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	• X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 1 Scott Lobdell, John Francis Moore, ... Marvel Comics, 2006 - 376 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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Hoping for the good stuff....

This volume encompasses several stories that are only connected because they happened in the same time line. The stories jump from event to event. This was frustrating, since I purchased this book because I had read many of these before and was curious about the stories surrounding them. What I ended up with was a little more information and a lot more confusion.

One of the stories featured in Volume 1 centers around Forge and X-Man, aka Nate Grey. It involves time travel, Sugarman, and removing microbes from Niagara Falls. There were implications that Nate passes through Forge's lab on a regular basis, but beyond that, the story left me very confused.

The positives - The artwork, while differing from story to story, was pleasing on the whole. The characters were decent-looking and the stories hint at greater things to come. Marvel could have done a better job of arranging it, or could have at least given readers a clearer idea of what to expect.

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Should NOT have been Book 1

I was a big fan of the Age of Apocalypse story when it originally came out, and was happy to see that Marvel was collecting the storyline in a series of trade paperbacks. What I don't understand is the logic behind the issues collected in volume 1. This should have been the start of the saga and been comprised of X-Men Alpha and a couple of the more important limited series like Astonishing X-Men, Factor X, or Amazing X-Men. Instead, Marvel packaged all of the random throwaway AoA stories like the Blink limited series and an X-Man annual. These aren't bad stories, and most should have been part of the collections, but certainly not in book 1. This volume would have been more appropriate as a follow-up book to the real AoA series. Maybe it makes sense from a marketing perspective, since if these stories were collected in a later volume it might have been easier for fans to skip it altogether. It certainly doesn't make sense from a storyline point of view though.

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Finally! This was a long time in coming...

I first read the Age of Apocalypse storyline when it originally came out, back in 1995. Ten years later, I was excited to reread the whole series, with all of the one-shots and specials included, ordered appropriately.

And... Well, I -did- enjoy the book, but was still a little disappointed by the time it had ended. I question the inclusion of "Blink 1-4", since the vast majority of that mini-series (which sparked the start up of the 'Exiles' ongoing title) has little or nothing to do with AoA, as Clarice (Blink) is galivanting through another plane.

All in all, it was a good collection. . . But a very incomplete one. Though large in size, know ahead of time that this volume is only a single installment of the huge epic. It barely even scratches the surface, presenting you with back-story and additional pieces, without delving into the core of AoA in the least. I'm looking forward to Book 2, which I'm hoping will be a little more 'all-inclusive'.

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