Celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest X-Men events ever! Now that Apocalypse has been destroyed and the end of the world has been averted, what could possibly pose a threat to Magneto and his X-Men? Well, perhaps Sinister and whatever massive force he has just unleashed is enough to rile the X-Men and cause them to seek out a since retired Weapon X! Plus: Revisit the AoA world with four original tales featuring characters you know and love: the origin of Generation Next, the first meeting of Sabretooth and Wild Child, Weapon X's first run-in with Mariko Yashida in Japan, and the story of how the AoA world survived the nuclear holocaust that threatened it! Collects X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #1-6 and the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse one-shot.
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Avoid,
By N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: X-Men: The New Age of Apocalypse (Paperback)
To celebrate the ten year anniversary of the landmark X-Men storyline the Age of Apocalypse, Marvel comissioned hack writer Akira Yoshida (X-Men/Fantastic Four, Elektra) to script a six issue mini-series that returns to the dark, dystopian, alternate reality we all know and love. The mini-series itself begins where X-Men: Omega ended years back: Apocalypse is dead, and somehow Magneto and his surviving X-Men are still alive. However, not all is well, as we soon find out thanks to Yoshida's schizophrenic storytelling. Is it me, or does anyone else remember Sinister dying in the last issue of X-Man? Not to mention, in X-Men: Omega, remember when Jean Grey is killed, and as Weapon X cradles her, the caption states that "she is no Phoenix"? I thought so, but Yoshida tosses all that aside as Sinister is alive and well, and the Phoenix is here too. Nitpicks aside, this could be all well and good if the story were anything decent, but it isn't, and the characterizations of Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Weapon X, Sabretooth, etc. are so far from what we came to know in the original AoA storyline that they seem like completely different characters all together. Other characters that weren't in the original AoA cross-over, including the Silver Samurai, Xorn, and even the currently hot X-23, are here as well, but for no good reason. Chris Bachalo provides the pencils for the mini, and they're about what you'd expect from the guy from seeing his most recent work: incoherent and sloppy. Also featured in this TPB is an AoA one-shot featuring work from original AoA writers Larry Hama, Scott Lobdell, and co., and that may be worth a look for old AoA fans, but all in all, this unnecessary TPB is better left on the shelf for the rest of us, and should be rightfully avoided.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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AoA returns, but shouldn't have,
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This review is from: X-Men: The New Age of Apocalypse (Paperback)
I bought this volume with great interest. My understanding was that that AoA universe had expired due to nuclear holocaust (not Holocaust) some years back. Imagine my surprise and anticipation when Marvel found a way to keep this fascinating timeline alive. The orignal Age of Apocalypse was such an innovation, with good characters gone bad, bad gone good, and a goodly number of new ones mixed in. I didn't know what to expect from New AoA.
My initial reaction was positive. I was always curious as to the origin of Wild Child, and my memories of AoA didn't explain his appearance. This book does. However, it really makes me feel like a comic nerd (not that there's anything wrong with that) to notice a discrepancy here. Sabretooth and the Apocalypse troop parted company during a battle with the X-Men, and they left him behind. It doesn't fit that he would have been tossed into a cell with Wild Child after his moral turnaround. Why, oh why, do the writers do things like this? It doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, but it's one of those irritations common in comic books. The writers don't write to preserve existing storylines. Another huge revelation there! A major premise of the main story involves a huge secret that involves Magneto, the government, and The Real Person who saved America from nuclear holocaust. The generally-held perspective is that Magneto is responsible, but gasp! it is someone else, and for some reason he's not telling. It's all based on a visit by Sinister and it causes all kinds of internal turmoil. The plot unravels further and further until it comes to an awkward and hastily-wrapped-up-ending that left a bad taste in my mouth. Characters who were noble and strong in the original AoA storyline are suddenly weakened into liars that capitulate to blackmail. It is unlike the original AoA. In fact, it is a cheap knock-off loosely based on Marvel's most innovative X-Men storyline in recent years. Now, the artwork - the characters and artwork have changed, and changed again, since the very beginning of The Uncanny X-Men. Some of those changes were improvements, while some of them were stylistic disasters. I would count the artwork in this book to be one of the latter. Many important action sequences are packed into little tiny display boxes, followed by a great big box with a great big reaction to whatever just happened. I spent much time squinting at the artwork trying to figure out what just happened. The pages are arranged right next to the spine of the book, so many dialogue bubbles are obscured. The characters are sometimes glossy, as though they were made of shiny plastic. To top it all off, the artwork is so strongly anime-manga influenced that, were it not for distinguishing characteristics such as Rogue's white streak, they would be unrecognizable. They look childish, puffy-faced, and sloppily-drawn. Had Marvel continued with artwork, storyline, and characters exactly like those in the original series, New Age of Apocalypse would have been much more appealing. Instead, this hastily cobbled-together volume touches on themes from the original, but it pays them no compliments.
1.0 out of 5 stars
just awful,
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This review is from: X-Men: The New Age of Apocalypse (Paperback)
Ten years have passed since the original AoA storyline but only a year within this current collection. The characters are thin copies of what made the original series exciting. Explanations of how events and such got to this age are minimal and laughable. Not recommended for fans of the original AoA and not worth it for a quick read to see what has been happening in the X-Universe if you stepped away for a while.
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