X-Men (film series) films and plot points that are conveniently ignored in later films. He also criticized 20th Century Fox for not mapping out the series from the beginning. Richard George of IGN stated that the success of the first "X-Men" film paved the way for comic-book film adaptations such as the "Spider-Man" series, "Fantastic Four" (2005), "V for Vendetta" and Singer's "Superman Returns". Chris Hewitt of "Empire" magazine called the first "X-Men" film as the "catalyst" for films based on Marvel Comics characters, stating "Singer's 2000 film is the catalyst for everything that's come since, good and bad. Without it, there's no
X-Men Blue a reference to storylines from the early 1990s when various comics in the X-Men franchise were best-sellers. The first issue was released April 12, 2017 and subsequent issues were released twice monthly. The storyline in "X-Men Blue" is a continuation of the 2012 series "All New X-Men". In February 2018, the spin-off sister book "X-Men Red" was released. The main cast of the book departed to a space mission, narrated in the "Poison-X" arc of the "Venom" comic book, which set up the "Venomized" crossover. Their absence was used to establish a new line-up. In September 2018, the series ended