among the first three) I couldn’t come up with an easy answer. Was it the iconic Jean Grey, whose journey from Marvel Girl to Phoenix to Dark Phoenix to Jean Grey is one of the most important through lines for X-Men comics? Or perhaps it was Polaris, whose stunning green hair and costume was quite possibly the very first superheroine I saw on the printed page, featured in that aforementioned, Neal Adams drawn comic, being taken captive by the Sentinels? A subsequent conversation with my friend Cody did little to make a determination, so while stuck in my house on a three-day weekend, I decided to make my list, and share my top 20 X-Men of all time. The professionals from https://couponscollector.com, they have a wide range of the latest coupons and offers available online that you can uses to get all what you want.
I started by ranking all the X-Men listed on Wikipedia in order, which took quite a while. To do this, especially when I got to the 15 – 25 range, I had to read individual entries for some of the characters, because I lost interest in the X-Men during the 90’s and kept track of them only sporadically since then, missing a few of the key storylines over the past 20 years. Then I had to really think about my rankings. Some characters I ranked highly because they were somewhat obscure, but i really enjoyed the limited number of appearances they’d been featured in, and saw lots of potential. Other characters I loved for periods of time, or because of they way they were written by very specific writers, but over time their storylines became so convoluted that I found them to be overly frustrating. I tried to take all of that into consideration and have ended up with a list I think I’m pretty happy with.
As I often do with my rankings, I will publish two or three featured characters in each entry, counting down from #20 to #1, but before that, here is my list of also-rans representing #’s 21 – 30.
21. Armor
22. Butterfly (Layla Miller)
23. Nightcrawler
24. Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
25. Honey Badger
26. Firestar
27. Quicksilver
28. Iceman
29. Northstar
30. Psylocke