Product Description: The Shi'ar on the Moon, Cable and his wife in Egypt, Wolverine in the Negative Zone - what's wrong with this picture? Apocalypse has risen from the past to change timelines until he finds one he likes - but when the original X-Man looks him in the eye, both men are lost, leaving the X-Men to comb the world for friend and enemy alike! Will Cyclops literally become the thing he fears and hates the most, and vice versa? And where does the Red Skull fit into all of this? Anywhere he wants to! Guest-starring the Hulk, Machine Man, Deathlok, and more! Collects X-51 #8, Uncanny X-Men #378 and Annual 1999, Cable #77, Wolverine #148, X-Men Unlimited #26, X-Men #98, and X-Men: The Search of Cyclops #1-4.
X-Men Vs. Apocalypse Volume 2 it is not the best x-men but if you have time you should pick it you and read it.
Great Story This was a great story, could've been better if they actually had the other X-teams involved more.
Nightmare. I had previously positively reviewed Volume 1 of this 2-volume set, asserting it was good fun if one came with appropriate expectations.
Unfortunately, this volume is a complete mess. Half the book depicts alternate memories that Apocalypse is apparently creating in order to trap the X-Men in some kind of trance so he can draw power from them. Or something. Good luck figuring that out. And good luck actually reading through any of these meaningless pages of idiotic imaginary journeys through nonsensical X-men futures. At least whenever Claremont did alternate history/future stories, they were revelatory and meaningful. These are just nonsense. An example, in one of these alternate futures, Xavier leads a giant space-invasion with an intergalactic X-team of Mutant Skrulls against the oppressive, mutant-hating universe, as all the original X-Men are dead or co-opted! Space-battling mutant f*#$@%g X-Skrulls??
A lot of the art and writing here is perpetrated by Alan Davis. Take a look at his amazing artwork in the ClanDestine HC, for his glory days. His artwork in the present volume is an astonishingly lazy mess. As for the script, the dialogue is so lame, overblown, and pompous it is disgusting.
The back half of the book features the groan-inducing "Search For Cyclops", another meaningless mess. Pheonix and Cable traipse around the world looking for the errant Cyclops/Apocalypse hybrid-man, who has slunk off to an absurdly-portrayed Egypt to hide and recuperate. You can guess how it all ends. But you can't imagine how boring, stupid, and uninspired the journey is...Endless whining from Cable and Pheonix, cliched "who am I" groaning from Cyclops, a thoroughly used and tired "2-minds-trapped-in-the-same-body" psyche-battle (hasn't that been done to death in X-men books??)...all churned out by anonymous journeymen artists who clearly couldn't care less.
The only factor recommending this book is that these issues immediately precede the Grant Morrison debut, and the plot forms the backstory that he uses in constructing his Cyclops/Pheonix/Emma Frost love triangle.
They should never let anyone associated with this waste work in comics again.
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