"America is Dead...


"Earth 295"

What sits in its place is a gangrenous wound of a nation -- the American dream of the creature Apocalypse.

These altered states of America have become a staging area for Apocalypse's next, best nightmare -- the corruption of the entire world.

The troubled dissident movement within America has, until recently, been fighting a losing battle. Out matched and riven by internal dispute. Now, with the discovery of Bishop, a man purported to be from an alternate timeline, they move with new purpose.

Erik Magnus Lensherr, called Magneto in his role as leader of the revolutionary band named X-Men, now seeks to end this world -- to twist it towards the world Bishop knows, where there may still live a man called Charles Xavier, whose heart and adream stopped in Magneto's arms twenty years ago.

This is America's last story."

Point of Divergence: Legion kills Charles Xavier in Israel over 20 years ago. (X-Men #40)

Points of Interest:

  • Each title in the AOA ran for four months, replacing each of the regular X-Men books, which picked up where they left off in X-Men: Prime and then in the next number in sequence.
  • Bishop, being already displaced in time when Legion changed the timeline, remained in the past and aged 20 years in the new timeline, only to return to his original age when he eventually stopped Legion.
  • X-Man #1-4 took place in the Age of Apocalypse, but the title moved to our timeline in issue #5, when X-Man landed on Earth 616.
  • Four characters made the transit to Earth 616: X-Man, Dark Beast, Nemesis (then called Holocaust) and Sugar Man.
  • Two became "unstuck in time" and became "Exiles:" Blink and Sabretooth, though they formed separate teams and often worked at cross-purposes.

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