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In which we enter the Age of Apocalypse!

X-PLAINED:

• One way to solve a problem
• The story so far
• Earth-295
• X-Men: Alpha
• Age of Apocalypse Collector’s Preview
• What makes Age of Apocalypse a surprisingly good jumping-on point to the X-Men
• The story so far
• AoA vs. the Clone Saga
• An Age of Apocalypse that might have been
• AoA vs. Earth Askani
• The X-Men of Earth-295
• Fashion motifs
• A dubious hairstyle
• Facial tattoos
• Wild Child
• Blink (but a different Blink)
• Morph
• Character designs as storytelling
• Baby Charles
• Magic of magnetism
• Dark Beast
• The Prelates Summers
• The Horsemen of Earth-295
• The Bobby Newport of the Age of Apocalypse
• Heaven
• The Human Council
• What’s coming
• Characters we’d like to retroactively import to AoA
• Tabletop X-Men

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Special thanks to Logan Bonner for the X-Men roleplaying assist!

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