Here's a look at a few unlettered pages from Age of Apocalypse #1 from writer David Lapham and artist Roberto De La Torre, in stores March 7.
Spinning directly out of Uncanny X-Force--the Amazing X-Men have lost, and the evil Weapon X is more powerful than ever. Jean Grey and Sabretooth are at their lowest. And who are the X-Terminated?
The Dark Angel Saga running through Uncanny X-Force has been a truly epic storyline, taking us through the depths of Warren Worthington's soul and through the Age of Apocalypse, and it all comes to a head in issue #18.
Clearly this issue is a big deal, as this is the third teaser image in as many days released by Marvel. Click here and here to see the first two.
What do you think? Is Psylocke going to do away with Warren for good, or vice versa? Or will the two of them finally exorcise the demons that have been living inside of Angel since Apocalypse first got his hooks in him?
Let me know what you think, and make sure to pick up Uncanny X-Force #18 when it hits stores on December 7!
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 6:22PM | Matt Sager
Following yesterday's teaser for Uncanny X-Force #18 featuring a clash between Dark Angel and Dark Beast, Marvel has released another promo for the final issue of the Dark Angel Saga today. This one sees Dark Angel and Fantomex, locked in what appears to be a battle to the death.
Here's the press release Marvel issued accompanying the teaser image:
Don’t miss the shocking conclusion to the critically acclaimed Dark Angel Saga from the blockbuster creative team of Rick Remender, Jerome Opeña & Dean White, this December in the polybagged Uncanny X-Force #18!
Think you know the outcome? Join the conversation on Twitter with #XForce!
UNCANNY X-FORCE #18 (OCT110676) UNCANNY X-FORCE #18 SPOILER VARIANT (OCT110677) Written by RICK REMENDER Pencils by JEROME OPEÑA Colors by DEAN WHITE Cover by ESAD RIBIC FOC – 11/14/11, ON SALE – 12/7/11
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 9:31PM | Matt Sager
The Dark Angel saga comes to a close in Uncanny X-Force #18. Marvel is teasing the end of the epic with this image of Dark Angel and Dark Beast, with one calling the other a "grave disappointment."
I'm a big fan of this title - It's been one of my favorite Marvel books since it launched, and it's the most consistently high quality X-title IMHO.
Uncanny X-Force #18, written by Rick Remender with interior art by Jerome Opena and cover art by Esad Ribic, hits stores on December 14.
After one of the longest teases ever, the X-teams who will be leaving Utopia for Westchester under Wolverine's leadership after the events of Schism - also known as the 'Gold Team' - have been revealed.
Wolverine seems to have made off with Cyclops' entire family, that's gotta sting.
Whose side are you on? Which team will you choose?
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WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #1 Written by JASON AARON Art & Cover by CHRIS BACHALO Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
X-MEN LEGACY #259 Written by MIKE CAREY Art by KHOI PHAM Cover by CLAY MANN Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
UNCANNY X-FORCE #19 Written by RICK REMENDER Art by ROBBI RODRIGUEZ Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
X-FACTOR #230 Written by PETER DAVID Art by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
Mmm... Apocalypse-ish. Adam Kubert's variant cover for Uncanny X-Force #12 conjures memories of 1995's 'Age of Apocalypse' event, which included the Kubert-illustrated Weapon X mini. What's it all about? Read on!
Press Release
Adam Kubert Covers UNCANNY X-FORCE: THE DARK ANGEL SAGA
Marvel is proud to unveil superstar artist Adam Kubert’s, scorching variant cover to the second installment of the Dark Angel Saga coming this July in Uncanny X-Force #12! The red-hot creative team of Rick Remender and Mark Brooks send Wolverine’s black ops band of deadly mutants to take on the whole Age of Apocalypse! If they fail, Warren Worthington will be no more and the Dark Angel inside him will raze the Earth! Get in on the action packed return to the Age of Apocalypse, with a variant cover from one of the artists who started it all in Uncanny X-Force #12 Kubert Variant!
UNCANNY X-FORCE #12 (MAY110691) UNCANNY X-FORCE #12 KUBERT VARIANT (MAY110692) UNCANNY X-FORCE #12 I AM CAPTAIN AMERICA VARIANT (MAY110693) Written by RICK REMENDER Penciled by MARK BROOKS Cover by ESAD RIBIC Variant Cover by ADAM KUBERT I AM CAPTAIN AMERICA Variant by CHRIS STEVENS Parental Advisory …$3.99 FOC – 7/4/11, On-Sale – 7/27/11
How deeply entrenched in pop culture are the notions posited in Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica that man and machine are destined to become indistinguishable?
Exhibit A: Deathlok and Fantomex share a moment in Uncanny X-Force #8, by Rick Remender and Billy Tan.
Of course, characters like Deathlok are an example of the notion that the ideas which drive BSG aren't necessarily new, but tap into primal hopes and fears that man has in fact been wrestling with for a long time, periodically surfacing in our literary creations like Frankenstein.
But I digress.
Exhibit B: Ilana Rein's documentary We Are All Cylons, the documentary which premiered this evening (Monday April 25) at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival.
The identity question even extended to the filmmaker, who spent only about $8,000 to produce We Are All Cylons. Rein claims that during the editing process she began to think the way she believed a Cylon would. This influenced her musical selections and led her to do things like use TV static to make scene transitions.
“I allowed the possibility that [BSG writer and executive producer Moore] created a show that sent a signal — quite like the “All Along the Watchtower” riff that activated the sleeper Cylons — to people like me in order to ’spread the message’ that we are in fact all Cylons,” Rein said. “So part of my creative process was to begin thinking of myself as part Cylon. A lot of the edits I made were what I imagined a computer would do.”
Check out the trailer above, and Rein's website has info on where you can catch the full-length feature, which is currently scheduled to show in New York, Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:27PM | 
