Jeph Loeb Returns to the "Age of Apocalypse" in New "Giant-Size" One Shots Later This Year
It's all part of a milestone celebrations that launches in May.
Starting in May, Marvel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Giant-Size X-Men this summer with a series of Giant-Size one-shots that revisit key mutant milestones with Jeph Loeb, one of the influential writers behind the original Age of Apocalypse, returning to the groundbreaking saga in a special backup story.
What’s Happening:
- For 50 years, Len Wein and Dave Cockrum’s Giant-Size X-Men #1 has stood as one of the most important moments in Marvel Comics history, reshaping the X-Men forever.
- Starting in May, Marvel celebrates its milestone anniversary with an all-new event revisiting key X-Men storylines in a series of Giant-Size X-Men one-shots, including Giant Size Age of Apocalypse which features a Revelations Backup Story by Eisner Award-winning writer Jeph Loeb, an architect behind the original Age of Apocalypse, and superstar artist Simone Di Meo.
- Across the five anniversary one-shots, the Revelations Backup Stories will reveal hidden lore behind each respective story and sets up exciting present-day developments coming in the near future.
- In Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1, Loeb returns to the iconic dystopian future he helped create. Age of Apocalypse shook the X-Men to its core in the ‘90s, and now, one of the era’s most prolific creators is back to reignite the groundbreaking storyline just in time for its own major milestone anniversary.
- What if the past wasn’t set in stone? Experience Giant-Size X-Men #1, The Dark Phoenix Saga, Age of Apocalypse, and more pivotal X-sagas from an all-new, all-different perspective across five time-bending one-shots by acclaimed X-Scribes Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and celebrated artists Adam Kubert, Rod Reis, C.F. Villa and more.
- The event sees Ms. Marvel pulled into the distant past by an unstable and unleashed Legion. Locked in a battle through time against the Omega-Level mutant, Kamala Khan is the only one standing in the way of X-Men history being warped forever! Following Giant Size X-Men #1, and Giant-Size Dark Phoenix #1, Kamala finds herself stuck in the darkest future of all in Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1. Worse yet: It’s only hours from its inevitable end; if Kamala can’t find what’s left of the X-Men, she’ll burn in nuclear hellfire. Former enemies must learn to rely on one another as they journey through a land of charred bones and broken promises...but can Legion truly be trusted? And how far will Rogue go to teach Kamala the true meaning of mutant identity? Welcome back to the Age of Apocalypse – where no one survives the experience.
- Check out Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse’s main cover by Adam Kubert along with a variant cover by Simone Di Meo Also promised, more information about the Giant-Size X-Men Anniversary EVENT, including announcements for Giant-Size House of M and Giant-Size X-Men #2.
- Giant Size X-Men #1 Age of Apocalypse #1 arrives on shelves on June 25th.
What They’re Saying:
- Jeph Loeb: “In 1995, I was extremely lucky to be part of one of the biggest stories to hit the X-Men with Age of Apocalypse, writing both Astonishing X-Men and X-Man. Now, thirty years later, join me and the superstar artist of tomorrow - Simone Di Meo - as we return to this doomed timeline with some of the greatest X-Men characters ever!"
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