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The Age of Apocalypse event is back with a sequel that arrives in September, but some of the original tales are returning to stores too.
He is the Apocalypse
It’s kind of tough to describe what the original Age of Apocalypse event was, if you weren’t there for it. The 90s comics industry wasn’t afraid of risks, and like with Heroes Reborn and the Amalgam Universe, Marvel Comics had something similar planned with its X-books.
More or less, all of the company’s stable of X-titles (which were almost impossibly popular by the way) went on a break. In their place were all-new, all-different titles that took place in a whole new universe. In this alternate reality, Apocalypse reigned, and the heroes and villains that fans knew were (mostly) pretty different.
Now fast-forward to the modern age, and the publisher is on the precipice of revisiting that world, with Age of Revelation. A sequel to the original from Jeph Loeb and Simone Di Meo, X-Men of Apocalypse arrives in September. But that’s not all that’s planned for the original’s 30th anniversary year.
Just revealed by Marvel, X-Men: Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1 is inbound as well. For those who missed the classic stories, and those who’d like to revisit them, it should be a solid time. That’s because the one-shot will reprint a four-pack of classic comics.
Included in its pages will be Astonishing X-Men #1, Factor X #1, Weapon X #1, and Amazing X-Men #1.
In 1995, Marvel shocked the comics-reading world, canceling all its blockbuster X-titles and replacing them with new series in the transformed reality of the Age of Apocalypse! These tales, by some of the era’s leading creators, introduced fans to radically new versions of the heroes they loved – fighting for survival in a nightmarish dystopia where Charles Xavier is long dead! Professor X was killed twenty years in the past during a freak time-travel accident, and now the Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist – ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive! In the long shadow of En Sabah Nur, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend: Magneto! They’re amazing, they’re astonishing – but who are the X-Men?! Plus: What has become of iconic mutants Cyclops, Havok and Wolverine in this war-torn world?
Check out the one-shot’s all-new cover art by superstar artist Paco Medina and preorder X-MEN: TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 at your local comic shop today!
Marvel Comics press release
X-Men: Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1 arrives in stores on November 12th.
