First Look: AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1

It's time to return to the Age of Apocalypse. We've seen quite a bit of this world again in the pages or Rick Remender's UNCANNY X-FORCE and now it's time for more. If you're read the recent Point One issue of X-Force, you know things have changed in a big way. It's not the same world we've seen before as the mutants have a new problem to deal with.

Today, Marvel has released a first look at the first issue.

Marvel is proud to present your first look at Age of Apocalypse #1, from the creative team of Dave Lapham and Roberto De La Torre. Spinning out of the critically acclaimed Uncanny X-Force, the Amazing X-Men and the human resistance must fight tooth and nail to end the tyranny that has left their world ravaged! Continuing Apocalypse’s war on humanity, Weapon X leads the genocide that rains down upon this dimension, eliminating any who stand in his way.

“This new Age of Apocalypse book does the impossible – it revolutionizes an old concept without a reboot,” explains Senior Editor Nick Lowe. “If you’ve been reading Uncanny X-Force, you know where this is coming from and you’re already in. If you’re an Age of Apocalypse junkie, this builds on the alternate universe’s mythology is fascinating and troubling ways. And if you aren’t either and just want a ground-breaking, easy-entry book that will challenge everything you know about the X-Men, there hasn’t been a better jumping on point.”

Can anyone stop the evil Weapon X and who are the X-Terminated? Find out in Age of Apocalypse #1, with a cover by Humberto Ramos and Dean White that no fan can miss, hitting comic shops everywhere and the Marvel Comics app, this March!

AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 (JAN120690)

Written by DAVE LAPHAM

Penciled by ROBERTO DE LA TORRE

Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS

Parental Advisory …$2.99

FOC – 2/13/12, ON SALE – 3/07/12

this looks pretty cool!

Looks amazing. Can't wait to read it.

@sinful said:

Yum Yum...gotta get me some

@inferiorego said:

this looks pretty cool!

is that Azazel in the 2nd picture next to logan

whos the roster in this AoA

one of my favorite things about the X-Men in the age of apocalypse was that the dynamic of leadership and the teams had been flipped on it's head. I liked that Wolverine wasn't an X-Men anymore. I liked that Sabertooth kind of took his place. I liked Morphs comic relief. I Liked Storm and Quicksilver being the equivalent to Scott and Jean as team leaders, and power couples. I liked Storm's look with the short more millitant hair style. All of this has been lost washed away. If they wanted to create yet another alternate reality with completely different characters, I wish they would have done that as opposed ruining one of my favorite story lines by modernizing it. so much of the dynamic that I loved in the AoA originally seems to have been lost in all of the revisits thus far.

Damn, no love for AoA Creed. That's alright, I'm more interested in Prophet anyway :P

The Art looks awesome.

O looks whose back .

I don't think Jean Grey's costume is plausible, much less functional.

I love Age of Apocalypse, but having a cover like that (Jean's costume) gets into that area where I would be embarrassed if some non-comics reader saw me with that.

why?!?!!? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

@nappystr8 X-Terminated would do & @ThePrez roster for X-Terminated is Horror Show (Graydon Creed the big guy in the mask), Good Night (Donald Pierce the guy in the all black domino mask), Fiend (Francesca Trask the girl in the purple outfit tech looking outfit), Deadeye (Rismans daughter she has the hood cloak & sniper rifle) & lastly Prophet (William Stryker the guy in the hooded ninja gear).

hopefully the stories are good

Am I the only one that thinks Sabretooth looks exactly like Akuma from the street fighter series?

@Shadow_Thief:

Well now that you've suggested it, YES, as thousand times yes.

Not interested in this book, but am interested in seeing this artists future work.

This was already a must buy for me, but the art has me even more stoked.

@ComicMan24 said:

Looks great. Can't wait to read it.

On the edge about whether or not I'm trade-waiting/waiting for it to go to Marvel's digital catalog or buying monthly.

@Thunderscream said:

@Mutant God said:

is that Azazel in the 2nd picture next to logan

I think it might be Namor

@Thunderscream: Na he has a tail if you look closely. More likely Azazel

i've been tossing and turning about whether to get this or not.

This looks like absolute shite. On every level. Meh.

@LordRequiem said:

To me, at least, the artwork looks a wee bit messy.

I think you're right here. Some of the art is hard to follow but I understand the need to give it an edgy look.This might be a little too edgy.

@ithinkitwasyou said:

one of my favorite things about the X-Men in the age of apocalypse was that the dynamic of leadership and the teams had been flipped on it's head. I liked that Wolverine wasn't an X-Men anymore. I liked that Sabertooth kind of took his place. I liked Morphs comic relief. I Liked Storm and Quicksilver being the equivalent to Scott and Jean as team leaders, and power couples. I liked Storm's look with the short more millitant hair style. All of this has been lost washed away. If they wanted to create yet another alternate reality with completely different characters, I wish they would have done that as opposed ruining one of my favorite story lines by modernizing it. so much of the dynamic that I loved in the AoA originally seems to have been lost in all of the revisits thus far.

The problem with creating new characters is that the fans won't buy into them.So creative teams are forced to recycle the same tired characters ad nauseum.That is probably why, thinking they had created a closed storyline,the original writers killed off so many characters in the original AOA.This concept wasn't supposed to come back,but here it is anyway.Did somebody say X-Men vs. Watchmen?