Factor X (The Age of Apocalypse)

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Summary: Another alternate history X-Men story.
Review: For what seems like the millionith alternate future X-Men story, the characters find themselves in a world that exists because Charles Xavier died before he could form the X-Men, and this brought about decades of human/mutant civil war.

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Summary: This book was AWESOME
Review: I really loved this Trade Paperback. It had great art and writing, and it had a great message to children. BUY IT!!!

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Summary: Ultimate Factor X
Review: Welcome to hell on earth. North America is ruled by an evil mutant called Apocalypse. His kingdom only lives by one rule: Survivial of the fittest. Humans are regarded as the lower class and even not all mutants will be survive in this world. This all happened because Professor Charles Xavier never existed. Thus he never got to form the X-Men to appose Apocalypse.

In this book, you see how life can be for a few of the chosen. The ones who are "worthy to live". Like the righteous born leader Cyclops, and his jealous brother Havoc, who only acts out of his jealous and ignorant emotions.

The art is above average (again) and the story is a bit hard to get into. It's a drag at the start and a bit too boring and predictable. But it gets better when you get deeper into the story, as in the characters.

These stories won't mean much if you haven't read this AoA storyline from the start. If you get this, I recommend you get all the other AoA TPBs too. For a complete reading list of it, see my X-Men: LegionQuest review.

If you liked this, I'd recommend the graphic novel "Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Sinister Bloodlines", which tells about what happened Scoot and Alex's parents in this alterred timeline.

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Summary: A bold new world
Review: When Legion, illigitamite son of Charles Xavier, traveled back in time to kill Magneto and accidently killed Xavier, an alternate world was created called the Age of Apocalypse in which Xavier never lived to form the X-Men and Apocalypse took over North America and most of the world. All the regular X-titles were put in hiatus for four months and replaced with alternate titles. Factor X (X-Factor) finds a faction of Apocalypse's followers. His first horseman Mr. Sinister, the enigmatic one eyed, long haired Cyclops, his jealous, insane brother Havok, and the evil and twisted Beast. Jean Grey stops by later on, and we see Cyclops take a heroic turn and then all hell breaks loose. The story line drags quite a bit in the beginning, but picks up momentum once the action gets going. Cyclops' characterization isn't all that different from his real world counterpart, while the evil and corrupt take on Beast must be seen to be believed. The "Dark" Beast was even used more when the Age of Apocalypse ended and went on to do battle with the normal reality Beast numerous times. All in all, Factor X is one of the lesser AoA books, but plays an important part in the whole storyline.