Try http://www.uncannyxmen.net
They’ve got a pretty good review section for individual issues.
As another one-time reader to Marvel who’s just recently come back after being driven off by the crap decisions of the 90’s, let me recommend the first couple of Weapon X TPBs (Frank Tieri writing) for darkness and guts. How much you can get into it might depend on how much of a comic-geek you were in earlier years – the cast is mostly B-string characters, but at least they die with satisfying regularity.
The new Wolverine series (Rucka, though he’s leaving soon) is good for an old favorite that needs minimal re-introduction and it’s only up to issue #7 so it shouldn’t be hard to find the back-issues if you like it.
New Mutants vol 2 for a series that’s largely character development with a moderate dose of teenage angst and it’s only on issue #7 as well. There are some characters from NM vol 1 involved as teachers, but it mostly handles an all-new cast of students at Xavier’s, so there’s little to worry about in the way of story-baggage.
X-Treme X-Men (Claremont writing) isn’t bad, but they’re in the middle of an arc right now, so it might be a little hard to figure out what’s going up. The cast, though, is by and large recognizable…Gambit, Storm, Rogue, Bishop, Cannonball, and Kitty Pryde, I think. There’s some odd woman named Sage on there too, but I know squat about her.
New X-Men is supposed to be good, but it’s so chock-full of Grant Morrison’s OCs – as well as being on the downswing of an arc itself – that it’s likely the hardest of the 3 X-titles to get into if you’ve been gone for a bit. Morrison is supposed to be leaving soon – with issue #150, I believe, so it might be a good idea to jump on board at #151.
Uncanny X-Men (Chuck Austen writing) is pure poison right now. The characters are 2D, the art is uneven at best, and the stories are worm-infested excretions from the bowels of the last dysenteric leper in hell. Try not to pick up any books that have been exposed to UXM #411 up on through the present. If you must, disenfect them before reading. The quality on the book…just isn’t very good right now. shudder
Erm…sorry. Went off on a tagent there. Hope the link helps.
Suzene