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I mean....it was fine, I guess? As someone who is aware of AoA, but never really read it in total, this was an extremely jarring way to jump in. Some of the stories were pretty fun, some felt really...awkwardly written? Maybe that's just super hero comics in general. Like I don't need an explanation of who these people are or what their powers are at this point in the game. Maybe once for a more fringe character, but not every time they pop back up, and definitely not for someone like Rogue or S...
all flashbacks, but still some good stuff here. really enjoyed the blink miniseries and the tales from apocalypse issues
Here be some collected tales from the Age of Apocalypse, some significant (the death of Wanda Maximov), most pretty silly (Blink finds herself in the Negative Zone, fights Blastarr, and falls in love with Annihilus?). This volume proves that even the best of ideas can have the life sucked out of it when spread too thin.
Yet Another Messy and Tired X-Men InstallmentYeah I didn't enjoy this one much. The writing is sloppy throughout. Arcs are somewhat interesting but the tropes are just tired junk. The whole bit early on with Wolverine as some big blue guy with arm scythes rather than his typical claws was unexplained. Ewww. Pass. I'm done with 90s X-Men. 2 out 5 stars.
Was alright, these stories are mainly prequels and set up for the main AoA story.
This book should be read as a flashback and not a prequel. It contains all of the stories contained in "Age of Apocalypse: The Complete Epic Volume 1" except this contains "material from X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE ONE-SHOT" and is missing an "X-Facts" article from January 1995.
Why Magneto and Rouge? Why?
There's some really good pieces in here. Being a prequel collection I was expecting it to be a lessor sort of book. But no, not at all. It even has a Blink mini-series! Didn't even know there'd been one. Really loved that part. A super good-looking mini. Wish we had more like that these days. Just the Twilight volume to read. I've read some of it before but am looking forward to re-reading the 10th anniversary series now that I've tasted the Kool-Aid in full. Yup, still totally loving AoA. Added...
Apocalypse has come.
A slap-dash collection of stories that take place before the events in AOA. The books published before AOA are in sync in tone and quality, and are genuinely good lead-ins to the main stories, while the ones published afterward as flashbacks or fill-in-the-gaps are wooden and flat. The short stories pulled from other one-shots and special editions books add to the depth of the AOA world, but they are likewise a mix of good bad. The Blink mini-series is filler at best, as very little of it takes
