Wild Child in X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Prelude TP

[rplass]

This will get lost in the #0.1 release hubbub but today Marvel published a bookend to the four volume X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic series.

X-Men Age of Apocalypse Prelude (http://www.comixology.com/sku/MAR110768/X-Men-Age-of-Apocalypse-Prelude-TP) contains reprints of various issues that lead into the Age of Apocalypse as well as a reprint of one of the X-Men ashcans from the mid-1990s. These tiny promotional books were either sold or given away as freebies but now are rather hard to find. The ashcan for AoA contained a cryptic description of the AoA storyline and included, among other covers, black and white cover art to Astonishing X-Men #1 featuring AoA Wild Child.

http://www.alphaflight.net/gallery/data/563/thumbs/xmenashcancover.jpg (http://www.alphaflight.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=375&title=x-men-ashcan&cat=563)

For collectors who can't find an original ashcan, this TPB is very cool, especially because the ashcan is printed in its entirety much larger - in full comic size and on high quality paper.

[Le Messor]

I suggest a long box... that ashcan fills with water; it's getting your comics all rusty.

Oh, and for the CD, that was the original Astonishing X-Men #1, the four-issue Age Of Apocalypse one, not the Joss Whedon one.

- Le Messor
"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."
~ Churchill

[rplass]

Yes, Astonishing X-Men replaced Uncanny X-Men for the four issues 1995 when AoA took over the X-books. Click on the thumbnailed image to see a list of titles and their AoA counterparts.

[Phil]

Oh, and for the CD, that was the original Astonishing X-Men #1, the four-issue Age Of Apocalypse one, not the Joss Whedon one.
And not the other Astonishing X-men, in between the two, either...