Published May 10, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Happy 25th to a weird one Image: Salvador Larroca/Marvel Comics You could be forgiven for forgetting that X-Treme X-Men ever happened. After all, it was running concurrently with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men , which is widely regarded as one of the best X-Men comics of all time. X-Treme X-Men might not be the best, but it’s certainly one of the weirdest, and that has to count for something. Writer Chris Claremont is well-known for his original run on X-Men , in which he and the artists he partnered with reimagined the team into the characters we know today. That run lasted from 1975 until he left the book in 1991 . Claremont returned in 2000 to write both main X-Men titles, then was given X-Treme X-Men to make way for Morrison’s run. The X-books had gone a bit off the rails, and X-Treme was meant to get things back on track. Well... Image: Salvador Larroca/Marvel Comics X-Treme is often defined by its unresolved story ideas.…