One of my favorite comic storylines of all time was the awesome Age Of Apocalypse, which ran through Marvel Comics X-Books in the 90′s. It basically told an alternate timeline story if the villain Apocalypse conquered the world. This new universe was filled with twisted versions of Marvels heroes that banded together to help restore the timeline.
Much to my delight, Rick Remender is taking Marvel’s secret mutant assassins, X-Force back into that universe to help an ailing Arch-Angel who is slated to become the next Apocalypse.
A lot of interesting stuff Remender plays off of. But the coolest thing has to be the Wolverine/Jean Grey thing. There’s Wolverine meeting up with his long dead lost love, Jean Grey. But she’s the Jean Grey from the Apocalypse timeline, and she lost the love of her life.. which happened to be alternative timeline Wolverine.
There’s a lot of other stuff going on, and we’re only on issue two of the story arc. Let’s hope that some of these characters will crossover to the 616 universe. (i.e. Sabertooth and Wild Child!!!)
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