X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Vol. 1 - Alpha [New Printing 2] [Paperback]

One of the most famous eras in X-Men history begins - twenty years in the future, ruled by the evil mutant Apocalypse!

Charles Xavier is dead — killed twenty years in the past during a time-travel accident — and the world created by his absence is a nightmare! Apocalypse rules with an iron fist, ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive. But hidden in the long shadow of En Sabah Nur is a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend, Magneto: the X-Men! When Bishop, last survivor of the true Marvel Universe, explains how the world went wrong, these embittered mutants and their tenuous allies must risk everything to put things right!

COLLECTING: Uncanny X-Men (1981) 320-321, X-Men (1991) 40-41, Cable (1993) 20, X-Men Alpha, Generation Next 1, Astonishing X-Men (1995) 1, Gambit And The X-Ternals 1, Weapon X (1995) 1, Factor X 1, X-Man 1, X-Calibre 1, Amazing X-Men (1995) 1, X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Ashcan EditionScott Lobdell wrote both Uncanny X-Men and X-Men during the 1990s. He also launched Generation X and Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, and penned Alpha Flight and Fantastic Four. Elsewhere, he wrote Dark Horse’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Fabian Nicieza, Wildstorm’s Gen13, Top Cow’s Darkness, and IDW’s Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression and Galaxy Quest. Lobdell scripted Stan Lee’s animated film Mosaic and has performed as a stand-up comedian.

New York Times best-selling author Mark Waid has worked for every major company in the comics industry in a nearly three-decade-long career, writing thousands of issues, including runs of Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, Ka-Zar and Fantastic Four. His other works of note include his collaboration with painter Alex Ross on Kingdom Come, which earned an ElS%