What If...

Apocalypse Now?!?

What if the Age of Apocalypse was even more dire and devastating than the original alternate reality? Its hard to beleive it could be any worse, but leave it to Marvel to make the Apocalypse suck even harder. Thats right, in the upcoming What If? - Age of Apocalypse mini-series things are looking really bad for the X-Men (This is where you ask when are things not looking really bad for the X-Men?). So how bad could it be? Well, in this tale of woe not only is their no Xavier but there is also no Magneto, thus there is no one left to form the X-Men and stop the rise of Apocalypse.

Those mutants that have survived in Apocalypse's twisted world must band together under the leadership of young Nate Gray (an alternate reality version of Cable) to find some sort of escape from this horrible reality. Confused yet? That means you've never read the original Age of Apocalypse epic. Don't worry though, we have the whole graphic novel series here at Star Clipper and I highly recomend this to not only X-Men fans but comic readers interested in genuine epic storytelling in the vain of AKIRA or even BONE. A helpful hint for reading the original Age of Apocalypse series is to start at book 2, thats where the story actually begins.

So go catch up on what has become arguably the most popular story arc of X-Men history and then pick up the What if? - Age of Apocalypse mini #1 due out according to Marvel on 12/27. Yet, since Marvel has entered the Age of Delays you might be checking this one out next year.

Anywho, make mine Marvel anyway!

-Jon