The AGE OF REVELATION reshapes Marvel comics this fall!

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Well it’s been six months since X-Manhunt which means it’s time for another crossover with the X-Books. As the publisher teased last week, welcome to The Age of Revelation this October. The current era of X-Men books has been rife with nods to stories throughout the title’s 60+year history. This time readers will experience, appropriately for that event’s 30th anniversary, a riff on the popular Age of Apocalypse storyline. That famous storyline saw the X-Men books restarted in an alternate timeline where Charles Xavier died young and the villain Apocalypse ruled the Earth. Each X-Men book went by entirely new names for four months.

Age of Revelation Overture cover by Ryan Stegman

After becoming the successor to the character in last year’s mini series Heir to Apocalypse, Doug Ramsay, now Revelation, will recreate the world in his image. Much like in the classic event, it looks like once again the X-Men books will take on new names for the duration of The Age of Revelation. Additionally, several Marvel universe books will also get into the game with their takes on this alternative timeline. The twist though is that this is also one of the X-Men’s many alternate terrible futures. So not only is it an homage to Age of Apocalypse but also potentially Days of Future Past? Everything kicks off with Age of Revelation Overture (alas no Alpha and Omega this time?). Jed MacKay, who wrote one of last year’s event (and one of the Beat’s 2024 Best Marvel books) Blood Hunt, will be the mastermind behind this. Hopefully, Age of Revelation can capture some of the fun of that line wide crossover. Check out the press release below for full details.

Every so often, a pivotal moment occurs that radically transforms the Marvel Universe, diverting its destiny towards strange timelines and dark futures. This October, in honor of the 30^th anniversary of one of the greatest of those aforementioned sagas, Age of Apocalypse, behold the AGE OF REVELATION, a startling new X-Men event that sees the world reborn in the image of the heir to Apocalypse: Doug Ramsey, A.K.A. Revelation.

This week, select retailers will receive a Shadow Drop Variant of AGE OF REVELATION #0, a prelude one-shot by X-Men writer Jed MacKay and superstar artist Humberto Ramos that reveals how this new status quo came to be. Starting today, additional copies of this surprise issue with a wraparound cover by Ryan Stegman are now available to order. Retailers should order immediately to receive their copies as soon as possible.

On October 1, AGE OF REVELATION OVERTURE #1 by MacKay and Stegman serves as a foundational alpha issue for this new era, which overtakes the current X-Men line for the foreseeable future with series evolutions like Amazing X-Men, Unbreakable X-Men, and Expatriate X-Men, and also impacts the wider Marvel Universe with launches such as Radioactive Spider-Man, X-Vengers, and Iron and Frost. The full scope of AGE OF REVELATION titles is unveiled today, with official series announcements to come next week.

AGE OF REVELATION takes current X-Men storytelling 10 years into the future. After being welcomed onto Cyclops’ X-Men with open arms, Revelation set out on the impossible task that Apocalypse entrusted him with: creating a world where only the fittest survived. With his linguistic mutant power amplified to an astonishing new level, Doug commands Earth itself with his voice, reshaping it as a utopian haven for mutantkind. It’s a mutant homeland built on an insidious lie, spreading across the planet and wiping out humanity until it becomes a mutant homeworld!

THE HEIR RISES – THE RESISTANCE IGNITES!

X YEARS FROM TODAY the Revelation Territories stretch from the Atlantic to the Mississippi – a mutant utopia ruled by the heir of Apocalypse. But beneath the surface, rebellion brews. As a ragtag X-Men team strikes from the shadows, Revelation faces threats from within. It all begins here – the dawn of the AGE OF REVELATION!

On being the architect behind the latest X-Men milestone, MacKay said, “Enter… the Age of Revelation! I’m extremely excited to be at the center of this event– we’re traveling to the alien future of the Age of Revelation, where the stories unfolding in the Revelation Territories and beyond will decide whether this is the dawn of a new world, or the end of one. We’ve been exploring a whole world, and it’s been really exciting to see other creators make corners of it their own!”