X-Men vs. Apocalypse - Volume 1: The Twelve

by Alan Davis, Terry Kavanagh, Fabian Nicieza, et al.

Setting his grand plan for godhood into motion, Apocalypse dispatches his agents to capture the world's most powerful mutants, the fabled Twelve: Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078512263X
• ISBN13: 9780785122630
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Marvel
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

innocent fun

Look, this book is not that bad! This book is worth reading with the proper level of expectation. It wraps up or connects so many plot threads and characters, and sets up so much of what happens in the Grant Morrison/Joss Whedon eras, that I truly enjoyed it. For the simple fact that it puts the cap on the endless story of Cable/Apocalypse/Cyclops/Pheonix/Sinister, it is a milestone in X-Men history. Besides wrapping up the Cable story, it also introduces the internal conflict that Scott Summers ends up facing in the Morrison stories, and that ends up ruining his relationship with Jean Grey. Having read the Morrison stuff before reading this collection, I was always mystified by the references to this storyline, and reading this certainly helped explain some things. Obviously, it lacks any intelligence, depth, or complexity, unless you count the complexity of the interweaving plots and the gigantic team of X-Men it features, or the crossing over into numerous books' continuities! But that's not the point. It doesn't aspire to the challenging nature of the Morrison/post-Morrison work. It is certainly byzantine in its full immersion into the X-men mythology that had accumulated to a mind-numbing mass by the time it was written. But that, to me, was the point-- unquestioning immersion into the good old-fashioned X-men nonsense, with the added bonus of seeing so many interminable plot-lines come to a head. The artwork is also lacking in comparison to today's Marvel standards. However, at the time, these artists were some of the best that were working in super-hero books. Rob Leifield's work looks cheesy now, but if you can get into it, read it in the context of the admittedly different times, by the standards of the day, the artwork is pretty damn good. Hey, this isn't going to win any awards, but, again, I enjoyed it for what it was.

X-Men VS Apocalypse

This book is an excellent read featuring the mighty and powerful Apocalypse as the main villain. Apocalypse has his twisted mind set on making his power far beyond anything imagined by capturing the world's most powerful mutants and transferring their power to himself.

A really good Apocalypse's story

This story has a lot of fights and drama, this tale is why I began to read X-men, the plot is similar to the cartoon serie's episode "one man's worth", but more interesting, the art is really good, and the pages has a lot of color for an old reprint, I think it is a must read.

One of the most important in X-Men history

A while ago I went through and read X-Men (vol. 2) #1-113 & Uncanny X-Men #300-400 simultaneously. After the Age of Apocalypse that came out around 1995, the X-Men titles went downhill fast. For two straight years (about 25 issues), the X-titles were just plain crappy -- mediocre at best. And then this story came along. This was the best, most intense storyline the X-Men editors/writers cooked up in quite a while. And it was incredibly significant, because it finally wrapped up the storyline that'd been brewing for 12-15 years about the villain Apocalypse. This storyline was extremely significant to many characters in the mutant community; for some, like Cable, this villain defined them over the years. So, Apocalypse finally puts his master plan -- the thing he's been working towards for 100s of years -- in motion. This storyline is just as significant as Mutant Massacre, Fatal Attractions, or Days of Future Past. It's infuriating that recent writers have cheapened it by bringing Apocalypse back in '07, thereby breaking the last straw for my fandom. This storyline is also significant because it was the first of many stories where the quality of writing kept improving toward greatness once again, leading to Dream's End and, of course, Grant Morrison's run. I haven't read this particular tpb. But if it's collected in the order of the issues as they were released, then it should read just fine. I didn't have any problem reading through the individual issues. Yes, Ages of Apocalypse & (the hopefully included) Search for Cyclops are also essential to this story. It may be possible that the Astonishing X-Men (vol. 2) tpb may still be necessary, as it introduces Apocalypse's new Death character, which reveals Wolverine to be that character and thereby leads straight into The Twelve story arc. But, I don't know yet how they organized this trade and that 4-issue prologue may not be necessary as part of it may be included here. Oh, and get it at a discount price, if you can.[...]is pushing it. The Age of Apocalypse story was the only softcover worthy of that price. It's doubtful this is that hefty.