Yes, it's another alternate reality X-Men story. It is done very well though. It starts and ends a bit weak with the extraneous short stories set in the same world by other creative teams. The core story by Mike Carey, Clay Mann, and Steve Kurth is pretty damn good. It's a world where the X-Men never existed. All of the remaining mutants are holed up in Fortress X, which Human Coalition forces bombard everyday. I like the focus on some of the lesser known mutants like Frenzy. Seeing Cannonball l...

Carey starts this apocalyptic vision out with a very strong writing streak - tightly written, just enough to keep us from understanding it all before he jumps to the next interesting interchange.As a guy who's been writing a lot of background character development in thelegacy book for so long, it's somehow a surprise how he writes a war story so well. The massive setups, the deep strategies that would've had to have been developed - all of it so artfully presented that I'm surprised he doesn't

Not bad standalone story. But since it is a standalone essentially alternate world, it really doesn't add much to the Marvel Universe so is essentially pointless. The use of a couple of the characters were pretty interesting and different - Rogue, Cyclops, Wolverine, Cannonball. The Peter Parker/MJ bit was a standout. In fact the Avengers piece was pretty good. But as a whole it was just okay. 3.5 of 5.

Better than most X-Men crossover events, but I still felt like I have read this before. The main concept is a bit flawed. The point being that all of the characters are changed in significant ways. But the story doesn't land on more than a few of them for more than a few panels. Anyway, the fallout is a bit more interesting than the Age of X Universe because it leads into many stories that are coming up. Art is well done, with little attention paid to the backgrounds, which feel a bit spare. Art...

This post apocalyptic world has the X-Men fighting against a variety of foes. I found the artwork panels hit or miss in driving the story at times. A nice twist at the end. OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B.

For all its hype, it could have been better.

I’m pleased to say that what started off as a dull and by-the-numbers alternate dystopia event actually ended up becoming pretty fresh and cool! So, if you find yourself bored, stick with it. This one doesn’t truly get interesting until the half way point (around when we find out the truth about “Moira”)This feels like an echo of Age of Apocalypse, in many ways, although it’s much more concise. We’re treated to an alternate broken mirror look at familiar characters. The art is pretty solid (alth...

While it does remind me of Age of Apocalypse it is an entirely different alternate world, and under differing circumstances. Great read.

First of all, this storyline is not nearly as good as Age of Apocalypse or Days of Future Past, two obvious sources of inspiration for the writers and illustrators. However, taken on its own, it is a fun story with lots of twists and thrills. The Age of X version of Cyclops is easily the coolest variation on the character that I have seen and I generally do not like Cyclops. I thought the best part of the collection though were the Age of X: Universe issues. I like how they remind the reader tha...

This started out with promise and, if I could, I would rate the first half a 4 star and the end a 2.5 star. The X-Men find themselves in an alternate reality, defending Fortress X, which is constantly under siege as the last mutant stronghold in a world where mutants are routinely exterminated and sterilized. In this world, Professor Xavier and his school never existed. The characters and their traditional story arcs have been altered, as have their appearances and their memories: Cyclops is ins...

So, I got this because I was looking up comics about Legion, since I am hooked on the TV show. (The show is amazing, btw.) This is a weird, weird little short run about an alternate world where the X-Men never existed, and Magneto and the surviving mutants are holed up in a fortress that they defend endlessly against human soldiers. Or . . . do they?Sort of fizzles out at the end, and there's a strange couple of comics about the Avengers that don't really fit into this included. Not 100% sure wh...

Other crossovers should learn from Age of X, expertly done.

This book starts off weak and ends weak. The "Alpha" issue spends way too much time on the backstory of Age of X, really undercutting its oppressive, claustrophobic feel. But the "Universe" issues at the end are just bad: mediocre, anticlimactic, and in direct contradiction of the main story.Fortunately, you can ignore all of that. In between you have a story that runs through three issues of Legacy and three issues of New Mutants. It's a fun alternate universe that doesn't feel quite like any t...

Not so much a "milestone" as a poor man's version of Age of Apocalypses but with Rogue, Magneto, Legion and Moira MacTaggart at the story's heart. I have a feeling this event had some influence on the FX show Legion but beyond that its impact doesn't seem that long lasting or memorable.

I wanted to like this more, and started out liking it quite a bit as the premise is excellent.But I really hoped they could have taken it further than what often feels like a Sit-Com's marriage to continuity. Especially as this seemed to be an alternaverse type story.Not that I want characters to die, (and not that they can't be brought back, Lord knows they usually do come back) but there needs to be a sense of danger for there to be a feeling excitement.The non-X-men stories at the end had mor...

I like Carey's work on the Vertigo lines he's written, but this X story just seems like a hollow shell, a sort of nod to the great alternative timelines the X-Men have seen (Age of Apocalypse, Days of Future Past) but doesn't live up to any of them.

Something is wrong in the Marvel Universe. It’s as though mutants have been outlawed for years, hunted to the brink of extinction by the Avengers themselves. Wolverine was “cured” of his healing factor, and Cyclops narrowly escaped prison camps after the government surgically removed his eyelids and used him as a tool of execution. All the world’s telepaths seem to have disappeared, or were never known about in the first place. Where they went is the key to why this world abruptly came to be, an...

I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the existence of these X-Men in an unfamiliar setting is not real. One character describes it this way: "This world is a fantasy. A skein of nonsense." I think that's a pretty fair summation of the book. It's a tale set in a false universe, a "what if?" story, an elseworlds story, packaged into continuity in such a way that it will never be referred to again. And that would be fine if the payoff mattered in the least. I like many of those stories, but thi...

Mutants have been outlawed. One thousand days ago the United States passed legislation making it a crime to be born a mutant, the rest of the world soon followed. The few remaining mutants in the world have locked themselves within Fortress X where everyday they must battle human armies to stay alive. The mutant gene is something these refugees have been born with but now they are being persecuted to the point of extinction. Age of X is the latest story in the saga of the X-Men from Marvel Comic...