Travel Back To The Marvel's Landmark Dystopian Future In X-Men: Tales From The Age Of Apocalypse
by Jay Cochran
August 12, 2025
This year marks the 30th anniversary of AGE OF APOCALYPSE, the milestone X-Men event that took the ‘90s by storm and influenced the medium forever, including the X-Men’s upcoming Age of Revelation event and the highly anticipated sequel series by Jeph Loeb and Simone Di Meo, X-Men of Apocalypse, which kicks off next month. In addition, Marvel Comics will commemorate the milestone this November with X-MEN: TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1, a one-shot collecting the first issues of four of the original event’s key series: ASTONISHING X-MEN #1, FACTOR X #1, WEAPON X #1, and AMAZING X-MEN #1.
In 1995, Marvel shocked the comics-reading world, canceling all its blockbuster X-titles and replacing them with new series in the transformed reality of the Age of Apocalypse! These tales, by some of the era’s leading creators, introduced fans to radically new versions of the heroes they loved – fighting for survival in a nightmarish dystopia where Charles Xavier is long dead! Professor X was killed twenty years in the past during a freak time-travel accident, and now the Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist – ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive! In the long shadow of En Sabah Nur, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend: Magneto! They’re amazing, they’re astonishing – but who are the X-Men?! Plus: What has become of iconic mutants Cyclops, Havok and Wolverine in this war-torn world?
Check out the one-shot’s all-new cover art by superstar artist Paco Medina and preorder X-MEN: TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 at your local comic shop today!
X-MEN: TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1
Written by LARRY HAMA, JOHN FRANCIS MOORE, SCOTT LOBDELL & FABIAN NICIEZA
Art by STEVE EPTING, ADAM KUBERT, ANDY KUBERT & JOE MADUREIRA
Cover by PACO MEDINA
On Sale 11/12
Comments...
Wow, this gets worse sounding by the minute. I loved the AOA but I'll be skipping this
Dang, was hoping he was back for sequential work.
Hogun -
2025-05-10 @ 2:28 pm
Thank you Marvel for giving Blink her original design back. I have hated Saladin Ahmad's Janelle Monae redesign and I am sure I am not the only one.
On 5/9/2025 at 6:56 PM, tarot said:Ahhh. So that is why they released aoa Gambit in ML
Almost surprised there wasn't another AOA wave given the ML love of anniversaries
Faust -
2025-05-09 @ 8:31 pm
On 5/9/2025 at 7:51 PM, khorowski said:It really has turned to garbage hasn't it?
I just can't. Marvel comics after Quesada era has been a mostly bucket of mess. DC hasn't been much better. The indie stuff has been nailing it
On 5/9/2025 at 1:01 AM, Faust said:At this point in time nothing short of a total reset of the 616 would get me to go back to this barrel scrapping cackfest
It really has turned to garbage hasn't it?
tarot -
2025-05-09 @ 5:56 pm
Ahhh. So that is why they released aoa Gambit in ML
Faust -
2025-05-09 @ 5:01 am
At this point in time nothing short of a total reset of the 616 would get me to go back to this barrel scrapping cackfest
Lemme guesstheyre going to reveal that Kamala Khan was there the entire time?
Hogun -
2025-05-09 @ 1:14 am
I love AoA. I even told Scott Lobdell I had never been happier to eat my words when I picked up the books. Funnily enough, the Marvel Legends Sugar Man wave got me to overcome my initial perception of it and pick up the books. I would have preferred if the series took place before the events of X-Men Alpha. What more can they do. Last I remember, almost every major character from that reality is either dead or M.I.A.
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