I have recently accquired the following comics which I’m under the impression is what I need to read to have the AoA arc under my belt. My question is, do I have everything I’m gonna need, and in what order should I be reading them??
I’m sure my fellow geek…errrrm Dopers can help.
X-Men Chronicles (1)
X-Men Chronicles (2)
By The Light
X-Man (-1)
X-Man Annual 1996
Sinister Bloodlines
Blink (1)
Blink (2)
Blink (3)
Blink (4)
X-Men Alpha
Generation Next (1)
Astonishing X-Men (1)
X-Calibre (1).
Gambit & The X-Ternals (1)
Weapon X (1)
Amazing X-Men (1)
Factor X (1)
X-Man (1)
Amazing X-men (2)
Factor X (2)
Weapon X (2)
Gambit & The X-Ternals (2)
X-Calibre (2)
Astonishing X-Men (2)
Generation Next (2)
X-Man (2)
The Chosen
Astonishing X-Men (3)
Factor X (3)
Amazing X-men (3)
X-Calibre (3)
Weapon X (3)
Gambit & The X-Ternals (3)
X-Universe (1)
Generation Next (3)
X-Man (3)
Astonishing X-Men (4)
Generation Next 4
X-Calibre (4)
X-Man (4)
Factor X (4)
Gambit & The X-Ternals
Amazing X-men (4)
Weapon X (4)
X-Men Omega
X-Universe 02
X-Men Prime
There’s an Age of Apocalypse TPB that just recently came out. Well, vol. 1 just recently came out. I glanced at it awhile ago, and it claims to be complete. I assume it would have all of that. One hopes, because otherwise, it would be a pain in the ass to collect.
Since I’m in the thread, can someone explain Age of Apocalypse to me? I’m a comics newbie, and I picked this up, went “what the fuck?” and set it back down again. It’s like, some wacky alternate universe?
This site should have everything you need for the reading order, overview, etc. I just read the Age of Apocalypse last week and thought it was quite good.
It’s an alternate reality that takes over for our’s for a while.
Legion, Professor X’s son, awakens from his coma. He is convinced that Magneto is to blame for the current state of mutant-human affairs, and decides to go back in time to assassinate him. He goes to postwar Israel (where Magneto and Professor X are working together in a hospital) to kill Magneto, but Professor X intervenes and sacrifices his life to save his friend. The Age of Apocalypse is the alternate reality which follows from that moment: a world without Xavier.
Is there an issue in the AoA where it shows Weapon X going in to save Jean, and the resulting fight between he and Cyclops? Or is it just left to our imagination?
I don’t have my comics in front of me, but I believe we are shown a flashback page of them staring at each other in some kind of sewer tunnel, posturing to do action. But they never actually show it. I think it was in Factor X #1 and later in Weapon X #4. when Wolverine reveals that the claws were retracted at the time
