X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - Dawn

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse

by Howard Mackie, Scott Lobdell, Ralph Macchio

Collects X-Men Chronicles #1-2, Tales From the Age of Apocalypse #1-2, X-Man #-1, Blink #1-4; material from X-Men: Age of Apocalypse one-shot, X-Man Annual '96.

The secret past of the Age of Apocalypse is revealed as we revisit the early days of En Sabah Nur's rule! Magneto's X-Men will never be the same after Weapon X joins the team. New recruit Rogue will attract the master of magnetism — but will Gambit get in the way? Meanwhile, Cyclops and Havok face an unhappy family reunion, and Blink gets into the zone — the Negative Zone! Colossus grows weary of battle, Sabretooth switches sides and Logan meets Mariko Yashida! Plus: Flash back to the early days of Nate Grey, the X-Man — and join the AoA refugee years later (or is it years earlier?) as he returns to his nightmarish home!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, X Men, Marvel

377 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 23, 2016

About the author

Howard Mackie is an American comic book editor and writer. He has worked almost exclusively for Marvel Comics.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's some really good pieces in here. Being a prequel collection I was expecting it to be a lessor sort of book. But no, not at all. It even has a Blink mini-series! Didn't even know there'd been one. Really loved that part. A super good-looking mini. Wish we had more like that these days.

Just the Twilight volume to read. I've read some of it before but am looking forward to re-reading the 10th anniversary series now that I've tasted the Kool-Aid in full.

Yup, still totally loving AoA.
Added to All Time Favs for Blink and Morph :-)

[Petergiaquinta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Here be some collected tales from the Age of Apocalypse, some significant (the death of Wanda Maximov), most pretty silly (Blink finds herself in the Negative Zone, fights Blastarr, and falls in love with Annihilus?). This volume proves that even the best of ideas can have the life sucked out of it when spread too thin.

[LibrarianMel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved the AoA when it came out and have only (fairly) recently been re-reading some titles. I was stoked to see this at my local library and since I only missed a few issues back in the day, I was excited to fill-in the pieces while re-visiting this epic, short-lived, revamp of the X-Titles.

Unfortunately for me, I didn't realize that many of the works collected in this trade is mostly comprised of after-the-fact borderline junk. There were 2 issues that I recognized, the rest were a Scott Summers (yuck) Steve Epting (double yuck) issue, an issues of X-Man (but with Alan Davis art, YAY!) and the complete run of Blink's mini-series, which had nothing to do with anything.

I look forward to finding the actual AoA stories...someday.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

A slap-dash collection of stories that take place before the events in AOA. The books published before AOA are in sync in tone and quality, and are genuinely good lead-ins to the main stories, while the ones published afterward as flashbacks or fill-in-the-gaps are wooden and flat. The short stories pulled from other one-shots and special editions books add to the depth of the AOA world, but they are likewise a mix of good bad. The Blink mini-series is filler at best, as very little of it takes place in the AOA world.
It's not the first book I'd suggest a person to read to get into the AOA.

[Spiegel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean....it was fine, I guess? As someone who is aware of AoA, but never really read it in total, this was an extremely jarring way to jump in. Some of the stories were pretty fun, some felt really...awkwardly written? Maybe that's just super hero comics in general. Like I don't need an explanation of who these people are or what their powers are at this point in the game. Maybe once for a more fringe character, but not every time they pop back up, and definitely not for someone like Rogue or Sabertooth.

All in all, I had an OK time reading this, but I think it needs more context around it to really make sense and be fully enjoyed.

All that said, nothing beats Colossus's AoA look.

[Erik Dudek]

This book should be read as a flashback and not a prequel. It contains all of the stories contained in "Age of Apocalypse: The Complete Epic Volume 1" except this contains "material from X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE ONE-SHOT" and is missing an "X-Facts" article from January 1995.

[Ekenedilichukwu Ikegwuani · Rating 4 out of 5]

all flashbacks, but still some good stuff here. really enjoyed the blink miniseries and the tales from apocalypse issues

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was alright, these stories are mainly prequels and set up for the main AoA story.

[Robert]

DNF after 25%. This whole era of X-stories really just isn't for me.

[Omni Theus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yet Another Messy and Tired X-Men Installment
Yeah I didn't enjoy this one much. The writing is sloppy throughout. Arcs are somewhat interesting but the tropes are just tired junk. The whole bit early on with Wolverine as some big blue guy with arm scythes rather than his typical claws was unexplained. Ewww. Pass. I'm done with 90s X-Men. 2 out 5 stars.

[Kris Ivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Apocalypse has come.