Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the Year Among the best stories in modern British team sport has been the rise of Exeter Chiefs. How, exactly, did an unfashionable rugby team from Devon emerge from obscurity to become the double champions of England and Europe? What makes them tick? What are their secrets? Exe Men is a compelling story of regional pride, fierce rural identity, larger-than-life local heroes, remarkable characters, epic resilience, big city snobbery, geographical separation, steepling ambition and personal sacrifice which will strike a chord with anyone who enjoys a classic underdog story. This is not any old rugby book, it is the inside story of Exeter's incredible journey from the edge of nowhere to the summit of the English and European club game.

"In late 1992, on small budgets and under tight schedules, the cast and crew of X-Men: The Animated Series crafted a television show that, despite an industry full of naysayers, immediately shot to #1. This "kids' show" often landed more than half the TV viewers across America, and a twenty-year gold rush of Marvel motion pictures and TV series followed. Previously on X-Men is Eric Lewald's personal, inside account of how the series got on the air, the many challenges that were overcome, and how the show prevailed. The head writer interviewed 36 of the artists, writers, voice cast, and executives who helped make this game-changing series a worldwide success. This book is an authoritative look into the creation of the animated series that nobody expected to succeed. Lewald offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Saturday-morning cartoon series that changed Hollywood"--Back cover.

Magneto has taken over a top-secret government installation that houses the Sentinels - powerful mutant-hunting robots.

Magneto's future, Wolverine's past - and the X-Men in between! From Asteroid M to Weapon X, Marvel's mightiest mutants are getting brainwashed wherever they go! Magneto acquires a new army, the Hand revives an old enemy, and it's up to the X-Men to stop either plan from succeeding! Acolytes, ninjas and more! Featuring mysteries from the history of Wolverine, with the first flashback appearance of Team X! It's the opening issues of 1991's "adjectiveless" X-Men like you've never seen them before - remastered and recolored in modern style! Collecting X-MEN (1991) #1-7.

The demon lord Belasco plans to use Rogue to bring the evil Elder Gods to Earth. The X-Men and their sister team Excalibur must stop him before Rogue's very soul is destroyed. Their unexpected--and untrusted--ally is the lord of all vampires: Dracula! And the Count always has a more sinister agenda up his sleeve.

In 1971, the west learned about Octobriana - the outlaw Russian superhero comic. To show solidarity, underground American cartoonists made their own Octobriana comic book. Robot Stalin's got a new doomsday bomb! Can the Devil-Woman stop him before he destroys us all? Siberian labor camps, PPP secret orgies, motorcycle gunship train chases - this one has it all! Samizdat gone wild - a cross between 70s psychedelia and Soviet constructivism!?! You've NEVER seen a comic book that looks like this! Revolution forever, bitch.

Collecting Uncanny X-Force (2010) #19.1, Age of Apocalypse (2012) #1-14, X-Treme X-Men (2012) #12-13, X-Termination #1-2, Astonishing X-Men (2004) #60-61, material from Point One #1. Return to the Age of Apocalypse, as the X-Men make their final stand against the evil Weapon X - and lose! With Jean Grey and Sabretooth at their lowest, a new team must rise to take the old one's place - but what makes the X-Terminated so drastically different? Jean finds herself on the run - from Cyclops! But whose side are the AoA versions of Quentin Quire, the Hulk and Doctor Doom on? It all builds to a final showdown between the X-Terminated and Weapon X, with Jean's fate hanging in the balance! Will anybody be left to join the Astonishing X-Men and X-Treme X-Men in multi-versal battle to save reality?

Collects X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023, Free Comic Book Day 2023: Avengers/X-Men (Avengers and X-Men stories), X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #100-105, Iron Man (2022) #8 and the Hellfire Gala Variants. The Fall of X begins here! The Hellfire Gala is always the biggest event of the season, but this year's party will change everything for Krakoa. What was meant to be mutantkind's biggest night - including the results of the latest X-Men election - becomes their biggest nightmare! All of your favorite mutants are going to be left reeling after this one - a story filled with shocking revelations, stunning betrayals, horrifying tragedies, impossible deaths…and, of course, the most glamorous looks of the year, all in one can't-miss package! Plus: Who is the new Captain Krakoa? What machinations of the evil Orchis will reunite Rogue and Captain America? Then see the Hellfire Gala from the perspective of the candidates who lost the annual X-Men Vote. And as the Gala is underway, can Iron Man stop the new Stark Sentinels by himself?

Think you know everything there is to know about the original X-Men? think again! Something happened to Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, Iceman and Professor X years ago - a secret so horrible it's been locked away in a dark corner of Cyclops' mind until today. What crisis strikes in the present that calls upon memories of the past? Witness the astonishing debut of the evolutionaries! Who are they, and why doesn't anyone remember when they fought Xavier and his original five X-Men? Cyclops and his crew on Utopia better figure out quick, or the evolutionaries are going to wipe out every human on the planet. that's right, every HUMAN.. COLLECTING: X-Men 12-15, Giant-Size X-Men 1