His war has been won. En Sabah Nur stands triumphant over the bones of his enemies. None will be left alive! This July, return to one of the most iconic X-Men stories of all time in AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 – a new Secret Wars series! Be there when writer Fabian Nicieza returns to the post-apocalyptic wasteland he helped create, as brought to life by artist Gerardo Sandoval (Guardians 3000)!

Apocalypse rules his domain on Battleworld with an iron fist. The few humans left alive have been enslaved. The mutant rebellion has been crushed – it’s survivors, scattered. But the terrorist insurgents known as the X-Men will not go quietly into this grim future. They will fight! They will end Apocalypse’s reign of terror! Even if it means their very lives!

“This Age of Apocalypse, taking place on Battleworld, is a story about the choices heroes have to make after they’ve already lost. What are the X-Men about if a dream of coexistence between humans and mutants has become a lost cause?” asks series writer Fabian Nicieza, in an interview with Marvel.com.

But the fight is not yet over. A very special mutant named Cypher may hold the key to turning the tide. A weapon to be pointed directly at Apocalypse and fired. Now, the hunt is on as Magneto and his X-Men attempt to rescue Cypher from the clutches of Cyclops & Havok’s Elite Mutant Force, Dark Beast and his vile experiments, and the new Horsemen of Apocalypse!

But even if they win, have they already lost? Find out as one of the most iconic X-Men stories ever is reborn on Battleworld in AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 this July!

AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1

Written by FABIAN NICIEZA

Art & Cover by GERARDO SANDOVAL

On Sale in JULY!

CAN'T. WAIT.

I love Sandoval so much.

I'm so ready for this.

Nicieza is a must buy. Second best X-Men writer.

Another book that I'll be adding to my read list. I was worried that they decided to scrap this one and House of M.

@cheesesticks: I am a huge x men fan, who's the first?

*sigh*

My wallet can't take much more of this.

AoA?! A-OK!! Plus, Sandoval's work looks so good, too.

Sandoval? I'm in...

I have never been this excited about X-Men comics since I started reading comics. This and X-Men 92 are the two books I can't wait to read.

But that doesn't look anything like the AoA :|

So...This is basically Age of Apocalypse Vol. 2?

The god Chris Claremont.

Anyone know how long Secret Wars will go?

Tell we what isn't coming to Secret Wars.

Nicieza is back on X-Men, that' s great. Not sure about the artwork for this series though.

@cheesesticks:

There could only be one answer ;)

Dat cover art. So awesome

Pass

This is the one I wanted!

This looks great. I'm kind of getting the impression that maybe it's AoA if Bishop never showed up, or something.

I'm so heartbroken by this because I like Nicieza's writing but I don't like Sandoval's art. I'll give the first issue a look see though, hopefully it's not a complete let down.

Young Avengers:(

Yep, getting this.

@champion99: when patriot left it became sub par. Before that though really enjoyed it.

I wonder if Blink is in this. More broadly, I wonder if the Exiles are ever going to appear again. The book was one of my favorites for a long time, and we haven't seen the main team in years. Really, it's just Morph, Nocturne, T-Bird, and Blink I want to see again, and the whole multiversal collapse has got to have affected the Crystal Palace somehow.

Nice

@cheesesticks: Between Fabian and that beautiful artwork, I'm interested!

True, but I still wanted to see them.

I buy pretty much everything Fabian Nicieza writes so... I guess I need to buy this. I feel like everything past Uncanny X-Force that dealt with AoA was so awful it ruined the entire thing for me so that I never wanted see anything to do with it again.... so I'm not looking forward to this but I'll give it a chance.

Bishop appeared in AoA.

Does Battleworld revolve around a Sun? Does it have a Moon? Are there stars? If not: then how do they grow food or have tides?

@adamtrmm: I know. That's what I said. What I meant is this looks like it might have been AoA without his involvement.

This looks awesome.

@scistorm4: That's basically what I was thinking in this situation.

But they're all dead!!!

I'm guessing it's a different version of AOA.

Yup. And in the Xtermination event crossover with AoA, Xtreme Xmen, and Astonishing Xmen, the portals between all alternate universes were supposedly closed and everyone/thing was no longer connected or able to cross between universes...but hey...whatever...

They'll just say it's a different one...

I want Prophet back.

Such. A. Badass.

Oh, OK. I misunderstood.

@edblank: The entire multiverse has collapsed, and you expect physics to fallow the same rules on a fragmented planet made up of tiny pieces of dead universes that have been fused together by cosmic forces into a new amalgam planet? Really, really?

@bloodtalon:

Welllll... they have day and night and they are eating something.

@edblank: Maybe they don't grow/kill there food, maybe it is all just a gift from Doom? :)

Or maybe Doom is the sun and they only live because of his mercy? Yet at the end of the day you are probably right about the sun and growing/killing there food on world that is governed by similar laws of physics as our own, but my point is does it matter and do you think that the writers are going to address this in the story?

I actually think that you might get answers to your questions now that I think a out it. If you read issue 2 of the main story you know what I mean.