Ok, you can officially add Age of Apocalypse to Cyrus' list of stories he wants to personally rewrite for his own happiness (Star Wars Episodes 1-3, Six-String Samurai, and now AoA)
Hey, what Age of Apocalypse lacked in dialogue, it totally made up for in 90s Kewl. Foil covers! Cyclops only has one eye because Wolverine gouged it out, at the cost of getting his hand blown off! Iceman and Nightcrawler are EXTREME Iceman and Nightcrawler! Cable is EXTREME Teen Cable! More foil covers!
I'll give you the Cyclops-Wolverine hand-eye trade. Iceman also took a turn for the cool. And the concept as a whole was awesome. But let's get real. Heart of the matter time: the 90s were horrible.
Its idea of a badass alternate reality means that 1. everyone's hair grows by at least 6 inches 2. you have to get some shitty type of tatoo, preferably on your face and 3. everyone maintains pretty good morale despite entire continents of people being wiped out (of course they were the brown, light brown, and yellow continents so we only half care anyways).
I will reiterate that I dig the basic idea. In the end, I think I could have made it without a problem if I just hadn't seen "he is Magneto, leader of the X-Men" or "carrying on the dream of a man who shouldn't have died" at the beginning of every fucking issue.
The 90s were horrible, but Age of Apocalypse transcends its time and becomes more awesome because of its 90s awfulness. It's like the hair and outfits in Terminator 1 -- lame and 80s, but it somehow makes the movie even better!
Also, Apocalypse is an equal opportunity despot, and had wiped out the whole American population in concentration camps too! He takes allegations of unfair racial practices very seriously.
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Hey, what Age of Apocalypse lacked in dialogue, it totally made up for in 90s Kewl. Foil covers! Cyclops only has one eye because Wolverine gouged it out, at the cost of getting his hand blown off! Iceman and Nightcrawler are EXTREME Iceman and Nightcrawler! Cable is EXTREME Teen Cable! More foil covers!
I'll give you the Cyclops-Wolverine hand-eye trade. Iceman also took a turn for the cool. And the concept as a whole was awesome. But let's get real. Heart of the matter time: the 90s were horrible.
Its idea of a badass alternate reality means that 1. everyone's hair grows by at least 6 inches 2. you have to get some shitty type of tatoo, preferably on your face and 3. everyone maintains pretty good morale despite entire continents of people being wiped out (of course they were the brown, light brown, and yellow continents so we only half care anyways).
I will reiterate that I dig the basic idea. In the end, I think I could have made it without a problem if I just hadn't seen "he is Magneto, leader of the X-Men" or "carrying on the dream of a man who shouldn't have died" at the beginning of every fucking issue.
The 90s were horrible, but Age of Apocalypse transcends its time and becomes more awesome because of its 90s awfulness. It's like the hair and outfits in Terminator 1 -- lame and 80s, but it somehow makes the movie even better!
Also, Apocalypse is an equal opportunity despot, and had wiped out the whole American population in concentration camps too! He takes allegations of unfair racial practices very seriously.
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