After Xavier: The Age of Apocalypse

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Writer - Mark Waid
• Penciler - Roger Cruz
• Penciler - Steve Epting
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Inker - Dan Panosian
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Steve Buccellato
• Colorist - Electric Crayon
• Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Beginnings…

Summary

  Bishop climbs through the piles of dead humans in Seattle: the aftermath of a cull-ing. A little girl runs to him in terror, chased by Unus and Infinite soldiers. Unus tries to crush him with a force field, but he absorbs the power, revealing himself to be a mutant.

  Then the X-Men arrive to help him and quickly and savagely defeat the Infinites. Unus pulls a plastic gun on Magneto, so Bobby freezes and shatters him. Magneto remembers a time that he himself believed in mutant supremacy, but now he fights for Xavier's dream, and not too effectively.

  Magneto goes to question Bishop, who has been wandering silently for twenty years. Now he attacks Magneto, saying it's his fault Legion killed Xavier. Magneto puts him to sleep by slowing the blood flow to his brain.

  Beast enhances weak mutants so they can serve Apocalypse. Blob, in pain, breaks free, and Havok and Cyclops have to save him. Cyclops says they should have shut down the lab, since the Kelly Pact. Havok asserts that he is head of security, and Sin-ister stops their squabble. Sinister says one of their own has gone mad, and he leaves Scott to find the answers he hid from him.

  Sentinels patrol, enforcing the pact with the humans. Warren runs Heaven, a night-club and haven for mutants. Karma is his assistant, and Scarlett his singer. Remy ar-rives, unexpected and unwelcome, and in-sists he arrange a meeting with Magneto.

  Magneto's base is in the ruins of the X-mansion. Magneto and Rogue are married and have a little boy, Charles. Bishop in-sists Magneto explain how Xavier died, but he refuses.

  Apocalypse meets with his Horsemen, planning to conquer the rest of the hu-mans, in defiance of the recent pact. Sinis-ter is worried that mutants may not survive the conflict either, but Apocalypse puts him in his place.

  Sinister has his own agenda and has been giving information to Logan and Jean, who sneak through ruined London to find the Human High Council.

  Magneto wants Rogue to touch Bishop and steal his memories, while he uses his power to shield her from Bishop's mad-ness. But at first touch, they hit Bishop's counterforce and see broken shards of his memories, of our reality. Remy appears and pushes Rogue away. Sabretooth catches him, but Quicksilver says he's here at Magneto's invitation. Magneto sends Kurt to find his mother, Mystique, then re-tires to think.

  Apocalypse lets Holocaust send his forces after the traitor Sinister.

  The universe begins to crystallize.