Hey everyone, I'm a fairly new comic reader and I decided that I wanted to start reading the X-Men comics as I had read some previously and liked them. For my starting point, I chose to start at Morrison's New X-Men #114 (2001). I felt like that would be a solid point to start reading the X-Men comics. My question is which X-Men series should I move on to after finishing that series. I'm a bit confused about this. As Morrison's run ended in 2004, I found 3 series that began in 2004:
Astonishing X-Men
New X-Men: Academy X
X-Men
Aside from my main question, I have a general question about the three series listed above: Do the events in those series take place after the events of the final New X-Men (2001) comic and show stories of different X-teams with different characters, or is it more complicated than that? I have read the first issue of All 3 comics listed above and it looks like X-Men (2004) is a direct continuation, even continuing the numbering.
Essentially, I was wondering if each of the comics took place in the same continuity, or if one of the series above takes place in one timeline while one or both of the others take place in a different timeline?
If you guys could help me out with this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a good one!