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X-Men: Age of Revelation
X-Men: Age of Revelation - Book of Revelation
Revelation’s nightmarish reign continues!
X years from now, the world is transformed! Revelation, the heir of Apocalypse, is tasked with ensuring that only the fit survive — and only mutants are fit to survive! Now, with one of his precious Choristers assassinated by the X-Men, Revelation brings a new mutant into the fold, welcoming her to Philadelphia. But the capital of the Revelation Territories hides many dangers — not the least of which are her rival Choristers, including the ruthless Fabian Cortez! But who are the heroic Longshots at the center of Mojo mayhem? Mojo promises you can vote for the winner with your dollars — but you probably can’t! Is the X-Virus-decimated New York a friendly neighborhood for Peter Parker? In a desperate gamble to hold the infection at bay, he doses himself with lethal radiation — but survival comes at a cost. Meet the radioactive Spider-Man! Why are Rogue and Storm on a deadly collision course? Where do Ms. Marvel, Bronze, Melee and Rift — the Expatriate X-Men — call home? Can they hold together when everything’s on the line? And in Vancouver, outside the Revelation Territories, will the Last Wolverine uphold his mentor’s legend…or burn it all down?
COLLECTING: X-Men: Book of Revelation (2025) #1-3, Longshots (2025) #1-3, Radioactive Spider-Man (2025) #1-3, Rogue Storm (2025) #1-3, Expatriate X-Men (2025) #1-3, The Last Wolverine (2025) #1-3
Written by Jed Mackay, Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman, Murewa Ayodele, Al Ewing, Saladin Ahmed & Joe Kelly
Penciled by Netho Diaz, Alan Robinson, Francesco Mortarino, Edgar Salazar & Kev Walker
X years from now, the world is transformed! Revelation, the heir of Apocalypse, is tasked with ensuring that only the fit survive — and only mutants are fit to survive! Now, with one of his precious Choristers assassinated by the X-Men, Revelation brings a new mutant into the fold, welcoming her to Philadelphia. But the capital of the Revelation Territories hides many dangers — not the least of which are her rival Choristers, including the ruthless Fabian Cortez! But who are the heroic Longshots at the center of Mojo mayhem? Mojo promises you can vote for the winner with your dollars — but you probably can’t! Is the X-Virus-decimated New York a friendly neighborhood for Peter Parker? In a desperate gamble to hold the infection at bay, he doses himself with lethal radiation — but survival comes at a cost. Meet the radioactive Spider-Man! Why are Rogue and Storm on a deadly collision course? Where do Ms. Marvel, Bronze, Melee and Rift — the Expatriate X-Men — call home? Can they hold together when everything’s on the line? And in Vancouver, outside the Revelation Territories, will the Last Wolverine uphold his mentor’s legend…or burn it all down?
COLLECTING: X-Men: Book of Revelation (2025) #1-3, Longshots (2025) #1-3, Radioactive Spider-Man (2025) #1-3, Rogue Storm (2025) #1-3, Expatriate X-Men (2025) #1-3, The Last Wolverine (2025) #1-3
Written by Jed Mackay, Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman, Murewa Ayodele, Al Ewing, Saladin Ahmed & Joe Kelly
Penciled by Netho Diaz, Alan Robinson, Francesco Mortarino, Edgar Salazar & Kev Walker
408 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2026
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May 23, 2026
The second of three Age of Revelation books falters a little more than the first one, not offering quite as much in terms of 'essential' reading. There are some solid entries amongst the chaff, thankfully.
We open with Book Of Revelation, a companion piece to Amazing X-Men, focusing on Revelation's camp as a new Chorister is inducted into the ranks. This one's by Jed MacKay (so you know it's important), and Netho Diaz, who's been helping him out on X-Men these days. I really enjoyed how much of the established Arakko lore comes into play here. MacKay's famous for keeping continuity in mind, and he uses it perfectly here, with a twisty, turny plot that sets up the end of the saga nicely.
Expatriate X-Men features most of the Exceptional X-Men cast, as well as writer Eve L. Ewing, plus NYX artist Francesco Mortarino. This story's not particularly important for...anyone involved, really. It's a lot of backstabbing and yelling at one another, but nothing that really fleshes out the Age of Revelation or does a service to any of the characters involved. It's fine, but inconsequential overall.
Radioactive Spider-Man, by Joe Kelly and Kev Walker, is sad. It's very well done, and hammers right to the heart of Peter Parker as a character, with a devastating ending. It's not required reading for the overall story, but I'd suggest checking this one out if you like Spider-Man...at all, really.
Longshots sounds like it should be good, with Gerry Duggan and Jonathan Hickman on board, but it's really just a load of faff for three issues. Some of the meta commentary is fun, and Mojo's reactions to everything are priceless, but it feels kind of cheap, as well as pointless overall, for Age of Revelation and just in general. Duggan and Hickman are both better than this.
Rogue Storm is also kind of...bad? Storm writer Murewa Ayodele tells a sweeping story of a falling Storm and a split-personality Rogue, but it doesn't have the same gravitas as the previous series he's written. There's a lot packed into three issues, and I don't think it does either character very much of a service - one or the other might have been better. The artwork from Roland Boschi is sketchy and insubstantial, which doesn't help matters at all since it's ill-suited for the sweeping story trying to get itself on display.
And lastly we have The Last Wolverine, by current Wolverine scribe Saladin Ahmed and Edgar Salazar, which puts the focus on Leonard, the current Wendigo. This one ticked both boxes, in that it felt important to the Age of Revelation overarching story, and it was good in its own right. Leonard feels like a character here since he's allowed to talk more than he does in the main title, and Nightcrawler's mini-arc is heartbreaking too.
Weaker than the first collection, with just a few of the stories on display feeling 'worth it'. Hopefully the final collection sticks the landing a little better.
We open with Book Of Revelation, a companion piece to Amazing X-Men, focusing on Revelation's camp as a new Chorister is inducted into the ranks. This one's by Jed MacKay (so you know it's important), and Netho Diaz, who's been helping him out on X-Men these days. I really enjoyed how much of the established Arakko lore comes into play here. MacKay's famous for keeping continuity in mind, and he uses it perfectly here, with a twisty, turny plot that sets up the end of the saga nicely.
Expatriate X-Men features most of the Exceptional X-Men cast, as well as writer Eve L. Ewing, plus NYX artist Francesco Mortarino. This story's not particularly important for...anyone involved, really. It's a lot of backstabbing and yelling at one another, but nothing that really fleshes out the Age of Revelation or does a service to any of the characters involved. It's fine, but inconsequential overall.
Radioactive Spider-Man, by Joe Kelly and Kev Walker, is sad. It's very well done, and hammers right to the heart of Peter Parker as a character, with a devastating ending. It's not required reading for the overall story, but I'd suggest checking this one out if you like Spider-Man...at all, really.
Longshots sounds like it should be good, with Gerry Duggan and Jonathan Hickman on board, but it's really just a load of faff for three issues. Some of the meta commentary is fun, and Mojo's reactions to everything are priceless, but it feels kind of cheap, as well as pointless overall, for Age of Revelation and just in general. Duggan and Hickman are both better than this.
Rogue Storm is also kind of...bad? Storm writer Murewa Ayodele tells a sweeping story of a falling Storm and a split-personality Rogue, but it doesn't have the same gravitas as the previous series he's written. There's a lot packed into three issues, and I don't think it does either character very much of a service - one or the other might have been better. The artwork from Roland Boschi is sketchy and insubstantial, which doesn't help matters at all since it's ill-suited for the sweeping story trying to get itself on display.
And lastly we have The Last Wolverine, by current Wolverine scribe Saladin Ahmed and Edgar Salazar, which puts the focus on Leonard, the current Wendigo. This one ticked both boxes, in that it felt important to the Age of Revelation overarching story, and it was good in its own right. Leonard feels like a character here since he's allowed to talk more than he does in the main title, and Nightcrawler's mini-arc is heartbreaking too.
Weaker than the first collection, with just a few of the stories on display feeling 'worth it'. Hopefully the final collection sticks the landing a little better.
May 7, 2026
For the 30th anniversary of Age of Apocalypse (an innovative and well executed comic book event if ever there was one) Marvel followed the same formula by pausing all of their ongoing mutant featured series and launching sixteen new, three issue miniseries this time focusing on a future dystopia ruled by former new mutant Doug Ramsey who has weaponized his language powers to conquer the Eastern United States and kill untold millions of people. The concept is cool. I like the concept of weaponized language as a metaphor for our world now as well as elevating a character who was initially killed in the New Mutants because writers couldn’t figure out how to have a character without “fighting powers” incorporated into a team book. The results of the event are mixed. Also, instead of publishing the whole thing as an omnibus the event is divided into three 400ish page trade paperbacks. The end of the event doesn’t feel as rushed as the individual series do as they are forced to race through world building plot and resolution in about 60 pages of comic book and the whole thing is actually a more successful nod to Days of Future Past than Age of Apocalypse for the way it ties back into Jed MacKay’s ongoing X-Men series. Big hunks of this are a real slog and no one really got the message that what was cool about AoA was seeing know characters in new circumstances with different team dynamics. Most of Age of Revelation tears down or kills off character in this potential future rather than build anything new which is why it likely won’t have the legacy of AoA, Morrison’s X-Men run or, god forbid, Krakoa which Marvel seems determined to pretend never happened.
Here’s a quick star breakdown on the one shots and series
Book of Revelation series and one shots
X-Men: Book of Revelation **** Jed MacKay is running this show and this is one of the best series in the collection.
Longshots *1/2 Even if you like Mojo stories (and I don’t) this is bad and I love both writers.
Radioactive Spider-Man ***** Tragic and lovely. The ending made me cry for real.
Rogue Storm **
Expatriate X-Men ***1/2 pirates or an immigrant/refuge story Ewing didn’t have enough time to be both here but it was still good
The Last Wolverine ** This series only exists so Wolverine (Logan) can Wolverine for a couple panels in the finale and the finale isn’t in this collection.
Here’s a quick star breakdown on the one shots and series
Book of Revelation series and one shots
X-Men: Book of Revelation **** Jed MacKay is running this show and this is one of the best series in the collection.
Longshots *1/2 Even if you like Mojo stories (and I don’t) this is bad and I love both writers.
Radioactive Spider-Man ***** Tragic and lovely. The ending made me cry for real.
Rogue Storm **
Expatriate X-Men ***1/2 pirates or an immigrant/refuge story Ewing didn’t have enough time to be both here but it was still good
The Last Wolverine ** This series only exists so Wolverine (Logan) can Wolverine for a couple panels in the finale and the finale isn’t in this collection.
Review of advance copy
I guess this is the in-between collection. While my landing place with Age of Revelation is that it should have been contained within McKay's X-Men book and not expanded out, this collection is generally a better average than the other two.
Book of Revelation - I was pleased by this book: still learning McKay's style, I saw in this potential for his writing. I was genuinely surprised by the turn.
Longshots - Needless, but I enjoyed the meta humor and silliness.
Radioactive Spider-Man - Still kind of a throwaway but with Kelly writing, he actually makes this worthwhile for telling you who Peter is.
Rogue Storm - If I am honest, I didn't fully follow the story in my rush through all these books, but I liked the art.
Expatriate X-Men - The best part of Eve Ewing's X-Men tenure? probably. That's not praise though.
Last Wolverine - Maybe this was fine. It might have mattered more if I was reading Ahmed's Wolverine book.
Book of Revelation - I was pleased by this book: still learning McKay's style, I saw in this potential for his writing. I was genuinely surprised by the turn.
Longshots - Needless, but I enjoyed the meta humor and silliness.
Radioactive Spider-Man - Still kind of a throwaway but with Kelly writing, he actually makes this worthwhile for telling you who Peter is.
Rogue Storm - If I am honest, I didn't fully follow the story in my rush through all these books, but I liked the art.
Expatriate X-Men - The best part of Eve Ewing's X-Men tenure? probably. That's not praise though.
Last Wolverine - Maybe this was fine. It might have mattered more if I was reading Ahmed's Wolverine book.
May 14, 2026
Better than the other volume but still not great. The best story in here was Radioactive Spider-Man because they got regular ASM writer Joe Kelly to do it. It also had Kev Walker drawing it so it has the best art. An honorable mention to The Last Wolverine which was better than I expected.
Review of advance copy
I mostly enjoyed these side stories
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
2.9 stars
June 3, 2026
The only redeemable bit of this was Rogue Storm.
Review of advance copy
2.75
Every title was bad. Some actually had a decent issue or two. But they were all dumb and ended ridiculously.
Every title was bad. Some actually had a decent issue or two. But they were all dumb and ended ridiculously.
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