Back to the 'Future Past': The X-Men's big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff

With X-Men: Days Of Future Past in cinemas this week, let's revisit the classic comic book story that inspired the movie.

Time-travel can open up all sorts of storytelling possibilities, but it can get messy if handled haphazardly. Case in point: Marvel’s recent Age Of Ultron event. Still, one of THE best X-Men stories ever involved one of the best uses of time-travel ever – Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s Days Of Future Past story arc, featured in 1981’s Uncanny X-Men #141 and #142.