Marvel Comics Unlimited!: AoA

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Weekend Reading -> Age of Apocalypse <- More Images Part 1

Comic book fans,

I’m on a strictly AoA diet this morning, so I’ll be posting some cool covers and panels as I get through some issues. If you haven’t read the Age of Apocalypse, you’re missing one of the classic Marvel stories of the modern age!

As mentioned before, there are many trade paperbacks in the AoA series, available at Amazon here.

A much more complete way to read the story is the hardback X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, but it retails for $125 (or $86.31 on Amazon), or you can enjoy the reading order in the link here, assembled using resources from Amazon, Comic Book Herald and UncannyXMen.net.

Reminder: another great place to buy back issues at fair prices online is My Comic Shop. Be sure you check your local comic shop first, because every town lucky enough to have one should support them! Use the locator here to find one if you don’t know of your closest location. Thanks to Comic Shop Locator for that link!

More to come!

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

Weekend Reading -> Age of Apocalypse

Dear readers,

Weekends are a great time to make use of your Marvel Unlimited subscription! Check out these two pages from the first issue in the Age of Apocalypse crossover arc and get to reading!

Until next time,

Excelsior!!!

This massive mid-1990s crossover event is one of the biggest events to ever occur in the Marvel Universe. The core story is that the son of Professor X, Legion, travels to the past to kill Magneto and fix the ongoing conflict between Magneto and both humanity and mutants. Unfortunately, Magneto was saved from death by Professor X, causing the timeline to collapse and instantly change, with Legion no longer existing and no person save time traveller Bishop aware of the consequences (or the “real” history).

There are many trade paperbacks in the AoA series, available at Amazon here.

A much more complete way to read the story is the hardback X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, but it retails for $125 (or $86.31 on Amazon), or you can enjoy the reading order below, assembled using resources from Amazon, Comic Book Herald and UncannyXMen.net.

We definitely have Uncanny XMen.net to thank for the unique understanding of which stories to read first inside the one-shot that starts the series, how the later (anniversary) issues factor in and so much more that adds fun to the story. Please read their post here for a detailed explanation of the crossover. At the bottom of this post is a complete listing of all the issues they’ve reported as relevant with hyperlinks to the Marvel Unlimited issues. Only a few are not available digitally at this point.

In my mind, the keep it simple listing of the story is the best approach to enjoying it, but this is just a tiny chunk of the issues seen as important to the more dedicated fans. Again, read the entire set found near the bottom of this post to get everything, including the 2005 additional stories.

Here’s my reading order: