The Ultimate Inhumans Vs. X-Men Reading Order (IvX)

Inhumans Vs. X-Men (often called IVX) is a crossover event from 2016 which came as a result of Secret Empire with Inhumans Vs. X-Men providing closure following that event. There are some elements of Civil War II for background reading but nothing huge.

This makes Inhumans Vs. X-Men not an integral part of the timeline but still a decent read overall. It’s short and sweet with very few loose ends which makes it easy to collect and read in order.

The premise of this arc is simple – terigen clouds which are appearing across the world are vital for Inhuman evolution but are deadly to mutants. Hence, one faction wants them and the other doesn’t. How can they come to a compromise where everyone’s happy?

Note: All-New Inhumans stopped after volume 2 making the reading order more favourable to X-Men.

Inhumans vs. X-Men trade reading order and checklist

Contents

There is no omnibus for IvX and probably never be one. That being said, you only need 5 to get the full set.

If you have the trades, use the Inhumans vs. X-Men issue by issue reading order to find what order to read them in.

Preludes

The following trades are not officially a part of the events but they do set the scene for Inhumans vs. X-Men. Read them if you want to have a clearer vision of how things escalated and why. These won’t be included in the issue by issue reading order as most are self contained with only casual references and hints to what’s to come.

Extraordinary X-Men Vol. 1: X-Haven

A prelude. Collects Extraordinary X-Men #1 to #6.

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Extraordinary X-Men 1: X-Haven

Marvel Comics
Lemire, Jeff (Author)
English (Publication Language)

Uncanny X-Men: Superior Vol. 1: Survival of the Fittest

More preludes. Collects Uncanny X-Men #1 to #6]

Uncanny Inhumans Vol. 1: Time Crush

Inhumans and X-Men are already at each other’s throats in this new series. Collects Uncanny Inhumans #0-4 & Free Comic Book Day 2015 Story.

Uncanny Inhumans Vol. 1: Time Crush

English (Publication Language)
144 Pages - 12/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Marvel (Publisher)

All-New Inhumans Vol. 1: Global Outreach

Explains the most about the Terrigen clouds. Possibly the most important of the preludes outside of Death of X.

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All-New Inhumans 1: Global Outreach

Soule, Charles (Author)
English (Publication Language)
112 Pages - 12/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Marvel Enterprises (Publisher)

Civil War II: X-Men

A Civil War II tie in but with major plot lines relating to Inhumans vs X-Men. Collects Civil War II: X-Men #1 to #4.

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Civil War II: X-Men

Bunn, Cullen (Author)
English (Publication Language)
112 Pages - 12/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Marvel Enterprises (Publisher)

Extraordinary X-Men Vol. 3: Kingdoms Fall

We skip volume 2 but it becomes a lot more relevant in 3. Collects Extraordinary X-Men #13 to #16 and the Annual.

Extraordinary X-Men 3: Kingdoms Fall

Lemire, Jeff (Author)
English (Publication Language)
128 Pages - 12/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Marvel Enterprises (Publisher)

Uncanny X-Men Vol.3 : Waking From The Dream

Same with this one. Collects Uncanny X-Men #11 to #15 and the Annual.

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Uncanny X-Men Superior 3: Waking from the Dream

Bunn, Cullen (Author)
English (Publication Language)
112 Pages - 02/07/2017 (Publication Date) - Marvel Enterprises (Publisher)

Death of X

This is the prelude you should get. It’s so relevant it should be in the main series. Collects Death of X #1 to #4.

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Death of X

Lemire, Jeff (Author)
English (Publication Language)
136 Pages - 12/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Marvel Enterprises (Publisher)

Main series

This is the main trades which covers the Inhumans vs. X-Men storyline and has all the issues from the issue reading order at the bottom.

Inhumans vs. X-Men

This trade is the only thing you’d need to get the board basics of this storyline. If you’re familiar with our comic reading orders then this will make sense to you. Tie ins and one shots expand the story set in these issues.

Collects Inhumans vs. X-Men #0 to #6.

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